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August 16, 2011
Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Robb Walsh Speak at This Year's Street Food Conference
SFoodie has been previewing this Saturday's Street Food Festival, but public gluttony is only the splashy half of the event. On Sunday, Aug. 21, and Monday, Aug. 22, La Cocina has also organized a National Street Food Conference, which is bringing many names from the local food scene, as well as ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
2011 SF Street Food Festival Lineup Firms Up
Chris MacArthurThe 2010 Street Food Festival. Even though the 2011 SF Street Food Festival isn't taking place until Saturday, August 20, organizer Caleb Zigas says the lineup of vendors is "98 percent firm." This year, as SFoodie reported in April, the festival is significantly bigger -- there's ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Classy Des Jardins and Butter-Bomb Desserts: This Week in Food Bloggery
Jeffrey-Anthony/SF Weekly Flickr pool Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Peter Jamison talked to Iso Rabins about the Health Department's shut-down of the Underground Market, which may be permanent. But the market attracted New York Times coverage! And thousands of people! Uh... 2. Carina O ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Nostalgic Finale Edition
Bravo TVHost Curtis Stone checks in with San Francisco finalist Traci Des Jardins.Last night brought the finale of Bravo's Top Chef Masters and our SF-based Traci Des Jardins was in it to win it. On the line was $100,000 for the cheftestants' charity of choice. For those of us rooting for the ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Traci Des Jardins on Top Chef Masters, Duck Love, and Pop-Ups
Courtesy Traci Des JardinsOur local Top Chef Masters cheftestant Traci Des Jardins didn't win the title last night, but she did take home more than $30,000 for La Cocina and made us very proud. We spoke with her this afternoon, just for the duck of it. SFoodie: We have been so excited watchi ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Family Ties
We were unsure of how we'd manage without Hugh(nibrow) on Top Chef Masters and for the first episode without him, we were tweezed in two. Luckily, we still managed to stay tuned. For the Quickfire, the cheftestants had to have their cooking station divided and work with a mystery teammate ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Top Chef Masters Recap: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microwave
bravotv.comHugh and his magnificent eyebrow.After last week's rerun, we were amped for last night's all new Top Chef Masters. What we were not so amped about? The episode's title, "Blinded me with Science." We didn't go blind, but we came close pulling an optic nerve rolling our eyes at the l ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
Top Chef Masters, Week 7: Of Love and Body Parts (Some Severed)
Steven RichterGael Greene: Fan of the kama sutra.Last night's Top Chef Masters began with senses-blocking toys: blindfolds and earplugs and and nose plugs, oh my. For the Quickfire, the cheftestants could have only one orifice (or limb) open at a time, going from their mouths, to their noses, ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Chef-Crushing on London, Discovering Anda Piroshki: This Week in Food Bloggery
Nick Vasilopoulos/StoqqGialina's Atomica. Highlights from the blog this week:1. Laura Beck eats at Ubuntu, faints, then interviews chef Aaron London as soon as she recovers. London reveals that he does indeed work 100 hours a week and strives to make every part of the artichoke edible, which is p ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Top Chef Masters, Week 6: Traci Gives Adam What He Wants, Scores Big for La Cocina
sunovasurfboards/FlickrAdam Levine.We know there's a rockin' contestant from Santa Cruz still in the running to be The Next American Idol (be sure to over-enunciate every word, like Seacrest), but SFoodie is all about the fact that S.F. chef Traci Des Jardins is still in the running to be The ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Top Chef Masters, Week 5: Slow Food at the Drive-Through
Rockin Robin/FlickrThis way to the quinoa fritters.Last night's Top Chef Masters was called "Would You Like Fries with That?" ― a full-on low-end episode with the Masters touch. The Quickfire was dollar-menu style, as the cheftestants had to make an appetizer with a price tag for ingredie ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Traci Des Jardins Hosts Her Own Party
Carina OstWatching Top Chef Masters from Public House. SFoodie got word that cheftestant Traci Des Jardins would be having a Top Chef Masters viewing party at her casual dining joint, Public House. It was, of course, open to the public, so we headed down there for a seat at the bar. The sound of ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Top Chef Masters: Crickets and Curveballs
Last night's Top Chef Masters was for the crickets -- well, bug eaters. The Quickfire Challenge was to make a five-star dish using bugs and wild plants. Looking at the worms, nightcrawlers, and scorpions, the cheftestants were creepy-crawly freaked out. (The captioning under Alex read, "I can't ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Top Chef Masters, Week 1: Traci Snarls, La Cocina Wins!
SF CHEFS/FlickrDo not fuck with Des Jardins.We are still suffering from a bit of Top Chef overload, but the new season of Top Chef Masters with new host, format, and judges brought us right back into the world of cheftestants, Quickfires, and knife packings. We tuned in last night for the Sea ... More >>
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April 6, 2011
The 8 Sexiest Men on TV Cooking Shows
Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
Eight Great Foodies from the Bay Area Music Scene
DJ Pam the Funkstress: Cajun food queenThe 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 D ... More >>
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June 25, 2009
Napa Chef Cooks Up Menudo on 'Top Chef Masters' Street Food Challenge
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 L ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
S.F. Chef Falkner Takes on 'Top Chef Masters' with Boar, Beef Jerky, and Extra-Credit Cookies
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 memora ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. 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 ... More >>

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