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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...

San Francisco Home Produce Delivery: Westside Organics

Every so often, we're too tired to go to the market. But, we still want to eat healthy! Salvation comes in the form of Westside Organics, one of the many home produce delivery companies in San Franc...

San Francisco Market Report: Mâche

At the Ferry Building Farmer's Market on Saturday, we saw a delectable salad green called mâche. Known by other names such as corn salad and lamb's lettuce, it's believed by historians and literar...

Fog City News: San Francisco Market Review

One of our favorite places in San Francisco to shop for artisan chocolate is Fog City News. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary newsstand, but step inside, and it's a treasure trove of fine...

Drake's Bay Family Farms Oysters

This month at The Kitchn, we're talking about food in literature, and this quote from Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast made me think of a local San Francisco favorite: Drake's Bay Family Farms oy...

San Francisco Market Report: Cardoon, Blood Oranges, Red Sugar Cane, and More!

At the Alemany Farmer's Market this weekend, we saw a mixture of winter seasonal produce (still a lot of citrus, particularly Moro blood oranges) and fresh spring vegetables, such as asparagus, tender...

Shiso, Spring Soups and Dumplings
Food and cooking from national newspapers

We've neglected our weekly roundups of good eating and cooking from newspapers from across the country, but we're back! Here are some choice bits from across the USA. First up: in Los Angeles they'r...

San Francisco's Curbside Composting Program

You know all the jokes about San Francisco being "crunchy" and full of hippies? Well, this tidbit won't help squelch those rumors; we have a curbside composting program as part of our movement to g...

San Francisco Market Report: Smörgåsbord of Citrus