Food Security and Hunger

"A Place at the Table": Hunger in America

Fight Hunger with Football

Food Bloggers Bake Sale Raises Money To End Childhood Hunger

What: San Francisco's Food Blogger Bake Sale Where: Kiehl's When: Sat., April 28, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Brownies, marshmallow treats, cookies, cakes, scones and just about anything else you'd want to indulge your sweet tooth with will be on sale with 100 percent of sales goi ... More >>

School Lunches: Study Recommends a Joint S.F.-Oakland Kitchen

Parker Gibbs' Annual Holiday Craptacular: Show Preview

Food Justice Conferences Comes to Oakland and Brings Free Public Events!

​What: Community Food Security Coalition Conference Where: Oakland When: November 4-8 Cost: Varies The rundown: This year, the 15th annual Community Food Security Coalition Conference comes to Oakland from it's home base in Portland. Naturally. The conference promises to bring together ov ... More >>

On Sesame Street, One Muppet Goes Hungry

​According to the New York Times, Sesame Street will be airing a very special episode on KQED and other PBS affiliates this coming Sunday at 7 p.m. Titled "Growing Hope Against Hunger," it will introduce a Muppet named Lily who comes from a "food insecure" household.Elmo, Bert, ... More >>

Thanksgiving in August: Cook-a-thon to Raise Funds for Food Bank

Karl Wilder​Thanksgiving in August When: August 27, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Where: St. Luke's Church Cost: As much canned/preserved food as you can afford. It's Thanksgiving...in August! At least that's what chef Karl Wilder is planning. In a 12-hour cook-a-thon, Wilder hopes to raise money for the ... More >>

Local Food Banks and Shelters Lose $600,000 in Funding

a tree is love/FlickrSan Francisco Food Bank volunteers sorting oranges.​According to an article by Jesse Hirsch in the Bay Citizen this morning, federal budget slashing has suddenly cut $592,000 in funds allocated to San Francisco food banks and shelters. Last year, the Emergency Food and Shelter ... More >>

Perfection Revisited

AB 152 Proposes Tax Credits for Farmers Donating to Food Banks

Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes.​Just as the California state legislature fights for its paychecks, another food-related bill fights to make it through committee in the Senate after passing unanimously through the Assembly.AB 152, introduced by Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes, is intended to give reli ... More >>

New Taste Marketplace Rolls Into Potrero

Sonya Yu via newtastemarketplace/FlickrAunt Kitty's Kreations.​February New Taste Marketplace When: Sat., Feb. 5, 4-9 p.m. Where: St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 De Haro (at Mariposa) Cost: Bring cash for food, and to stuff the Food Pantry's donation box The rundown: The fourth ... More >>

New Taste Marketplace Plans More Dates

newtastemarket/FlickrNosh This was one of about 30 vendors at the last New Taste Marketplace.​Launched in November as a two-date pop-up to raise money for a Potrero Hill church and its food pantry, New Taste Marketplace has been greenlighted for monthly markets through summer. Organizer Eliann ... More >>

S.F. Food Bank and Kung Fu Panda Team Up for Giants Giveaway

SF Food Bank​San Francisco Food Bank has teamed up with Pablo Panda Sandoval of the Giants for a cool timely promotion. Whoever donates the most to the nonprofit by 11:59 p.m. tonight (via this handy donation form) will score a baseball signed by Sandoval. The Food Bank distributes $6 worth of ... More >>

Key witness in Chris Brymer hate crime case contradicts cops

Key Witness in Chris Brymer Hate Crime Case Contradicts Story of Police, Prosecutors

Henry Therkield​One of two key witnesses in the hate crime assault and criminal threatening case against Chris Brymer -- the former University of Southern California and National Football League offensive lineman featured in the current SF Weekly cover story -- now denies that Brymer threatened hi ... More >>

Beyond the Cash Crop: The Economics of Urban Farming

ESLI SF/FlickrBig score at Alemany.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At Grist, Tom Philpott reveals how the economics of urban farms can be trickier than navigating a city lot laced with lead. If you're laboring under some hippie idyll that places like Alemany or City Slicker could one day ... More >>

The Nice Lady Keeping Fancy Food Out of City Trash Bins

Mary Risley.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Garbage disposer: At Bay Area Bites, Stephanie Rosenbaum files a wide-ranging argument for a bit of off-the-grid food love: urban farming, composting, but also ― most interesting of all, maybe, and least known ― the 20-plus-year-old Food Ru ... More >>

San Francisco's Needy Still Needs Food

Toys might be plentiful among San Francisco's needy, but food is not. via flickr by altemarkWork for food​The San Francisco Food Bank is distributing food at a record-breaking pace, handing out groceries to more than 30,000 houses over Thanksgiving. These numbers have skyrocketed in December, prov ... More >>

Think You Could Survive on $4 a Day? Here's Your Chance to Find Out

clementine gallot/Flickr​It's a dare meant to get you thinking: Could you eat on just $4 a day? Next week, the Hunger Challenge will be asking folks to do just that. Four bucks is the average amount a food stamp recipient in Cali gets for daily sustenance -- tough to imagine surviving (not to ... More >>

Producer of Great American Food and Music Fest Looking Forward to Next Year's Event

Think you can handle another one?The producer of the troubled Great American Food and Music Fest said he's making plans for next year's festival even as he's figuring out where to lay the blame for the June 13 event at Shoreline in Mountain View. "I'm so excited about next year," said event produce ... More >>

S.F. Planner: To Stop Poverty Pimping, TL Residents Must Fight the Law

Peter JamisonChristine Haw of the San Francisco Planning DepartmentA San Francisco Planning Department official delivered a less-than-inspiring message last night at a meeting of Tenderloin residents worried that their neighborhood is being overrun with social-service providers: Deal with it. Under ... More >>

'It Was ME!': Tenderloin Activist Pleads for More Credit In Anti-Soup Kitchen Campaign

Community Leadership Alliance director David Villa-LobosIn this week's cover story, we reported on how an overload of social-service outlets in the Tenderloin has galvanized community organizers who say the needs of homeless adults are being met at the expense of the neighborhood's families and busi ... More >>

Their Daily Bread

A new generation of activists is fighting to clean up the Tenderloin. The neighborhood’s churches are standing in their way. Whose side are the angels on?

Dish It Up

Save money while eating better this year.

Let Us Feed You

We're beyond excited to be one of the latest food-related blogs to be added to the scrumptious feed that is the food section of Alltop.com. It's a great way to have a birds' eye view of headlines from SFoodie and many, many others. Alltop even offers a widget to embed on your own blog or site for ... More >>

How's That Knee Feeling?

Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

S.F. Restaurants Fight Hunger

Black Keys Added to 'This Land is Your Land' Lineup

This Morning: Pelosi Talks about Hunger, Blames Bush for Rising Food Prices

A Veritable Cornucopia of Thanksgiving Ribaldry in SF

Making a Food Run

Best Popcorn Vendor

Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of The Industry Standard

James Ledbetter dissects the collapse of the late, great "Industry Standard"

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Side Dish

... and the Winner Is, ...Getchyer Peanuts, Wagging Tongues, Celebrity Meat

Second Time Around

Surfin' Turf