Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the
food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated
for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and
Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Douglas Keane
of Cyrus in Healdsburg, Loretta Keller of Coco500 in San Francisco, David
Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, and Daniel Patterson of Coi in San Francisco.
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Food Snob/FlickrUbuntu: Will the temple of pristine vegeterianism be serving up pork belly?Ubuntu owner Sandy Lawrence told SFoodie that, as early as next month, the Napa vegetarian restaurant is launching a series of Tuesday night dinners that'll feature appearances by what she called some of the nation's top chefs. The "No Holds Barred, No Rules" dinners will start sometime in December or January, and feature single-seating family-style dinners that will depart from chef Jeremy Fox's ty
J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Calf's Taylor Boetticher, 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr, and Ubuntu's Jeremy Fox will all celebrate the art of butchery and heritage breeds at an outdoor party at Chase Cellars at Hayne Vineyard (2252 Sulphur S
Robert Pedraza By C. Stiles In our cover story last week, Worms in the Apple, writer Tim Elfrink detailed the saga of the Rudy and Robert Pedraza, a couple of rogue computer programming brothers who hacked Apple's OS X and retooled it for use on cheaper PCs.Elfrink wrote about how legal experts believed that the Pedraza brothers had a chance to prevail in
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