SFist Mary goes whole hog with our newest food column, Hot Stuff! We can't think of a better way to spend a birthday (our husband's) than eating an entire animal with seventeen fellow carnivores at Incanto Restaurant's private room, in Noe Valley. This is a bit of Laura Ingalls Wilder in the City, for sure. Not only are the food and wine superb at Incanto, it's where we ate offal (Prather Ranch veal testicles,......

Make no mistake, we are animals here at the food blog! Animals! Grrr. We only recently added chef Chris Cosentino to our list, thanks to his offal dinner for Anthony Bourdain and Mary Ladd a couple weeks ago, and already he's delighting us and making us queasy. A friend told me a story once about his young (4 or 5 years old) daughter who was watching the movie Babe fairly regularly. "Daddy," she said, "I......

In this special edition, we offer a cookbook review. Regular column after the jump. We're certainly not the types to indulge in the latest tome of unmanageable recipes from some celebrity chef. But the one man who we would trust to write a good celebrity cookbook has gone and done just that. That's right, from the man who brought you the coke-and-booze-and-sex-and-coke tell-all Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, has made a study of his classic french......