Subject: Michael Pollan

• Saplings of the City

  March 18, 2009

• The Carnivore's Dilemma: Incanto, Meatopia And Offal

  August 31, 2007

• Slow Food Nation To Contemplate Then Masticate SF This May

  November 8, 2007

• The Carnivore's Dilemma: Incanto, Meatopia And Offal

  August 31, 2007

• Slow Food Nation To Contemplate Then Masticate SF This May

  November 8, 2007

• Gather Your Fiddlehead Ferns While Ye May

  May 1, 2008

• New York Press Part Three: The New York Times Magazine Food Issue

  October 22, 2008

• For the Fans

  April 8, 2009

• Add these titles to your reading list

  December 31, 2008

• San Francisco in Canada

  Lots of locals in the Toronto Film Fest.

  September 3, 2008

• It's the Food, Stupid

  Michael Pollan's new book exposes how "nutritionism" has ruined our diets.

  January 23, 2008

• Eating Right

  January 2, 2008

• Too Much Good Stuff

  April 8, 2009

• Only in San Francisco

  The sole Istrian restaurant on the West Coast is hiding in plain sight

  March 28, 2007

• Omnivorous

  In 2006, San Francisco is still a marvelous place to eat (stop the presses!)

  December 27, 2006

• Foraging at the Forge

  October 25, 2006

• Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

  May 31, 2006

• An Omnivore's Dilemma

  Meat two ways: pricey barbecue at T-Rex, bargain Moroccan at Tajine

  May 3, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  October 12, 2005

• How the Bay Area Fared at James Beard Restaurant Awards

  Douglas Keane Douglas Keane of Cyrus Surprise Winner for Best Chef, Pacific, and Nate Appleman's Third Time is Charm as He Wins Best Rising Star ChefAt last night's James Beard Awards, in something of an upset, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg won Best Chef, Pacific, over fellow nominees Jeremy Fox (Ubuntu, Napa), Loretta Keller (Coco 500, San Francisco), David Kinch (Manresa, Los Gatos), and Daniel Patterson (Coi, San Francisco). Most of the nominees, all of whom we spoke to last week, thou

  May 5, 2009

• Pollan Taking his Beard Prize in Stride

  Michael PollanMichael Pollan sounded nonchalant this morning when describing last night's Beard Award win. The Berkeley author and J-School prof snagged the writing award for In Defense of Food, which disses twentieth-century food science while getting all passionate about real food. "Look, it's wonderful to be recognized by that community," Pollan (who previously scored a Beard win for 2006's The Omnivore's Dilemma) told SFoodie, in a voice that sounded either humble or, well, a tad unimpressed

  May 5, 2009

• The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs for Thursday, May 21, 2009 Washington State University crossed Michael Pollan's anti-big-ag screed The Omnivore's Dilemma off its freshman required reading list, and it's not entirely clear why. The uni says it's all about money (or lack thereof), while just about everyone else assumes agribusiness strong-arming. Grist digs up the controversy here. FoodGal serves up big-pixel food porn from last weekend's Cooking for Solutions conf at the Monterey Bay A

  May 21, 2009

• Bouncer’s Highly Accurate Bar Quiz

  May 27, 2009

• Michael Pollan's Book to be Required Reading at Washington State University After All

  Looks like freshman at Washington State University will have to crack Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma after all. Last week we reported on the controversy that had the local food politics community ready to storm the barricades: Citing cost of both the 4,000 books and an unspecified speaker's fee for Pollan, the northern uni scrapped plans to put the Berkeley author's anti-big-ag bestseller on the required reading list for freshmen. Progressives smelled a rat, suspecting big-money agribus

  May 28, 2009

• A Conversation with 'Food, Inc.' Director Robert Kenner

  wnyc/FlickrRobert Kenner (right) with author Michael Pollan.Food, Inc., a documentary opening today at Landmark Theatres' Embarcadero Center, takes a grim look at the American industrial food system. (See the trailer below.) Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser is a producer (he'll be in the city tomorrow, appearing at the 4:50 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. showings). Director Robert Kenner spoke with SFoodie this morning about the impact making the film has had on his own food choices, as well as the ba

  June 12, 2009

• Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Sonoma Farm Diary That Thinks Globally

