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Weekend Meditation: Respect

Like many people, I have been a vegetarian for at least some part of my life. These days I choose to eat meat but on a very limited basis and I'm very particular about the conditions in which the ani...

iPhone Apps For The Home Cook: Part IV

Wow, even more iPhone/iPod Touch apps for the home cook! There are farmer's market and local food finders and videos from a popular food personality! There's also a comprehensive cheese guide and a li...

Kitchen Tour: Scott and Ray's Colorful 10-Year Renovation

It's taken homeowners Scott McDougall and Ray Goodenough almost 10 years to renovate the kitchen of their 1923 house in San Francisco's Mission Terrace neighborhood. They approached the project in st...

Food-Lover's Guide to San Francisco
The best markets, artisans, and shops for cooks

City: San Francisco (with a few bonus East Bay suggestions) Population: 7 million in Bay Area Local specialties: Sand dabs, Dungeness crab, goat cheese from Sonoma, abalone, artichokes, Tomales Bay ...

Weekend Meditation: Eating Family-Style

My family was here in San Francisco for a week-long vacation and while we visited and saw the sights and took lots of pictures, mostly we just ate. A lot. This is in part because of our involvement ...

Kitchen Spotlight: Scott and Marie's Vintage Warmth

We have very little to say about this beautiful, warm, light-filled kitchen. The photos speak for themselves. ...

Look! Spring is Here!San Francisco

With apologies to everyone who got snow this weekend, but it is indeed spring here on the West Coast! The proof? Well, locally grown lilacs and asparagus at the farmer's market for starters. Lamb a...

Kitchen Spotlight: Diana Fayt's Kitchen Moments

San Francisco potter Diana Fayt has everything I want and love in a kitchen. First and most importantly, she clearly really uses it! No trophy appliances here — just a wall of well-used pots an...

Spring like a Butterfly Kiss
San Francisco Market Report

Yesterday I went down to the Civic Center Farmer's Market hoping for a glimpse of spring. Several incredibly rainy weekends in a row have kept me away, so when Sunday dawned with partly cloudy skies,...

Weekend Meditation: Not in the Mood

The thing about eating is that it has to happen, no matter how you're feeling at the moment about cooking. A busy day, a nasty cold or plain old just not being in the mood can all keep us away from t...

Kitchen Tour: In the Kitchen with Zachary and Family

In 1994, Zachary Smith took a crowbar to the interior of his small North Beach house and completely demoed the place himself, all the way down to the original walls, which were horizontal planks naile...

Salmonella, Organic Cocktails, and Grocery Farming:
Top food news for October 6-10

Here we are with the food news roundup! Read on ......

Store Review: Cookin'
San Francisco

We went to this store on a recent trip to San Francisco, led by a friend who knew we'd get lost in it. True, we could have stayed and browsed for hours in this dimly lit (excuse the grainy photographs...

The Hunger Challenge: Blogging for (More) Food

Can you imagine creating three nutritious meals a day? Can you imagine doing that with a budget of $3...for all three meals? To highlight how difficult it is for those who have to make ends meet on ...

The Locavore’s Delight: Five Delicious Reasons to Appreciate the Bay Area

De la Paz Coffee. They'll roast your coffee in the morning and deliver it to your home or office that afternoon. On their bicycles. Four more below the jump!...

SF Report: Avedano’s Holly Park Market

My first visit to Avedano’s market was in December of 07 when my friend Mimi and I sought them out for our second annual marrowbone holiday feast. When it comes to marrowbones, you see, we wanted t...

Basil Gimlet and The Flash: Cocktail Recipes from Rye

Rye is a cocktail bar on Geary Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco (the slowly gentrifying part of the Tenderloin, otherwise known as the Tender Nob). They've quickly won a following an...

Farmer's Market Report: Mysterious Caulifower

While searching for strawberries last Sunday at the Civic Center Farmer’s Market, I saw mountains of this unusual looking cauliflower. Blowsy and loose, like a somewhat slovenly maiden aunt to the ...

Kitchen Spotlight: Holly and Sean's Hot Pink

It's the first day of May and the sun is shining! We're ready to throw open the windows and bring color into the kitchen. For inspiration we turned to a favorite house tour from San Francisco, a tour ...

San Francisco Market: 24th Street Cheese Company

After picking up fresh produce at the Noe Valley Farmer's Market, it's nice to stop into the 24th Street Cheese Company two doors down. When we open the door and walk in, we're hit with the aroma of ...

Alameda Flea Market: Kitchen Loot and Food Report

It seems as if half the Bay Area was at the Alameda Flea Market last Sunday - I've never seen such lines or had to park so far back from the entrance! Our group got a little fretful as we waited in li...

This Weekend In SF: Chocolate Salon

Looking for something sweet to do in San Francisco this weekend? Perhaps you could consider the Chocolate Salon being held on Sunday, April 13, 2008 from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM at Fort Mason Center....

San Francisco Chronicle: Food Section Roundup

This week in the San Francisco Chronicle Food section: prepared foods for Passover, two recipes for lamb, spoonbread, and more....

San Francisco Market: Cowgirl Creamery

Inside the food lover's paradise known as the Ferry Building sits every cheese lover's fantasy: Cowgirl Creamery, one of our favorite cheese shops in San Francisco....

San Francisco Market Report: Civic Center Farmer's Market

The Civic Center Farmer's Market is held every Wednesday from 8 AM to 2 PM on Market Street between 7th and 8th Streets, in the former United Nations Plaza.  Since it's so close to Little Saigon, the...