SF News Bill Allowing Marijuana Sales at Farmers' Markets Clears State Legislature, Heads to Newsom’s Desk You may soon be able to stock up on cannabis at a discount price at your local farmers’ market, as the state legislature has approved a proposal to let growers sell there directly. Oh, and Matt Haney’s “cannabis cafe” bill has passed too.
SF News Hit-and-Run Disrupts Walnut Creek Farmers’ Market; Two Critically Injured, Suspect Arrested An early Sunday morning hit-and-run sent two people to the hospital with critical injuries and canceled this weekend's Walnut Creek Farmers’ Market, but the suspect driver has been arrested, and the market will return as usual next Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink God Sends Waffle Truck To Civic Center This Morning Hi, guys. What's up? Great. So...huh, how do we put this delicately without hurting anyone's feelings? Ahem, the next time there's a truck in the middle of Civic Center selling nothing but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Food Books For Labor Day We also enjoyed some of the essays on cooking and eating alone in Jenni Ferrari-Adler's Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, particularly Steve Almond's hilarious anti-snotty take on how to make a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Treasure Hunt: Balut Welcome back to our new SFist feature, Treasure Hunt, as SFist Natacha scours the city and outlying areas for things one definitely cannot find at your average Walgreens. When visiting your republican parents
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Jujubes We're not sure why Chinese dates, as they're also called, haven't made more inroads into Western cuisine, though some historians think that Homer's lotus-eaters were riding a jujube high. The chalky texture of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lettuce These days, it's not easy being greens. No sooner had newspapers tired of the spinach-borne onslaught than another Salinas company issued a voluntary recall on its lettuce. Photo by Melissa SchneiderE. Coli
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Tomato Taste Test We used tomatoes from the Grand Lake Farmer's Market and stored them at room temperature overnight to keep their flavor at its peak. We sliced them just before the tasting, since the best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Simple Summer Supper Great ingredients make great food, and all you have to do is get out of their way. Here's a casual summer meal we assembled for the test kitchen staff. This weekend, find your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Garlic Scapes and Others Thin garlic scapes bend into graceful arcs as they emerge from the soil, creating a striking vegetable. The center becomes wooden as the garlic ages (hence the hard neck in hardneck garlic), so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lemons Even though the SFist kitchen staff is at a writing conference, we're giving you some homework for the next two weeks: Swing by a local farmer's market, pick up some lemons, and give
Arts & Entertainment Show of Hands: Who Pays For 7x7? Who Pays For 7x7? Suckers, that's who. A treatise on the quality of this magazine is perhaps best left for another day, and for other people to make. After all, what business do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Favorite Farmer's Market Vendors of 2005 I rely on a number of high-quality producers for the Kitchen column. Some I've written about in depth, some make frequent cameo appearances. Here are the unsung (at least at this site) producers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Fisties: Best Coffee People who've been reading our "Trimethyldioxypurist" missives will not be especially surprised by the winners. For those who are strangers to our periodic ramblings about coffee and cafes around the City by the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Turnips Dark greens last week, turnips this week. If you need proof that winter is here, the produce at local farmer's markets drives the point home. On the other hand, Kitchen photographer Melissa spotted
misc The 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop For Food The Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market gets plenty of press, and we do love the high-quality ingredients you'll find there. But it's not perfect: High prices make for expensive visits, and the many tourists
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Stock Though this column usually focuses on farmer's market finds, we want to occasionally offer some advice on common kitchen techniques. Great ingredients make great food, but so do great skills. Have something you'd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Figs But we just like the taste. Back in August, only a few farmer's market stalls had them, but now it seems like everyone's got some on display. Figs flourish in this state, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Melons You'll find a number of varieties at the farmer's market right now, but for a cook's purposes, they divide into two categories: watermelons and everything else. Watermelons have an airy network of cells
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Crayfish Fast forward a few years to the Grand Lake Market in Oakland. We spotted another crayfish vendor, but this time we subdued our long enough to ask an important question. "How do you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cucumbers We found cucumbers by the armful at this weekend's Jack London Square farmer's market. Pickling cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, standard American cucumbers. The abundance flaunted itself, and challenged us to take some into the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Apricots We have been eagerly tasting apricots on our farmer's market forays, waiting for them to go from tart and unpleasant to juicy and sweet. Someday soon, we knew. Saturday wasn't promising until we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Plumcots and Apriums Neither plums nor apricots were showing particularly well yet at the Berkeley Farmer's Market, but we found some decent samples of their hybrids. We've noticed purple-skinned plumcots and pluots, along with soft orange
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lavender We always know when we're near the Eatwell Farms stand at any given farmer's market: A sudden whiff of lavender quickly balloons into a heady aroma. The farm's stand always carries dried lavender
