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Slow Food Nation To Contemplate Then Masticate SF This May

Slow Food Nation To Contemplate Then Masticate SF This May

Waters And Newsom To Shoot The Bull On Sustainable Food

Slow Food Nation Wants YOU To Help Plant The Victory Garden!

State of the Cart: Alice Waters on Street Food

Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

(Image via Maangchi)•Mu [SFGate]•The Negroni [Bay Area Bites]•Insanely priced food magazines [7x7]•A new reason to call Alice Waters a hero [SFist]

Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

•Winter salads [SFGate]•Hot toddies [Bay Area Bites]•Much (more) ado about Alice [Menupages SF]•Little Paris, in the East Bay [Contra Costa Times](Alice Waters photo via Menupages SF)

Road Trip Pit Stop: Corti Brothers

A stop at this store a must for many Bay Area gourmets passing through Sacramento.

Anthony Bourdain's Hunger for More Inevitably Leads Him to S.F.

media.newsobserver.comWhere do you go for entrails, chiles, and bacony goodness after you've been to Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Colombia? Why, San Francisco, of course!Famed tough-guy foodie Anthony Bourdain is in these parts right now, it's rumored, sampling our finest and weirdest cuisine for his Tr ... More >>

Cool Clear Waters

media.newsobserver.comWhere do you go for entrails, chiles, and bacony goodness after you've been to Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Colombia? Why, San Francisco, of course!Famed tough-guy foodie Anthony Bourdain is in these parts right now, it's rumored, sampling our finest and weirdest cuisine for his Tr ... More >>

New Kid in Town

media.newsobserver.comWhere do you go for entrails, chiles, and bacony goodness after you've been to Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Colombia? Why, San Francisco, of course!Famed tough-guy foodie Anthony Bourdain is in these parts right now, it's rumored, sampling our finest and weirdest cuisine for his Tr ... More >>

Eating Right

media.newsobserver.comWhere do you go for entrails, chiles, and bacony goodness after you've been to Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Colombia? Why, San Francisco, of course!Famed tough-guy foodie Anthony Bourdain is in these parts right now, it's rumored, sampling our finest and weirdest cuisine for his Tr ... More >>

The Gift of Reading

Still have people to buy for? Consider these books as last-minute stocking stuffers.

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Sine Coi Non

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The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Cookbook

New tricks for shopping the best market in the city

Winners and Losers

How an S.F. food critic sent a chill through the room at a national awards ceremony

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Why All the Hatin' on Alice Waters?

America's most hated?Activist icon Alice Waters has come in for harsh criticism in recent weeks in both bloggerdom and the national press -- Eater SF documents the vitriol here, and here -- including an apparently erroneous incident that had Waters throwing a hissy fit at Thomas Keller's Per Se. Cri ... More >>

Confessions of a Restaurant Critic: Range, Zuni, and Chez Panisse are Still Just as Fabulous as Ever

In Praise of Sardines via FlickrRange's light hasn't dimmed a bit in four yearsIt's rare that a restaurant critic gets to revisit favorite places, whether old or new. We're always looking for the next place to write about. (It's surprising how many friends will mention, after they read my review of ... More >>

Former Alice Waters Assistant Turning His Hand to Bento Boxes with a Drop-Dead Sensibility

Peko-Peko's kakuni, made with pork from Marin Sun FarmsEven in this town, many of us know Japanese food as monster maki, fast-food ramen, and greasy tonkatsu cutlets. Sylvan Brackett wants to change that. The former assistant to Alice Waters is making bento boxes combining authentic Japanese techniq ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. First Foodie: Is Michelle Obama a stealth locavore? Grist's Tom Laskawy ponders the possibility. According to the Washington Post, FLOTUS's commitment to denying Big Ag goes a bit beyond scratching out a few rows of heirloom radishes on the South ... More >>

Google's Favorite Places Awards: Strange-Looking and Subject to Graffiti

The Google award at Humphry Slocombe.On Wednesday, SFoodie's Meredith Brody reported on Google mapping out Alice Waters' favorite places in the Bay Area. That same day, the tech company dropped off exclamation point-looking statues in front of the chosen places of Waters as well as the selections fr ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. SFoodie Pissy. Rant. Session.: Now that the weekend's events are over, let it be said: Could there be a better way to piss off editors than to name an even "SF Chefs. Food. Wine."? Though it clocks a mere four words, SF C.F.W. seems way to ... More >>

Just As Long As Alice Doesn't Show Up in a Tube Top

Fruit forward: Lynch's upcoming CD.​It promises to be a multi-dimensional Boomer blowout when a founding member of Berkeley's Delicious Revolution goes all blues rocker. On Wednesday, October 7, at the Great American Music Hall, wine import maverick and a hobbyist musician/tunesmith Kermit Lyn ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. The semiotics of yum: We once had an editor who enforced a ban on hated words: crispy, veggie, hipster, and foodie, a tag that necessarily shows up often on a site called SFoodie. At Bay Area Bites today, SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons muses on fo ... More >>

Local Heavies to Celebrate Cecilia Chiang, the Julia Child of Chinese Cooking

Silent auction prizes include signed copies of Chiang's latest book.​Famed San Francisco restaurant owner, cooking teacher, and consultant Cecilia Chiang is being honored on her 90th birthday Friday with a banquet at Yank Sing Rincon Center (101 Spear at Mission). The eight-course menu was cre ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Chez Stoner

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Go ask Alice: Eater spotted a from-across-the-pond profile of Alice Waters from Elfreda Pownall at Telegraph.co.uk. Of course, "Elfreda Pownall" is one of those Anglo-queeny drag tags, like Dame Edna Everage or Susan Boyle (we kid, we kid: of course Ms. Po ... More >>

Enough Already with the End-of-Year and End-of-Decade Lists!

