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Watch Chris Cosentino Make Salad on Good Morning America

Chris Cosentino, Top Chef Masters winner and owner of San Francisco restaurant Incanto and salumeria Boccalone, appeared on Good Morning America this morning. While he's still largely known for whole animal cooking and specializing in offal, we've often said that this man has an under-appreciated wa ... More >>

James Oseland Hits The Town for Lunch

James Oseland Book Luncheon Where: Camino, 3917 Grand (at Boulevard Way), Oakland; (510) 547-5035 When: Sat., Nov. 10, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost: $50 (not including tax and tip); make reservations by calling the restaurant. The rundown: Saveur's James Oseland, who recently moonlighted as a judge o ... More >>

Tout Sweet's Mudslide Relieves a Chocolate Emergency

Tout Sweet opened on September 8 on the third floor of Macy's in Union Square, the brainchild of Top Chef Just Desserts Season 1 winner Yigit Pura and his longtime employers at Taste Catering. Cook E. Monster knew she was on to something when the woman at the counter squealed in solidarity after se ... More >>

Top Chef Masters: Cosentino Watch, Episode 10

Welcome to Cosentino Watch, where we recap the moves of San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino as he competes in Top Chef Masters. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Finally, we're at the finale, and we know what we came here to do. Chris Cosentino and Kerry Heffernan have swiftly eliminated their competition ov ... More >>

Close Encounters with Ina Garten at the Ferry Building

The Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten, made a smiley appearance at the Ferry Building yesterday while filming an episode for the Food Network. According to Eater, she was gathering ingredients for a Napa picnic. We spotted her sifting through radishes, giggling over cherry tomatoes, and apparent ... More >>

Bobby Flay Would Like You to Know That He's Not the Screaming Type

Last week we published an installment of Michael Leaverton's darkly funny Food on TV column criticizing Bobby Flay for not behaving badly enough in his new restaurant fix-it show, 3 Days to Open: Also, Bobby Flay's mild and tempered personality forgets to scream and rage at the owner of the chicken ... More >>

Master Chef: An Exhaustive Breakdown of the Masters' Exquisite Forkplay

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Master Chef, a one-hour show chronicling one home cook's descent into delusion and madness (Tali), Mondays at 9 p.m. on Fox. When I review food TV shows I usually watch them once, because of Mystery Diners, Trisha ... More >>

CNET Tech Reporter Sharon Vaknin Cooks for America's Heartland on PBS

CNET editor and video host Sharon Vaknin writes and films useful tutorials on topics such as maximizing mobile devices and navigating social media platforms at work, but at home she's dreaming up creations like honey roasted peanut crusted chicken skewers and cheesecake-stuffed strawberries for her ... More >>

Macy's Great American Chefs Tour for Meals on Wheels Rolls into Town this Saturday

Macy's Great American Chefs Tour San Francisco Stop with Chef Rick BaylessWhere: Macy's Union Square at 170 O'Farrell Street in the Cellar Demo Kitchen When: Demo #1: Saturday, June 2 from noon to 1:30 p.m. (For tickets, visit here.)Demo #2: Saturday, June 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. (For tickets, click h ... More >>

Meat Men Offers TV's Best Meat Porn

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Meat Men , a half-hour show about three male strippers in a Taco Bell, Mondays at 11 p.m. on the Food Network Meat is all-encompassing, all-embracing. Panoptic. When marbled cuts enter the picture all talk of ramps, o ... More >>

The Donatella Project: All We Can Say for Sure after Watching Is That This Awful Show Exists

​Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: The Donatella Project, a new Dirk Balthazar novel by the Hugo-award winning author of the Sigma Protocol and the Prometheus Deception, on March 10 and 11 on the Cooking Channel. What's the Donatella Pr ... More >>

Top Chef Casting Calls Coming to SF

Top 5 YouTube Cooking Shows

B​ig news in the food world: Food Network exec Bruce Seidel is jumping ship for YouTube's new food channel. Considering that the internet seems like it might be here to stay, it's probably not a terrible idea. While Bruce is most likely pondering YouTube's food channel future, we'd like to humbly ... More >>

Fat Chef Is 400 Pounds of Bad Food TV

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Fat Chef, a one-hour show about steamed vegetables, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In another effort to put even more distance between itself and food preparation so skilled it demands to be pu ... More >>

The Food Network Somehow Even Ruins Its Ice-Carving Show

​ Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Ice Brigade, Fridays at 4 a.m. (fuck!) on the Food Network. Ice Brigade is a show about ice carving, and if I didn't like ice carving so much all of a sudden I might have some pretty terrible things t ... More >>

Bama Glama, The Terrible Food Network Show to Hatewatch at 4 a.m.

