Subject: Chris Cosentino

• Meatpaper -- It's What's For Dinner!

  December 19, 2007

• The Year Of Eating Dangerously: Most Disturbing Food Of 2007

  December 24, 2007

• Chris Cosentino's Lips & Assholes T-Shirt

  December 31, 2007

• Head To Head (To Tail) With Chris Cosentino

  March 5, 2008

• Brains And Eggs, The White Boy Boogie

  April 1, 2008

• Food Porn: Chilis And Bones At Incanto

  April 22, 2008

• Head To Tail, Sicilian Tuna Love Upcoming At Incanto

  April 24, 2008

• Sicilian Mattanza Dinner At Incanto

  July 7, 2008

• Jeremy Fish Cooks with Chef Chris Cosentino

  Jeremy Fish's long-awaited Ghosts of the Barbary Coast opens tonight at Fifty24SF Gallery. His latest collection of works is his own personal love letter to the history of San Francisco. In celebration of the new exhibit, Chef Chris Cosentino recently invited Fish to his restaurant, Incanto, to prepare an old-timey SF delicacy known as Barbary Coast Rabbit. View the rest of Fish and Cosentino's food prep over at Juxtapoz, then head out to 252 Fillmore St. tonight for the premiere. --Oscar Pascua

  December 4, 2008

• Alex Pardee and Chef Chris Cosentino Cook Pig Head

  Alex Pardee's Letters From Digested Children opens tomorrow at Fifty24SF, so celebrity Chef Chris Cosentino decided to mark the occassion by inviting Pardee to cook up a few pig's head dishes at Cosentino's swanky SF restaurant, Incanto. I'm guessing that pig's head is a reference to either Lord of the Flies, or to Pardee's affinity for gore and horror flicks. You may also remember Cosentino cooking with Jeremy Fish before his art show last month, so look out for more team-ups with Cosentino an

  January 7, 2009

• Hot Meal: Cucina Povera at Incanto

  Being a fan of Chris Cosentino's regular menu at Incanto, we were unable to resist the first dinner of his special summer-long Cucina Povera prix-fixe dinner series, a tribute to the poverty-inspired dishes of Italy's various regions, offered Sunday and Monday nights -- especially when we noted the bargain price, $30 for three courses, and only $9 more for a paired two-wine flight. The first meal, from Lazio in central Italy (bordered by famous culinary neighbors Tuscany and Umbria), seemed home

  June 3, 2009

• Membership Has Its Privileges: Free Crab Cookbook

  If you have a Visa Signature rewards card, Visa, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, and almost 50 Bay Area restaurants have cooked up a little present for you: a nice little pamphlet of crab recipes, titled SF Chefs. Food. Wine.: Dungeness Crab. Inside you'll find recipes from A (Angel Hair Crab Lasagna, from Andrea Froncillo, executive chef/owner of Franciscan Crab Restaurant) to Z (well, W: Wok Roasted Ginger-Scallion Dungeness Crab, from George Chen, chef/owner of Shanghai 1930). The res

  February 4, 2009

• Boccalone P.S.: Pork Butter

  This creamy spread is delicious on crusty bread, toast, or crackers.

  February 17, 2009

• El Cachanilla's $1.50 Tacos

  This funky little place's menu has all the odd bits: head, tongue, brain, tripe, even eye.

  February 23, 2009

• Tentative Menu for Incanto's Head to Tail Dinners

  Mmm, coffee and doughnuts!

  March 12, 2009

• 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 Travel Channel show, No Reservations. Our Robert Lauriston, fellow offal fancier, thinks Bourdain may have timed his visit to coincide with Chris Cosentino's famed Head to Tail dinners at Incanto, this

  March 17, 2009

• Last Chance: Incanto's 2009 Head to Tail Dinners

  Still a few tables left for tonight and Wednesday.

