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Wednesday: Learn Chef Secrets From Blogger and New Cookbook Author Adam Roberts

Food blogger Adam Roberts, otherwise known as the Amateur Gourmet, has just released a new cookbook and is coming to S.F. this week to celebrate it. To write Secrets of the Best Chefs, Roberts traveled around the country visiting the kitchens of big-name chefs, learned to cook from them, and collect ... More >>

Watch: Julia Child Remixed and Auto-Tuned by PBS

It would have been Julia Child's 100th birthday tomorrow (the cookbook author and TV star passed away in 2004), and the food world is just going nuts remembering her and her legacy. We're not immune to Child's considerable charms, so here's an auto-tuned remix from PBS featuring some of her greatest ... More >>

Rancho Gordo Partners Up with Diana Kennedy to Import Rare Oaxacan Chiles

Workman BooksSteve Sando of Rancho Gordo.​Steve Sando, Rancho Gordo founder and author of Heirloom Beans, just returned from a two-week road trip around Mexico with legendary cookbook author Diana Kennedy and Gael Garcia Bernal's mother, a telenovela star. They were hunting for rare Oaxacan chiles ... More >>

Where Did Crispy Tacos Come From?

Joy of Cooking's first taco recipe (1964).​While researching this week's review of Tacko, the Nantucket-themed taco shop in the Marina, I started asking around to find out the history of the anglo taco. Now, Nick Fasanella's crispy tacos have far more complex, Mexican-inspired flavors than the rec ... More >>

Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Robb Walsh Speak at This Year's Street Food Conference

​SFoodie has been previewing this Saturday's Street Food Festival, but public gluttony is only the splashy half of the event. On Sunday, Aug. 21, and Monday, Aug. 22, La Cocina has also organized a National Street Food Conference, which is bringing many names from the local food scene, as well as ... More >>

Celebrity Non-Vegetarian Yotam Ottolenghi Dishes Over Lunch

Jesse HirschYotam Ottolenghi​Superstar Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi has been working for years to bridge the gap between vegetarians and the rest of us. He makes no secret about his own meat eating, but he made his culinary reputation in England by infusing veggie recipes with intense, Medite ... More >>

How Does Chronicle Books' Asian Ingredient App Measure Against Sutro Media's?

​This week, Chronicle Books officially launched its "Asian Market Shopper" app, part of the publisher's new line of cooking apps for iAppliances (Droid versions are reportedly on the way). Asian Market Shopper screenshot.​ Researched and written by Santa Cruz-based author Andrea Nguyen, author o ... More >>

Meet Appetites, an Interactive Cooking Show for the iPad

​It's been 10 months since the iPad launched, and companies are still figuring out how to tailor apps to the notepad computer. Many have simply enlarged existing, text-based iPhone apps or have treated the iPad as an electronic version of a glossy magazine. A new generation of iPad apps is finall ... More >>

Sheila Himmel, Curator of 'San Francisco Eats,' Talks

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library​After spending an hour or so at the Main Library earlier this week, poring over the menus on display at San Francisco Eats, I spoke to curator Sheila Himmel about the exhibit, which will be up until March. Himmel was a longtime restaurant ... More >>

Scenes from SF Food Wars' Ultimate Potluck

Alex HochmanAziza's Louis Maldonado, left, and Mourad Lahlou act out their love for Joyce Goldstein.​In choosing a greatest hits collection of Times recipes dating back to the 1850s for her new The Essential New York Times Cookbook, Amanda Hesser took on a daunting task. Just as daunting was t ... More >>