SF News Supreme Court Upholds California Bacon and Pork Regulations on Pig Confinement The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the California law saying that pigs must have enough room to turn around and lie down for their meat to be sold here in the state, in a ruling that sliced wildly across ideological lines.
SF Politics Supreme Court Agrees to Review CA Pork Production Law That Caused Fears of Looming Bacon Shortage The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to a California law that was set to take effect this year that was intended to curb animal cruelty by banning the sale of veal, pork, and eggs that were not humanely raised.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alleged Looming Bacon Shortage Has Trade Groups Squealing For a Delay In New Regulations Some claim pork prices could fatten up by 60% when a new California law takes effect January 1, but this may be industry trade groups just hoping to bring home more bacon.
SF News Have You Seen Pig-Pig? 100-lb Pig Stolen From San Jose Backyard Where, oh where has Pig-Pig gone? KRON 4 (naturally) has the story of the mysterious disappearance of Pig-Pig, a 3-year-old 100-pound mini pot-bellied pig belonging to San Jose residents Mark and Jeannie Ackerman.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Porc De Triomphe: Bacon Bacon To Reopen Back in May, noted pork purveyor Bacon Bacon was forced to close the doors of its Upper Haight/Cole Valley outpost due in part to neighbor's complaints about the "obnoxious" and "acrid" smell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Google Took My Pork': A Survivor's Harrowing Tale Poor Google can't catch a break with San Francisco ilk as of late. The most recent example comes to us from "Simon," an angry Roli Roti porchetta sandwich fan, who sent SFist the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Lo, A16, RN74 Chefs To Compete In Cochon 555 2013 marks the fifth year of Cochon 555, a competition that pits five local chefs against one another to prepare a menu concocted from the entirety of heritage breed pigs for an audience
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pork & Pinot Bash At Epic Roasthouse, June 30 Epic Roasthouse wine director Petra Polakovicova will pour several awarding-winning pinots, including Freeman Winery, Flowers, Calera, Cobb, Miura, Kutch, Goldeneye, and Freestone, just to name a few, as part of the waterfront restaurant's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink YouTube To Launch Very Porky Food Channel Gone are the days when one could enliven their Sunday mornings by watching Julia Child and Jacques Pepin affectionately debate the proper way to scramble eggs or divulge their secrets to whole chicken
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jack In The Box Now Selling A Bacon Milkshake [Updated] So, Jack in the Box created a Bacon Milkshake. Why? Because you secretly want one, that's why. Shame on you. The noted fast food chain, it seems, wanted to create bacon-tinged buzz. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Carnitas News: Nopalito Expanding West With Forthcoming 9th Avenue Location Nopalito, the bustling little hermana to Nopa's well-loved Californian establishment, is about to get another sibling restaurant in the Inner Sunset. As the ever-vigilante and always hungry Tablehopper reports this afternoon, the purveyors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pork Competition Cochon 555 Returns This Sunday This year's annual bacchanalia of pork and wine, Cochon 555, rears its savory head on Sunday, June 5. Will you be there? Well, you should. "Officially, the event is all about promoting heritage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour 682 "Pork Delivery. Chinatown." Photo by Julie Michelle/tangobaby. Hat tip: Uptown Almanac
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fatted Calf Coming to Hayes Valley One of our favorite things in the universe is Fatted Calf's tonno di maiale ("tuna of pork"), which is basically preserved pork roast in olive oil. And yet? So much more. It's comforting,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour 451 Happy pig face shot at 18th and Mission market by Mission Mission's newest official contributor, photographer Ariel Dovas.