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Mission sandwiched

PB and please -- lunch goes above and beyond with sophisticated sandos

08.29.12 - 9:45 am | Virginia Miller |
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APPETITE Two unusual, new Mission sandwich options: one of the city's best restaurants launches lunch with Scandinavian influence (part of the Nordic culinary wave finally reaching the West Coast that includes new restaurant Pläj) , and a low-key panini shop opens, refreshingly real with Middle Eastern touches.Read more »

The Turntable Kitchen remixes dinnertime

Eat your Frank Ocean with a side of pop overs and jam, say the web geniuses behind site

08.28.12 - 8:34 pm | Emily Savage |
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EAT BEAT I'd venture a guess that no one in this town knows the frosting tipped appeal of hand-mixing music and food more than the couple behind Turntable Kitchen. What started a year and a half ago as a simple (yet highly aesthetically pleasing) website mashing up recipes and records, has grown into a multi-headed creative output machine, with food and music news, giveaways, and physical pairings boxes — on top of the drool-inducing posts.Read more »

Rich appetites

The BrokeAss Gourmet teaches life skills with a side of peanut sauce

08.28.12 - 8:27 pm | Emily Savage |
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CHEAPER EATS "By the way, I have the best peanut sauce recipe ever. I would say it's one of the top three things about me, my peanut sauce recipe." Author-blogger-chef Gabi Moskowitz mentions over brunch at the Dolores Park Cafe in her Mission neighborhood.

"I develop crushes on peanut sauces and tinker until I get them just right. And — sidebar — peanut sauce, if you make a batch of it and keep it in your fridge, you're like, 50 percent on your way to dinner."Read more »

The agri-chem industry's secrets

Say yes to Proposition 37 for the health of our families

08.28.12 - 8:02 pm | Guest Opinion |
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OPINION This November, California voters will decide on a question that affects us all: Do we have the right to know what's in the food we're eating and feeding our families?

This high-stakes food fight has become the most expensive issue of the upcoming election. Pesticide and junk-food corporations have already poured $25 million into an effort to defeat Proposition 37, a simple labeling measure that would inform California consumers about whether our food has been genetically engineered.

What is it that these corporations don't want us to know?Read more »

Feeding a movement

Keith McHenry on the history of Food Not Bombs and how it's recently been occupied

08.28.12 - 8:00 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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Keith McHenry was in Tampa, feeding fed-up (and hungry) Republican National Convention protesters, when we spoke by phone. Next he'll head to Charlotte to do the same for those protesting the Democrats, and then to New York for Occupy Wall Street's anniversary on Sept. 17.Read more »

Portable pollution

The dirty generators powering a rapidly expanding number of mobile food trucks escape the attention of air quality regulators

08.28.12 - 7:59 pm | Emily Hunt |
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With its decidedly hip aesthetic and clientele, San Francisco's food truck trend may be naturally assumed to be environmentally sound and health conscious. But the rapidly expanding craze may actually be creating air pollution and endangering the health of their employees in ways that aren't yet being regulated.Read more »

Jesus-free food

Churches aren't the only option for free meals

08.28.12 - 7:57 pm | Yael Chanoff |
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"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me," Jesus supposedly said way back when. In San Francisco, there are a multitude of churches that offer free food to the hungry (find a handy list at www.freeprintshop.org).Read more »

Eat to the beat

Gourmet offerings, high-end snacks, and pop-up chefs come to rock festivals and music venues. Should you give a fork?

08.28.12 - 4:44 pm | Emily Savage |
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Appetite: Outside Lands, as seen by a food writer

08.27.12 - 12:55 pm | Virginia Miller |
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4505 Meats at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
4505 Meats at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Trees at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Reggie Watts at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Wine Lands at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Beck at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Beer Lands at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Lamb Lands at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Lamb bites at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Polo field at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Magnolia Pub brewer David McLean at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Choco Lands at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller
Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands. Guardian photo by Virginia Miller

This year's Outside Lands, the three-day extravaganza of some of the top musical acts in the world and quality food and drink (this is SF, after all) in the beauty of Golden Gate Park, felt more packed than ever. But despite throngs descending on SF from all over the country that turning Golden Gate Park into a sea of trash -- thanks clean-up crews! -- Outside Lands magic happened each day.Read more »

Tradition

New bar from the Future Bars group intrigues with casking experiments and themed "snugs."

08.22.12 - 10:20 am | Virginia Miller |
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APPETITE Despite its Future Bars group provenance, Tradition is not Bourbon and Branch part two. Although I continue to bring visitors and locals who've never been to the still-magical, speakeasy-like B and B, Tradition is a more relaxed entrant in the Future line-up, which also includes Wilson and Wilson, Rickhouse, Swig, and Local Edition.Read more »