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SF Chronicle: Beet it! We like beets but 2 beet related recipes in 5 pages seems a bit much. We will crack open a coconut for the coconut recipe with seafood, however. Amanda Berne gets all pie lady in this week's Accidental Vegetarian column, with some tasty sounding results (smoky potato pie, anyone?).

We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings:

If you wanted to know the latest gossip in the SF restaurant scene, you wouldn't come here. Not yet: we are convinced we will start receiving FAT JUICY TIPS --just any second now-- about which new place is about to open, and which chefs are about to switch kitchens. No, you would go check out the Inside Scoop. So we were disappointed to see that GraceAnn Walden, who penned the column for fourteen years, had moved on to other endeavours. GraceAnn always had her ear to the ground, scooping hot tips after hot tips, and dishing them fresh from the oven to you.

We decided to cheat a little for the letter S. Instead of choosing a restaurant name, we settled on an entire cuisine - from S is for South of India. By the end of the meal, at popular new spot, Dosa, we realised that the initial of the day would more aptly describe S is for "Secret" recipes. The menu is apparently full of them.

Dan Leone leaves San Francisco and finds a nice taqueria in San Leandro suggested by a reader in San Diego, Los Pericos. For the record, Dan, Jamaica is named by Mexicans after the famous sorrel tea from, you guessed it, Jamaica. Paul Reidinger runs into Dennis Leary -- not the annoying stand-up comic, but the the former chef at Rubicon. He's now the main man at the Commodore Hotel's restaurant space, which he's taken to naming Canteen and specializing in breakfast and lunch. Watch the space for improved decor and an expanded dinner service, Paul says.