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Up until recently, homemade tamales were the main attraction at Kele’s annual family Christmas party, accompanied with a to-die-for mole. But unfortunately, Kele’s grandmother – a.k.a. the tamale ringleader – is no longer with us and so I haven’t had the opportunity to partake in the tradition key to so many Mexican households come holiday time. [...]
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Tucked amongst the boutique shops and restaurants in Hayes Valley is a quaint restaurant I’ve had on my “must eat at” list for a while now. Bar Jules is a well known place amongst locals that proudly claims to “serve produce from the best small farmers in the area and is committed to providing sustainable [...]
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If you’ve ever wondered what the term “genetically engineered food” really means and are unsure how much of what you eat actually falls under that label, check out Civil Eats’ latest installment of Kitchen Table Talks tonight. Listen to UC Berkeley Microbial Ecologist Ignacio Chapela and Center for Food Safety attorney Zelig Golden as [...]
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In celebration of our blog’s public debut and to kick off this week’s Halloween inspired posts, Jillian and I threw a pumpkin party this weekend. Similar to a holiday cookie exchange or a pre-Thanksgiving dinner with friends, a pumpkin party is a great excuse to get close friends together for indulgent eating and good gossiping. [...]
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This past weekend my little sister was in town, so we headed across the bridge to check out some of Berkeley’s shopping gems and stop for a much overdue visit to The Cheeseboard Collective. I have heard about this place from countless friends who know of my obsessive love of thin crust pizza but I [...]
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I admire people who garden and yearn for the day when I can feed myself from my own back yard. But unfortunately I don’t have a green thumb. Even when I buy fresh cut flowers at the farmer’s market they are dead within days. Yet it also annoys me to spend hard earned cash to [...]
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Last night I attended a lecture by Michael Pollan, an acclaimed author who has had a huge impact on the way people think about food. He also happens to be one of my personal heroes and the reason I got started on this whole “eat local” kick! His most popular books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma [...]
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After Jillian and I attended an introductory canning class, we were ready to try it ourselves and take the canning world by storm. We settled on making a few different varieties of jam, knowing that if all went well the experiment could double as Christmas presents to our friends and family. First a few tips [...]
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With the plethora of cooking classes offered in the Bay Area, it is hard to decide which to attend. There are fancy French ones with menus and ingredients you can’t pronounce but surely would impress even the best cooks out there, baking and dessert classes where you go for a sugar overload and then the [...]
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Eating locally and seasonally is usually pretty rewarding and delicious. But there are times, like the dead of winter when I’ve had enough beets to turn my pee pink, when all I want to do is buy that $8 box of imported strawberries from Argentina and call it a day. That’s why Christina and I [...]
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