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Robert Putnam

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    April 12, 2012

    Gustavo Arellano on San Francisco Tamales, Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs, Taco Bell, Part 2

    According to this week's cover story, written by Gustavo Arellano, San Francisco played a surprising and key role in the spread of Mexican food across America. The story is an excerpt from Arellano's new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, which comes out this week. Arellano's book c ... More >>

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    April 11, 2012

    When We Were Red Hot: S.F.'s Tamale Industry Once Ruled America

    According to this week's cover story, written by Gustavo Arellano, San Francisco played a surprising and key role in the spread of Mexican food across America. The story is an excerpt from Arellano's new book, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, which comes out this week. Arellano's book c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Gustavo Arellano Talks San Francisco Tamales and Burritos, Part 1

    San Francisco has gotten used to thinking of itself as a remote outpost in the Mexican diaspora, since our lively but embattled Mexican American community is dwarfed by much larger ones in Los Angeles and the Southwest. But according to this week's cover story, written by Gustavo Arellano, San Franc ... More >>

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    November 15, 2010

    If You Live in San Francisco, You Probably Don't Say Grace Before Meals

    egg on stilts/Flickr​Our favorite morsel from the Web. Pimping his book American Grace (with David E. Campbell, Simon & Schuster, $30) on Forum this morning, Harvard's Robert D. Putnam dropped a surprising statement: If you're part of the 50 percent of Americans who say grace before dinner, y ... More >>

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    May 21, 2003

    The Anarchist Knitting Circle

    Mike Benham is a young man searching for community. And searching. And searching.

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    October 23, 2002

    Notes From the Edge

    The choices are dark and dreary, but the only candidate for governor is (be still, pounding heart) Gray Davis

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    January 16, 2002

    Balkans by the Bay

    Aquatic Park, long mismanaged by a jumble of self-interested entities, needs public-spirited refurbishment

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