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January 10, 2012
Food TV: Bobby Deen Has a Show Because His Mom's Food Is Unhealthy and Terrible
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Not My Mama's Meals, a half-hour psych pop quiz, Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on the Cooking Channel. In Not My Mama's Meals, the Cooking Channel convinces Paula Deen's son Bobby to remake her death-food in a ma ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Chef Hunter Would Be Better if the Food Network Actually Hunted Chefs for Sport
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Chef Hunter, a one-hour show that does not take place on a private island, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In Chef Hunter, unemployed chefs show up at the door of an important restaurant (like ... More >>
Calendar
November 2, 2011
Laughter in the Tundra
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Chef Hunter, a one-hour show that does not take place on a private island, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In Chef Hunter, unemployed chefs show up at the door of an important restaurant (like ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
Rice Paper Scissors Pops Up For Anthony Bourdain
Albert LawRice Paper Scissors held a pop-up Vietnamese dinner on Wednesday night in the Mission, and a very important member of the visual media attended: photographer Albert Law of Pork Belly Studio. Albert took some amazing photos of the event: check them out here. We heard a TV host name ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
The Gap's Food Truck, Anthony Bourdain is here, and Nojo's Table
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. We don't usually think about food while buying clothes, but the recent Gap food truck looks to be bridging that, well, gap. Eater SF shares, via PopSugar, Pico de Gap is offering Mexican food from Brunch ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
We Test the Seafood CSA and Learn to Beard
Photos by Jesse HirschMussels before bearding, storage, and cookingWhen it comes to innovation, sometimes it's better to let the kinks get worked out before hopping on board. Let someone else test the food for poison, right? But when we heard about Siren SeaSA, the new fish-share concept mode ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Steve Albini on Mario Batali, Ham, Slider-Lust, Olive Oil, and Why Cooking Isn't At All Like Engineering a Record (Except Maybe It Is)
Cássio Abreu/WikimediaLegendary audio engineer (don't call him a producer) and Shellac frontman Steve Albini eschews name brand technology in the studio, despises digital. He's analog; this is common knowledge, championing the visceral over the virtual. As a stalwart traditionalist, he's as ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Chefs Speak! David Chang on Farm to Table, Anthony Strong on Grandma's Pasta
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Another zesty David Chang interview. If I was a food writer in New York, I would beg Momofuku's David Chang for an interview every week. Is his food a culinary revolution? Is he ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2011
The 8 Sexiest Men on TV Cooking Shows
Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Martha Stewart Thinks Beef Is Gross, Silk Thinks You Should Lay Off the Cow Teet
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Vegansaurus' Megan Rascal went to the live taping of Martha Stewart's vegan show. She sat front row like the baller she is, and watched Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone, and rich-bitch vegan (mean this in best way ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Alice Waters Launches Twitter Page, Hints at Big Announcement
Alice Waters/TwitterHey, 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 >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Getting Meat into Cocktails is Tricky but Doable
There have been a few constants in humanity's aspirations: finding out if we're all alone in the universe, immortality, and successfully getting meat to work in a cocktail. The latter is remarkably delicate work. Go too far in the meat direction and it can get gross (and yes, for vegans and vegeta ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2010
Harold McGee Talks Food Science at Omnivore
Jake Tilson/FlickrHarold McGee.Seeing him wax poetic on TV about fat-on-fat with Anthony Bourdain is but a taste of author Harold McGee's knowledge. At an upcoming Q&A session, you can ask the master of food science lingering questions about the "why" of cooking. McGee is headed to Omnivore B ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Will Blog for Food: Dianne Jacob at Book Passage
Carina OstDianne Jacob updated her seminal book, "Will Write for Food," to reflect the times and technology. She spoke about the changes at the Ferry Building last week.We headed to everyone's favorite foodie mecca, the Ferry Building, last week for a talk and book signing by Dianne Jacob, au ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Nopa, Four Barrel: How New York Times Food Writer/Rocker Peter Meehan Eats on the Road
Premshree Pillai/FlickrFour Barrel: Too slick for psych-folk rockers?"West Coastin'," New York Times food writer Peter Meehan's Snoop Dogg-ishly titled "Grass Fed" column of June 29, revealed that the scraggly-maned scribe plays guitar in a musty, atmospheric psych-folk band that includes Mag ... More >>
News
May 26, 2010
The Radio Pirate Goes Legit
Now Pirate Cat Radio is following the rules.
