Email Author Jonathan Kauffman

Awards

• 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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2012 Stories by Jonathan Kauffman

• Pot Your Own Foie Gras, or Just Order It at Benu and Burger Bar

  published Feb 09, 2012

  rrCounting down the meals before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect. Today, noted foie gras booster Russell Jackson of Lafitte filed a Chow Tip on how to preserve foie gras. Al... More >>

• Bacterial Foam Is Making Pig Barns Explode. Seriously.

  published Feb 09, 2012

  In what may be the most spectacularly disgusting story of the month, Grist reports on a phenomenon that has killed thousands of pigs on giant industrial hog farms. Farms (OK, "farms") throughout ... More >>

• Caldos, Sopas, and Pozoles: What to Eat in the Mission This Winter

  published Feb 08, 2012

  I had a whole seasonal angle in mind for this week's full-length restaurant review of Mexican, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan soups in the Mission. And then, well ... just look out the window. Y... More >>

• You Can Now Get General Tso's Chicken in Beijing

  published Feb 08, 2012

  Now that you can find American-style sushi in Tokyo and chai lattes in Milan, why not chop suey and General Tso's chicken in Beijingr (Side note: You realize those aren't actual Chinese dishes, don't ... More >>

• Supervisor Wiener Introduces Legislation to Let Food Trucks Park on Colleges

  published Feb 07, 2012

  In December 2010, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed new legislation revising the city's regulations for food trucks seeking to park on the street. The goal: helping San Francisco's street ... More >>

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  Cosmic American Voodoo Van: The Truck of Rock

  published Feb 07, 2012

  "Our whole goal is to take what food trucks are to another level," says Phil Stefani, aka FlexXBronco's lead guitarist and owner of the new Cosmic American Voodoo Van. How sor "Through image, attitude... More >>

• White Bread Is Lovable Because the Government Engineered to Be That Way

  published Feb 07, 2012

  Nigh flavorless. Textureless. Nutritionally vapid. There's a reason white bread has become the symbol of all that is wrong with industrialized food, not to mention WASP culture. Turns out, that r... More >>

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  903, Sandbox Bakery's Cafe, Fully (Re)Opens Today

  published Feb 06, 2012

  When SFoodie called Mutsumi Takehara, owner of Sandbox Bakery, last week to find out more about 903, the cafe she opened on January 21, we got a funny little message in response. "Well, it just got a ... More >>

• Is the Recession Over for San Francisco Restaurantsr

  published Feb 06, 2012

  The national unemployment figures may be dropping at the speed of glacier erosion. But in one segment of the San Francisco economy, at least, the recession may be over. The Bay Area restaurant industr... More >>

• Soup Mission: Finding S.F.'s Best Central American Broths

  published February 8, 2012

  By rights, San Francisco should be deep into soup season, when our space heaters strain to combat the cold leaching through the windows of our... More >>

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  Kay Cheung: Pretty Much a Midwestern Diner with Dumplings

  published Feb 03, 2012

  Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvass Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entree price: $10.rIt finally hit me, visiting Kay Ch... More >>

• Glacier Thieves, Immortal Lard: SFoodie Isn't Sure What to Make of This Information

  published Feb 03, 2012

  Some days, standing on the shores of the Internet and peering into that great gray horizon of information, as SFoodie does every morning, yields nothing. A few tired rants about school lunches bob on ... More >>

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  Eat Foie with Blood Orange at Jardiniere, Tournedos Rossini at Baker Street Bistro

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Counting down the days before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect.Here are two more excuses to eat foie gras this week: On its a la carte dinner menu, Jardiniere is offering a terri... More >>

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  Eire Trea May Be the World's First Irish-Eritrean Food Truck

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Alan Hyland, who originally comes from a small town near Galway, had spent the past couple of years bouncing around the idea of starting up a food truck specializing in Irish food -- "sort of like a c... More >>

• When Fritos Were Meant for the Dinner Table

  published Feb 02, 2012

  In honor of the Super Bowl, which has become an excuse for junk-food decadence unrivaled since Roman times -- we're going to eat 1.25 billion wings this Sunday! Have you heard of this thing called the... More >>

• The Best Place to Find Rare Citrus Like Yuzu and Pink Limes: De Santis Farms

  published Feb 01, 2012

  For years, SFoodie has found it impossible to visit the Alemany Farmers' Market without gawking at Rosa de Santis's citrus stand. Her cara caras and oro blanco grapefruit are positively mundane -- the... More >>

• Roostertail: Roast Chicken for a Wednesday Night Feast

  published Feb 01, 2012

  If roast chicken were a newspaper story, it's what we'd call an "evergreen" -- a dish that you can run anytime to fill a hole in the schedule, one that's guaranteed to get a good response. Which is wh... More >>

• This Whole 'Food Desert' Thingr Maybe That's Not the Problem

  published Feb 01, 2012

  For the past decade or so, there's been a big push to identify "food deserts" -- low-income neighborhoods and even cities that don't have ready access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Plant markets in ... More >>

• Mercury Lounge to Close at the End of the Month

  published Jan 31, 2012

  SFoodie received a sad email yesterday afternoon from Dominic Ainza, chef of Mercury Lounge. The SoMa restaurant and lounge is going to close, he wrote, at the end of the month. "It was definitely the... More >>

• If Twitter's Any Evidence, Cooks Are a Very Peeved People

  published Jan 31, 2012

  Here's your time-wasting assignment for the morning: type #kitchenpetpeeves into the search bar of Twitter. Yesterday's biggest Twitter meme in the food world began with a New York cook with the hand... More >>

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  Celebrating a Higher Year at Bund Shanghai

  published Jan 30, 2012

  Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvass Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entree price: $10. It had been a while since I'd eat... More >>

• Is American Sushi on the Decliner Some Say Yes.

  published Jan 30, 2012

  It's no surprise that when the Washington Post brings a storied, Japan-trained sushi chef to a neighborhood, fusion-happy sushi restaurant, he doesn't like what he's eating. What is interesting, thoug... More >>

• Fresh Eats: SOMA Streat Food Park: Making a Place for Food Trucks

  published February 1, 2012

  Carlos Muela may come from a San Francisco restaurant family, but he didn't see owning a restaurant in his future. He was more interested in... More >>

• Roostertail: 1950s American Plates Meet S.F.'s 2012 Palate

  published February 1, 2012

  San Francisco food types are connoisseurs of the mundane. The perfect peach. The nonpareil pizza. The burger formed of just the right beef,... More >>

• Foie With Scallops, Prunes, Jelly: Two More Places to Eat Foie Gras This Week

  published Jan 27, 2012

  Counting down the days before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect. This week, Baker & Banker is offering a foie gras torchon with port-poached prunes and grilled housemade brioch... More >>