Thanksgiving

Wild Turkeys Running Loose in East Bay Town, Parents Keeping Kids Indoors

While the suburban residents of Concord try to deal with that wayward camel at commute time, the quiet folks in Albany are battling their own random creatures. We came across this fun news item this morning from CBS, which explains how a dozen or so wild turkeys are overrunning the small town of ... More >>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Foxygen Filter the Past

DeLise Dessert Cafe Puts Asian Twist on Rice Krispies Treats

The husband and wife team of Dennis and Eloise Leong run the three-year-old DeLise Dessert Cafe, an intimate place for sweets in the Fisherman's Wharf area. The below-the-radar spot serves some of the city's best ice cream, cupcakes, and bars with frequent seasonal twists. Luckily, one of our favori ... More >>

Watch: Rappin 4-Tay Rhymes with Zombies for Charity in 'Hustlevania'

Veteran Fillmore MC Rappin 4-Tay heads up "Hustlevania," a tune that has to be the most unexpected rap song released this week. The video finds zombie hoochie dancers and a menacing host of bloodied undead dudes moving to an eerie, minor-key driven melody. The made-up gore is pretty darned good, but ... More >>

Class Alert! Master Sugar Skulls, Pumpkin Pie, and Chutney

Decorating Sugar Skull Workshop Where: Autumn Press, 2071 Mission, 824-2222 When: Tues., Oct. 23, 5 p.m. Cost: $15 (purchase in advance via Autumn Press) The rundown: This class, held at a fair trade print shop, is suitable for humans aged 8 and higher and arrives just in time to be able to show o ... More >>

Gilberth's Rotisserie and Grill: Good Food Served Poorly

Super Bowl Sunday Is Another Good Excuse to Drink Heavily

​To many people, Super Bowl Sunday is a holiday -- a time to gather with friends and family, eat tons of calorie-packed food, and booze until you can't stand anymore. And like any other holiday (except for Thanksgiving?), police are warning imbibing football fans not to get behind the wheel if the ... More >>

Q&A With Mary Risley of Tante Marie's, Part 2: About That YouTube Video

Mary Risley moved to San Francisco with the hippies, and founded Tante Marie's Cooking School in 1979, still educating amateurs and soon-to-be professionals, and still located in the same space she's been renting for 32 years. These days, Risley might be better known these days as the loveably affab ... More >>

How to Get Your Drink On This Week

​The festivities of Thanksgiving may be over and December's insanity of Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanza-NYE not quite up to speed, making this weekend your last chance to sip a drink and catch your breath. Here's what's going on: Historic Libations Where: California Historical Society, 678 Mission (at ... More >>

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Black Friday: Occupiers Join Indigenous People to Protest Mall on Burial Grounds

​The Occupy movement is all about raising consciousness of the dark colonial underpinnings of Thanksgiving. Yesterday morning, Occupiers were up before dawn to broadcast the Indigenous People Sunrise Ceremony on Alcatraz Island at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland -- to remember that the real Thanksgiv ... More >>

"Occupy" and "99 Percent" Shortlisted for Word of the Year

​Oxford University Press announced its 2011 Word of the Year on Wednesday. And it is ... drumroll please ... "Squeezed middle." Which brings to mind another word: "Huh?" Probably not the reaction the lexicographers were going for. "Squeezed middle," it turns out, is not what you get after eati ... More >>

Sam Singer, Master of Disaster -- What's He Thankful For?

​It ain't well and truly a disaster until someone hires Sam Singer. Had it been a possibility, the organizers behind The Children's Crusade, The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, or a certain less-than-structurally sound tower in Pisa would have all hired Singer, the "Master of Disaster," to mitigate their w ... More >>

Top 5 Alcoholic Beverages To Get You Through Thanksgiving and Into Black Friday

We all know that to get through the holidays, you must drink. If you don't drink, may God have mercy on your soul. Here are our picks for festive drinks you can make and enjoy all day on Thursday, and still not look like you have "a problem." Day Time Holiday Drinking, say heeey! 5. Anything with W ... More >>

Five Memorable Thanksgiving Moments From The Boob Tube

Turkey Day has always been most melodramatic on the small screen, and our favorite examples highlight the day as a time for revelations big and small. Tryptophan down memory lane with these sweet scenes of Thanksgiving. On All in the Family (1975), Archie Bunker used the occasion to stake a religio ... More >>

Mistah FAB Is Giving Away Turkeys in Oakland This Week

It's the week of Thanksgiving. You're shopping, steeling yourself to visit family, wrapping up things at work before a long weekend. Meanwhile, Oakland rapper Mistah FAB will be on the streets of Oakland, giving away turkeys and meals to struggling residents of his neighborhood. FAB's fourth annual ... More >>

The Dungeness Fishermen's Strike May Last Until After Thanksgiving

Willy Volk/Flickr​The Bay Area's Dungeness crab season opened for the year on November 15, but fresh, local crabs still haven't appeared in the markets. On Tuesday, the Chronicle reported that the San Francisco Crab Boat Association is on strike, holding out for better prices from the seafood proc ... More >>

