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Ecopia Farms Launches Home Delivery, Brings Organic, Restaurant-Quality Greens Year-Round

Ecopia Farms, supplier of organic, artisanal greens and microgreens to restaurants like Michael Mina, Flour Water, Wayfare Tavern and The Slanted Door, recently launched EcopiaDirect, its home delivery service. Now Bay Area consumers can sign up for a weekly pickup or delivery of salad greens incl ... More >>

iPads for School Lunches: SFUSD Woos Applicants with Prizes

Ditch Hamburgers, Eat Ice Cream Bars, and Love These Piglets!

​ If you want to help fight world hunger, Oxfam has a suggestion: eat less meat! In the wake of USDA's cowardly retraction of their endorsement of Meatless Monday, Oxfam responds with resounding support for the movement, claiming it would help end world hunger is a number of ways. Happy Meatless ... More >>

LA Times Fooled by Fake Press Release; Pro-Marijuana Groups Claim Responsibility

If only the War on Drugs had extended to all drugs -- including the makers of Viagra, Xanax, and whatever other pills people pop these days.Many a pro-marijuana, anti-prohibition argument abide by this script. And on Tuesday, so did several news agencies who reported on a press release purportedly s ... More >>

Off-Leash Dogs: Owners Fight Increased Ticketing at Glen Canyon Park

Fried Mac and Cheese, the USDA is a Punk, and Ricky Gervais Loves Kittens!

​What a long couple of days it's been. There's much ado! Well, of course there's the Olympics. I'm actually not that into the Olympics because I have a distaste for boredom but it's cool that Stella McCartney did the British uniforms. She's vegetarian and not vegan, right? I can never remember. Th ... More >>

School Lunches: Study Recommends a Joint S.F.-Oakland Kitchen

Andrew Breitbart, Conservative Media Critic, Dies of "Natural Causes"

​The prolific conservative media critic Andrew Breitbart died early this morning at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 43. He was walking near his home in Brentwood last night when he reportedly collapsed. Someone saw him fall and called 911, and paramedics attempted to revive him.The official announc ... More >>

The Best Place to Find Rare Citrus Like Yuzu and Pink Limes: De Santis Farms

​For years, SFoodie has found it impossible to visit the Alemany Farmers' Market without gawking at Rosa de Santis's citrus stand. Her cara caras and oro blanco grapefruit are positively mundane -- there are boxes of sweet limes and nobbly Seville oranges to paw through and smell, and up on the ca ... More >>

Belcampo Meats Wants to Bring Animals All the Way From Farm to (Your) Fork

Royalty-Free Images/FlickrAngus cattle, like the kind currently chewing its cud at Belcampo Meat's farm.​For a cow to magically transform into the ribeye steak sitting in your fridge, the animal travels through numerous middlemen: From the farmer to the feedlot, the feedlot to the slaughterhouse, ... More >>

Farmageddon Cries For Small Farms and Raw Milk

​The US government is at war with small farmers who try to raise animals for meat and milk in sustainable ways. Regulations are written for -- and often by -- agribusiness. And the situation has actually gotten worse under President Obama, with gun-toting agents raiding family farms to confisc ... More >>

Meat Grown in a Lab is Far Less Gross Than Meat Grown on a Factory Farm

Maybe these two can help in the lab?​I saw this article on Swedish scientists synthesizing meat in a lab, and have a bit of a different take on it than my omnivorous colleague Jonathan Kauffman. Where Kauffman sees grossness, I see opportunity. And a little grossness. But have you SEEN where ... More >>

Hey FDA: Pick On Big Food Producers, Not Little Ones

Genaro Molina/Los Angeles TimesDanielle Fetzer and Steven Pociunas, volunteers at Rawesome Foods in Venice, after the store was raided​After a year-long investigation, agents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration joined state and local authorities yesterday to bust owners of a small Venic ... More >>

Broadway Cafe Believes in Bulk Sales

W. Blake GrayBroadway Cafe's green beans with XO sauce, $6.50.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. How many menus should a restaurant give you? At Broadway Cafe, the ... More >>

Morrissey Talking Crazy, Meat Recalls Galore, World's Best Veggie Burger, and a Bunny Party!

​ • Big Mouth Morrissey strikes again! The washed-up hag genius compared the horrific tragedy in Oslo to the everyday tragedy on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. First, this motherfucker ain't even vegan so DO NOT PIN THIS ONE ON US. And secondly: UGH. This is the kind of thing that omnis ... More >>

Michelle Obama Makes a Deal with Walgreens

Michelle Obama proves that the White House is not in a food desert.​ According to the Obama Foodorama blog, Michelle Obama announced at a press conference yesterday that Walgreens, Walmart, and SuperValue, as well as several regional grocers, have agreed to open 1,500 stores in regions designated ... More >>

Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase Brings Money Down to the Soil

beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.​Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>

Apples Are Dirty, But Cabbage and Corn Are Clean

​Sunday, the Environmental Working Group released its annual Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce, with the headline-grabbing "Dirty Dozen," or list of 12 fruits and vegetables most likely to be contaminated with pesticide residue. Newly crowned the dirtiest fruit in America: apples. Pesticides ... More >>

Obama National Forest Rule: Litigation Is 'Highly Likely'

Was he counting on Obama for protection?​Environmentalists have come out swinging hard against Obama's new forest rules, which they claim is a watered-down plan for wildlife protection across the nation. But are they prepared to take the president to court? "We are still early in the process, ... More >>

Hapa SF Debuts Prepared Entrees at Whole Foods Haight St.

