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Cooking Basics
1 Try This! Cook Pasta in Tomato Sauce
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2 The Making of a Food Festival: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
restaurants
3 Want to Open a Restaurant? 6 Things to Consider Beforehand
SF Chefs
4 A Day in the Life of Andrew Freeman
food festivals
5 SF Chefs 2011: Highlights From the Tasting Tent
food trends
6 5 Food Trends From SF Chefs
Cooking Basics
7 Brilliant Idea: Serve Corn in Its Own Husk
There are a countless number of corn preparation ideas at the peak of the vegetable's season, but one of my preferred ways to eat the warm-weather vegetable standout is by giving its kernels a quick sauté with herbs and spices. Recently, I learned a new way of serving my favorite dish. At this year's SF Chefs, chefs Laurence Jossel and Gonzalo Guzman of Nopalito offered charred corn with cotija Read more
Food festivals are a great place to eat and drink to your heart's delight, but they're also home base for culinary trendspotters! After all, the tasting tents are a logical place for the season's hottest food fads to congregate, and this past weekend's SF Chefs in San Francisco's Union Square was no exception. Here are a few trends I spotted that were big in Fog City — and sure to spread to Read more
San Francisco's biggest food event, SF Chefs, took place this past weekend, and it was larger than ever. When I entered the festival's third-annual Grand Tasting, there was a line around the block to see some of the country's brightest names in cooking, from Martin Yan to Hubert Keller. Check out the talent we bumped into — along with the best bites and sips we tasted. Read more
Over the weekend at SF Chefs, I watched Italian stallion Cesare Casella (who flew in from New York for the occasion) demonstrate how to make the perfect pasta pomodoro. A native of Tuscany, Casella started by sautéing red onions and guanciale in a large pot. It seemed like there was nothing too special about his technique for cooking the classic Italian sauce, until he dumped the uncooked Read more
The third annual SF Chefs, San Francisco's very own food festival, is taking place this weekend. We caught up with the mastermind behind SF Chefs, Andrew Freeman. Here's what the public relations authority did yesterday, Thursday, Aug. 4. 6:30 a.m.: I woke up and I have two little Yorkie princesses, Daisy and Tulep, so I had to take them out. We went for our morning walk and got our heads Read more
San Francisco food festival SF Chefs is in full effect! Yesterday I attended an interesting panel discussion in which many of the Bay Area's most successful restaurateurs talked about what it's like to open an eatery. It was fascinating to learn the things that a restaurateur has to consider. It's not just about finding the right chef; everything from the location to the lease of the building Read more
This country sees scores of large-scale culinary events and food festivals each week, and from Taste of the Nation to Slow Food Nation, Party and I are always there. But while a culinary extravaganza merely requires several hours of our time, it takes months or sometimes years to bring all the elements of a production together. During SF Chefs. Food. Wine., I walked the tents with Dominic Read more
YumSugar wasn't the only one who had a field day eating and drinking at last weekend's food festival in San Francisco, SF Chefs — I was there, too. There was a lot to enjoy, from cocktails to wine to sweets to savory bites. However, it was easy to pick out the standout offerings. Here are my favorite tastes from the event. Read more
Is Top Chef 10 headed to Portland or Seattle? — Eater The chork is a thing — Gizmodo Advice for future food writers — Food52 What Food52's Amanda Hesser got right — HuffPost Food Bon Appétit has a 600-page grilling book coming out in 2013 — WWD Another 22 things Pizza Hut should stuff into crusts — Grub Street SF That kobe beef burger you're eating is probably fake — The Daily Read more
Must make: punk-rock coconut macaroons — Food52 Burger King chef's choice burgers, reviewed — So Good Taco Bell's 50 years old — Grub Street SF Find out if you're in the 5 percent of coffee drinkers — T Magazine Gwyneth and Rachael slam ghostwriting allegations — HuffPost Food Nine outrageous pies — Yahoo! Shine OMG!!! TXT wines targets millennials — Eater Read more