Drink Your Way Through the Weekend

THEMACGIRL*/FlickrThis isn't the kind of wedding cake you'll see at SFMOMA​You made it this far and have hopefully recovered from the Kopstootjes from earlier this week. Here's a fresh guide to getting your drink on this weekend. SFMOMA Blue Bottle present Wedding Banquet Where: Rooftop G ... More >>

Tacos Delayed, Dark Horse Inn Opens Tomorrow, Food Truck News, and a Chef Shuffle

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. While Tacolicious was readying to open its Mission location last week, our own Ellen Huet caught up with their spokesperson and discovered that due to some electrical issues, they've pushed the opening ba ... More >>

Starbucks is a "Diamond-in-the-Rough", Jeremy Fox May Not Come Back, and Saision News

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Mega green: Eater SF reports Starbucks will open a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified location in the Castro at 2221 Market (at Sanchez). While it will incorporate the same el ... More >>

Work at Google, Millions of Mashed Potato Recipes, and Party with Some Non-Human Turkeys!

​• Harvest Home Sanctuary's Toast to the Turkeys is THIS Saturday! It's not too late to come eat and drink tons, cuddle animals, and watch turkeys eat cranberries, which is totally what turkeys do best. That, and be cranky and awesome. We've got a lot in common! • So, you want to work at Goog ... More >>

McRib is McNasty, Lots of Weekend Fun, and Silk Nog is Baaaack!

​• Vegan R.D. Virginia Messina, put together a list of ten easy steps to help you go vegan. Read it in conjunction with Megan Rascal's 11 Tips for New Vegans, and you'll be vegan, or hate all vegans, in no time. And if you hate all vegans, screw you! And Happy Holidays! • Ecoterre has some cu ... More >>

Calling All Holiday Lushes: Top 5 Pumpkin Beers!

It's pumpkin time in beer town, and I came to party! Naturally, that means consuming only the best of the best of the pumpkin beers, and then sharing my findings with you. Of course, Beer Advocate has a snobby list, but you know what, I don't think Dogfish Head Punkin Ale is the greatest best. Dogfi ... More >>

Charcutepaloozers: Brine It On

Cathy Barrow/Mrs. Wheelbarrow's KitchenBeef, corning.​Who knew there was so much pent-up demand to cure meat at home? After Cathy Barrow and Kim Foster first launched the Charcutepalooza challenge, the number of bloggers ballooned into the dozens, and then the hundreds. By the time they closed ... More >>

At Woodhouse, Dungeness Season Is Still Rolling In

Tamara L./YelpWoodhouse Fish Company's buttered crab roll, $15.Thursday, December 2, 2010 Talk of Dungeness mysteriously fades after Thanksgiving, but our crab season isn't over yet. There are few better ways to celebrate it than butter. Lots of butter. Woodhouse Fish Company's crab roll, in fact, r ... More >>

Greens to Go's Veggie Empanada Is Autumnally Amazing

Luis ChongGreens to Go's veggie empanada, $6.50.​When it comes to empanadas, this blogger's opinion was always that meat was always better -- an opinion reinforced by countless, disappointing vegetarian turnovers, which seemed like they were vehicles for leftover vegetables. During the weekend, ... More >>

Bridging the Food Gap? Don't Expect that to Happen Anytime Soon

paulswansen/Flickr​Our favorite morsel from the Web. The ethical dilemma of good food rankles like a fish bone lodged in the throat. In the Bay Area especially, we know that fresh, unprocessed food ― raised locally by small producers ― is good for the region, good for the planet, good for ... More >>

What to Do With the Turkey Carcass: Make Like Julia Child

joyosity/FlickrWe can never be sure, but Julia Child might have approved.​You've scraped off all the meat and divided it into bowls marked "sandwiches," "turkey salad," and "dog." You're staring at that giant, scraggly carcass. You know you should be plotting out turkey risotto, or at the least tu ... More >>

The Gay Gratitude List

Oh happy day...​The Week in GayIn recognition of the Thanksgiving holiday and the importance of the acknowledgment that things aren't all that bad (or maybe they are and we need to stop and smell the roses) I offer a list of events and persons worthy of gratitude.For example: Skating with the Star ... More >>

Jesse Rose Runs into Technical Difficulties at Public Works

Jesse Rose at Public Works last night.​Jessie Rose
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Public Works The night before Thanksgiving is consistently rated one of the best nights for going out, with minimal consequences the following day due to the fact that eating is the main task at hand. If you were one of ... More >>

Patxi's Comes to Noe Valley, The Counter Goes to San Mateo

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.In the week building up to Thanksgiving Day, the openings are dribbling in. Just a few: According to Eater SF (who plucked the info from Noe Valley SF), the Noe Valley branch of Patxi's Pizza ( ... More >>

What Makes a Turkey a Bona Fide Heritage Bird?

