SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vanity Fair Fawns Over Alice Waters' Kitchen You've seen the legend, you've eaten her philosophically-saturated food, and she's taught you to mince garlic cloves using the tines of a fork so as not to bruise the oil. Now see the
misc Locked Out in the City: What to Do? We lucked out this time, but it got us thinking, What would we do if there is a next time we find ourselves out of our abode with no keys, [update] no money,
Arts & Entertainment SF Works: Knife Sharpener By Evan Roberts One of the few remaining knife sharpeners left in SF these days, this is a must-listen. Why? Because it's important to get your knives sharpened. (America's Test Kitchen can't stress
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
misc Week Around the -Ists LAist saw national headlines soar this week with news about the Jena 6 in Louisiana and of a police taser incident at a John Kerry event. Locally, Hollywood protesters marched in support of
Arts & Entertainment Doesn't Dungeness Look Like Phthirus Lice? Andrea Froncillo and Jennifer Jeffrey teamed up last year to write stinky prose. (We'll re-use that pun as much as we please.) He is a chef/partner in a bunch of restaurants in
Arts & Entertainment Former Vallejo Councilman Is <i>That Much Closer</i> To Being Whipping Boy Why on earth would an almost 60-year-old former city councilman from Vallejo want to be on Hell's Kitchen? To be continually called a "donkey" ("don-keeeeeh!") on route to embarassing himself on national television?
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 'In Vino Veritas' -- And Sometimes Other Stuff: SFist Alum Writes About 'Fruit Wine' 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn Peril (publisher of Mystery Date)
SF News Day Around The Bay --An ABC 7 blog doesn't think all this Chris Daly and Ed Jew stuff is funny! Of it's funny! [ABC 7's The Kitchen Think.] --Thought today in the SFist comments were bad? It
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dinner with a White Slave Oh wait a minute. By white slave, we are referrring to the UK title of super chef Marco Pierre White's new tome. He's white, did a cookbook called White Heat, and has the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Elka Karl of Kitchen Sink Magazine Before Kitchen Sink's proverbial well runs dry, they will be producing one last issue. But they need your help to do it! Stop on by Edinburgh Castle this Saturday night for their fundraiser,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Celery Root The fruit and vegetable world overflows with deceptive names, from English's lemongrass—there's no lemon in it—to French's pommes de terre—they'r'e not really apples. But you'll find no trickery in celery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Parsnips Given the odd carrot colors on display at the country's most upscale market, you'd be forgiven for thinking that parsnips are nothing more than beige carrots. They are cousins, but parsnips have a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cheese Fondue When was the last time you dunked bread cubes into a simmering soup of liquid cheese? Fondue went out of fashion in the 1980s, but only after it had been in fashion so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Onions But in the cold snap of winter, root vegetables come to the front. Gone are the vibrant, ripe tastes of summer produce; gone are the warm, mellow flavors of fall. The intense, peppery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Risotto We remember the late 90's when every food magazine offered the definitive risotto technique. Writers trudged to Italian villages to learn how rural matrons made this popular dish. Even as newbie foodies, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Chestnuts Peeling techniques and dish suggestions after the jump. Photos by Melissa Schneider
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Lying + Cheating=Lychee-ting? We'll still tune in tonight to on Bravo -- but last week's episode was pretty annoying as far as we were concerned. Is the sheen off the apple, or was this crappy episode
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: Pan Sauces 101 Every cook wants their guests to swoon over the food, and few things induce fainting spells like a velvety, savory sauce. A good sauce transforms a dish from simple to elegant, but few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Summer Sorbets You can buy sorbet, but a little effort will give you the chance to try bold new flavor combinations. We recently made white peach-ginger sorbet, and friend of SFist meriko told us about
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
