John Edge

Blogs
August 23, 2010
What's the State of Local Pavement Cuisine? Sound Bites from the SF Street Food Festival
What's it like to start a food business in San Francisco when you don't have a pack of investors eager to write checks? That's the question hanging over the crowds at Saturday's 2010 SF Street Food Festival in the Mission. Between bites, video producer Jason Jurgens and I buttonholed chefs, the as ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
John T. Edge Hosts Conference Session at SF Street Food Festival
Angie MosierJohn T. Edge moderates a talk on truck culture, Aug. 22.The La Cocina-organized SF Street Food Festival is just 10 days off (the daylong fest drops Saturday, Aug. 21). This year's vendors: a familiar mix of mobile vendors and restaurants ― culled mostly from the Mission ― serv ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
How to Write About Not-Delicious Food
danpberry/FlickrThere's an interesting story here, but it's not one most food writers want to tell.One of the unshakable tenets of food writing, from Brillat-Savarin to Orangette, is that it has to celebrate the sublime. We food writers are supposed to ring Pavlov's bell with our words, sending r ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2010
The Times Serves up a Taste of New SF Weekly Food Critic Jonathan Kauffman
John T. Edge explores Seattle's teriyaki phenomenon in the New York Times today. "In Seattle, teriyaki is omnipresent," Edge writes, "the closest this city comes to a Chicago dog." His excavations of teriyaki's roots lead him to new SF Weekly food critic Jonathan Kauffman, who did some uneart ... More >>