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Mary Risley

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    November 13, 2012

    Thanksgiving: Two Ways to Fake a Home Cooked Meal

    Sandra Lee may have cornered the market on "semi-homemade," but she's far from the only one trying to pass off pre-prepped food as their own. We've accidentally stumbled into a couple of places in the city offering ways to minimize the stress and expense of hosting a Thanksgiving dinner. Whole Foods ... More >>

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    July 5, 2012

    Mary Risley's Food Runners Urgently Needs Volunteers

    Mary Risley, proprietor of Tante Marie's Cooking School and creator of wonderfully profane cooking videos, is also the founder of the local non-profit organization Food Runners, which helps to distribute unused food to other neighborhood organizations in need. Food Runners is experiencing a growth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    Tante Marie's Founder, Mary Risley, on Scrambled Eggs

    ​Part three of an interview with Mary Risley, owner of the 33-year-old Tante Marie's Cooking School. Read part one and part two. When Mary Risley feels like she hasn't had enough protein lately, she turns to scrambled eggs as an easy fix. "I'm a very, very lazy home cook," she admits. "I have b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Q&A With Mary Risley of Tante Marie's, Part 2: About That YouTube Video

    Mary Risley moved to San Francisco with the hippies, and founded Tante Marie's Cooking School in 1979, still educating amateurs and soon-to-be professionals, and still located in the same space she's been renting for 32 years. These days, Risley might be better known these days as the loveably affab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Q&A With Mary Risley of Tante Marie's Cooking School, Part 1

    ​Mary Risley's resume is as impressive as it is long. She founded Tante Marie's Cooking School in 1979; started the nonprofit organization Food Runners in 1987; was named Bon Appetit's "cooking teacher of the year" in 1988; and authored a cookbook in 2003. However, Risley might be better known the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Mary Risley Is Back With More Awesome and Profane Cooking Advice

    "Young people listen to you if you say fuck!" That's Mary Risley's assessment of the viral success of her Thanksgiving video after being recognized in public for her YouTube achievement. "Just Put the F*cking Turkey in the Oven" has garnered more than 120,000 views since November for the head of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    This Thanksgiving, Learn Mary Risley's Beautifully Profane Way to Cook Turkey

    In a wonderful instructional that has garnered over 10,000 views in the past two days, San Francisco's Mary Risley cuts out all the crap you've ever heard about making turkey for Thanksgiving. After decades of experience on the topic, the proprietor of Tante Marie's Cooking School and head of the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    The Nice Lady Keeping Fancy Food Out of City Trash Bins

    Mary Risley.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Garbage disposer: At Bay Area Bites, Stephanie Rosenbaum files a wide-ranging argument for a bit of off-the-grid food love: urban farming, composting, but also ― most interesting of all, maybe, and least known ― the 20-plus-year-old Food Ru ... More >>

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