Email Author Jonathan Kauffman

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 2, 2011

  "Shark's Fin - Understanding the Political Soup"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 17, 2011

  "Tacko: The Nantucket Gringo Take on the Taco"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 19, 2011

  "Leatherneck Steakhouse"

• 2010 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published July 1, 2009

  "... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 18, 2009

  "Healing from a Hot Pot"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 9, 2009

  "Drawing Room Comedy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2009

  "... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs"

• 2009 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published January 23, 2008

  "What I Saw, and Ate, at the Pig 'Sacrifice'"

• 2009 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published October 23, 2008

  "Juno Aces on Ambience"

• 2009 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published October 16, 2008

  "Nostalgic for Where You've Never Been"

• 2009 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published January 23, 2008

  "Slices of Life"

• 2008 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published August 15, 2007

  "Teriyaki's Boss"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 30, 2005

  "Endangered Species"

• 2006 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  Restaurant Criticism

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2011 Stories by Jonathan Kauffman

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  FEATURED STORY

  The Artisan Cheese Ball: Now at Rainbow Grocery

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Every fall, SFoodie's mother used to stock up on pecan-and-parsley-covered cheese balls from a local fundraising drive, which would then emerge from the freezer to appear at card parties and Easter bu... More >>

• Foodzie Founder Emily Olson's 2011 Finds: Heidi Swanson and Local Polenta

  published Dec 30, 2011

  SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses t... More >>

• One in Four Packages of Meat Is Contaminated With Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Mark Bittman, who has segued from being the New York Times' alpha recipe writer to being its alpha food-politics writer, ran a blistering opinion piece this week on the FDA's failure to check antibiot... More >>

• Yoon Ha's 2011 Find: Meeting Matt Kramer

  published Dec 29, 2011

  SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses... More >>

• Mitchell Rosenthal's 2011 Food Find: Roast Chicken and Super-Fresh Fish

  published Dec 29, 2011

  SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses t... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Jonathan Kauffman's Top Five Dishes of 2011 (Plus Runners-Up)

  published Dec 28, 2011

  If 2010 belonged to Benu, Mission Chinese Food/Commonwealth, and Sons + Daughters, 2011 was all about burgers, barbecue, and ramen. A buzzy group of new-generation food trucks turned into a fleet, and... More >>

• If You Want to Combat Corporate Lobbying, You Have to Put Up Your Dukes

  published Dec 28, 2011

  If you read the food media, especially in large cities, you'd believe that the sustainable food revolution is winning. But if you talk to a state senator or member of Congress, writes public-health ad... More >>

• Gordon Edgar's 2011 Finds: New Cheeses to Discover

  published Dec 27, 2011

  SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses... More >>

• Karen Solomon's 2011 Find: Proper Deli Food in San Francisco

  published Dec 23, 2011

  SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses ... More >>

• Nick Balla's 2011 Find: Great Skewers and a New (Old) Herb

  published Dec 22, 2011

  SFoodie is calling up food types around the city to ask them about their favorite discovery of the past year, whether it's new or ancient, an ingredient or a person. We'll be running their responses o... More >>

• Curry Up Now Owner: How Downtown Food Trucks Can Be Good Neighbors

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Yesterday's food feature in the Weekly described the escalating battle between downtown restaurants and food trucks parking on FiDi streets, which began after San Francisco introduced new -- and appar... More >>

• Doc's of the Bay Owner on SF's New Food Truck Regulations: 'The Law Is Flawed'

  published Dec 21, 2011

  As I chronicled in this week's food lead story, the San Francisco Board of Appeals last week struck down two street-parking permits that the Department of Public Works had granted to Kasa's kati rolle... More >>

• A Year in Food: Five Favorite Dishes of 2011

  published December 28, 2011

  Even while it was happening, most of us who monitor San Francisco's restaurant scene recognized that 2010 was a peak year. The city's tepid... More >>

• Golden Flower's Southern-Style Pho Is as Good as We Get in San Francisco

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entree price: $10. It is impossible to feel isolated,... More >>

• As Downtown Fights off Food Trucks, the City's New Street-Food Regulations Prove Faulty

  published Dec 21, 2011

  In place of a full-length restaurant review, the food lead in this week's edition of the Weekly covers a disturbing battle that's emerging in the Financial District. Food trucks granted permits throug... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Schmendricks Pursues the Brooklyn Bagel

  published Dec 20, 2011

  "As a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn, I've always done the NY bagel snob where I complained and complained and complained," says David Kover, one of the cofounders of Schmendricks Bagels, "Until anothe... More >>

• Great. You Made School Food Healthful. Now Can You Make It Taste Goodr

  published Dec 20, 2011

  According to the Los Angeles Times,high school students in the LA Unified School District are rejecting the district's new, more healthful cafeteria food en masse. The school spent last year reformula... More >>

• Rocky Road: Food Trucks Clash with Downtown Businesses

  published December 21, 2011

  When Anamika Khanna and Tim Volkema, two of Kasa Indian Eatery's owners, learned that the Department of Public Works would start taking... More >>

• Slow Food's $5 Challenge Made Alice Waters Cry

  published Dec 16, 2011

  On Chow.com this week, former SFoodie editor John Birdsall came out with a shocker of a story. Slow Food USA is losing members, upsetting core supporters, and laying off staff, Birdsall reports. Whyr ... More >>

• What Caused the Hole in the Local Salmon Populationr

  published Dec 16, 2011

  In the latest episode of their new science podcast, Field Trip, local journalists Kara Platoni and Eric Simons set out to ask the question: Why exactly are all the fish in the ocean disappearing, and ... More >>

• Belcampo Meats Wants to Bring Animals All the Way From Farm to (Your) Fork

  published Dec 15, 2011

  For a cow to magically transform into the ribeye steak sitting in your fridge, the animal travels through numerous middlemen: From the farmer to the feedlot, the feedlot to the slaughterhouse, the sla... More >>

• Oakland, Epicenter of the Taco Truck Scene, Finally Lets Food Trucks Move Downtown

  published Dec 15, 2011

  Oakland's International Boulevard has been the heart of the Bay Area's food truck scene for decades -- thanks to the benevolent (even relaxed) oversight from the city, the Fruitvale neighborhood has b... More >>

• Ashley Lee of Jang Soo BBQ on Her Grandmother and Her Garden

  published Dec 14, 2011

  Ashley Lee is the force behind -- and the face of -- the newly renovated Jang Soo BBQ, the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review. Within the space of a year, she renovated and renamed h... More >>

• The Beehives Are Leaving Hayes Valley Farm, But You Can Buy Honey Before They Go

  published Dec 14, 2011

  The bees of Hayes Valley Farm have had it rough. In 2010, the first colonies to settle in at the urban farm were slaughtered by a malicious neighbor. Early this year, Karen Peteros of SF Bee-Cause and... More >>

• Jang Soo BBQ's New Owners Are Swankifying Up Korean

  published Dec 14, 2011

  A couple of months ago, Jang Soo BBQ -- the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review in the paper -- closed for a short spell to change owners and make a few radical changes, which are onl... More >>