From the category archives:
On Tuesday night, Jillian and I headed down to the Ferry Building for a panel discussion on local food distribution, put on by Kitchen Table Talks and (CUESA) aka the Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture. There is no question that the current food distribution model is broken, as there are food surpluses throughout [...]
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Three years ago, if you asked me to spend an afternoon hiking through a public park scavenging around for wild vegetables and herbs, I probably would have stared at you stupidly in disbelief or laughed in your face. But, my friends, that is exactly what I did last weekend…
I joined 20 other hikers (i.e. Haight-Ashbury dwelling [...]
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Work brought me to snowy Chicago last week and with the trip came a fabulous dinner at a new restaurant in the “up-and-coming” Pilsen neighborhood. Nightwood features a daily-changing menu of seasonal food from nearby farms so I was excited to see what the Midwest had to offer in the middle of winter. Turns out, [...]
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This weekend I’m heading up to wine country for a wine-tasting extravaganza, so in preparation I thought I’d research and compile a list of wineries that are running environmentally-friendly vineyards. (Plus, with the weekend of love almost upon us I thought it would be good to know which bottles to grab for your sexy date!) [...]
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While running errands in the East Bay last week, I dropped by Berkeley Bowl West and deemed it my new favorite place to grocery shop! I frequented the original Berkeley Bowl while in college, but always found the crazy parking lot and crowds to be a bit overwhelming. But it’s new, larger and much-more-beautiful sibling store [...]
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With snow dumping on the mountains, ski season is in full swing. And so in honor of the wonderful sport, Jillian and I have officially deemed this week “Ski Week”. Since we now know that taking a ski trip does not have to translate into boxed mac-n-cheese or Costco snacks, we will share our tried-and-true [...]
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The most rewarding thing about writing Farm and a Frying Pan is hearing that we’ve inspired somebody to take the plunge and sign up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) box. It makes all the failed recipe attempts, crazy late nights trying to squeeze in time to write and re-taking out-of-focus photographs worth it. Because that means one [...]
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A few months ago when I decided to make fresh spring rolls I was thrown into a wild goose chase to find the rice paper wrappers needed for the meal. That is when I stumbled upon Nijiya Market in San Francisco’s Japantown. It’s a gem of a spot for all of your Japanese food needs [...]
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There are lots of reasons to eat locally: it’s fresher, cheaper, supports local vendors and usually tastes better. Also, eating locally means you aren’t buying food that has to travel hundreds of miles in an air-conditioned big rig, or that has to be carefully packaged with wasteful materials to keep it from bruising or denting [...]
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Leave it to San Francisco to make food rogue. A few weeks ago, Iso Rabins, founder of Forage SF, organized the city’s first “underground” farmer’s market to give small, local vendors an opportunity to sell their food who otherwise can’t afford to rent a commercial kitchen. A dozen vendors gathered in a private house in the Mission district [...]
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