Nuts and Edible Seeds

Hooker's Sweet Treats Seduces With Caramel Ménage À Trois

With Hooker's Sweet Treats, David "Hooker" Williams has built a wholesale business and a Tenderloin cafe off the sexiness of his sea salted caramels. He keeps the saucy theme going with his Ménage à Trois collection, which includes a Brothers Not Lovers caramel (sea salted chocolate espresso caram ... More >>

Farmers' Market Finds: Nut Butters and Psychedelic Kettle Corn at SFSU

Associated Students, Inc. Farmers' Market Where: Located on SFSU's campus (outside the humanities building) When: Thursdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For years the smells of San Francisco State's farmers' markets have wafted through the open windows in the humanities building and distracted me from my se ... More >>

Eat Foie with Blood Orange at Jardiniere, Tournedos Rossini at Baker Street Bistro

​Counting down the days before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect.Here are two more excuses to eat foie gras this week: On its à la carte dinner menu, Jardinière is offering a terrine of foie gras with blood orange, Riesling gelée, and hazelnuts ($23). The $120 chef's tastin ... More >>

Granny Greenleaf's Pumpkin Harvest Delight Edibles: Pumpkin in the Hour of Chaos

Granny Greenleaf's "Lil Velvets." The Pumpkin Harvest Delight got scarfed before we could get a shot.​If you replaced the word "sailing" from Christopher Cross's 1980 easy listening tour de force with the word "Oaksterdam," it would tickle so good. Especially now, as the smells of autumn com ... More >>

Bacetti's Chocolate and Vanilla Bites Are Little Kisses of Gelato

​ Bacetti means "little kisses" in Italian, and it's an apt name for a local line of bites of clean, creamy gelato painted with chocolate. An inch-and-a-half square and wrapped in pretty paper, they're miniature Klondike bars that went to finishing school. Sister-and-brother team Alexandra an ... More >>

Q&A with Bar Bambino Chef Lizzie Binder: Part 2

Photos by Alanna Hale​This is part two of SFoodie's conversation with Bar Bambino executive chef Lizzie Binder. Part one is here. What would you say are the main ingredients of the kind of food that you're doing now? Things like vinegar and beets as I mentioned before, as well as stone fruit ... More >>

S.F. Dishes Up Giants Ice Cream Tributes

Alex HochmanMitchell's worker CJ Serrano displays the Baseball Nut sundae.​Not to be outdone by local bartenders, San Francisco ice cream makers have also gotten into the Giants spirit. Mitchell's Ice Cream opened in 1953, one year before the Giants last won the World Series and five years bef ... More >>

To Hyang: With traditional Korean, it's all about the sauce

When a Sunflower Is Not a Sunflower

Gracias Madre has all of the vegetables and none of the cant of its parent

Meet the Krunch Bar for the New Age: Chocolate with Puffed Quinoa

​While flax seeds continue to find their way into chocolate bars in an attempt to make them healthy, a local fair-trade company has already moved on. San Francisco-based Alter-Eco has created Midnight Crunch, a dark chocolate bar studded with whole quinoa, a complete protein. Fortunately, puff ... More >>

Tonight: Mission Street Food Goes Vegan for Food Not Bombs

sffnb.org​Tonight's edition of Mission Street Food is Vegan Night for Food Not Bombs, with proceeds going to the local chapter to help defray the costs of its many free food events. And rather than MSF resting on the laurels of its lauded vegan burger and Lung Shan's Vegan Delight soup, all of ton ... More >>

Craigslist Alert: Score 50-Pound Cases of Nuts the FDA Says Will Kill You

CraigslistTasty -- but deadly.​Trout amandine is a classic preparation, perhaps a particularly popular one now that trout has become such a hot choice for economically and ecologically inclined chefs. Fans of the dish will be happy to know a Stockton farmer has a few 50-pound cases of shelled, ... More >>

Aicha serves flavorful Moroccan food at popular prices

Snacktion: 479° Chipotle Caramel Almonds Popcorn

479popcorn.com​Name: Chipotle Caramel AlmondsBrand: 479° PopcornOrigin: San FranciscoFound at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom at 13th St.)Cost: $5.99Ingredients: Organic cane sugar, organic popcorn, organic almonds, organic agave syrup, organic butter, organic molasses, organic sunflower oil, org ... More >>

Snacktion: Salty Pepper Somersaults

​Name: Salty Pepper SomersaultsBrand: Somersault Snack Co.Origin: BerkeleyFound at: The Good Life (448 Cortland at Gates)Cost: $1.79Ingredients: Sunflower seeds, wheat flour, seasoning, whole wheat flour, sesame seeds, vital wheat gluten, expeller pressed high oleic sunflower oil, chicory root ... More >>

Snacktion: 18 Rabbits' Nibble a Sultana Granola Bar

Name: Nibble a Sultana Brand: 18 Rabbits Origin: San Francisco Found at: Bi-Rite Market (3639 18th St.) Cost: $2.99 Ingredients: Veritas granola (oats, unsweetened coconut, maple syrup, ground flax seed, sunflower or safflower oil, walnuts, Marshall's Farm honey, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds, se ... More >>

Global Pantry: Styrian Toasted Pumpkin-Seed Oil

With crusty bread, this makes a great snack for a wine tasting.

Don't Shop Till You Drop

Save yourself (and our economy) with holiday shopping nourishment.

Michael Mischer Visits Fog City News Today

Oakland-based chocolatier Michael Mischer will be at Fog City News (455 Market) today from noon to 2 p.m. to sample delectable bites and answer questions. After tasting one of Mischer's chocolates infused with root beer caramel, Fog owner Adam Smith suggested he create a set of other signature Yanke ... More >>

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A Pair to Bet On

A terrific lunch leads to an even better dinner.

Taste Test: Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds

Inner Richmond's Troya Takes Turkish Up a Notch

Mars Volta New Year's Schedule Gets PB Wolf

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Madlib, Stones Throw Brings B-Ball Zombie War to the Independent

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Tasteful design and designed tastes rule at the vegan Medicine Eatstation

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Assemble your own from a buffet of the year's best dishes

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Arab fusion in a new hotel restaurant leaves something to be desired

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The loveliness of Paris evoked in a Cal-Med restaurant-cum-wine bar

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How to avoid glorified Americanese dressed up as ethnic kweezeen

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Our critic tries the vegan way, with mixed results

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