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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cherries Cherries are out in abundance at farmer's markets, though quality still varies from stall to stall, so we reccommend sampling first. We liked the red-black meaty Bings from Lagier Ranches enough to grab
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Marin Sun Farms We loves us a good piece of meat, but we can't stand buying the factory-farmed animal products we find in most stores. An American obsession with cheap meat has left us with powerful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Honey - ABBA Gourmets often say that cheese is the food world's analogy to wine, but we think honey is a better candidate. Our food writing idol Edward Behr wrote that "honey, in its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cardoons We were over the moon when we saw cardoons at Tairwa' Knoll's stall last Saturday at the Ferry Plaza Market. Restaurateurs and avid cardoon eaters usually buy all these tall, light green stalks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In the Kitchen: Strawberries You don't need us to tell you what to do with strawberries. Eat them raw on a picnic and enjoy their juicy flesh. Eat them the raw with your lover, dunking the red
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Radishes We confess that we, too, used to use spring radishes for garnish rather than flavor, though they have the same bite we like in their close relatives the turnips. At best, we've put
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Kohlrabi We felt uninspired as we shopped at Oakland's 9th Street Farmer's Market on Friday, shivering against the sheets of rain and high winds. But as we chatted with a jacketless worker from Watsonville
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Snap Peas It seemed like every vendor at Oakland's 9th Street Market was selling sugar snap peas last Friday, and it didn't take us long to cave in to the impulse to buy some. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Capricious Cheese SFist Derrick, contributing. Photos by Melissa Schneider.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Green Garlic SFist Derrick, contributing. Photos by Melissa Schneider.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Asparagus Asparagus takes to a variety of quick preparations: blanch and stir-fry it, steam it, boil it, roast it, or grill it. Classicists can finish with a hollandaise sauce while flush gourmets might choose
