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May 15, 2012
Edibles: Burned Out on Sweets? Cheesy Popcorn is a Savory Solution
I'll admit, the whole drama that erupted between Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen this year fascinated me. If you're not as gossip-driven as I am, here's a summary: Bourdain called out his fellow Food Network star Deen when she came out as a diabetic, despite pitching recipes like the one where she ... More >>
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May 15, 2012
The Food Network's Invention Hunters Is Predicated on a Bigger Lie Than Most Food Shows
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at food TV. This week, Invention Hunters, a half-hour show about hunger in America, Mondays at 9 p.m. With Invention Hunters, the Food Network returns to a genre it's had much success with in the past, the Tumbledown Effort Outside Our Core Competency That ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
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 >>
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May 2, 2012
Cupcake Wars: The Problem With a Cupcake Show Is That It's a Cupcake Show
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Cupcake Wars, an hour-long show about one thing, over and over, until death comes, Sundays at 8 p.m. on the Food Network. Cupcake Wars has been on the air just two years, but they're already finishing up their fif ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
On Trisha's Country Kitchen, Trisha Yearwood Can't Stop Proving How Damn Country She Is
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Trisha's Country Kitchen, a half-hour show of executives laughing at us, Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. on the Food Network. Trisha Yearwood is a two-time cookbook author with a new show on the Food Network about souther ... More >>
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April 11, 2012
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 >>
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April 3, 2012
Dumb Food Show Easter Unwrapped Is as Adorable as a Baby with a Peep Stuck to Her Head
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Rachael's Vacation: When Rachael Ray Pretended to Visit San Francisco's Restaurants
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Rachael's Vacation, a half-hour show you didn't hear about from me, Fridays at 4:30 a.m. on the Food Network. Rachael Ray has 31 television shows and a line of car wax. I try to know as little as p ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Why Are There So Few Black Chefs in High-End Restaurants?
Yesterday, the Chicago Tribune asked a question of its city's chefs and restaurateurs that could also be asked in the Bay Area: Why are there so few black chefs working in higher-end restaurants? As reporter Christopher Borelli phrased the problem, "Interviews with scores of black chefs and ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Help Rescued Chickens, Wild Horses Under Attack From Terrible Humans, & Butternut Mac 'n' Cheese Bites!
Hey guys, let's start this week off with some sad news because that's how I do it: This is my last Week in Vegan! I'm moving on to different pastures (not killing myself, just a new job) and I wanted to say, writing with you as been among the most rewarding experiences in my life, and ALSO, Me ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2012
The Sandwich King Is Not Especially Informative about Sandwiches or Royalty
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Sandwich King, a half-hour show about the Black Plague, Sundays at 11 a.m. on the Food Network. Jeff Mauro, former stand-up comic, is the Sandwich King, but how he ascended to nobility I know not. I fear ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
Worst Cooks in America: A Hater's Guide
Each week (except last week) we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Worst Cooks in America, a one-hour documentary about Arizona, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. The premise Imagine a competition in which the worst cooks in America -- let' ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Q&A With Parallel 37's Ron Siegel, Part 2: In SF, "Casual" Food Ain't Really Casual
Courtesy of Parallel 37Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 at the Ritz-Carlton.Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 in the Ritz-Carlton, has worked in three- and four-star restaurants for 20 years. In 1998, Siegel, then the chef at Charles Nob Hill, received international fame when he became the first Ame ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Food Hoarders Is Pretty Much Regular Hoarders, Just with Food
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Stuffed: Food Hoarders, a one-hour special that sours as you watch it, Feb. 11 and 12 on the Cooking Channel. Kudos to the Cooking Channel for showing food in as disgusting a light as possible, and for pr ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2012
Top 5 YouTube Cooking Shows
Big 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 >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off: The Food Network Craps Out
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off, a one-hour show about the debt ceiling, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. There used to be only A and B-list celebrities, divided by movies and television. Then te ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2012
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 >>
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January 4, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
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 >>
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December 9, 2011
Late-Night Food Programming and Chocolate Gifts: This Week in Food Bloggery
