When I first asked Rachel Cole about her kitchen, her whole face lit up. "I love my kitchen!" she said with a big smile. Rachel has one of the best jobs in San Francisco for anyone interested in foo...
When we're busy and famished and need to make a fast, healthy dinner, we turn to quinoa. Though great on its own, the easy-to-cook super seed can also be combined with nuts, herbs, vegetables, or pr...
Tomorrow we're leaving to go to Switzerland for a conference, and it's going to be a long trip from San Francisco to Geneva - 14 hours! Airplane food is not known for being particularly tasty, and we...
We recently subscribed to several of Vegetarian Times' weekly recipe newsletters, and since then, they've been piling up on our to-cook list. With general vegetarian, low-fat, gluten-free and dairy-...
One of the challenges of entertaining is the many food allergies, issues, sensitivities and aversions guests can bring with them to the table. It's impossible to please everyone, but this soup goes a...
Recently we bought a package of dried fava beans and made this delicious recipe that goes back thousands of years in Egypt....
Spaghetti squash is a cylinder-shaped squash that ranges in color from pale yellow to canary yellow. Do you know why it's called spaghetti squash?...
Today and tomorrow, Jews around the world are celebrating the harvest festival of Shavuot by studying, decorating their homes with greenery, and eating holiday meals full of dairy, especially cheese b...
With the weather turning warmer, we find ourselves turning to lighter meals and nibbles. Healthy dips and spreads such as muhammara are finding their way onto our plates more often in recent weeks. ...
Last week at the Alemany Market, we picked up a mess of Asian vegetables and some mussels from Sun Fat Seafood in San Francisco....
Living in California, we're always surrounded by mangoes. We love eating them plain and sucking on the pits, or we like to sprinkle them with a little chili pepper Latin American-style. Packed with ...
We've sung the praises of steamed fish before (Whole Steamed Rockfish and Lettuce-Wrapped Steamed Fish) and today we're going to share a new recipe....
This week in the San Francisco Chronicle Food section: prepared foods for Passover, two recipes for lamb, spoonbread, and more....
This week in the San Francisco Chronicle: recipes for absinthe cocktails, ways to win over beet haters, fish tacos, and pecorino senese cheese....
One of our favorite kitchen tools to cook with on busy weeknights is our Romertopf clay baker. It's so easy to use, and food cooked in a clay baker is healthy and flavorful....
OK, "Sexy, Spicy Broccoli" was really one of the rejected names for Melissa Clark's ceviche-like broccoli salad in the Times a couple weeks back, but we have to beg her to give it another chance. This...
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