The street food scene in San Francisco is so vibrant and so important to the community that the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association is holding a meeting, From Tamales to Creme Brulee: The economics of streetfood, to discuss how to promote and support street food. The Department of Public Health is one of [...]
On a cold but sunny winter day, Christopher McRae, owner of Main Street Hound Dogs is still open for business, pursuing his passion for selling hot dogs. Soon, the winter weather will drive McRae indoors for the rest of the season, and his business will be shut down. The question is whether the shutdown will [...]
Another Christmas has come and gone. The meal was prepared, served, devoured, and even the dishes have been put away. But we can still talk a bit about what we served this year, along with some critical evaluations on where we went right and on what could have been a little better. We always like [...]
We made an excellent Christmas dinner this year, which Angela will write about in more detail soon. Everyone enjoyed eating the meal — my mother called today to say it just may have been our best menu so far — and we certainly enjoyed making it. After our company was gone, we moved on to [...]
I am a huge fan of webcomics. I read them daily, but I haven’t posted anything about one in a very long time. Recently, one of my favorites reminded me that I should talk about webcomics and food. And this one even has a food related title. Although the name Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal brings [...]
Has it really been 2 months since we posted anything? Wow. We really suck. We have been cooking, and eating. We’ve even talked about blogging. Hmm. Yeah, we just suck. Anyway, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And that means presents and Christmas carols and presents and egg nog and presents and a [...]
This weekend at the Memphis Farmers Market, we bought a bunch of pork from Mark and Rita Newman of Newman Farm. I was telling Mark we were planning to make a recipe that uses lard. Mark’s eyes lit up. Then he said the magic words, “Would you like some back fat?” One minute I’m standing [...]
Well, yes. Mostly. And we’ve done lots of food-type things lately. We found out what happens if you forget that you put the pizza dough into the turned-off oven to rise where it will be safe from both drafts and curious pets. (It’s still ok the next day – actually quite edible.) We made outrageous [...]
You’ve probably already heard. Everybody is blogging about it. Conde Nast has decided to stop publication of Gourmet. And not next year. This issue, the November issue, will be the last one. Ever. I understand that businesses have to make decisions that aren’t going to be popular with everyone. And I will say that I [...]
There’s just something about being made to feel special on your birthday. To some degree, you don’t want anyone making a fuss, especially as the numbers start getting bigger, but you don’t want people to forget about it either. There’s a happy medium for the day as a whole, and sometimes, some people can be [...]