Generik11/SF Weekly Flickr poolHighlights from the blog this week: 1. Some of you are spending your afternoons ignoring your work in favor of stressing over what you're going to be sending to the folks back home for the holidays. Laura Beck has done some of the work for you, IDing seven loca ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Have Cake, Will Travel: If Fail Were a TV Show About Cakes
Not your best choice, even at 4 a.m.Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Have Cake, Will Travel, a half-hour show about reaching for the bottom, Fridays at 4 a.m. on the Food Network. Dear Food Network, So it's four in the morning, ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
November 22, 2011
This Thanksgiving, Learn Mary Risley's Beautifully Profane Way to Cook Turkey
In a wonderful instructional that has garnered over 10,000 views in the past two days, San Francisco's Mary Risley cuts out all the crap you've ever heard about making turkey for Thanksgiving. After decades of experience on the topic, the proprietor of Tante Marie's Cooking School and head of the n ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Sweet Genius Is Pretty Much the Most Ridiculous Thing on the Food Network
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what is going on with televised cooking. This week: Sweet Genius, a one-hour show about lollipops and death, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. Oh, hell. It's come to this. The Food Network sees pastry chef Ron Ben-Israel with his evil bal ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
Food TV Weirdness: Guy Fieri's Best Thing I Ever Made
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what is going on with televised cooking. This week: The Best Thing I Ever Made, a half-hour show about the end of the world, Sundays at 11:30 a.m. on the Food Network. The premise of Best Thing is simple: Each episode, a handful of chefs cook thei ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Sandra Lee's Ridiculous Halloween Special: All the Hard Drinkin' Highlights
Do you remember how Joe Camel got into trouble for making cigarettes look like a fun thing for kids? This is a recap of Sandra Lee's Food Network special Sandra's Halloween Wonderland. The Nightmare Before Christmas The beginning is largely preamble, with Sandra waking up on a lawn, disorien ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
"Easy Chinese: San Francisco" Uses Our Town Like a Blank Screen
Cooking ChannelChing-He Huang in the studio kitchenThe Cooking Channel's "Easy Chinese: San Francisco" was an exciting concept to me: an entire 14-episode series, premiering tomorrow, based on the great Chinese food we have here. Wouldn't you like to know how to make Golden Gate Bakery's cus ... More >>
Blogs
September 19, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
September 1, 2011
Studio Gourmet: New Local Web TV Show Interviews 1300 on Fillmore Chef David Lawrence
Carina OstDavid Lawrence shares a laugh with Studio Gourmet host Brad LevInside the Actor's Studio meets the Food Network is how we would describe the new web-based show called Studio Gourmet SF. The concept is that a local chef with a good story will do a cooking demo, an in-depth interview ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Jane Goodall's Fight Over Baby Food, Chairman Bao Wants to Race, and More Pizza
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. We can honestly say we didn't see this one coming. Jane Goodall, mother to all primates, is suing local celebrity chef Tyler Florence's baby food company Sprout. Grub Street shares, via the New York Post, ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2011
Nom Nom (Nom), Burger News, a Restaurant Scam, and a Butchery's Request
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Nom Nom Truck is rolling its expansion up I-5 and parking in S.F. Inside Scoop shares that the L.A. Vietnamese street-food truck may seem familiar due to its appearance on the Food Network's "Great Food T ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2011
Tyler Florence, Celebrity Chef, Sued for "Bailing" on Business Partners
An unsavory deal Here is something for celebrity Chef Tyler Florence to chew on. His ex-business partners filed a lawsuit yesterday, accusing Florence of pushing them out of a deal to open an upscale restaurant in downtown San Francisco. According to the lawsuit, Florence, who has appeared on The ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2011
Tyler Florence is Sued, SOMA Gains a Wine Tavern, Little Joe's Moves Again
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. As American as apple pie, grilled cheese, and the Fourth of July -- is the freedom to sue. Today, Inside Scoop reports, via Courthouse News, that chef Tyler Florence (of Food Network fame and Mill Valley ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2011
Bam! by the Bay: Emeril Checks Out S.F. in Debut of New Show
Cooking ChannelEmeril Lagasse chats with Buena Vista Cafe's Robert Freeman.The original bam!-tastic O.G. Food Network veteran, Emeril, just debuted a new show, The Originals with Emeril, on its sister Cooking Channel network. Last night's show may have been a premiere, but there was nothing n ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
The 8 Sexiest Women on TV Cooking Shows
Last week SFoodie brought you the hot and hunky men of food television. Today, the companion post so hot it'll melt your listicle, their sultry female counterparts, the women you've watched tying up your meat, sizzling your pot, and making you run your Tivo in slow-mo. We give you the eight sexiest ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Alice Waters Launches Twitter Page, Hints at Big Announcement
Alice Waters/TwitterHey, look who's tweeting ― Alice Waters. Well, not technically (she hasn't published anything yet), though Alice did create a Twitter page yesterday afternoon, says David Prior, director of communications for the Chez Panisse Foundation. Alice's chicken and rooster avata ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Sure, Chickens Get Sad ― Maybe Because We're Eating So Many of Them?
