Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of course we were very pleased to see that he wrote an article appearing in the Wine Section of today's Chron. He writes all about "fruit wine," or wine made with fruit other than grapes....

SFist interviews new contributor Derrick Schneider...

Organic satsuma oranges made for a nice snack as we shopped at Tuesday's Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market, but we thought we'd mention the dried mandarins at Everything Under the Sun's [PDF] stall. These brittle, bitter wheels aren't exactly an accessible snack on their own, but a moment in our spice grinder turned them into a flavorful powder with a multitude of uses. We particularly liked this dust as a coating for Cointreau-flavored chocolate truffles,......

[Ed. Note: Oh, we are so happy right now. New SFist Derrick of Obsession with Food just wrote a wonderful pair of recipes that would make the perfect wintry, local feast. Since the Trimethyldioxypurist is off in the hinterlands this week, we wanted to get this up right away. So please welcome a new foodie to the table. Bon appetit!] We're getting a bit tired of winter's oranges, but juicy, so-red-they're-violet blood oranges caught......