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State Bird and Other Bay Area Greats Win James Beard Foundation Awards

When Nicole Krasinski and Stuart Brioza, the couple behind San Francisco's popular State Bird Provisions, entered the packed media room at last night's James Beard Foundation Awards at Lincoln Center in New York, they were quickly devoured by a hungry press corps like some tiny little quail. And wit ... More >>

Local Food Magazines: Give the Gift of Subscriptions

Meatpaper, Lucky Peach and Gastronomica Keep Print Magazines Alive

All through December, SFoodie is bringing you local gift ideas for the food obsessives in your life. Not only is print still alive, three of the most compelling food magazines in the country are published right here in the Bay Area. A subscription to Meatpaper ($28 for four issues) and/or Lucky Pea ... More >>

Chris Cosentino's Cookbook Hits Bookstores

The charismatic, culinary tornado and executive chef at Incanto with a James Beard Award nomination this year, Chris Cosentino has built his reputation as a loud, meat-fueled, barely unofficial offal spokesperson whose menus run rich with pork fat. His nose-to-tail crusade is showcased at his Boccal ... More >>

Andrea Nguyen's Asian Tofu Teaches You to Make Your Own

If you move in food-obsessive circles, you'll see certain recipes become cult projects. David Chang's ramen from ​the Momofuku Cookbook. Modernist Cuisine's pressure-cooker caramelized carrot soup. Chad Robertson's master bread recipe in Tartine Bread. SFoodie suspects the next one will be tofu fr ... More >>

Lucky Peach Issue 3, Cooks & Chefs, Release Party

What: McSweeney's Food Quarterly Lucky Peach Issue 3, "Cooks & Chefs" Release PartyWhere: The hidden climes of Secret Alley ... 180 Capp St.When: Fri., March 13th, 7-11 p.m.Cost: $8 for magazine subscribers, $12 for laypeopleThe Rundown: Esteemed local publisher McSweeney's has done a bang ... More >>

McSweeney's Lucky Peach Food Journal Throws a Party!

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

Daniel Patterson on Copenhagen's MAD Foodcamp: International Glamor, Hyperlocal Foods

Daniel Patterson.​Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of Coi, is freshly back from last week's MAD Foodcamp in Copenhagen, at which he presented a history of beets. The two-day symposium was organized by René Redzepi, chef of Noma, which has been celebrated for its intricate experimentation of nati ... More >>

Bi-Rite's Bouncer, Tyler Florence Fires, and Trace Opens

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Waiting behind the red rope for the bouncer to let the group in to Bi-Rite Market has become an unusual, busy-weekend ritual. Grub Street shares, via the Uptown Almanac, with the Fire Marshal keeping tabs ... More >>

Mission Street Food Book Launches

​ission Street Food's restaurant memoir-cookbook, which officially launches tomorrow with a party at the Make-Ot Room, is remarkably modest. The word shitshow appears quite a few times, the intro to the recipe section includes the disclaimer "What follows will not impress every chef out there..." ... More >>

Tonight: Drink With David Chang

​Lucky Peach Launch Party Where: Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St. (at Mission), 647-2888 When: Tonight, 7 p.m. Cost: $10 The rundown: We all know David Chang has said some not-nice things about Bay Area cuisine, but he was just funning, and tonight he wants to party with you! He's launching hi ... More >>

Unborn Babies Found with Bt, David Chang Picks iPads Over TVs

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Farming pays? According to an article in the Bay Citizen, despite a drought and a recession, California farmers earned record profits from 2007 to 2009, provoking an uptick in far ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

McSweeney's to Publish Mission Street Food Cookbook

Warning: This is not the offical cover.​An article today in Publishers Weekly revealed that San Francisco-based published McSweeney's is launching a cookbook imprint. The first release will be a quarterly publication from Momofuku's David Chang, to appear as a 12-page print periodical and an iPad ... More >>

Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 3: David Chang and a Kitchen Packed with Sweaty Amazeballs

david_shankbone/FlickrDavid Chang.​Hey All-Stars: Meet New York's finest chefs, then emulate them in their own kitchens. That was the main mission of last night's third installment of Top Chef: All-Stars. It was balls to the wall and an all-around amazeballs episode as two top cheftestants w ... More >>

Daniel Patterson Talks Storytelling and Food, Zings New York Chefs

​As a prelude to Le Fooding's upcoming New York vs. San Francisco "showdown," The New York Times' T magazine asked David Chang and Daniel Patterson to talk about West Coast vs. East Coast food. Patterson, first up, started by yawning at the question, then asking a different one: What makes a regio ... More >>

Five Local Food T-Shirts We'd Love To See

bodybyjake.com​Some time ago, we offered up a list of our favorite local food T-shirts. Now, we're taking it one step further with our top five food tees we'd love to see: 1. Humphry Slocombe tees that say "Body by Jake" would be awesome, since HS owner Jake Godby has had a serious hand in t ... More >>

