I’ve eaten my way from one end of the Ferry Building to the other on more than one occasion, but a few Sundays ago I got to do it for a good cause. CUESA, the organization that runs the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, was holding its annual Sunday Supper fundraiser, a cocktails-and-appetizers reception followed by a seated five-course dinner upstairs in the beautifully vaulted expanse of the second floor. My dream was to go to the dinner upstairs but that cost $200, compared to the relative bargain of the $75 reception ticket. Having already sprung this year for a $200 dinner ticket, I opted for the reception (okay, I couldn’t find anyone else willing to spring for the dinner, and I had a taker for the reception. Wiser, thriftier heads prevailed). Then I spent the whole weekend nursing a cold and was happy I hadn’t paid $200 for a dinner I didn’t feel well enough to attend.
But $75 is nothing to sneeze at, either, so I loaded up on the nondrowsy cold medicine and trotted down to the Ferry Building to meet my friend M.