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Cool Food Gifts from La Cocina's Holiday Fair

Sean TimberlakeSuprise: Sweets Collections' decorative gelatin creations are completely edible.​I know, I know, I'm supposed to be mister DIY, eschewing packaged goods so I can toil away in the kitchen milling my own flour, harvesting local sugar cane, and carefully tending orchards of orchids ... More >>

Outerlands Benefit Serves Up a Taste of Global Food Chronicler Eric Wolfinger

Eric Wolfinger/Open Kitchen blogChilean longaniza ― touched by the hand of Eric Wolfinger.​Us, we pitch in at dinner parties if the host asks, slicing bread, tossing a salad, even fixing a sauce when it curdles. Eric Wolfinger? He spent six years cooking with strangers in their homes around ... More >>

What to Stock Your Bar with for That Holiday Cocktail Mixer

gibneb/FlickrSee? Easy.​When you get right down to it, the holiday season is all about lighting a candle in lieu of cursing the darkness during the gloomiest, coldest time of the year. From the Druids' burning yule log and Hanukkah's glowing menorah to the bulb-bedecked pine tree and the flami ... More >>

Orixa

gibneb/FlickrSee? Easy.​When you get right down to it, the holiday season is all about lighting a candle in lieu of cursing the darkness during the gloomiest, coldest time of the year. From the Druids' burning yule log and Hanukkah's glowing menorah to the bulb-bedecked pine tree and the flami ... More >>

Junk Mail Solicitation of the Day: Save $10K on My Wedding? Tell Me More!

But see how much money they saved? When the suffix of your e-mail address is "@NameOfaNewspaper.com" you get a lot of amazing solicitations by truly desperate PR mavens. We've lost count of how many deluded souls thought you, the readers, would be clamoring for stories about contact paper one can ap ... More >>

ABC: Vendetta Against All-Ages Venues?

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Emily Post Post

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

YBCA's Artists' Ball: Rogue Wave, Mos Def, and More

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Free Birthday Entree At Maritime Cafe

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Volunteers Wanted: Photograph Your Local Bodega

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Get Fancy with Some Easy-to-Make Aps

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Absolutely Kosher, Misra, Kork Agency Holiday Party This Friday

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Tegan & Sarah, Tori Amos, and Tool

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Tegan & Sarah, Tori Amos, and Tool

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Tegan & Sarah, Tori Amos, and Tool

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Entering the Yelp universe

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

YouTube Cofounders Throw A Steaming Pile Of PR At Oprah

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

SFoodie: Cider Braised Beef Brisket

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

SFoodie: Cider Braised Beef Brisket

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

The Mother Lode

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

The Veils, 69 Eyes, Rodrigo y Gabriela -- ASD's Live Music Picks, June 28

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Illegal Food

EKAphotograph Somewhat buried in Saturday's Chron was an eye-opening article by Marisa Lagos on San Francisco clubs being targeted by the state's department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC)--the feared institution which regulates businesses who serve booze, including restaurants, cafes, and nigh ... More >>

Frantic Transmissions to and From Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir

This current S.F. resident writes proudly of her L.A. roots

Outrageous Behavior

Bathroom smells, exorbitant contractors, and dinner-party pickles

Corrina Repp

It's Only the Future

The One-Month Itch

The tactful way to handle regular exposure to an infestation of fleas, a request for "no gifts," and habitual "non-RSVP-ers"

A Graceful Exit

When to leave a dinner party, and how to tell your neighbors they're jerks

Picking Your Friends

Toothpicks at the table, registries for housewarming parties, and other faux pas

House of Tudor

Toothpicks at the table, registries for housewarming parties, and other faux pas

Best Foodie Luxury

Shellfish Consommé at Aqua

No Diner Left Behind

Should lefties get special treatment at the dinner table?

Syrup Upset

Is it rude to bring your own syrup into a restaurant and pour it on your order of French toast?

Office Surprise

Tired of your co-workers stealing your milk? Here's how to stop it

A Wafer-Thin Dilemma

Take Communion or stay seated in your pew? A dilemma fit for an agnostic

Holiday Listings 2002

Arts, Crafts, Events, and Performances for the Holidays

Gifts Without Malls

Alternative Gift Giving

House-warming Trends

Choosing gifts for new homeowners, wines for dinner, and whether to leave a newspaper on Muni

Party Favors

Is it polite to invite some guests for dinner and others for drinks afterward?

Best Place to Sauté on a Saturday Morning

HomeChef Cooking School

Don't Make Me Say Things That Will Hurt You

Theater Rhinoceros production

Social Grace

It's My Party

Social Grace

Sometimes a Co-worker Is Just a Co-worker

Giving, Receiving, Returning

Gift-Giving Protocol

Social Grace

Old Friends, New Friends, Cheap Friends, True Friends

Social Grace

Latecomers vs. Clock-watchers

Social Grace

Conversationally Speaking

Tipping for Takeout

Are you unsure how to behave? Social Grace answers all your toughest etiquette questions

Hear This

Are you unsure how to behave? Social Grace answers all your toughest etiquette questions

Suspicious Minds

Are you unsure how to behave? Social Grace answers all your toughest etiquette questions