  In Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking in California (UC Press, $24.95), Sonoma State professor Jonah Raskin writes about more than just day-to-day operations at family-run, organic Oak Hill Farm alongside Mexican immigrants, an Irish mechanic, and a French beekeeper. Raskin also describes the growth and history of the organic movement, touching on Jack London (who named Sonoma the Valley of the Moon), Luther Burbank, Robert Rodale, Adelle Davis, Wendell Berry, and even Rudolf St

  July 6, 2009

• Fancy beef at extravagant prices at 5A5 Steak Lounge

  July 15, 2009

• DVR Alert: Ex-Times Critic Frank Bruni Reveals More Than We Want to Know

  Eater NY/FlickrFrank gets frank.​Tomorrow night (that's August 19) ex-New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni will come out of several closets in his first network interview, airing on ABC's Nightline (channel 7, locally) at 11:35 p.m. He's flacking his new memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, fully illustrated with no-longer-illicit photos of his heretofore embargoed visage. The shocking revelations of the book are, well, not so much that Bruni's gay, but that

  August 18, 2009

• Arthouse movie listings for September 9-15, 2009

  September 16, 2009

• The Ups and Downs of Soul Food Farm's Rise from the Ashes

  Arthur PerleyMonday's benefit at Cafe Rouge has been nixed.​The day after a Bi-Rite raffle raised over $8,000 (plus a $2,000 company match) for Soul Food Farm, poultry farmer Alexis Koefoed sounded almost surprised by the level of support the figure represented. "I didn't realize that Slow Food Farm had traveled so far into people's houses," she told SFoodie. "I think it shows that it's important for people to be able to connect with their own personal ideas and values," she said, referrin

  October 2, 2009

• Bay Links: Obama-rama, More Muni Fight & Michael Pollan

  ​Do ask, do tell: San Franciscans on Obama's promise to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." [Mission Loc@l]Crescent City man accused of threatening Obama via email. [SFist]Missed your stop? Blame Obama. [Richmond Blog]An interview with the woman who intervened in last week's Muni fight. [Muni Diaries]Picture this: new local photoblog showcases awesome shots. [Caliber]Epic Roasthouse and Waterbar pay up for not having enough patio seating. [Curbed]Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo yanks Michael Pollan talk

  October 15, 2009

• For Bookish Foodies, It's a Busy Week of Author Appearances

  It's a big week for bookish San Francisco foodies interested in sustainable farming, vegetarianism, and foraging. • Tomorrow, Wendell Berry -- writer, farmer, and godfather of the organic farming movement -- appears at Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness at McAllister) in conversation with Michael Pollan for a City Arts and Lectures event. The utterings of both are often quoted (Berry: "Eating is an agricultural act"; Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Perhaps tomorrow's talk will yiel

  November 3, 2009

• Help the Kitchen Sisters Name Their New Series and Win a Wild Boar Dinner

  Kitchen SistersThe Sisters need a little help.​NPR's Kitchen Sisters -- radio trailblazers at finding hidden kitchens near and far-- are launching a new project. There's a contest to name it (wild boar dinner with Angelo Garro anyone?) and chance to submit your very own story about girls. And women. Interested? Behold the details, as laid out by the Sisters themselves on their blog: The Kitchen Sisters are looking for stories and images and videos and writings. We're launching a new multim

  November 4, 2009

• Last Night: The Cannabis Cup at Cafe Cocomo

  Third Annual Cannabis CupJoseph SchellCafe CocomoTuesday, Nov. 10, 2009Better than: I don't remember.Imagine a place where everyone around you is smiling and laughing--where warm oozy chocolate waterfalls flow like water, and all the snacks are bite-sized. Oh yeah, and you're high. Really really high. For any medical marijuana card holders who attended San Francisco's 3rd Annual Cannabis Cup at Cafe Cocomo last night, that dream became a reality. From slick men in suits rolling in limos, Hummers

  November 11, 2009

• Was That Michael Pollan Hyping Weed at Last Night's Cannabis Cup? Uh, Not Exactly

  Joseph Schell (left); MichaelPollan.com (right)Koehn (left) and Pollan: Can you spot the pot advocate?​Okay, so we know from some of his writing that Michael Pollan is a fan of the wacky tobacc-y, but last night we did a serious double take when we spotted this guy manning a booth for a pot activist group called Americans for Safe Access at last night's Third Annual Cannabis Cup in SOMA. We figured that either Pollan has gotten more serious about his pro-pot stance, or he has one serious d

  November 11, 2009