Posts with tag TheSanFranciscoChronicle
Posted Oct 5th 2009 12:00PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: In Sixty Seconds
- Tuna packed in olive oil might cost 10 times the price of traditional canned tuna, but it's growing in popularity.
- A return to Frascati reveals one of San Francisco's "most charming neighborhood restaurants."
- The Chronicle's annual Bargain Bites feature outlines budget-friendly dining deals.
- France's Lavort cheese looks Victorian, but it's actually a modern and notable fromage.
- BBQ Smokehouse serves up meat porch-style -- outdoors in the Cinema 9 parking lot.
- Musing about the challenges of arm's-length cooking: preparing food when a herniated disc limits your mobility.
- The Sri Lankan spot Spicy Leaves balances heat with the three S's: salty, sour and sweet.
- Recycling isn't just for bottles and cans, but also cooking equipment like pans and cutting boards.
- 2007 is a delicious year for Chablis.
- The latest trend of the libation world: getting serious about chocolate concoctions.
- Commis' minimalist layout begs the question: "How little is too little?"
- Fish & Farm and Bar Bambino get busy selling boxed lunches.
- The Inside Scoop on the San Fran food scene, and openings.
Posted Aug 31st 2009 12:00PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: In Sixty Seconds
- Thin-skinned Armenian and Asian cucumbers are a curvy new veggie treat. Here are tips on how to pick and use them.
- A surefire Parisian pie crust? Sign us up!
- In the less-traversed lands of Sonoma wine country lies Santi -- a country dining spot with "pristine" food.
- Eat Real's event in Jack London Square falls somewhere between a county fair and a highbrow gourmet food fest.
- San Francisco's Tadich Grill suffers a fire sparked by its wood-burning stove, but its owners hope to be back in operation soon.
- Graham Greene might have been a notable scribe, but the mixed drink named after him is "heinous."
- From vegan to gluten-free, the Plant Cafe Organic -- located on the Embarcadero -- seems to do it all.
- On making a roasted tomato soup with a young tyke.
- An American Cheese Society competition declares Wisconsin the cheese state, followed by California and Vermont.
- Writer Tara Duggan revels in leftovers to whip up tasty lunches for kids.
- A new -- and currently nameless -- new dining hotspot gears up to take over the old Quince digs.
- The culinary achievements of the Mayans that changed our foodie world: chocolate, vanilla, corn, chiles, tomatoes, black beans, avocado, sweet potato, squash and papaya.
Posted Jun 22nd 2009 12:00PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: In Sixty Seconds
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| A stalk of barley. Photo courtesy of Pardesi*/Flickr |
- Barley inspires delicious obsessions, and a recipe for Barley with Walnuts and Roasted Spring Vegetables.
- Lies in advertising: Anti-microbials are slipping into our antibiotic-free meat.
- Coffee can kick food, like sleepy humans, into high gear. You can braise, rub and sauce with it -- and that's just for starters.
- Ducca's gets a new executive chef in Erica Holland-Toll, previously of Lark Creek Inn.
- A whole lot of love for the hot eateries and bars of San Francisco: Fly Bar gets a second location on Divisadero; Pleasant Hill's Sichuan Fortune House offers a plentiful menu of good eats; Outerlands dishes great food if you get there before it runs out; Foreign Cinema offers family fare with foreign flicks; Town Hall still rocks with notable service and Southern flavor; and Michelle Mah goes European with Midi.
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