Korea Attacks! Korean junk food has established a tasty foothold

Jonathan Kauffman Takes on S.F.'s Korean Junk Food Explosion

J. KauffmanThe kimchi-pork hot dog from John's Snack and Deli.​It's happened. Thanks to vivid incarnations dished up via John's Snack and Deli, Seoul on Wheels, and Namu Street Food, Korean-fusion junk food has entered the popular vernacular in S.F., inspired by local tastes and the West Coast ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Local Blogger Undergoes Multi-Hour Changfest for Bowl of Soup

foodhoe.comClear your schedule this weekend. That includes Monday.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Soup nazi: As part of her Bacon Chronicles, Foodhoe takes on David Chang -- well, the five-page, 10-hour ramen broth recipe from Momofuku, the book that dropped last fall from the New York c ... More >>

Il Cane Rosso: Proof that locally sourced eating hasn't gone too far

Early Bird Special: Il Cane Rosso

J. BirdsallMarin Sun Farms beef sugo over creamy polenta.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. If Manhattan ramen king David Chang taught us anything, it's this: Northern California's ingredient-centric cooking vernacular can seem like gibberish to outsiders. If you'd beg ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Sweeping Panorama?

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Off the page: Andrew Simmons files a review of McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama for Bay Area Bites. It's a look at how print abides, even when the form is uncompelling. Simmons: What I am actually interested in is how Panorama's food pages might potentia ... More >>

Soon-to-Drop McSweeney's Skews Foodie with Chang, Farr, Roadkill

McSweeney'sChang stuffs something in his mouth besides his kitchen clog.​We're so excited about the upcoming star-studded 33rd issue of McSweeney's -- a.k.a. The San Francisco Panorama ($16), an esoteric, 320-page riff on the newspaper form -- mainly because roughly 5 percent of those pages wi ... More >>

Daniel Patterson: S.F. is Killing the Upscale Neighborhood Restaurant

fOtOdOjO/Flickr​We started out seeking to challenge the current meme that Oakland is the new locus of Bay Area chef talent. (In the East Bay Express, Carolyn Jung even called it America's next great dining destination.) We thought, sure, a handful of chefs are opening second restaurants in O-T ... More >>

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 >>

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 Polla ... More >>

Chez Pim Blogger Flogs Her Book Tonight in the Marina

Proto food blogger and reported David Chang foe Pim Techamuanvivit will read and sign copies of her book The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy (Chronicle Books, $24.95) starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Marina location of Books Inc. (2251 Chestnut Street at Pierce). Pim ... More >>

David Chang: S.F. Reaction to Fig-Gate 'Retardedly Stupid'

timeoutnewyork/FlickrChang: A bad case of produce envy.​The day after publication of his book, the wonderful Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40), SFoodie spoke wiith New York chef David Chang. You know, the guy who stirred up a shit storm earlier this month with the comment that "fuckin' every res ... More >>

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 Momofu ... More >>

Grub Street Truth-Squads Chang: New York Chefs Use Hella Figs

DDanzigFoie gras torchon with duck prosciutto and Black Mission figs at Gary Danko.​Bitter knows no bounds. Following the fallout over N.Y. chef David Chang's remark that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate," Grub Street's Adam Martin activated his iPhone ... More >>

The 2010 S.F. Michelin Guide Dropped Today -- If You Care

Today saw the official release of Michelin's San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Restaurants Guide 2010, the fourth edition of the local star search. Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret told SFoodie 10 inspectors did the field work for this year's Nor Cal guide -- the same inspectors who do table res ... More >>

Doggy Bag: The Chang-Pim Bitch Fight

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Pim the avenger: Holy crap! The David Chang shit storm is causing some observers to pull the really long blades out of their knife rolls. Hot Food Porn pulls out a blog post from Opinionated About Dining that describes Chez Pim's discovery of the evil Chan ... More >>

Bay Links: OxyContin, Muni Videos, & David Chang

Is Trauma flatlining?​Can Trauma be resuscitated? [SF Citizen]OxyContin is the drug du jour. [City Insider]Muni bus drives on sidewalk, conks out fire hydrant. Video of the aftermath! [SFAppeal]Western Addition vs NOPA: Sticker Wars Edition. [SFist]Food fight! Anthony Bourdain weighs in on Asia So ... More >>

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 >>

Doggy Bag: Talking Shit About S.F. Chefs

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Come here and say that: On Saturday, Grub Street New York reported on an Extreme Tag Team talk with Anthony Bourdain and David Chang from the New York Wine & Food Festival. Grub Street called it Ten Things Anthony Bourdain and David Chang Hate. You know Ch ... More >>

Ubuntu's Fox Shakes Ass for Hammered Chefs

peter_rJeremy Fox: Worked ItConfine seriously kickass chefs in a tight space, add cocktails and the superheated buzz around the James Beard Awards and what do you get? Two words: Stripper pole. Ubuntu chef and Beard nominee Jeremy Fox admitted to SFoodie this morning that things got so off the chain ... More >>

The Year Of Eating Dangerously: Best Food Post Of The Year

Straight From The Chef's Mouth: Waiters, Go Fuck Yourselves