By Meredith Brody
I can't say I look forward all year to The New Yorker's annual Food Issue, exactly. It's not as though there aren't plenty of other places to read literate food-writing all year round. Too many, in fact: there's John Thorne's intermittent and marvelous Simple Cooking, Edward Behr's The Art of Eating, Alan Davidson's late-lamented Petit Propos Culinaire, happily still available online; the glamorous though sometimes academic Gastronomica, the young and feisty and local Meatpap
Gustave CaillebotteCloudy, with a chance of imminent demise of our business model... Looks like the money-hemorrhaging Chronicle is finally going to give the people of San Francisco the kind of news we really want: weather. Around the same time that the newsstand prices for daily issues will go up a quarter to $1 (July 27), Sunday's Chronicle (which will remain at $2) will feature two full pages of America's favorite news subject.
The new two-page section -- provided by Weather Underg