Brown: Worth the schlep?Many of the events taking place this Friday and Saturday for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's eighth-annual Cooking for Solutions are already sold out, including Friday's members-only VIP opening reception with TV chef/food scientist Alton Brown. If money ain't a thang, a few of Saturday's pricier events are still available, including six different Food and Adventure Tours with culinary superheroes like Thomas Keller and Joyce Goldstein, the cost of which range from $90 (if yo
JoyceGoldstein.comGoldstein: Local Mediterranean food pioneer.Mediterranean cuisine hounds will want to check out the Joyce Goldstein and Hoss Zaré dinner benefit this Sunday, July 12, at Zaré at Fly Trap (606 Folsom at Second St.). Goldstein, a prolific cookbook author and recipient of several James Beard awards, is cooking a sort of tag-team dinner in five courses with her buddy Zaré. The idea is to showcase the evolution of Mediterranean cuisine in the Bay Area over the last three decades
M. BrodyGoldstein, serving chunky gazpacho -- but when does she sleep?A real treat: an intimate dinner chez Joyce Goldstein, aka the hardest working woman in the food business. Goldstein, veteran of Chez Panisse and her own San Francisco restaurant Square One, is the author of 26 cookbooks, and a restaurant consultant specializing in recipe development, menu design, and staff training. Oh yes, she has a blog, too.
And she still loves to rattle those pots and pans. When we arrived at her