S.F.'s own Elizabeth Falkner (pictured, second from left, with Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot Bowles, and Suzanne Tracht) competed in last night's episode of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. And while she didn't win (that honor went to Tracht), the Orson/Citizen Cake maven's dishes were certainly memorable.The episode's first Quickfire Challenge, taken from an early season of Top Chef, had the chefs hitting up vending machines to find ingredients to make an amuse-bouche. Falkner's creation: Braised
aceshowbiz.comNo, not this Menudo.Last night, Napa chef/restaurant owner Cindy Pawlcyn (Mustards Grill, Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen, Go Fish) was the third Bay Area contestant on the Bravo TV series Top Chef Masters, and she had to face an offal game. Competing against Rick Bayless, Wilo Benet, and Ludo Lefebvre, the Elimination Challenge took it to the streets, and asked chefs to craft their finest pavement cuisine out of various innards.When you get lemons, you make lemonade, so Pawlcyn made me
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The third estate: Call her the Judith Miller of the gutter food press (and believe us, we'd know). In yesterday's Yummy Letter ex-Chron Inside Scoop reporter GraceAnne Walden related what happens when you play spoiler to a TV food show. Last week Walden casually revealed the winner -- or so she was told by a reliable source -- of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. Since then it's been nothing but tsouris from PR hacks, with speculation on Walden's par
DJ Pam the Funkstress: Cajun food queen​The Bay Area's devotion to its homegrown music and food is steadfast. The culinary creativity here is as infectious as our sonic imagination, so it should come as little surprise that there is a crossover between the two local scenes. But did you know that DJs are whipping up cupcakes and burritos, and guitarists are serving up their personal brands of margaritas and champagne?Behold our picks for eight local artists who rock kitchens and vineyards as ea
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