Self-respecting San Francisco residents should know that the words "Russell Stover" and "Whitman's Sampler" really have nothing to do with real chocolate, but many might be able to use some guidelines beyond that for Valentine's Day. Fortunately, we have some of the country's finest chocolatiers in the area, and they're sufficiently armed for their favorite holiday.
Charles Chocolates in Emeryville (6529 Hollis) offers several heart-shaped boxes for V-Day, but we're craving the heck out of t
Michael Recchiuti dreams up the Taste Project
"This has everything to do with stuff I'd like to do, but could never do on an industrial level," said chocolatier Michael Recchiuti as a panini fungi of shiitake chocolate malt ice cream on grilled brioche was served. Recchiuti had stayed up well into the morning hours to prepare this imaginative ice cream sandwich, which began life as something else entirely. Its unlikely flavors tasted like they'd been buddies for years.
Shiitake chocolate malt
Last week, we wrote about Recchiuti's new whoopie pies and talked about a secret ice cream social we heard might be happening. Sweets wizard Michael Recchiuti was quick to correct the notion that last Wednesday's spontaneous sale of homemade ice cream (burnt caramel, McEvoy olive oil) and sorbet (apricot-lime) was nothing more than "ice cream on a loading dock," which may happen again throughout the summer. (SFoodie was there and, whatever he wants to call it, it was fabulous.)However, team
See's Candies Milk Chocolate Bordeaux.Happy National Milk Chocolate Day! Yes, SFoodie has certainly logged in many hours as a dark chocolate snob. But we also know that milk chocolate was our sweetest gateway drug, and plan to celebrate this very important holiday with some of our local favorites.Don't worry, we're not by-the-book purists and there's nothing freaky here (like the camel milk chocolate we told you about last week). Just some straight-up, can't-fail missionaries of milk chocolat
Amarena cherries and Blu del Moncenisio cheese await enrobing for the Red, White & Blu course.A recent afternoon at the headquarters of confectioner Recchiuti provided definitive proof that, in the right hands, chocolate and cheese do go together. As part of his mostly sold-out Taste Project series (hopefully more sessions will be added), Michael Recchiuti and former employee Doralice Handal (now owner of the Cheese Shop in Healdsburg) combined their respective expertise with c
Cheese Plus (2001 Polk at Pacific) is celebrating its fifth annual fall harvest artisan food festival tomorrow, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Two dozen artisan food producers are on board, including Michael Recchiuti, Cowgirl Creamery, Fra'Mani, the Brown Butter Cookie Company, Ciao Bella, and more: Not a bad lineup. For festival day only, the Russian Hill foodie Toro E./YelpIt's gonna be packed with extra goodies.emporium is offering 20 percent off books and housewares, from cheese knives and fondue ge
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