New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empireneeds to defeat the dark forces of the new economy
Mary LaddThe nasty bits: The Bender's Bloody Mary, crowned with a beef stick.Filming the San Francisco episode of No Reservations (the show airs on the Travel Channel network August 10) was similar to the other times I've hung out with Anthony Bourdain. It was all drinking and eating, only this time with cameras around. A little back story: Tony and my husband, Oscar Villalon (former books editor for the Chronicle), have been friends since Kitchen Confidential first came out in 2000.
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Incanto's Chris Cosentino (left) and Sebo's Michael Black react to the broadcast.
A handful of chefs and others who appeared in the San Francisco episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations gathered at Bloodhound in SOMA last night to watch the broadcast. Incanto chef Chris Cosentino had organized the viewing party -- the show included a scene of Bourdain slurping an all-offal menu during one of Incanto's annual Head to Tail dinners, at a table with Boulevard chef de cuisi
Jesus H. Shatner/FlickrOne of these babies should be as essential to reading as an Itty Bitty Book Light.Wouldn't we all read more if it somehow involved doughnuts? Tomorrow morning, books collide with sinkers in front of Dynamo Donut Coffee (2760 24th St. at York), scene of a book giveaway to hype One City, One Book. You know One City: It's the library's initiative to get us all on the same page, literally -- like, in the same book. SFPL describes is like this: "an annual citywide lite
M. LaddThe 4505 Meats chef stuffed the leg with various other parts.Yes, that was 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr manning the grill in front of the McSweeney's headquarters at 839 Valencia (at 19th St.) earlier today. As you read this, the McSweeney's crew is noshing on baby lamb. Farr -- with help from McSweeney's Chris Ying and photographer Jackson Solway -- grilled a 4-month-old milk-fed baby lamb from Napa Valley Lamb Company. The lamb shoulder was cubed and blended with the lamb's kidney; tend
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