Subject: Napa

• Racial DNA Profiling Catches Killers: Commence Hand-Wringing

  October 10, 2007

• R.I.P. Vincent DeDomenico: Rice-A-Roni Creator Dies In His Sleep

  October 22, 2007

• Napa Wine Tour Operator Unmaksed As Highway 101 Bandit

  December 17, 2007

• SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

  May 7, 2008

• SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

  August 28, 2008

• Taste, Slow Food Rocks, The Ant Show and Zombies on the Sunday Streets: Your Tuesday Morning Hangover

  September 2, 2008

• Salad Daze: Julia's Kitchen at Copia's Fig Salad

  September 29, 2008

• Rancho Gordo's Miracle Fruit

  (Image via Rancho Gordo)Steve Sando is a frequent presence at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market with his Napa-based company Rancho Gordo, which offers several varieties of beans in vibrant colors that make a potentially dull food staple seem alive with possibility and flavor. Vanessa Barrington, Sando's co-author in Heirloom Beans, will talk about their book and cook up some of its recipes at a special free event from 3 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, January 10 at Omnivore Books (3885A Cesar Chavez). -- T

  January 5, 2009

• Saturday Night: Dengue Fever at the Rickshaw Stop

  Dengue Fever The Rickshaw Stop Jan. 3, 2008 Review by Ezra Gale Good bands are like recipes. A dash of this, a dash of that, and all of a sudden you've got yourself a winning formula that has critics drooling and your public lining up to taste the sensations at your French Laundry-like haunt in the valleys of Napa. So imagine the recipe that led to Dengue Fever and their show at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco Saturday night. It's the most improbable of rock bands, equal parts white guy ind

  January 5, 2009

• Seasonality Synopsis

  After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their words:Returning, plentiful and/or at their peak this month: Blood oranges, plant starts, kale, nettles, green garlic, cruciferous vegetables, flowering quince branches, chicories, root vegetables, tulip

  January 16, 2009

• Cheap V-Day Date Possibilities

  Om RecordsDJ Heather Okay, here's the situation: you're broke and tomorrow is Valentine's Day. That cozy lil' Napa bed & breakfast your mate ooh'd and ah'd over? Not in the budget. Dinner at Postrio? Maybe when the economy improves. A dozen long-stemmed roses, champagne, and Godiva chocolates? Let me get back to you on that. In the meantime, you can score cool points with your honey, keep the wallet relatively unscathed, and hopefully have a happy ending (or two). Here's what you do: Go da

  February 13, 2009

• Fire Trek

  June 21, 1995

• First Korean Market's Killer Kimchi

  It's the best you can buy (though your grandma's might be better).

  February 27, 2009

• James Beard Award Nominations Announced

  Bay Area Takes All Five Nominations for Best Chef in Pacific Region; Boulevard and A 16's Nate Appleman Among Locals Competing For Top PrizesThe prestigious James Beard Awards, given by the James Beard Foundation and often referred to as the Oscars of the restaurant and food media industries, announced their 2009 nominees.Local restaurants and chefs competing for the top prizes include Boulevard, nominated for the Outstanding Restaurant award (against NY's Babbo and Jean-Georges, Fore Street of

  March 23, 2009

• Michael Bauer Watch: What's He Got Against Oliveto?

  Drop Oliveto to make room for the House of Prime Rib? Seriously?

  April 6, 2009

• Music from Big Pink

  August 6, 2008

• Soup to Nuts

  A new photography exhibition at MOAD peeks into grocery bags from around the world

  September 5, 2007

• Notebooks From the Underground

  June 27, 2007

• The Rich and Photographed

  December 6, 2006

• Got Hot Pot?

  Dining's an adventure at S.F.'s only Muslim-style Chinese

  June 7, 2006

• Discount Dynasty

  August 24, 2005

• Festivals and Fairs

  June 23, 2004

• Best Napa Restaurant

  Market

  May 19, 2004

• Best Biplane Rides

  Vintage Aircraft Co.

  May 19, 2004

• Best Wine-Tasting Restaurant

  May 14, 2003

• Museum of Food

  February 12, 2003

• After the Series, Mumm's the Word

  Bubbly and baseball, plus a quirky collection of 78 RPM records

  October 23, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  May 1, 2002

• What the Hell Is Copia?

