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Food Manufacturing

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Mixed Milk Cheeses: The Tasty Joys of Combining Goat and Cow

    Often, cheese makers blend milk from different animals to create flavors a single milk can't provide. La Tur, a three milk cheese (sheep, cow and goat) from Caseficio dell'Alta Langa in Italy, is an exceptional example.  But sheep- and goat-milk cheese producers blend milk for a functional re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cone Today (Try the Greek Yogurt)

     What: Three words: free cone day. Where: Local Ben & Jerry's Scoop ShopsWhen: Tuesday April 3, noon to 8:00 p.m.Cost: Once you get to the front of line-- if you get to the front of the line-- the cone is free.The Rundown: Ben & Jerry's will be handing out free ice cream to all tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Meet and Eat With Your Favorite Cheesemakers

    ​What: Meet the Cheesemaker, a California Artisan Cheese Guild Fundraiser Where:The Cheese School of San Francisco When: Fri., November 11, 7-9 p.m. Cost: $35 The rundown: Every year, the Cheese School in North Beach hosts a bunch of California's cheesemakers to raise funds for the Califor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    U.S. Supreme Court Hearing Challenge to California's Pig Protection Law

    ​Two years ago, President Obama signed a federal law that that would keep "downed" cows -- animals brought to the slaughterhouse too sick or weak to stand -- out of the human food chain. Other animals -- well, the humans who eat them, really -- haven't had the same kind of federal protections, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Cheese Affinage? New York Times: Pro. Rainbow's Head Cheesemonger: Meh.

    ​Yesterday, the New York Times published a feature on affinage, the practice of properly aging cheeses until they hit that perfect moment for eating. The article profiled several East Coast cheesemongers who practice affinage, most notably Murray's Cheese Shop in Manhattan, which has a master ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Sugar Sues Corn Syrup for False Advertising. No Joke.

    Sugar: going on the offensive. Yesterday the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles began hearing arguments over an odd lawsuit filed by a group of sugar producers against a group of producers and marketers of high-fructose corn syrup. The charge? False advertising. Big Sugar is mad that Big HFCS -- u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    More Local Cheese Recommendations

    Jonathan KauffmanValley Ford's Estero Gold.​ This week, as I was tasting local cheeses for today's SFoodie's 92 segment, I called a number of pros to ask them about cheeses they thought I should know about. Three ― Jens at Say Cheese, Ellen at 24th Street Cheese Company, and the amazing Laura We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Clean Cheese, Ginger Ale, and the Mighty Subway

    Madame Fromage/FlickrSally Jackson's amazing cheese, now lost to the world after an FDA crackdown.​A new daily column: Notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other miscellanea dredged up from the food media.1. Cheese makers under attack? San Francisco diners haven't felt the i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2011

    The New Cheese Lady

    Madame Fromage/FlickrSally Jackson's amazing cheese, now lost to the world after an FDA crackdown.​A new daily column: Notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other miscellanea dredged up from the food media.1. Cheese makers under attack? San Francisco diners haven't felt the i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Mars Fights Hershey With New Pure Dark Pop-Up

    Jonathan Kauffman​Wednesday sees the launch of a pop-up store in Cow Hollow promoting a line of artisanal-looking chocolates that SFoodie has never encountered before: Pure Dark. Today, SFoodie was sent a press packet containing a thick 70 percent cocoa "slab" whose edges were marked with the tine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Taste Local Cheese for the Holidays (and a Good Cause)

    ​For obvious, if college-humor, reasons, our favorite of the twelve days of Christmas has always been the eight maids a-milking. Egg nog and Santa's glass of milk always have a place in the holiday celebrations, but why can't we include dairy in its more awesome and solid forms? The

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Charles Chocolates Operates Virtual Goodie Factories for Online Game

    PlayFirst via SFGateThe chocolate-making game's been averaging 800,000 plays a month.​Want to make your own Charles Chocolates creations? There's a video game called Chocolatier: Sweet Society for that. Charles Chocolates has teamed up with social networking game company PlayFirst for this ven ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Feds Seize Grow Equipment, Cash from Oakland Pot Factory

    Pot growers, we welcome you -- and your seized assets​Backers of Proposition 19 say their legalize-and-tax-it approach to marijuana will raise money for the strapped California government. Recent comments by U.S. attorney general Eric Holder, along with an Oct. 8 federal forfeiture filing connecte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Woman Named Skye Sues Ben & Jerry's Over 'All Natural' Claim

    You lying bastards...​A wholesome food warrior named Skye is suing Ben & Jerry's for claiming its ice cream is "All Natural" on the label, when in fact -- horror of horrors -- ingredient No. 36 is alkalized cocoa. We feel tricked by those Vermont cows who subtly imparted in their placid, bovin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    We'll Never Have Ethical Meat Till We Have Urban Slaughterhouses

    GristPatrick Martins.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At Grist, Erik Hoffner grabs Q & A time with Patrick Martins, the guy who founded Slow Food USA in 2000, then left it to open Heritage Foods. Martins says what those of us once known to have left The Omnivore's Dilemma on the nightstan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Free Tastes of New Bonnaroo Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry's

    Mmmm... Kings of Leon​Bonnaroo, the giant Manchester, Tennessee music festival in mid-June, just got a little tastier. You can now count down the days until Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Conan O'Brien, The Flaming Lips, and a billion other marquee names take multiple stages down south by licking your way ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Complimentary Cones at Ben & Jerry's Today