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Scientists just discovered that chickens show empathy. To science I say, NO DOY. But also: Way to come around, better late than never. I remember when I discovered that eating too fast gave me pain in the chest ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Charlie Sheen Wants to Be on Food Network?
Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes from Charlie Sheen Via funnyordie.com comes "Winning Recipes," featuring Charlie Sheen. "My plan is to make an appearance on every television network," Sheen says here, his pitch to land a slot on Food Network. Frankly, we're waiting to see his pitch to land on A&E, ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Best Practices for Shopping High at Costco
clarksworth/FlickrSmoke up in the car first, and this can feel like a fucking blast.Like complaining about people on welfare while collecting unemployment yourself, eating 99-cent double-bacon cheeseburgers while voting down health care, shopping at Costco is one of our God-Given Right ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Standing Up for Bullies, Taking the Rest of the Beef Out of 'Taco Meat'
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Uh, did you know that if you live in S.F., you can get a free spay or neuter at the SFSPCA for your dog or cat during the month of February? TRUE FACT. So if any of you are running around with companion animals ... More >>
News
December 29, 2010
Predictions for San Francisco 2011
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Uh, did you know that if you live in S.F., you can get a free spay or neuter at the SFSPCA for your dog or cat during the month of February? TRUE FACT. So if any of you are running around with companion animals ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
Top 10 Food Stories in San Francisco 2010
Jun BelenLumpia from 2010's breakout Hapa SF Filipino food truck.Deciding on the top 10 food story threads of any year is tricky (did the things we ate in the past two month somehow obliterate all memory of those from the prior 10?) but this year the task was especially arduous. It was a year ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2010
How S.F. Fared on Last Night's Cupcake Wars
Food NetworkThe home team: Brandon Arnovick of Mission Minis.Having to watch Cupcake Wars made me roll my eyes as much as when my date last night said that he was noticing that cupcakes were a big deal. Ugh, please: That is so 2000 and late. The trend is as over as the FroYo yo-yo. Basical ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Want to Pretend You're Opening a Restaurant? Food Network Wants You
If you want a chance to suck up to some Food Network casting agents, get your gear ready for an audition this Friday. The show is called 24 Hour Restaurant Battle and Food Network's trying to get the message out to any "San Francisco foodies" with a three-hour weekday window to pursue fame's ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
Prop. 8 TV Parties? Sounds Like a Plan.
Perfect spread for a C-SPAN partySo, the revolution will not be televised. But the revolutionary gay marriage trial will be. The 9th District Court of Appeals hearing of the Proposition 8 trial will be broadcast live on C-SPAN -- mark your calendars for 10 a.m. on Dec. 6. Will there be Super Bowl ... More >>
Dining
August 11, 2010
Fresh Eats: Saving the Gravenstein, enjoying the Wayfare's Hangtown Fry
Perfect spread for a C-SPAN partySo, the revolution will not be televised. But the revolutionary gay marriage trial will be. The 9th District Court of Appeals hearing of the Proposition 8 trial will be broadcast live on C-SPAN -- mark your calendars for 10 a.m. on Dec. 6. Will there be Super Bowl ... More >>
Dining
April 25, 2007
I'd Like to Thank the Ground Beef
Television awards make us hungry for an S.F. burger and Maine lobster
Dining
April 6, 2005
San Francisco on $36.82 a Day
Feeding four hungry Spring Break-ers on Pittsburgh-style sandwiches and Singaporean street food
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