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SF Weekly Writer Nominated for James Beard Award

Top Chefs Tell Not Quite All

Whatever Happened to ... Reed Hearon?

He's been working as the executive chef at Mammoth Mountain.

Burnt Chefs

Former admissions representatives at CCA say they preyed on students’ dreams of becoming celebrity chefs and glossed over the painful economic realities of the industry

Crossing Paths

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Teeny Dishes, Oysters, Meat, and Happy Chefs: The Month in SFoodie

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, E ... More >>

Is This the Gayest Book Ever Written About Food?

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 ... More >>

Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Food Memoir with the Scent of Balls

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 ... More >>

Local Heavies to Celebrate Cecilia Chiang, the Julia Child of Chinese Cooking

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 cre ... More >>

Save the Date: Foreign Cinema's Feb. 11 Birthday Tribute to Marion Cunningham

Marion Cunningham​Marion Cunningham is a local culinary powerhouse, a close friend of James Beard's who wrote the 1994 edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and 2003's Lost Recipes. On Feb. 11, Foreign Cinema (2534 Mission at 21st St.) will pay tribute to Cunningham, who's turning 87. No doubt ... More >>

Starchefs.com Names Its 2010 Rising Stars

SPQR's Matthew Accarrino is on the rise.​Starchefs.com just named the 14 winners of its 2010 "Rising Stars" Awards for the San Francisco Bay Area. The touring awards, which recognize chefs, bartenders (unfortunately titled "mixologists"), and restaurateurs under the age of 40, is always an interes ... More >>

Omnivore Books In Consulting Deal with Williams-Sonoma

Janine KahnOmnivore Books' Celia Sack will pick a book of the month, and has curated a collection of vintage tomes for Williams-Sonoma stores.​Williams-Sonoma likes Noe Valley's Omnivore Books so much, the bigger-than-God cookware chain has hired Omnivore's Celia Sack to serve as book consulta ... More >>

BlogHer Food Is So Gay

Matt Bites blogger Matt Armendariz.​Have you noticed it? That extra something in the air? Has your food started tasting a little extra sparkletastic, like it's made with Unicorn Meat™? It's no coincidence. The foodie world is getting an extra shot of fabulous thanks to the BlogHer Food confe ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Matt Bites blogger Matt Armendariz.​Have you noticed it? That extra something in the air? Has your food started tasting a little extra sparkletastic, like it's made with Unicorn Meat™? It's no coincidence. The foodie world is getting an extra shot of fabulous thanks to the BlogHer Food confe ... More >>

Toasting Marion at Foreign Cinema

beardfoundation/FlickrMarion Cunningham and James Beard, sharing a moment with a couple of pheasants.​Birthday Tribute Dinner to Marion Cunningham Where: Foreign Cinema, 2534 Mission (at 21st St.), 648-7600 When: Thu., Feb. 10 Cost: TBD The rundown: Foreign Cinema's annual birthday tribu ... More >>

Plate Shop: Sprightly All-American Cooking, Fresh from the Garden

beardfoundation/FlickrMarion Cunningham and James Beard, sharing a moment with a couple of pheasants.​Birthday Tribute Dinner to Marion Cunningham Where: Foreign Cinema, 2534 Mission (at 21st St.), 648-7600 When: Thu., Feb. 10 Cost: TBD The rundown: Foreign Cinema's annual birthday tribu ... More >>

A Celebrity Chef Roundup, Moms Fight Back Against Foodie Culture

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. All About the Celebrity Chefs. This week has brought a number of (actually) interesting interviews with big chefs. For instance, Eater National interviewed David Kinch about the sta ... More >>