Heritage Foods USAThere are technically only 10 turkey breeds that can be legitimately called "heritage."​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Food labeling standards in this country approach the scandalous on the 364 days of the year that aren't Thanksgiving, so why should Turkey Day be any d ... More >>

Pom and Circumstance

Sean TimberlakeA spike in health claims has meant an abundance of pomegranates in the markets.​More than any other fruit, pomegranates are my harbingers of the holidays. After Thanksgiving, when my family would put out bowls of fruits and nuts, I would always go for one of those big, red globe ... More >>

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Thanksgiving (Infographic)

Audrey FukumanClick to enlarge.​ This Thanksgiving, as you sit around the table with your family and attempt to dodge pointed questions about your love life and career, divert attention from yourself by spewing forth one of these fascinating Turkey Day facts. Once the topic of conversation has ... More >>

Monk's Kettle Chef Leaves, Hana Zen Hits the Big Time

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Eater caught on to a tweet sent around by Kevin Kroger announcing that he was no longer chef of Monk's Kettle, then stalked Kroger's blog and learned it was an amicable departure.Eater also rep ... More >>

Dungeness Crab Season Delayed After Price Negotiations Break Down

towse/FlickrCrab pots remain on dry land while crabbers and processors haggle over quality and price.​The local Dungeness season is unexpectedly on hold, after crabbers delayed the start of the Central California commercial fishing season. The issue? Price. Zeke Grader, executive director of t ... More >>

4505 Meats Taking Thanksgiving Orders for Turducken

4505 MeatsA chicken inside a duck inside a turkey ― yours for $275.​Inevitably, Thanksgiving is a holiday about the act of stuffing: pigs in blanket, bread in turkey cavities, tempeh and wild rice in scooped-out halves of acorn squash. Just like last year, 4505 Meats is offering the ultimate ... More >>

18 Reasons Pairs Wine with Vietnamese Food

Ryan Bjorkquist/FlickrThis is the first of what 18 Reasons promises will be an occasional series focusing on wine and Asian food.​Sure, a Cabernet can obliterate a Peking duck faster than an eight-top at a banquet, and the havoc hoisin sauce wreaks on the wine? Not pretty. The problem of pa ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Sweet Potato Bread from Baker and Banker Bakery

Jonathan KauffmanBaker and Banker Bakery's sweet potato loaf.​A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Sweet Potato Loaf Source: Baker & Banker Bakery 1701 Octavia (at Bush), 351-2500; open Weds.-Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Price: $7.50 Toa ... More >>

Ferment Change is Hosting a Cultured Dinner. Leave the Tux at Home

Ferment Change​When we envision a cultured dinner, we imagine a Thanksgiving meal at which Uncle Pruitt won't lift his half-slurped goblet of IPA, stare at it curiously with his one good eye, and exclaim, loudly, from the depths of his corn pudding-swathed belly, "This beer tastes like p***y!" ... More >>

Doggy Bag: How Drunks Could Make It All Better in 2010

Modern Drunkard​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. New Year's resolutions might be the most useless custom since, well, going around a Thanksgiving table mumbling what you're thankful for. With 2009 little more than a desk drawer full of scribbled-up giant calendar pages we didn't have the h ... More >>

Ryan Farr: The Turducken Master Trains His Sights on Prime Rib

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshFarr: A growing foodlebrity with national buzz.​One thing's certain: These days, it doesn't suck being Ryan Farr. When the 4505 Meats proprietor conducts a pair of Whole Hog butchery classes this Sunday at La Cocina (2948 Folsom at 25th St.), students will experience ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Government Kinda Goes Through the Motions This Week

  Just to be clear: Last week the Supervisors took several days off to celebrate Thanksgiving. But, being the kind of people who have an extraordinary amount to be thankful for, they are also taking three days off this week, too. Normally I give the supes a hard time for things like this, ... More >>

City Sewers' Message: Don't Even Think About Pouring Gravy Down Drain

​The SF Weekly isn't big on preaching and we don't do it often. But for Thanksgiving, we thought we'd give a voice to one of the most taken-for-granted and under-represented sectors of our city: the sewers.   Turns out the city's sewers are clogged with your kitchen grease just like your ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Perfection is Overrated

Lonely Bob/FlickrIt'll be good -- however it turns out.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Baked for Thanksgiving: Civil Eats' Paula Crossfield goes poking around the New York Times, and comes up with Mark Bittman, who on Sunday invited readers to take a massive bong hit tomorrow and just r ... More >>

Iron Cupcake Takes on Thanksgiving

bookcellarinc.comJust don't put turkey in the cupcakes, okay?​Iron Cupcake San Francisco is in a savory state of mind right now. Last month's bout took on the theme of Oktoberfest, and this month the attention turns to the even broader challenge of representing Thanksgiving in cupcake form.There's ... More >>

Street-Food Vendor El Huarache Loco Offering Turkey with Mole for Thanksgiving

Really? The same old turkey stuffing you always bust out, with frankly mixed results? Consider going multiculti this year, with turkey and mole from street-food vendor El Huarache Loco. Huarache owner Veronica Salazar told SFoodie she'll start taking orders for holiday birds this weekend at the Alem ... More >>

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