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Il Gato
Calling itself the Latin band without a Latin name, Il Gato began as a solo project by Daimian Holiday Scott (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, loop pedal, etc.) during his days living in Spain. Upon returning to the States, he turned the project into a full band. Utilizing an array of instrum ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Incanto's Head to Tail Dinner an Interspecies Affair
queenkv/FlickrPig's ear amuse from the 2008 head to tail dinner.So maybe we wrote recently that the grand restaurant theme-fest might seem dated, all those diligent minings of enormous animal carcasses that find greatest expression, arguably, in Oliveto's Whole Hog events. The thing about Inc ... More >>
Music
November 11, 2009
Pirate Cat Radio slapped with hefty fine, pushed off the FM dial
queenkv/FlickrPig's ear amuse from the 2008 head to tail dinner.So maybe we wrote recently that the grand restaurant theme-fest might seem dated, all those diligent minings of enormous animal carcasses that find greatest expression, arguably, in Oliveto's Whole Hog events. The thing about Inc ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2009
In Town Last Night, David Chang and Local Chefs Ponder S.F.'s 'Monotone' Restaurant Culture
David Chang (right) with Chris Cosentino before last night's discussion at Cafe Du Nord.If there's a takeaway lesson from fig-gate, it might be this: Don't drink on stage. At a 7x7-sponsored panel discussion at Café Du Nord last night, N.Y. chef David Chang took heat for having being what ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2009
NorCal Asia Society Eighty-Sixes David Chang After New York Chef's Diss of S.F. Restaurants
NYC Wine & Food FestivalBlame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol.A spokesman for the Asia Society confirmed that the organization canceled an event with New York superchef David Chang for Nov. 9, after Chang made disparaging remarks about chefs in San Francisco. "Regrettably, it's true," said Robert ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2009
Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail
Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2009
Listen to SFoodie Editor John Birdsall Talk Street Food on KQED
J. Birdsall Yup, even Spencer on the Go's Laurent Katgely called in.Check out the MP3 archive (embedded below) of SFoodie editor John Birdsall (uh, that'd be me) on the KQED radio chat show Forum this morning. The topic? Pavement cuisine, otherwise know as street food. The in-studio discu ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2009
Seven 'Fear Factor'-Worthy Dishes (and the Restaurants That Serve Them)
Looking to get adventurous with your food choices or just gross out your date? We've compiled a list of some of the freakiest foods available, along with the restaurants (and festivals) that serve them. Warning: Don't read this before dinner.1. Fried Goat HeadAvailable at Shangri-La Kabab and BBQ ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Meat is mystery: Our favorite Bay Area Bites writer Andrew Simmons has an epic post on flesh today. Of course meat's gross, unspeakably gross -- anyone but a 14-year-old contrarian in skinny jeans and acne and, well, Anthony Bourdain, woul ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
The Afternoon I Holed Up in Bender's with Anthony Bourdain
Mary LaddThe nasty bits: The Bender's Bloody Mary, crowned with a beef stick.Filming the San Francisco episode of No Reservations (the show airs on the Travel Channel network August 10) was similar to the other times I've hung out with Anthony Bourdain. It was all drinking and eating, only th ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2009
Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Food Memoir with the Scent of Balls
In Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00) Jason Sheehan rolls and ties an autobiographical narrative of a life spent toiling in the lower regions of food. Sheehan is resto critic for Westword, the Denver alt weekly and SF Weekly sister ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2009
Ten Gourmet Hot Dogs That'll Make You Sit Up and Beg
A dog with ketchup and mustard? Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you crave a bit more refinement than the classic red hot provides. There's a whole of craving going on these days -- gourmet wieners are poised to become a national (even an international) phenom, and that's just fine with u ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
August 19, 2008
The Olympics Taste China
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 >>
Music
February 13, 2008
All in the Family: Drinking After Hours at Laiola
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 >>
Blogs
October 2, 2007
SFoodie: Mario Batali Flips Me Off
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 >>
Blogs
October 2, 2007
SFoodie: Mario Batali Flips Me Off
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 >>
Blogs
July 25, 2007
No Reservations Movie Review. Grade: B
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 >>
Film
July 25, 2007
Light Dining
No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam.
News
June 13, 2007
Coming Soon
The summer season always brings out the worst in Hollywood, but there are also gems to be found
Dining
March 8, 2006
The French Quarter
Two restaurants from the same part of the world colonize Mission District corners
News
November 27, 2002
Chef Flower Power
The Hippy Gourmet serves up '60s philosophizing with his seafood Newberg
Calendar
December 26, 2001
Dinner and a Movie
Stories of crime and passion weave in and out of a busy restaurant kitchen in Dinner Rush
Dining
May 2, 2001
Crossing Paths
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