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After posts about the year in opera, podcasts, music, film, and, at long last, books, here is a round-up of other favorite (and not so favorite) experiences, items, and places from 2014.
Favorite Travel Experience: spending the night on the RMS Queen Mary
Favorite Travel Experience (runner-up): New Year’s Eve in Big Sur
Favorite National Park: Olympic National Park, Washington
Favorite Museum Experience: Hollywood Costume (AMPAS, Los Angeles)
Favorite items include Morticia Addams’s dress from Addams Family Values, an indigo dress from Funny Girl, and Katniss’s boots from The Hunger Games.
Favorite Local Store: The Spice & Tea Exchange at Pier 39
Favorite Online Store: Bounce (Title Nine)
Favorite Farmers Market Vendor: Hornbrook Heritage Hogs
Favorite Restaurant (Splurge): State Bird Provisions
Favorite Restaurant (Neighborhood): Saha, especially the fouel, kofta, and lahem sougar
Most Adventurous Food Experience: Baja, Mexico, where I ate tripa, cabeza, pulpo, and erizo all within twenty-four hours
Favorite Takeout: Piccadilly Fish & Chips
Favorite Delivery: Lers Ros Thai
Favorite Wine: Lichen Estate, Pinot Noir, Solera Volume 2, Anderson Valley
Favorite Coffee Bean: Philtered Soul (Philz)
Favorite Bread: Pain Pauline (Trader Joe’s)
Favorite Surprise Delivery (v.f.): my cousin bringing the entire set of books I inherited from my late aunt in her suitcase
Favorite Surprise Delivery (v.o.): the gift of my favorite movies from the Criterion sale
Most Frightening Realization: I’d probably be sorted into Hufflepuff.
Most Coveted Fashion Item: Kate’s coats
Favorite Sports Moment: the elimination of Spain in the World Cup
Least Favorite Sports Experience: NBC’s tape-delay Olympics coverage
Favorite New TV Show: Black-ish
Favorite Returning TV Show: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Favorite Reality TV Show: MasterChef Junior
Favorite Basic Cable Show: Drunk History
Favorite Series (Commonwealth Edition): Sherlock, Top of the Lake
Favorite Delayed Discovery: Justified
Favorite Hulu Discovery (French Edition): Engrenages (Spiral)
Favorite Hulu Discovery (Commonwealth Edition): The Booth at the End
Best TV News: “That gum you like is going to come back in style!”
Worst TV News: ITV cancels The Bletchley Circle
Favorite Piece of Technology: my new Lenovo laptop
Least Favorite Technology Experience: each successive release of iTunes
Favorite Editorial Task: a California History article on sea turtles in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years
Proudest Editorial Moment: getting this fierce picture of Bessie Coleman in a U.S. History textbook
What were some of your favorites of the year? Let me know in the comment box below what gave you the most joy in 2014.