Bama Glama: One part cupcakes, one part "Break Stuff"​Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Bama Glama, a half-hour show not about food, Fridays at 4 a.m. (yes!) on the Food Network. With Bama Glama, the Food Network pivots from food-ce ... More >>

The Food Network Show So Cruel and Dumb Even They Aren't Re-Running It

Food Network has no images from this show available, so here's some trophies from the strip-mall bar ofsadness​ Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Mystery Diners, a half-hour show you will never see again, on the Food Network or anywh ... More >>

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 >>

Elizabeth Falkner's Iron Chef Run and Ice Cream Making, and a Moving Farm

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>

Top Chef Alumnus Suvir Saran Speaks About Street Food and (Apparently) Doesn't Hate Beef

​Suvir Saran Serves up Street Food (and Then Talks About It) When: Sunday, August 28, noon to 3 p.m. Where: Fort Mason Center Cost: $150 for the whole conference Two facts you may not have known about Top Chef alumnus Suvir Saran: he loves street food, and he doesn't really hate meat. "I'm f ... More >>

Top Chef Masters: Family Ties

​ We were unsure of how we'd manage without Hugh(nibrow) on Top Chef Masters and for the first episode without him, we were tweezed in two. Luckily, we still managed to stay tuned. For the Quickfire, the cheftestants had to have their cooking station divided and work with a mystery teammate ... More >>

Top Chef Masters: Crickets and Curveballs

​ Last night's Top Chef Masters was for the crickets -- well, bug eaters. The Quickfire Challenge was to make a five-star dish using bugs and wild plants. Looking at the worms, nightcrawlers, and scorpions, the cheftestants were creepy-crawly freaked out. (The captioning under Alex read, "I can't ... More >>

Top Chef Masters, Week 1: Traci Snarls, La Cocina Wins!

SF CHEFS/FlickrDo not fuck with Des Jardins.​We are still suffering from a bit of Top Chef overload, but the new season of Top Chef Masters with new host, format, and judges brought us right back into the world of cheftestants, Quickfires, and knife packings. We tuned in last night for the Sea ... More >>

Bring On the Finale Already: Top Chef: All-Stars Is Down to the Final Two

BravoTVTop Chef's boys' club...​We are still in it, and the real season finale for Top Chef: All-Stars is still not even upon us. Let the torture stop and the recap begin! Last night's Quickfire Challenge was the Quickfire of all Quickfires. The cheftestants each got to assign a Top Chef Quic ... More >>

Is Top Chef: All-Stars the Worst Series Ever?

SanFranAnnie/FlickrPack up your knives: Not even Padma can save this series from sucking.​The Bahamas, Eric Ripert, the promise of Padma in a bikini: What could bad about the finale of Top Chef: All-Stars? Well, everything. Last night's show was the most boring episode to date. Things began ... More >>

It's Yigit! S.F. Pastry Chef Wins Top Chef: Just Desserts

Benjamin Seto/Cooking with the Single GuyThe Taste Catering pastry chef topped Morgan the dick and Danielle the face contortionist to take it all.​The final challenge in last night's Top Chef: Just Desserts finale was to create a progressive four-course dessert tasting. The twist arrived with ... More >>

Kings of Pastry Opens Nov. 17 at the Balboa

We've become blasé about the endless string of set-pieces chefs build for shows like Food Network Challenge. Fondant-wrapped Disney-themed fright cakes, cupcake towers inspired by Manolo Blahnik heels, sugar glass-molded landscapes with wonky Venetian masks and chocolate fountains that never gus ... More >>

Top Chef: Just Desserts, Week 7: Edge-Of-Your-Seat Excitement Minus the Balls

rocor/FlickrFiercer than Game One at AT&T Park, it was Dessert Wars!​Everybody knows the Giants aced Game One of the World Series, but in last night's other competition news, Dessert Wars were on . Top Chef: Just Desserts rolled out a collection of challenge favorites, beginning with the Pastr ... More >>

Bitchin Kitchen's Nadia G, the Punk-Rock Julia Child

Bitchin Kitchen/FacebookNadia G's Bitchin Kitchen cooking show reecently debuted in the U.S. ​We had the pleasure of meeting a very bitchin' gal last week. Nadia G had just arrived in town from Montreal for BlogHer Food, where she was speaking on a panel called Be Your Own Food Network. You mi ... More >>

Top Chef: Just Desserts, Episode 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Bitchy

Bravo TVPretty boy swag: Taste Catering's Yigit Pura.​Following Kevin asking "I am?" seconds after being told he was Season 7's Top Chef last night, thereby restoring some reality-show dignity to New Jersey (it's taken a beating from the Housewives and Jersey Shore kids) something oh-so-sweet ... More >>

The Great Food Truck Race Doesn't Sound So Great

John BirdsallThe owner of Spencer on the Go suggests the Food Network show suffered from casting that was, well, lame.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Food Gal Carolyn Jung takes the PR call and schedules interview time with Laurent Katgely, the chef and owner of Chez Spencer and Spencer ... More >>

Is Tom Pizzica the Next Guy Fieri?

What Would Brian Boitano Make ― with Sardines?

T. PalmerBoitano filming an episode of his Food Network series at Precita Park.​Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy recently interviewed Bay Area Olympic and World Figure Skating gold medalist Brian Boitano about his street-food adventures, wine preferences, and Food Network series What Would Bria ... More >>

Hear the DJs Who Inspired Papalote's Triple Threat Burrito at Throwdown Viewing Party

Triple Threat Djs from Vinroc on Vimeo.Bay Area mixing gods Apollo, Vinroc, and Shortkut ― collectively known as the Triple Threat DJs ― are so good at what they do, they inspired the creation of a namesake burrito at Papalote. It's a bundle of delight that in turn inspired an episode of the tel ... More >>

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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 >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this S ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Orson Not Well

Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

Attention Faux-Hawks: Top Chef Casting Call

Coolio In The Kitchen: 'It's Time To Cook Biatch!'

Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

A Tale of Two Cities

Different strokes for different folks this weekend

Best Place to Sauté on a Saturday Morning

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