Jonathan KauffmanHapa SF's vegan pinakbet, which premiered with two other entrees at the Haight Street Whole Foods.​Yesterday's stealth early opening of the Stanyan Street Whole Foods brought more than EARTH University bananas to Upper Haight. It also brought a trio of packaged Filipino entree ... More >>

The Power of Oprah, the Stupidity of 'Meat Week,' and ― Eww ― Vulva Cake!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • So, Oprah's Tuesday episode was dedicated to veganism ― and meat-eating issues in general ― and it's pretty much the only thing vegans could talk about all week. I mean, she IS the big O and so yeah, celebr ... More >>

Getting to the Bottom of Taco Bell's 'Taco Meat'

John BirdsallTaco Bell's Beefy 5-Layer Burrito ($1.39), a sort of paste-within-a-paste.​Taco Bell's getting sued by a California woman pissed that the fast-food chain's beef products contain so little actual meat, they're guilty of false advertising. The L.A. Times explains: The class-action s ... More >>

Calorie Count Lesson #1: Get the Croissant

Jonathan KauffmanTrauma moment: calculating how many of these we've eaten in our lifetime.​Standing in front of the pastry case at the local coffee shop, we're prone to make decisions based on certain assumptions about nutrition: Since dried fruit is healthier than doughnuts, we pick the blueberry ... More >>

More Loving in the Inner Sunset, Baking for Critters, Brunch on the Farm

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. Exciting news, there's a new Loving Hut coming to the Inner Sunset! Loving Hut is a Supreme Master Ching Hai joint, meaning it may or may not be run by a cult. I mainly don't care as I have a steady resolve when ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

The 'Unprocessed' Challenge: Another Way to Make You Feel Bad About Your Diet

I bet Mother Teresa ate unprocessed foods.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs.On New York Times' food blog Friday, Pete Wells wrote about a blogger named Andrew Wilder who has launched a monthlong food challenge called "October: Unprocessed." This one asks participants to commit to eating unproces ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

It's Hemp Week! And San Francisco Says 'Meh.'

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

Update: Yes, You Can Find Mutton, Depending on How You Define It

​In Monday's edition of Ask the Critic, I responded to a question from P.J., who was searching for mutton (meat from older sheep) to make a proper Kentucky burgoo. All the butchers I spoke to said that there's no such thing on the market. After the post went up, a reader Tweeted me a link to Marin ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Tastes Real

Support your local farmers' market for better food — and a better economy.

Alemany Food Vendors Could Extend Their City Contracts Up to Three Years

ladyJake/FlickrEl Huarache Loco must file for a contract from the city's Real Estate Division.Food vendors at the Alemany farmers' market who avoided the axe last week have an opportunity to operate under city contract for as long as three years. Yesterday, Chron's Chuck Nevius reported that the ci ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Whose Feathered Friends? Our Feathered Friends!

Plan Bee: Top S.F. Beekeeper Doubts 'Colony Collapse Disorder' Ever Existed -- and Many Scientists Agree

Buzz-Kill: Despite the press' fixation with 'Colony Collapse Disorder,' many scientists and beekeepers aren't convinced it's realPhilip Gerrie lives in Noe Valley with, as he puts it, "a spouse, two cats, and 100,000 bees." The past president of the San Francisco Beekeepers' Association is a soft-sp ... More >>

Super Bowl Hot Wings Crisis -- in the Media

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An Inconvenient Plant

One of the world's rarest plants grows in the Presidio. Plans are under way to save it — and ax thousands of trees in the process.

Jury Chosen in Anti-Weekly Suit

Bambi Must Die

The efficient killing of invasive deer is being fought by concerned animal activists in Marin. But who's looking out for S.F. venison connoisseurs?

A Good Steak Conquers All

Bradley Ogden's newest place offers some excellent food, but watch out for the server, Mr. X

Steak Out

When you crave a big hunk of meat, Alfred's is the place (since 1928)

Rhythm Nations

A Carnaval atmosphere

Dumb as a Potted Plant

Why is someone as smart as Mark Leno sponsoring genuinely stupid legislation to legalize hemp cultivation?

Steaking a Claim

Mel Hollen's Bar & Fine Dining

Gift of the Magus

It's nice to think the right presents could make this a merry holiday season. Nice, but not particularly wise.

Kobe Seekers

Osaka Grill

Quest for Prime

Dish

Slap Shots

Petal Pushers

Orchid collectors, watch your back. Uncle Sam knows what you're up to.