Subject: Genoa

• Going for Gold

  August 27, 2008

• Flowering in the Mission

  Unusual Ligurian dishes and fabulous desserts await the food-obsessed at Farina

  September 5, 2007

• New Delis

  If a place called Morty's isn't Jewish enough, what is? Our quest for a great delicatessen continues.

  November 8, 2006

• Heath in Heat

  December 21, 2005

• Discount Dynasty

  August 24, 2005

• Get Briefed

  February 16, 2005

• Carlo Still Cooks

  August 18, 1999

• Fillmore Best

  July 7, 1999

• The Bloom Is Off the Rose

  December 16, 1998

• The Antique Italian Table

  November 25, 1998

• The Great White Nope?

  Paul Nave, a polite, well-spoken product of upscale Marin County, has climbed out of boxing obscurity to fight for a world title. He's a polished fighter, but he's probably going to get his ass kicked.

  March 18, 1998

• Crazy Like a Fox

  April 9, 1997

• California Sweet

  November 22, 1995

• Only in the Mission: Eat Beans, Meet 2008 World Pesto Champ at Gravel & Gold's Happy Hour

  pestochampionship.itEpic pounder Danny Bowien​About a year and a half ago, a 25-year-old Korean American from San Francisco won the Pesto World Championship in Genoa, Italy. Call it the Miracle on Ice of Italian regional cookery contests, but Danny Bowien, then chef at Farina (now at Magnolia), thoroughly mortared and pestled his mostly Ligurian competition in a dramatic upset, taking home the grand prize -- which was not, sadly, a gigantic gold-plated basil leaf suitable for wearing on a

  October 14, 2009