Berrylicious illustration from The Oakland Tribune. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Serious bock-bock time for those of you who may not give chickens their due. Our fave chicken recipes here and here. Many chefs feel local and smaller sized pollo may add up to a better tasting bird. Oh, and at one of the Mission's best spots, when the chicken's......

The San Francisco world of restaurant gossip columnists went head over heels when Grace-Ann Walden retired from the Chronicle and the Inside Scoop column. She had all the info, friends in all dining rooms, ears in all the kitchens, she was our go-to-writer every Wednesday for all the tips on new restaurant openings, closures, chef musical chairs and overall juicy gossip. Who was going to dish it to us? We are thankful that Marcia’s Tablehopper......

Ooops! We thought this got posted yesterday.... We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from yesterday's offerings: SF Chronicle: Youthful chefs -- all under the age of 28, my God! -- make the cut for the Rising Chefs list. We'll take one order of Chef Nate Appleman's octopus & ceci bean zuppa, please. Don't be afraid of tentacles! All it takes is practice. After reading the Inside Scoop,......

We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle: Valentine's feasting with the one you love. We like Marlena Spieler's no fuss, no muss approach. We would totally make the cumin lamb chops with sweet potatoes and tomato-ginger chutney for our sweetie if we weren't catering tonight! If a restaurant outing is more your thang for Valentine's Day, Inside Scoop has dets on happenings around......

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......

Week in food literature review....

This week's breakdown of local food writing is finger-licking good, y'all!...

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