    Ben & Jerry's​Today brings good temps to San Francisco, with a predicted high of 70 degrees. And it's just in time for the Ben & Jerry's annual free cone day. Hit up any of the city's locations (170 O'Farrell at Powell, 475 Jefferson at Hyde, 1480 Haight at Ashbury, 100 North Point at Grant) t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Cowgirl Creamery Owners to Work Out Details of Ferry Bldg. Expansion ― in Paris

    Cowgirl CreameryPeggy Smith (far left) and Sue Conley (far right).​Sue Conley confirmed that Cowgirl Creamery will in fact expand into the Ferry Building space vacated late last month by LuLu Petite (7x7 tweeted the scoop late yesterday), but she declined to reveal more about the new stall. "W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Sweet Beat: BonBonBar's Pumpkin Pie Bar

    T. Palmer​After moving back to the Bay Area from Los Angeles, Nina Wanat relaunched her confections company BonBonBar in October. Wanat is a graduate of CIA's baking and pastry program in Napa, a course she switched to after attending law school at U.C. Davis and being tempted into the culinary wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Cheese Doodles

    Gordon EdgarCreepy faces adorn wheels of Chällerhocker, a Swiss cow's milk cheese.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Antonia Richmond tackles home cheese making for The Bold Italic. I've been hooked on the stuff since childhood--beginning with my first taste (of a cellophane-wrapped Kraft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Paula Deen Smacked in the Face with a Ham

    Poor Paula! Celeb chef and honey-voiced Southern cooking doyenne Paula Deen was hit in the face by a ham earlier today. "Ran head on to a hog," said Deen after getting walloped by a Smithfield Foods ham that was accidentally lobbed at her during a Hosea Feed the Hungry benefit event. Pretty sure Smi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    New Chocolate Shop Opening in Former Joseph Schmidt Space

    dixiehu/FlickrThe Schmidt store in the Castro shut down last spring.​Dig this chocolate goss: A new chocolate shop is opening in the shuttered 16th Street retail store that was the original home of Joseph Schmidt. Schmidt (and Scharffen Berger) parent Hershey Co. closed the shop last spring; t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    S.F. Landlord Paranoid About Chocolate Goodness

    Laszlo Toth/laughingsquid.com​SFist has kindly alerted us to a rather unsavory conspiracy theory brewing on Nob Hill. In a guest post at Laughing Squid, author Laszlo Toth reports on a note posted to the door of 1519 Polk Street, a former retail location of See's Candies."Your ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Inside a Happy Habit: A Factory Tour of See's Candies

    Janine Kahn Our tour guide, Jim Paine."We have so much going on here that you really need to go through everything four or five times to remember it all!" warned Jim Paine, longtime production manager at See's Candies' headquarters in South San Francisco.Paine probably didn't intend  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Bar Bambino Wine and Cheese Tasting Promises to Go Beyond Beyond Mere Noshing

    SanFranAnnie via FlickrA cheese plate at Bar BambinoWhile cheese and wine events are a dime a dozen in San Francisco, it's not every day there's a tasting with the added value of education. Assuming the average wine-addled brain can soak up some learning, you might just leave the May Cheese and Wine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Cheeseheads: Artisanal Cheese Festival in Petaluma, March 20-23

    Sonoma will be ground zero for aficionados of California's artisan cheese producers. The third annual Artisan Cheese Festival, held at the Sheraton Sonoma County - Petaluma, will run from Friday, March 20, through Monday, March 23.  The festivities begin with a Meet the Artisans welcome reception a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Night Cap: Fifth Floor Restaurant and Lounge

    You might have noticed that lots of people in San Francisco think they know all about wine. But very few can claim the title of master sommelier, as can Emily Wines (yes, that is her real last name) of Fifth Floor Restaurant and Lounge (12 Fourth St. at Mission). In fact, Wines made history last ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Video: Sweet Saturday at CocoaBella

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Sugar Rush for the Kids!

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 22, 2008

    A Fruitful Gathering

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    The Chain Gang: News on Evil Food Corporations

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Drown Your Sorrows At Cafe Rouge's Recession Tuesdays

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Party Foul: Five Million Party Pizzas Recalled Over E. Coli

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    Army Food Supply Corruption Probe: Ain't No Thang But A Chicken Wang

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    Army Food Supply Corruption Probe: Ain't No Thang But A Chicken Wang

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    ConAgra Faces Lawsuit Over Salmonella Flavored Tainted Pot Pie Recall

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2007

    ConAgra Faces Lawsuit Over Salmonella Flavored Tainted Pot Pie Recall

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Chuck Siegel of Charles Chocolates and his 6700 Square Foot Candy Kingdom

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Chuck Siegel of Charles Chocolates and his 6700 Square Foot Candy Kingdom

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • News

    August 2, 2006

    The Cutting Edge

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Cheese Shop

    (Chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt and CocoaBella owner Michael Freeman) Last Saturday, our intrepid Web editor Janine Kahn and I hit up the original location of CocoaBella Chocolates (2102 Union), joining about 30 others for the store's first Top Chocolatier Pairing of artisan chocolates and alcoho ... More >>

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Hot Fudge Sundae

    Ghirardelli Chocolate Manufactory

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Éclairs

    Moscow and Tbilisi Bakery Store

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Place to Spice Up Your Kitchen

    Kamei Household Wares

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Way to Prepare for the Big One

    American Red Cross

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Place to Suck Giant Tapioca Balls Through a Straw

    Wonderful Food Company

  • Dining

    February 10, 1999

    How We Slice It

    Wonderful Food Company

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    September 25, 1996

    Dish

    Wonderful Food Company

  • Dining

    February 21, 1996

    Dish

    Wonderful Food Company

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    September 6, 1995

    Dish

    Wonderful Food Company

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