Archive for Februari 2004

Patricia Unterman's San Francisco Food Lover's Guide:Book

I remember reading "The Food Lovers Guide to Paris" by Patricia Wells back in the early 1980's. It was a revelation to me. So...

Before I ever went to Thailand I was very fond of mango and sticky rice. In fact, when Lee and I would order Thai food to be delivered to ou...

Food should be fun. Don't you think? In the Bay Area we take it very seriously. There are food celebrities. Food trends--from nouvelle t...

Everyone likes their brownies just so, and so it comes as no surprise that there are untold thousands of brownie recipes. How do I know this...

Some day I hope to have tabs on this site so that you will be able to find specific things like restaurants, cookbooks and recipes, of cours...

Going to Ikea is an all day affair. Or at least a several hour affair. No in-and-out at Ikea. The store is big and those nifty Swedes have f...

We can all use a holiday to celebrate love in the middle of one of the more dreary months of the year. And I can think of no better place to...

Last night the San Francisco Ferry Building Marketplace held a fundraiser for Slow Food called "Food from the Heart". The vendors,...

From the "I-don't-know-how-I-missed-it" news department: HOUSTON, Dec. 4 -- A Texas woman was sentenced to 10 years in jail Th...

This year Lee and I are going out for a romantic Valentine's day dinner. But just because it's too late to make a reservation somewh...

When I was growing up you could tell what season it was by a cursory glance at a bakery's current cookie selection. Christmas tree cooki...

I buy bags of dried fruit all the time and promptly forget that I have them. Then one day, I go rummaging around and realize I had better do...

Do you have favorite food web sites? I have favorite recipe sites, but I don't really have any favorite honest-to-goodness food sites. P...

Have you ever seen delicate flora and fauna carved from vegetables gracing a plate in a Thai restaurant? Carving those creations is a craft ...