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Taylor Swift Is Impervious to Global Warming It all reminds me of a classic Christmas carol.
By Kelly Conaboy
Hey, NYC, Keep Your Eye Out for Those Escaped Murderers Just, you know, give the NYPD a heads-up if you see them.
By Jessica Roy
Max Silvestri Is Co-Hosting a Comedic Cooking Show for the FYI Network A+E’s lifestyle network Bio is relaunching under the name FYI, and standup Max Silvestri will be one of the revamped channel’s new faces. […]
By Megh Wright
A Quick Note on Comments We’re rolling out a new system next week.
By Grub Street
Giddy Up: Side Project Jerky Teams Up With Rival Bros. to Create ‘The For this latest jerky joint venture, Espinoza and Rival Bros look to the American frontier.
By Collin Keefe
Study: Half the World’s Food Gets Thrown Away It’s partly because we insist on our produce looking pretty.
By Jay Barmann
Health Concerns
Jan. 8, 2013
By Jay Barmann
Let Them Eat Foie
Jan. 3, 2013
Foie Gras Ban a Boon for Nevada Restaurants, Businesses Wouldn’t you know it, CA foie fans are paying top dollar for the stuff across the border.
By Jay Barmann
Food Politics
Jan. 3, 2013
Shark Fin Ban Upheld in Federal Court Shark fins can still be sold until July 1, 2013.
By Jay Barmann
Fisherman’s Almanac
Dec. 12, 2012
Dungeness Crab Strike Ends, Crab Boats Back on the Water It’s become an annual tradition now, but it’s over after eleven days.
By Jay Barmann
Sushi Extra
Dec. 11, 2012
Japan’s Massive Tsukiji Fish Market to Close Next Year, Relocate in 2014 It’s the largest wholesale fish market in the world and, some say, the heart and soul of Tokyo.
By Jay Barmann
Food Politics
Oct. 10, 2012
Bittman Wonders: Is There a Middle Ground Between Organic and Conventional Mark Bittman travels to California’s Central Valley to survey the state of the modern farm.
By Jay Barmann
Food Politics
Sept. 24, 2012
Anti-Factory-Farm Org Sponsors Meatless Mondays Posters on BART They’re from the Berkeley-based Factory Farming Awareness Coalition.
By Jay Barmann
You Will Soon Be Paying a Dime Each For Your Grocery Bags Restaurants and bakeries don’t have to comply until next year.
By Jay Barmann
Oakland Healthy Food Advocate Honored By the Obamas 55-year-old food activist Dana Harvey was “humbled and honored.”
By Jay Barmann
Controversy
Sept. 5, 2012
Mayor Menino Won’t Eat Chick-fil-A Menino doesn’t want your free Chick-fil-A.
By Lindsey Frances
Snoozeflash
Sept. 4, 2012
Yep, Yelp Reviews Matter A new study says good Yelp reviews help a restaurant’s nightly bookings, but this contradicts an earlier study that suggests only a small percentage of people pay attention to online reviews.
By Jay Barmann
Health Concerns
Aug. 24, 2012
Investigative Group Finds Multiple Incidents of Imposter Fish at Restaurants A nonprofit group called Oceana has just taken samples from 30 Bay Area restaurants in order to show whether they’re serving what they say they’re serving.
By Jay Barmann
Food for Olympians
Aug. 3, 2012
Kristian Ipsen, Son of East Bay Pizzeria Owner, Scores Bronze Medal in Olympic He’s a Stanford student, born in Walnut Creek, and he was partnered with 32-year-old Troy Dumais.
By Jay Barmann
Regarding Nixon in China , and Michael Bauer’s Program Notes on Bauer ponders how Chinese food has changed, in part because of Nixon’s trip.
By Jay Barmann
Yelp and Bing Team Up in Attempt to Thwart Zagat and Google Yelp review excerpts will now be a feature of Bing searches.
By Jay Barmann
Pizza! Pizza!
June 13, 2012
Things We Didn’t Know We Needed: A Pizza Vending Machine It’s from Italy, and it cooks a pizza from scratch in two and a half minutes.
By Jay Barmann
Six Privacy-Violating Technologies Bars Should Employ Bars are installing a new facial-recognition tool, but that’s just the beginning of what they could be doing to violate our privacy.
By Jay Barmann
BYO Bread to American Sardine Bar Schroeder wants people to know about the “BYO Bread program” he’s got going on for celiac sufferers at American Sardine Bar.
By Marilyn S. D'Angelo
Booze You Can Use
May 17, 2012
Russian Bathhouse in the Bayview to Serve Booze Archimedes Banya, which is co-ed, will be adding booze to their cafe menu.
By Jay Barmann
Manage Food Allergies Online with Foodie.fm A new website for finding allergy friendly recipes and products is now beta testing.
By Marilyn S. D'Angelo
Casa B Launches Late-Night Menu This Weekend Union Square’s favorite tapas den introduces nocturnal delights.
By Kara Baskin
Mad Cow Update: Two Dairies Quarantined, Offspring Put Down The calf was identified at a farm in another state, and after being euthanized was found not to have mad cow.
By Jay Barmann
Food Safety
Apr. 24, 2012
By Jay Barmann
Questlove Teaming Up with Graham Elliot Get ready for Quest Loves Food Powered by Graham Elliot, debuting next month.
By Collin Keefe
Help Decide the Fate of Boot & Saddle Tonight The zoning committee takes up the discussion at its meeting tonight.
By Collin Keefe
America Finally Getting Bored With Chicken Breast, Loading Up on Dark Meat Poultry producers are facing shortages of thighs owing to unexpectedly high demand.
By Jay Barmann
The Chain Gang
Apr. 9, 2012
Red Lobster Builds World’s Biggest Lobster Farm to Raise Things That It turns out, the chain has been serving these ‘lobsters’ for years, just not if you order a whole one.
By Jay Barmann
Corey Lee to Speak on Food and Science Today at UCSF The Benu chef will be discussing the increasingly parallel technologies of cooking and bioscience.
By Jay Barmann
Cuba Libre Drops an Empanada Bummer Once again, we are a city that’s deficient in empanadas.
By Collin Keefe
Back of the House
Mar. 16, 2012
The Food Network Tried to Make Tanya Holland ‘Sassy’; She Refused “I was in the soul kitchen, so they wanted me to act sassy. I’m from suburbia, I’m educated…”
By Jay Barmann
Health Concerns
Mar. 8, 2012
Now That Shark Fins Are Banned, Experts Find Out They May Cause New York State may ban shark fins, and California already has, but here’s a whole new reason not to eat them.
By Jay Barmann
You Can Now Get Tamale Sandwiches in Oakland It’s called a torta de tamal, and yes, that’s a lot of carbs.
By Jay Barmann
Menu Changes
Feb. 27, 2012
Blowfish Sushi Will Serve Deadly Fugu (a.k.a. Blowfish) It’s available only for a few weeks, by special advance order.
By Jay Barmann
Local Christian Ministry Uses Restaurant ‘Eatups’ to Help Build The church sends groups out on Sundays to Castro area restaurants to dine with fellow parishioners and welcome in new ones.
By Jay Barmann
Food Politics
Feb. 24, 2012
One of the Wise Sons Speaks to the Kosher Thing Most big Jewish delis aren’t kosher and never have been.
By Jay Barmann
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