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Shirley Fong-Torres

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Goodbye to Shirley Fong-Torres, Fernet Branca Gets Its Own Music Video

    ​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. Wok WizShirley Fong-Torres.​Goodbye, Shirley. I flipped open my computer this morning to learn some sad news: Shirley Fong-Torres, author of The Woman Who Ate Chinatown and owner o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Zimmern's S.F. Bizarre Foods Episode Doesn't Look So Bizarre

    Is this extortion? Last summer, Andrew Zimmern checked into town to tape an episode of Bizarre Foods. In June, SFoodie's Tamara Palmer reported on speculation that producers for the shiny-domed Travel Channel host had reached out to forageSF's Iso Rabins to find gross stuff. Did Shirley Fong-Tor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Andrew Zimmern to Film Bizarre Foods in San Francisco

    Scott L. Ehrisman​Andrew Zimmern is shooting an episode of his eat-anything Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods in San Francisco, according to a blog post from forageSF's Iso Rabins, who's been asked to participate. A commenter to Rabins' blog stated that Shirley Fong-Torres of Wok Wiz tours h ... More >>

  • Holiday

    November 19, 2003

    Shops and Gifts

    Scott L. Ehrisman​Andrew Zimmern is shooting an episode of his eat-anything Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods in San Francisco, according to a blog post from forageSF's Iso Rabins, who's been asked to participate. A commenter to Rabins' blog stated that Shirley Fong-Torres of Wok Wiz tours h ... More >>

  • News

    June 11, 2003

    Fear Factor

    SARS has barely touched S.F. Yet tourists and others are staying away from Chinatown in droves.

  • Dining

    April 1, 1998

    Dandelion Elegy: A Ramen Roundup

    SARS has barely touched S.F. Yet tourists and others are staying away from Chinatown in droves.

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