  March 23, 2009

• The Year of Living Practically Green

  How to save the environment without being extreme

  January 16, 2008

• Boccalone Set to Clean Up With Lard Soap

  Soon, enthusiasts of Boccalone (1 Ferry Bldg. at Embarcadero) will have something more appropriate to rub all over their body than their still-new and delectable Nduja (a Calabrian spreadable salame with addictive spice and meatiness). The salumeria, owned by Incanto's Chris Cosentino (co-star of the upcoming Food Network television series Chef vs. City) and Mark Pastore which trumpets a motto of "tasty salted pig parts," will soon debut its own lard soap. The pig fat is said to produce a rich,

  May 19, 2009

• Mi Amor

  Let him count the ways this unique Italian restaurant won his heart

  February 14, 2007

• Love Shack

  Find excellent New England seafood in a little place on Market

  August 16, 2006

• Best Offal

  Incanto Restaurant & Wine Bar

  May 19, 2004

• Incanto's Budget Prix Fixe to Mine the Cooking of Italy's Poor, Plus a Cosentino Roundup

  Niallkennedy via FlickrComing to a corner near you (maybe): Boccalone's panino expressIncanto chef Chris Cosentino told SFoodie the restaurant's summer prix-fixe menu series probing the food of Italy's poor was a way to focus on some of the peninsula's simplest and most traditional dishes. "Some of the best food came out of poverty," Cosentino said. Dubbed Cucina Povera, the three-course, $30 offering ($39 with optional two-course wine flight) is available Sunday and Monday nights, starting this

  May 28, 2009

• Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers

  The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere on this Earth," New York author and food blogger Ed Levine -- a festival organizer -- told SFoodie. Levine said he'd heard the event called "the Super Bowl of food," a description that seemed to expr

  June 8, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. You can't have da mango: On NPR's Morning Edition, local writer Sandip Roy waxes eloquent about Indian mangoes -- a Bush-era nukes agreement with India freed them up for import. One variety is the Alphonso, known in India as the King of Mangoes. Roy presents a specimen to Orson owner Elizabeth Falkner. She gushes, which only makes Roy homesick for Calcutta. The taste of mango was a price of immigration. It was our symbol of loss, and all the

  June 11, 2009

• Boccalone Salumi Cycle Hits the Streets for Lunch Again Today

  Chris Cosentino's tasty salted pig parts on the go.Stuck amongst all the numbers in FiDi and can't get down to the Ferry Building for lunch? Boccalone's Salumi Cycle will wheel over to the corner of California and Montgomery today at 12:30 to peddle salumi panini with tomato conserva and arugula ($7), Humphry Slocombe's lard shortbread cookies ($3), and Red Bull Natural Cola ($1) until they're all gone. Exact change is appreciated.

  June 12, 2009

• Boulevard Chef Calls Lineup for Tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest 'Interesting'

  bernardus/FlickrNancy Oakes: Fearing a throwdown?Nancy Oakes told SFoodie she's not sure what to expect at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest, the sprawling Shoreline event that brings together Food Network personalities, local chefs, and rock bands. The chef and owner of Boulevard is doing an crab cake demo late Saturday. "I'm just going to play it as it goes -- I think it'll be interesting and fun for people," said Oakes. She acknowledged that the lineup, which includes Bobby Flay a

  June 12, 2009

• TiVo Alert: Chris Cosentino Talks BBQ on 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate'

  offalgood.comChris Cosentino must like adventurous BBQ.Tonight, offal good chef Chris Cosentino (Incanto/Boccalone) joins national colleagues Bobby Flay, Ted Allen, and Tyler Florence on television. He'll be talking about his favorite barbecue spots on the special "Bar-B-Que" edition of The Best Thing I Ever Ate.The episode airs at 9:30 p.m. on the Food Network, but you can spoil your appetite now and learn about what places they picked (but not who picked 'em) on the program's Web page. Hint: I

  June 23, 2009

• Incanto's Cocina Povera Series Set to Take on the Cooking of Puglia

  phxpma/FlickrAre you feeling like a fresh and tasty Southern Italian mini-vacation -- via dinner -- is in order? Incanto (1550 Church at Duncan) is continuing its summer-long Cucina Povera prix-fixe dinner series on Sunday and Monday nights (it features the peasant food of a different Italian region each week). Chef Chris Cosentino knows his way around a cuisine or two: the under-explored corners of Italy, tasty salted pig parts, and barbecue are just the start. (Full disclosure: In March, Incan

  June 25, 2009

• At Bloodhound Last Night, Nervous Chefs Watch Themselves in 'No Reservations'

  Joseph Schell Incanto's Chris Cosentino (left) and Sebo's Michael Black react to the broadcast. A handful of chefs and others who appeared in the San Francisco episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations gathered at Bloodhound in SOMA last night to watch the broadcast. Incanto chef Chris Cosentino had organized the viewing party -- the show included a scene of Bourdain slurping an all-offal menu during one of Incanto's annual Head to Tail dinners, at a table with Boulevard chef de cuisi

