Ruth ReichlIt had to happen.Just as a couple of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners had already been laid off from their paper four months before they won their award, the winner of the James Beard Foundation's 2009 award for Newspaper Feature Writing with Recipes, Rebekah Denn, wrote her piece, "High on the Hairy Hogs: Super-Succulent Imports are Everything U.S. Pork Isn't", for a newspaper that is now defunct: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.Denn, the Beard Foundation blog reported, "began to cr
Remember the Woody Allen movie Sleeper, where a cryogenically frozen man wakes up 200 years later to find that junk food is good for you? In her James Beard Award-winning cookbook Fat: An Appreciation of A Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes (Ten Speed Press), Jennifer McLagan conjures the same kind of culinary-utopian fantasy. Only -- cover your eyes, fatphobes -- it's no fantasy. This book has hard-science cred.
Fat is an integral part of our diet, but its popularity tanked in the 1950s wh
JoyceGoldstein.comGoldstein: Local Mediterranean food pioneer.Mediterranean cuisine hounds will want to check out the Joyce Goldstein and Hoss Zaré dinner benefit this Sunday, July 12, at Zaré at Fly Trap (606 Folsom at Second St.). Goldstein, a prolific cookbook author and recipient of several James Beard awards, is cooking a sort of tag-team dinner in five courses with her buddy Zaré. The idea is to showcase the evolution of Mediterranean cuisine in the Bay Area over the last three decades
After that scoop of Ben & Jerry's this Saturday, foodies can flock over to the Union Square Macy's (170 O'Farrell at TK) cellar for another freebie. At 2 p.m., Delfina Executive Chef (& ahem! James Beard Award winner) Craig Stoll and Pastry Chef Koa Duncan will demo and offer tastes of "summer flavors": fresh stretched mozzarella and buttermilk panna cotta. The Delfina panna cotta -which Michael Bauer recently said he "can't forget"-- is a serving of culinary wonder: creamy, fresh, and d
Donncha@ In Photos.org/FlickrBreak out the Cantonese seafood.SF Weekly has a new staff food writer. Former Bay Area food critic Jonathan Kauffman is leaving sister publication Seattle Weekly to become our full-time restaurant critic and SFoodie blogger.
As staff writer for the East Bay Express, Kauffman won a 2006 James Beard Award for newspaper reporting on nutrition or consumer issues. The Association of Food Journalists awarded Kauffman First Place in newspaper restaurant criticism in
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