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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2012 Stories by Jonathan Kauffman

• Think China's Doping Pigsr Not Nearly as Much as American Farmers Are

  published Jan 27, 2012

  Last year, American readers clucked their tongues when news emerged from China about outbreaks of illness traced back to Chinese farmers who doped their pigs with clenbuterol, aka "lean meat powder," ... More >>

• Izakaya Yuzuki Chef Takashi Saito Talks Culture

  published Jan 26, 2012

  As a side note to this week's review of Izakaya Yuzuki, a 2-month-old Japanese restaurant in the Mission, I spoke to its chef, Takashi Saito, a alumnus of Ame and Kyo-Ya. In addition to making exqui... More >>

• Is It Too Late to Start an Artisanal Food Businessr Maybe.

  published Jan 26, 2012

  In the 1980s, food types all talked up the simple little French restaurant they wanted to open -- nothing pretentious, mind you, but serving a proper blanquette de veau, just like the one they'd eat... More >>

• Off the Grid's Auditioning Aspiring Street-Food Vendors

  published Jan 25, 2012

  It's sort of -- well, vaguely -- like an episode of San Francisco's Next Top Food Truck. Matt Cohen, founder of the Off the Grid street-food gatherings, is in the process of putting together the lineu... More >>

• Izakaya Yuzuki Takes Its Cooking Back to the Base

  published Jan 25, 2012

  We are in the era of chocolate makers who import their cacao beans via sailing ship, bartenders making tonic water from cinchona bark, and brewers using leftover bread yeast to make beer. The closer y... More >>

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  There Are Two Conservative Girl Scout Cookie Boycotts This Year

  published Jan 25, 2012

  According to an article in Salon yesterday, this year Girl Scout Cookies are under attack. Yes, cookies. Conservative activists have spotted a tenuous link between the Girl Scouts and Planned Parentho... More >>

• SoMa Food-Truck Pod Breaks Ground This Week

  published Jan 24, 2012

  Carlos Muela may come from a San Francisco restaurant family, but he didn't foresee owning another restaurant in his future. He was more interested in street food. "I'd been to Portland and saw the st... More >>

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  Jablow's Meats Launches a Pastrami Pop-Up

  published Jan 24, 2012

  Dan Jablow, a cooking school grad and former Fatted Calf employee, has been refining his recipes for lunch meats for more than a year, showing up at the monthly New Taste Marketplace events to test th... More >>

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  Hey, Critics of the Happy Meal Toy Ban: Banning Fast Food Advertising Does Work

  published Jan 24, 2012

  San Francisco came in for a heap of ridicule last year -- including some from this very paper -- when the Board of Supervisors passed a ban on selling fast-food meals containing toys. The sentime... More >>

• Dim Sum in Chinatown Ain't What It Used to Be

  published Jan 23, 2012

  rRice 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. For the past few decades, dim su... More >>

• Kung Hei Fat Choi: The Year of the Dragon Begins

  published Jan 23, 2012

  Today begins 10 days of gluttony in San Francisco, as families, family associations, and businesses gather to celebrate Lunar New Year. Given that it's the year of the dragon, lobster (whose Chinese n... More >>

• Izakaya Yuzuki: Painstakingly Crafted Japanese Food

  published January 25, 2012

  It's striking how often we now rely on restaurants to provide us with a sense of the homemade. Not just "house-made" salumi or pasta, but base... More >>

• Has Hing Lung Really Been Shut Down for Six Monthsr

  published Jan 20, 2012

  The English-language newspapers and food blogs haven't made mention of it, but in early December, the San Francisco Department of Public Health shut down jook hall and longtime SFoodie favorite H... More >>

• New Obesity Prevention Tactic: Take Two Chard Leaves and Call Me in the Morning

  published Jan 20, 2012

  According to an article this morning in the Bay Citizen, a group of pediatricians at Oakland's Highland Hospital have begun testing out a new tactic for reducing the risk of obesity and diabetes in ch... More >>

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  Foie Gras Countdown, Week 2: Eat at La Folie, Ana Mandara, and Txoko

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Counting down the days before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect. Three more restaurants where you can eat foie gras this week: La Folie offers two foie gras preparations as part o... More >>

• Will the Bay Area's Street Food Scene Ever Rival Portland'sr No.

  published Jan 19, 2012

  As I wrote several weeks ago, despite San Francisco city officials' attempts to help the city's food truck scene grow, the conflicts between brick-and-mortar restaurants downtown and food trucks apply... More >>

• What Happens When You Don't Test Recipesr Lost Readers, Even Lawsuits

  published Jan 19, 2012

  Last month, a Chilean court ruled that a major newspaper there had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to readers who'd made a recipe for churros that it had published. Whyr Well, the recipe had c... More >>

• The New Lers Ros: Twice as Stylish, Just as Spicy

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Despite our proximity to Los Angeles, whose Thai restaurants are the best in the Americas, San Francisco's history with Thai restaurants is a spotty one. Little restaurants spring up, impress the loc... More >>

• Hating on Diabetic Paula Deen Is Fun But Premature

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Yesterday, after Paula Deen finally sat down with Al Roker on the Today Show and admitted that she'd been diagnosed with diabetes type three years ago, the food world has been engaged in the loudest r... More >>

• Dine About Town Is On: Here's What We'd Eat

  published Jan 17, 2012

  This past Sunday, Dine About Town -- San Francisco's annual dining promotion -- reappeared, with participating restaurants offering $17.95 lunches and $34.95 three-course dinners from now through Janu... More >>

• Shit Baristas Say: A Little Self-Mockery on the Coffee Frontier

  published Jan 17, 2012

  Mere seconds before the "Shit X says" meme goes the way of the Pomplamoose cover, the irreverent coffee-culture bloggers at Sprudge.com have made a "Shit Baristas Say" video, filmed at Four Barrel and... More >>

• Fresh Eats: Food Find: Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

  published January 18, 2012

  Four months after its debut, Seoul Patch, a lunchtime popup operating out of Rocketfish in Potrero Hill, continues to evolve. Chef Eric Ehler's... More >>

• Paula Deen's Death Food, Beet Sweets, and Sandos: This Week in Food Bloggery

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Highlights from the blog this week: 1. In his review of Bobby Deen's new television show, Not My Momma's Cooking, food TV reviewer Michael Leaverton keeps calling Paula Deen's cooking death-food. Not... More >>

• Lers Ros Hayes Valley: Stylish Thai Taste Travels Uptown

  published January 18, 2012

  Shortly after opening in 2008, Lers Ros... More >>

• At Lunch, Z&Y Produces Good Burn for the Buck

  published Jan 13, 2012

  rRice 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.The tourists seated next to me, all... More >>