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• Posted BART Testing Wifi? to SFist
  We had just opened our laptop this evening on our ride back across the Bay when a dialog popped up: "None of your usual wireless networks could be found. Do you want to join wifi_rail?" Yes, please! Looks like BART is test-running a free wireless network. Our laptop only picked up on it in the Civic Center-Embarcadero range (the same area where our cell phone works), and it didn't allow us to connect to...
• Posted SFist in the Kitchen: Celery Root to SFist
  The fruit and vegetable world overflows with deceptive names, from English's lemongrass—there's no lemon in it—to French's pommes de terre—they'r'e not really apples. But you'll find no trickery in celery root. The warty, blobby vegetable is the underground portion of the thick green stalks everyone knows so well, though celery root usually comes from a variety raised for large roots and slim stalks. Celery root, or celeriac, has the herby taste of celery and parsley...
• Posted SFist in the Kitchen: Parsnips to SFist
  When we see parsnips at the store or in most markets, they're big, with a tough inner core. We were thrilled, then, to see smaller, in-season parsnips, split down the middle like a serpent's tongue, at the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market. The slimmed-down root vegetables have not yet formed the woody center that we chop from normal versions. That means higher yield and less work for the home cook. Given the odd carrot colors...
• Posted SFist in the Kitchen: Cheese Fondue to SFist
  Winter's deep chill has arrived, and you can expect it to stay here for a few months. Forget salads for dinner; our bodies need food that coats our bellies and warms our hearts. And few dishes heat us like cheese fondue, the perfect dish with which to greet cold friends coming to your home for dinner. When was the last time you dunked bread cubes into a simmering soup of liquid cheese? Fondue went...
• Posted SFist in the Kitchen: Onions to SFist
  We know how it is with onions. You treat them as kitchen staples, something to throw on the shelf until you need an aromatic for the saute pan. You take them for granted. But in the cold snap of winter, root vegetables come to the front. Gone are the vibrant, ripe tastes of summer produce; gone are the warm, mellow flavors of fall. The intense, peppery taste of vegetables on sale at farmers' markets...