​For the past two months, we've seen so many silly end-of-year and end-of-decade lists rolling across our computer screens -- via Facebook, blogs, newspapers -- we're inclined to compile our own silly list of our least favorite ones. For starters, we'd go with this little tasting menu of sus ... More >>

Let's Talk About Hops

​For the past two months, we've seen so many silly end-of-year and end-of-decade lists rolling across our computer screens -- via Facebook, blogs, newspapers -- we're inclined to compile our own silly list of our least favorite ones. For starters, we'd go with this little tasting menu of sus ... More >>

Free-Range, Apartment-Dwelling Chickens

​For the past two months, we've seen so many silly end-of-year and end-of-decade lists rolling across our computer screens -- via Facebook, blogs, newspapers -- we're inclined to compile our own silly list of our least favorite ones. For starters, we'd go with this little tasting menu of sus ... More >>

Ferry Building Heath Store Opens Earlier Than Expected

Who knew Heath bowls and vases came in so many colors?​ The Heath Ceramics store in the Ferry Building Marketplace opened today, a few days ahead of its projected April opening. The Sausalito-based ceramic maker, beloved by both Dwell and Alice Waters, replaces Tsar Nicoulai, which moved out early ... More >>

Sewage Sludge Protesters Sling Mud at Chez Panisse

Comin' to Chez Panisse, baby! ​The good folks who earlier this month gallivanted into Mayor Gavin Newsom's office outfitted in HazMat suits and brandishing jars of compost will be doling out the charm again tomorrow -- at Chez Panisse. The Organic Consumers Association, via a not overheated at all ... More >>

Sewage Sludge Protestors Sling Mud at Chez Panisse

superhappyfoodie/FlickrUnfair target?​The good folks who earlier this month gallivanted into Mayor Gavin Newsom's office outfitted in HazMat suits and brandishing jars of compost will be doling out the charm again tomorrow ― at Chez Panisse. The Organic Consumers Association, via a not overh ... More >>

Alice Waters Demands Apology from Sewage Sludge Protestors

misono/FlickrWaters is accusing protest organizers of making false statements.​Alice Waters has a statement to organizers of today's planned protest in front of Chez Panisse in Berkeley: Have you no shame? Yesterday we reported on the Organic Consumers Association's plans to highlight the San ... More >>

The Coast Should Be Clear for Alice Waters' Book Signing Next Weekend

​There sure was a whole lot of hullabaloo surrounding Alice Waters this week, but, as Eater SF reports, it ended with a fizzle. In other words, it won't be some great act of political defiance to go see Waters when she hits sweet little Noe Valley shop Omnivore Books on Food to sign copies of ... More >>

Alice Waters Joins a Motley Crew for Tonight's Real Time with Bill Maher

eater.comWaters, Armstrong, Maher, Rock: This ain't the new Green Day lineup.​From Eater SF/Eater National comes an incredible composite photo and a crucial DVR alert for tonight, as Alice Waters pulls up to the discussion table on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Admittedly, we probably woul ... More >>

Eat Their Vegetables

eater.comWaters, Armstrong, Maher, Rock: This ain't the new Green Day lineup.​From Eater SF/Eater National comes an incredible composite photo and a crucial DVR alert for tonight, as Alice Waters pulls up to the discussion table on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Admittedly, we probably woul ... More >>

Latest National Security Threat: The Whopper

CHP - NWHF/FlickrAlice Waters and red-state defense hawks might finallly have something in common.​All that artificially cheap corn-fed mystery meat, neon orange processed cheese, soft white bread, and watery sauced spaghetti in shitty school lunches might be accomplishing something their poli ... More >>

Michelin's Stripping Chez Panisse of Its Star No Ding on Alice

Mike D./YelpWhat's seen as the restaurant's fall has Alice haters purring with schadenfreude.​The news dangling from the release today of this year's Michelin Guide for San Francisco is even flimsier than usual. Chris Kostow's Meadowood joins French Laundry in three-star territory. But the rea ... More >>

Sustainable Artisans to Shine at Good Food Awards

seedlingprojects/FlickrEntry in the poster contest for Seedling Projects' Good Food Month.​In August last year, Seedling Projects (it helped organize Slow Food Nation in 2008 and the S.F. Street Food Festival in 2010) announced an awards contest to recognize the top responsible artisan produce ... More >>

Alice Waters Launches Twitter Page, Hints at Big Announcement

Alice Waters/Twitter​Hey, look who's tweeting ― Alice Waters. Well, not technically (she hasn't published anything yet), though Alice did create a Twitter page yesterday afternoon, says David Prior, director of communications for the Chez Panisse Foundation. Alice's chicken and rooster avata ... More >>

Alice Waters' Big Twittery Announcement? Give Money to Edible Schoolyards

Chez Panisse Foundation​That momentous announcement we hinted at Friday, the one so big it would drive the charmingly Luddite Alice Waters to begin tweeting? Turns out it was merely biggish. Waters served up the news at Twitter HQ late yesterday ― Inside Scoop has a point-by-point report t ... More >>

The Chez Panisse 40th Anniversary Tributes Are Rolling In

marioanima/FlickrThe sign for Chez Panisse should read: All hunger ye who enter here.​August 28 marks the 40th birthday of Chez Panisse, as you've probably been hearing. Alice Waters has been redecorating her restaurant with old menus and holding commemorative dinners galore, and the newspaper st ... More >>

Slow Food's $5 Challenge Made Alice Waters Cry

People are apparently quitting Slow Food USA over this.​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. Why? Because it's changing its focus to address ... More >>