Here are some highlights from the past month in SFoodie, in case you missed 'em:• We launched our new series of Twitter-sized recipes from local chefs, challenging them to create a dish in 140 characters. Check out these itty bitty instructions for Pig's Head Mu-Shu from Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats, Early Spring Artichoke Soup from Thomas Martinez of Mission Beach Cafe, and Uni and Shoyu Gelee in Mint Elderflower Glaze from Eddie Lau of Mission Street Food, with many more to come.• There are nea
The Gay Cookbook by Chef Lou Rand Hogan
Published: 1965, Sherbourne Press, New York
What the hell?: The Boys in the Band meets James Beard -- a self-consciously campy guide to the kitchen, at a time when gays were still mostly closeted.
An excerpt from the entry for grinding hamburger: With our grinder 'greased and ready' we shop for some inexpensive meat. (We know, Gertrude, and you're not the only one who's spent half her life looking for inexpensive meat.) Eww.
What Celia Sack,
In Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00) Jason Sheehan rolls and ties an autobiographical narrative of a life spent toiling in the lower regions of food. Sheehan is resto critic for Westword, the Denver alt weekly and SF Weekly sister pub. His memoir ia a double dip into testosterone mash, stirred up with the gritty glamour of line work (it pays overt homage to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential). You damn near catch a whiff o
Silent auction prizes include signed copies of Chiang's latest book.Famed San Francisco restaurant owner, cooking teacher, and consultant Cecilia Chiang is being honored on her 90th birthday Friday with a banquet at Yank Sing Rincon Center (101 Spear at Mission). The eight-course menu was created by Chiang, whose Mandarin restaurant influenced generations of U.S. restaurateurs. Students Chiang has taught include Julia Child, James Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye. Since retiring from t
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