SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Own Mary Risley Would Like to Remind All Amateur Cooks: 'Just Put the Fu**ing Turkey In the Oven' It's been a few years since SFist has reposted local cooking school founder Mary Risley's delightful advice for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey — and it bears repeating in a year when a lot of people may be trying to do this for the first time at home and not with family.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tante Marie's Cooking School Closing After 35 Years Sad news! Mary Risley, the forthright and whip-smart woman who founded Tante Marie's Cooking School here in San Francisco back in the 80s after giving up a lucrative career as an investment banker
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Advice: 'Just Put the F**king Turkey in the Oven' [Video] The holidays are stressful. The last thing weary hosts and hostesses need at this point is some overcomplicated turkey preparation technique. Enter San Francisco-based no-nonsense cooking instructor Mary Risley, a.k.a. Tante