  August 11, 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 Palace in New York City, this dish looks surprisingly innocent. Aside from goat brains, Shangri-La serves up more enticing dishes like gundruk sandeko (Nepalese-style dried spinach) and and c-momo (f

  August 14, 2009

• DVR Alert: 'Chefs vs. City' Tears Up San Francisco Tonight

  Food NetworkCome on -- you've watched trashier TV before.​We admit it. With so many food shows taping in these parts lately, we've relegated Chefs vs. City to the inner chip recesses of the DVR machine, back where Jamie at Home mingles with old eps of Breaking Bad. Tonight's installment takes place in the city - like, our city. Incanto chef Chris Cosentino and New York chef Aaron Sanchez do their (never seen it, so we're flying without lessons here) Amazing-Race-meets-Smackdown-with-Bobby

  August 28, 2009

• Feast With a Chef Dream Team (and Support CUESA) at Sunday Supper

  cuesa.org​Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the non-profit organization responsible for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its associated educational programming, will host its largest annual fundraiser in October. Attendees of this year's "Sunday Supper" will sit in communal tables in the rarely-seen upper floor of the Ferry Building; each will enjoy a different four-course meal cooked by a dream team of local chefs. Some notables in a long list of participatin

  September 10, 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 dreaming about a perfect Cucina Povera meal there earlier this year, with an add-on of calves' brains cooked with Douglas fir fronds and pine oil. Pure genius. And we can never enter the Ferry Buildin

  October 8, 2009

• Expect Plenty of Flogging When David Chang Comes to Town, But It'll All Be of the Book Variety

  ​Nobody ever said New York chef David Chang didn't have huevos, and we're not talking the slow-poached kind that show up in the ramen at Noodle Bar. Chang's thoughts about San Francisco chefs may have raised a crap storm in certain quarters locally, but that isn't stopping the master of Momofuku from dropping down at SFO early next month -- after, that is, a mini slog through national media. Chang's Beard-worthy cookbook and memoir, Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40) drops next Tuesday, same

  October 23, 2009

• Melissa Perello of the Castro's Long-Awaited Frances: The SFoodie Interview

  Melissa Perello was born in Nutley, N.J., lived in Houston, and went to cooking school in upstate New York, but San Francisco is where the 32-year-old chef formed her restaurant bones. She arrived here fresh from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to gig with mentor Michael Mina at Aqua. She later moved to Aqua's sister eatery, Charles Nob Hill, to work alongside Ron Siegel, eventually moving up to executive chef. Perello: Not feeling S.F.'s raging pig cult.​It was at

  October 29, 2009

• For Bookish Foodies, It's a Busy Week of Author Appearances

  It's a big week for bookish San Francisco foodies interested in sustainable farming, vegetarianism, and foraging. • Tomorrow, Wendell Berry -- writer, farmer, and godfather of the organic farming movement -- appears at Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness at McAllister) in conversation with Michael Pollan for a City Arts and Lectures event. The utterings of both are often quoted (Berry: "Eating is an agricultural act"; Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Perhaps tomorrow's talk will yiel

  November 3, 2009

• Another Display of Butchery and Upscale Eats -- This Time in Napa

  J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.​Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Calf's Taylor Boetticher, 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr, and Ubuntu's Jeremy Fox will all celebrate the art of butchery and heritage breeds at an outdoor party at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard (2252 Sulphur S

  November 4, 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 one panelist teasingly called "drunk with Tony" when he dropped his now-famous diss on the city's food chops last month with Anthony Bourdain. Ar at least, that's how it went down here. Even before h

  November 5, 2009

• Chris Cosentino Explores Swine Blood and Brains on Modern Marvels

  On the latest installment of Modern Marvels on the History Channel, the time line of the other white meat is traced from the introduction to America by Spanish explorers to its current genetically super-boosted ride to the plate. But, for us, it's all about the late-in-the-episode appearance of our own chef Chris Cosentino, who opens up his kitchen at Incanto (1550 Church at 28th St.) to prepare a couple of intriguing dishes: Pig brains with chanterelles, capers, and lemon brown butter, and ch

  November 9, 2009