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Babaloo's Cubano Is Worth the Hunt For It

Food trucks can be a slippery lot. Sometimes, they go missing and their Twitter feeds fall silent. Unless DHS stalks them with drones, we may never find them again once we lose them -- or even know what happened, for sure. So we are happy to announce that after a mysterious sabbatical of some durat ... More >>

A World Without Twinkies: Hostess Worker Strike Could Lead to Company Liquidation

The day could soon come when there won't be any more Twinkies or Hostess cupcakes. After the maker of the delicious, demonized snack cakes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January, conditions have allegedly become so much worse for workers at Hostess plants across the U.S. that more than 6,500 mem ... More >>

Elvis Honored in the Bacon-y King Cookie

The two locations of chef Ryan Scott's eatery Market & Rye are known for having creative desserts such as endless remixes of Twinkies and fully loaded cookies like the Kitchen Sink, which carries an arsenal of pretzels, potato chips, butterscotch chips, and chocolate chips. A new cookie variety is a ... More >>

Class Alert! Master Twinkies, Chai and Cereal

The Pastry Shop: Favorite Childhood Junk Foods Where: Cavallo Point, 601 Murray Circle (at Fort Baker), Sausalito, 339-4700 When: Wed., Sept. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $55 adults/$25 children (plus tax) (reserve by calling 888.651.2003) The rundown: Cavallo Point, otherwise known as the Lodge at th ... More >>

Deborah Fergin-Mavaega, S.F. Teacher Accused of Abusing Students, Booted Out of Classroom

Earlier this month, we introduced you to Deborah Fergin-Mavaega, the Bayview teacher who was being sued for reportedly smacking around her students and stealing their Twinkies. After that drama, the school district put her on administrative leave and said they'd be transferring her to some other sch ... More >>

Hard Knocks: A Bayview Teacher Faces More Abuse Allegations

Batter Up: Mastering the Art of Deep-Frying

Patrick Lee Wants To Fry You Anything At Batter Up

A graffiti-laden sliding window masked by a cold, windy MUNI stop in the Excelsior district seems an odd spot for the city's lone dive specializing in Texas State Fair "cuisine." Odder still, its owner, Patrick Lee, is a San Francisco bred dot-com escapee whose only prior restaurant experience consi ... More >>

Coming Soon: Deep-Fried Caramel Shortbread (Need We Say More?)

When we heard Claire from Clairesquares was making a deep-fried version of her caramel-topped shortbreads, which she's trumpeting as "a decadent, never-been-done-before dessert," we had to take a bite. The over-the-top creation will only be available at the San Francisco Street Food Festival on Aug ... More >>

Ryan Scott Guest Bartends for New TV Series and Charity

Ryan Scott, Top Chef alum and proprietor of Market & Rye restaurants and the 3-Sum Eats food truck, is set to film an episode of his forthcoming television series Food Rush while guest bartending at Jardiniere from 6-8 p.m. on July 18. Scott has created the Balsamic Berry cocktail ($9) for the occa ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Patrice Scott, Alan Braxe, Wonder-Full, and More

DJ Spinna plays Wonder-Full this Saturday at Mezzanine​ Following in the fashion of every other weekend for the past couple months, this weekend offers a diverse and excellent grouping of parties that ought to cater to just about everyone's tastes. Read on, your weekend awaits. Friday, Dec. ... More >>

The Power of Oprah, the Stupidity of 'Meat Week,' and ― Eww ― Vulva Cake!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • So, Oprah's Tuesday episode was dedicated to veganism ― and meat-eating issues in general ― and it's pretty much the only thing vegans could talk about all week. I mean, she IS the big O and so yeah, celebr ... More >>

Re-Deconstructing Tragedy

Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips: Show Preview

What Will San Francisco Ban Next?

​Today, the Board of Supervisors will take a final vote on banning restaurants from giving away toys with Happy Meal-type kiddie orders unless nutritional standards are adhered to. Barring any last-minute changes of heart worthy of bad-guy wrestlers, the motion will pass, 8-3 -- a veto-proof major ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Shmeat ― It Might Soon Be What's for Dinner

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Aren't we the victims?: Test-tube meat. Before your thoughts turn all seriously dark-side fetish-y, let's just say it's exactly what it sounds like: scientific synthesizing of animal protein, suitable for the table. According to Grist, Dutch researchers sa ... More >>

The High and Low Life

New Year's Eve options abound for both champagne and beer budgets.

Deep-Fried Butter: Ultimate State Fair Gross-Out or Stroke of Genius?

paul79uf/FlickrImagine the possibilities.​We'll have to wait and see if the latest fatty food from the State Fair of Texas -- deep-fried butter -- ever becomes the subject of a food eating contest in the Joey Chestnut style. Chances are that watching anyone eat a deep-fried butter stick may ma ... More >>

What a Predicament: City Attorney Defends Crappy S.F. Law Against Ultimate Corporate Force of Evil

I am the law!​ Like a duel to the death with the prize to the victor being death, it seems there are no winners in this morning's legal showdown between San Francisco and Philip Morris at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Well, the winner may be "your lungs," but, at best, the loser would be "your ... More >>

Happy Hour to Celebrate the Survival of Siberian Tigers

cat-chitchat.pictures-of-cats.org​On Thursday, Pacific Environment will toast the survival of Siberian tigers while honoring Russian tiger conservationist Sergei Berezniuk at a happy hour at 111 Minna. Organizers are promising complimentary "light bites" in addition to the usual ca ... More >>

Deep Fried Not Bombs Part Two

San Francisco Food Not Bombs is holding its second "Deep Fried Not Bombs" event on April 15. There, the public will be free to express the axiom that everything is better when deep fried. But, before you pack your Twinkies and bacon, be advised that people should only bring vegan items to dump in t ... More >>

Ed Jew's Achy Breaky Brain Defense Backfires: Disgraced Ex-Supe Nailed With 64-Month Sentence

Aaron FarmerIt appears we really won't have Ed Jew to kick around anymore -- which is good, because we could further injure his brain, and then God knows what mischief he'd get himself into. Days after Jew's lawyer seriously claimed that a childhood head injury led to the former D-4 supervisor extor ... More >>

Fame, Fortune, and Premature Antifascism

Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

(Image via Veganize It)•Vegan Twinkies [Veganize It/The Urban Housewife]•Economical cheese plates [SFGate]•Good 'ol carrot cake [Bay Area Bites]•Port [Cooking With Amy]--Tamara Palmer

Robots in Love

WALL-E blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Butter

Fair or No Fair with Indulgent Aunt M (at the Alameda County Fair)

The Tipping Point

Artist Josh Greene waits tables to fund other people's art. But wait, it's not that simple.

The Pro-Bacon Lobby

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

Tacos and Gimlets

Treating the author of Julie & Julia to a little taste of San Francisco

The Real Thing

Things do, it turns out, go better with Coke

Old Salts Welcome

Lookout Cove opens in Sausalito

Best Place to Be Fondly Reminded of Your S.F. Childhood

Wonder Bread/Hostess Bakery

Blue Man Group

Blue is the color of my true love's head

Reel World

Internal affairs; The San Francisco Story; A day at the races

Tears of a Clown

The Eyes of Tammy Faye teaches us that garish televangelists have feelings too

Best Trailer Park Grub

Butter Bar

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REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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White Trash Nation

The stereotype may be racist and classist, but that hasn't kept a generation from embracing the white trash aesthetic -- a disposable culture populated by trailer parks; junk cars; big hair and gaudy makeup; loud, angry music; and empty beer cans -- and i