Email Author Eliza Strickland

Awards

• 2008 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published June 6, 2007

  "Burnt Chefs"

• 2008 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published June 6, 2007

  "Burnt Chefs"

• 2008 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published June 6, 2007

  "Burnt Chefs"

• 2007 - Society of Professional Journalists/Northern California Chapter, published June 6, 2007

  "Burnt Chefs"

• 2007 - Society of Professional Journalists/Northern California Chapter, published June 6, 2007

  "Burnt Chefs"

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2007 Stories by Eliza Strickland

• The Gift of Reading

  published December 19, 2007

  Shortcomings By Adrian Tomine ($19.95) Bay Area comic artist Adrian Tomine collected a fan base over the past 15... More >>

• Breaking the Cycle

  published August 8, 2007

  Steve Winters' single room in the Tenderloin's Ambassador Hotel is a dismal scene. The bare mattress shoved against the wall is a dirty gray, a... More >>

• Quality of Hype

  published June 27, 2007

  Mayor Gavin Newsom has been busy unveiling new proposals recently, in a rush to show voters how much he will improve their quality of life if they... More >>

• Chefs' Surprise

  published June 20, 2007

  Since our critical article came out about the California Culinary Academy ("Burnt Chefs," June 6), the school's administration has been dealing... More >>

• Burnt Chefs

  published June 6, 2007

  In the Polk Street admissions office of the California Culinary Academy, oversized posters display pictures of three of the school's graduates.... More >>

• Toothless Watchdog

  published June 6, 2007

  You might expect our regulation-happy state to have a toothy watchdog agency to keep students from getting ripped off by shady colleges and... More >>

• Stop Snitching

  published June 6, 2007

  Our local medical marijuana activists have been engaging in some heavy peer pressure recently. This spring, as the second federal trial against... More >>

• Where There's Smoke

  published May 2, 2007

  At the Bayview office of the Black Firefighter's Association, history hangs on the walls. There are news clippings about significant legal... More >>

• Funny Dinero

  published May 2, 2007

  There's been a lot of talk about protecting illegal immigrants from the big, bad federal government. In the wake of recent Bay Area raids by... More >>

• Natural Cool

  published April 25, 2007

  The new $144 million federal building at 7th and Mission has been heralded as an architectural marvel, not to mention an example of how behemoth... More >>

• Future Games

  published April 18, 2007

  Jane McGonigal figures that she or one of her colleagues can win a Nobel Peace Prize within a decade. The Nobel Prize in economics, well,... More >>

• The Bizarro Endorsement

  published April 18, 2007

  YouTube may be only 2 years old, but public officials should have gotten the memo by now: From the moment they step out the front door in the... More >>

• Hatin' on the Haight

  published March 21, 2007

  This summer will mark the 40-year anniversary of the Summer of Love, when thousands of dropouts tuned in, turned on, and headed for Haight... More >>

• Psycho Dogs

  published March 7, 2007

  At four in the morning, Melanie Chang was sitting up in bed, singing along to Madonna's "Crazy for You." She stared at the dog crouching on the... More >>

• Unbroken Ground

  published February 28, 2007

  When the city spends half a million dollars and nothing happens, does it make a sound? Yes, eventually. At the end of January, the controller's... More >>

• That Is High

  published February 7, 2007

  A veteran who said she had Gulf War Syndrome sat next to a woman who complained of damaged disks in her back; an HIV-positive man talked to a... More >>

• Ill-Conceived Law

  published February 7, 2007

  It just got easier for San Franciscans with the sniffles to stay home in bed, slurping orange juice and watching Seinfeld reruns. The paid... More >>

• Bounty Hunted

  published January 31, 2007

  Last spring, Eugene Kesselman was fighting his estranged wife for custody of their son, and as the case dragged on, his bitterness mounted. As... More >>

• The Pro-Bacon Lobby

  published January 17, 2007

  What if there were a way to reduce the city's dependence on fossil fuels, unclog the sewers, and feel virtuous about frying bacon all at once? No,... More >>