This weekend's first-ever SF Chefs.Food.Wine culinary festival is a chance to get up close and personal with local food and wine talent through tastings, classes, and even a cocktail contest. The cost might make you balk (ticketed events are $40 and up, day passes $150), but keep in mind that old adage that you get what you pay for.
Still, if your bank account isn't so bountiful, you can always take the freebie volunteer route. No guarantee at this late date that you'll get an email resp
Our favorite morsel from the food blogs.
Pressing question: Believe us, we know the sucky reality of a career in journo, when the walls are everywhere collapsing like a playhouse fashioned out of newspaper. And we don't wish extinction on anyone -- honest. But today, Michael Bauer's Between Meals makes us wonder why anyone'd be surprised that the daily news biz is looking as anachronistic as a crystal punchbowl set.
A reader writes Bauer with a nagging inquiry: Just how much should one