Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shake & Bake,' For Thanksgiving (A Taylor Swift Parody) A lot of you who are not flying out of town in the next two days are probably still debating where to eat your turkey on Thursday, or deciding whose houses to hit
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: YouTube-ing Family Makes 'All About The Baste,' a Thanksgiving Parody Remember the Holderness Family? They did this viral video last year showing off their Christmas jammies, and now they're back with a Thanksgiving spoof of that ubiquitous Meghan Trainor song "All About the
SF News Big Rig Loaded With Costco Turkeys Overturns On 680 We're getting closer to Thanksgiving, and even though it seems kind of early to be purchasing a bird, a bunch of frozen Butterball turkeys ended up stranded in an overturned big rig on
SF News Some Delays, Plenty Of Live Music At SFO As Everyone Tries To Flee Town The biggest story every Thanksgiving for as long as we can remember involves airports and travel nightmares, but so far you won't be seeing any sad footage of sad stranded passengers at SFO,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Forget The Turducken, It's All About The Cockentrice [NSFV - Not Safe For Vegetarians] Step aside, turducken. 2013 is all about far weirder Franken-feasts, and these have historical antecedents to boot. The Atlantic bring us the story of the cockentrice, a totally frightening chimerical creature created by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stuff Yourself With These Cranberry-Sage Stuffing Muffins SFist asked Jerry James Stone (Cooking Stoned) to come up with a festive version of a muffin made with stuffing. The result? Cranberry-Sage Muffins that use brown butter and fresh cranberries. Adorable as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchen Fire Threatens Annual Thanksgiving Dinner At The Tenderloin's Little Henry's One of the remaining un-gentrified businesses of the deep Tenderloin, Little Henry's restaurant at Larkin and Post, suffered a one-alarm kitchen fire on Saturday morning. The restaurant is known, among other things, for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tweet The (Doomed?) Chronicle Food Staff Your Thanksgiving Queries! The revered Food writers at The Chronicle are some of the best the country has to offer. From Michael Bauer to Jon Bonné to Paolo Lucchesi, just to name a few, they stand
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How To Put All Your Thanksgiving Sides In A Single Franken-Mold, By 4505 Meats 4505 Meats chef and butcher Ryan Farr has for several years been doing made-to-order turduckens for those who want to offer the combination stunt-meat to their Thanksgiving guests, but don't want to go
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 5 Thanksgiving Turkey Options That Don't Suck Turkey is the least favored part of any respectable Thanksgiving spread. (That, or the perfectly good stuffing you destroyed by adding walnuts and raisins to it. Why did you do that?! Oh god,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Are You Still Doing in the Office? No, seriously. Dear reader, isn't there a bird you should brining or a flight you need to catch or a cocktail you should be mixing or an iPhone game you could be playing
Arts & Entertainment Video: Man Gobbles, Turkeys Gobble Back The French man's laugh in this video is pretty infectious as a he riles a pen full of turkeys from his car. Lucky for him, since turkeys are super dangerous, and relentless. Happy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gobble: Thanksgiving Dining Guide 2012 Thanksgiving really seems more of a stay-at-home, watch-the-game, look-at-your-cousin-punch-his-father-in-the-face kind of day. But for those of you who like the finer things in life, or for those of you who cannot afford a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get A Load Of 4505 Meats' Remarkable Turducken Turkey stands as one of the least favorite things come Thanksgiving Day. Except for a few slices of unusually moist dark meat, the big bird pales in comparison to the stuffings (walnut- and
Arts & Entertainment Stay Alive And Make Good Bread Pudding This Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving from the fine folks at SFist. If you don't know what to make this year, you still have time to prepare this delightful savory bread pudding care of Mary Risley, fledgling
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Why Are You Still At Work? Huh. What are you still doing behind that screen? Shouldn't you be stuck on a crowded Muni and/or BART train right now? Or stuck in traffic on the bridge? Or, better yet,
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
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Holiday Palate Cleanser: Larry David's Thanksgiving [Updated] "One thing I could count on every Thanksgiving, and you could bank on it, was at the beginning of the meal my mother saying, 'Larry and I like the dark meat.' It's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brave Food Writer Eats Turkey Made with Twinkie Stuffing Exemplary writer Joyce Slaton dares to go where some artisan half-baked food scribes should. Take, for example, the turkey she recently prepared as an assignment for CHOW, prepared using "Twinkling Turkey," a recipe
SF News SF Court Hears Case of Asylum Seeker, Debates the Meaning of Thanksgiving This week, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco re-opened a case that began in 2003 when Chinese emigre Lei Li was denied asylum by a Los Angeles immigration
SF News Where to Drink on Thanksgiving Whether you're taking your Thanksgiving meal with family or friends or complete strangers, one thing is certain - there are only so many times you can go back to the fridge for another
Arts & Entertainment Thursday: Annual Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island The Annual Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving: Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island will take place bright and early on Thursday morning. Boats depart Pier 33 every fifteen minutes starting at 4:45 a.m. through
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pre-Thanksgiving Poll: Cake vs. Pie Bakeoff Last week we asked for your Thanksgiving Dinner Pet Peeves, and among other things, the post promptly started some dispute between pro-Pie and anti-Pie factions. While at least some portion *cough* of SFist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dining Out: Bay Area Thanksgiving Feasts Can't cook? Won't cook? Don't want guests? Have no friends to call guests? Don't worry. These Thanksgiving feasts in the Bay Area (ranging from expensive prix fixes to freebies) will have your turkey
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Before Gratefulness Abounds, Tell Us Your Thanksgiving Dinner Pet Peeves Before next Thursday presses thankful vibes upon us all, let's take a moment to talk about some of the more egregious Thanksgiving dinner pet peeves. Perhaps we can nib them in the bud