  At Robert Mondavi's new $55 million foodie mecca, you'll find seminars on goat cheese and mustard; surrealist movies; a SPAM exhibit; wine tastings; figurines of pooping Catholics -- everything, in fact, but the answer to that question.

  April 10, 2002

• Shufflebored

  March 20, 2002

• Chopped Down

  One gent commented,"It's barely noon and I'm already trashed."

  November 28, 2001

• Foie Gras for the Soul

  Restaurants react to last week's attacks

  September 19, 2001

• Through the Hayes

  April 11, 2001

• Tomorrow Never Dies

  December 27, 2000

• Side Dish

  June 21, 2000

• Best Thai Restaurant

  Thep Phanom

  May 17, 2000

• Letters

  February 9, 2000

• Side Dish

  October 6, 1999

• Side Dish

  September 29, 1999

• Side Dish

  August 4, 1999

• N-E-G-L-E-C-T

  September 11, 1996

• Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

  Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg, Loretta Keller of Coco500 in San Francisco, David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, and Daniel Patterson of Coi in San Francisco. Conversations with a

  May 1, 2009

• State Unemployment Numbers Are In: S.F. Situation Upgraded From 'Shitty' to 'Crappy'

  James Duncan DavidsonA sign of the times...The State Employment Development Department today released its monthly accounting of where the state's employment handbasket is in its journey toward hell. And it's a good news-bad news situation akin to: "We've got fresh vegetables -- but we're serving them for dessert." So, the unemployment totals are down from last month and, as always, significantly better than the state at large. That's the good news. The lousy news is that the numbers are still ug

  May 22, 2009

• Hubert Keller Wins First Top Chef Masters Episode with Dorm-Room Mac and Cheese

  On last night's premiere of Top Chef Masters, Hubert Keller, executive chef/owner of Fleur de Lys (777 Sutter at Taylor) charmed a gaggle of Girl Scouts and a mess of college students and whipped up the winning meal: Cold Scottish salmon, hardy carrot and petit pea soup with cinnamon croutons, and creamy mac and cheese with prawns, mushrooms, and fresh herbs (recipes are here). His victory scored $10,000 for the Bay Area chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Keller will compete against the w

  June 11, 2009

• Toronado to Host a Six-Course Wallow through Local Beer and Food

  Lost In Translation/FlickrCall it a sign of the times.​More and more chefs are turning to beer to pair with food these days. Catch a taste of the trend this Sunday afternoon as two chefs serve up what's being billed as a Locavore Feast at Toronado Pub (547 Haight at Fillmore). Chefs Melissa Axelrod of Melissa Claire's Kitchen and Christian Spybrook of SF Foodshed are collaborating on a six-course menu matched with beer. (The cooking duo met while helming the stoves at Delfina and Delfina P

  August 5, 2009

• Bite the Zeitgeist Next Week at Acme's Artisanal Wiener Tasting

  J. Birdsall4505 Meats' Dogzilla-style hot dog: Cultural icon in a bun.​What is it about the hot dog -- traditional lunch of toddlers, work-boot wearers, and Costco shoppers -- that's turned all zeitgeisty? Sure, it's the curdled economy -- big duh. For the price of a turkey club, you can get a deuce of dogs, and everyone knows that two of something is always better than one of another. Always. And in an age when street food of any kind is sexy -- even, perversely, curried frog legs, which,

  August 11, 2009

• Coda gives us all that jazz, and food too

  September 23, 2009

• Knives Out

  October 28, 2009

• Napa Vegetarian Restaurant Ubuntu Likely to Serve Meat at Special Tuesday Night Dinners

  Food Snob/FlickrUbuntu: Will the temple of pristine vegeterianism be serving up pork belly?​Ubuntu owner Sandy Lawrence told SFoodie that, as early as next month, the Napa vegetarian restaurant is launching a series of Tuesday night dinners that'll feature appearances by what she called some of the nation's top chefs. The "No Holds Barred, No Rules" dinners will start sometime in December or January, and feature single-seating family-style dinners that will depart from chef Jeremy Fox's ty

  November 2, 2009

• Another Display of Butchery and Upscale Eats -- This Time in Napa

  J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.​Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Calf's Taylor Boetticher, 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr, and Ubuntu's Jeremy Fox will all celebrate the art of butchery and heritage breeds at an outdoor party at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard (2252 Sulphur S

  November 4, 2009