Crafting American Food
There’s never been a better time to eat in the United States. Hand-crafted and artisan foods are popping up in shops, food trucks, and marketplaces at a feverish pace and are part of an emerging...
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SpoonRocket
Little flyers have been appearing all over Berkeley lately, advertising freshly cooked, mostly organic, home-delivered artisanal gourmet meals for just six bucks a pop. Your first thought is: This...
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The Story of a Foodish Boy
Imagine your incredulity at reading a CV that lists 52 different employers in the space of year. From Michelin-starred restaurants to fish and chip shops, from coffee farms in Brazil to tea plantations...
View ArticleFrances House Wine
You arrive at a cute neighborhood restaurant, order several dishes to share, and then are faced with the most complicated part of the evening: selecting the wine. Now, you enjoy wine and sometimes it’s...
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Food as Paint
During my years in art school, the genre of still life played a prominent part in understanding the language of art. Depicting variations of plates of fruit, glasses of wine, apples, oranges, and every...
View ArticleAsian Immigrants: Eating Habits in Lean Times
SAN FRANCISCO – Studies show that immigrants gain weight when they come to the United States and that their eating habits change for the worse the longer they stay. But there is very little information...
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Who needs foie gras anyway?
Why did they have to ban foie gras? My signature dish, the one with which I had won the Kulinarya semifinal, was a foie gras and green mango sisig. It was, in my opinion, a pretty awesome...
View ArticleCo-own Rush Farm
Domestic food production is dependent on access to land. And when that land is farmed sustainably it helps the planet: carbon-rich soils alleviate climate change, and biodiversity is restored. But the...
View ArticleEDWINS Restaurant
There are many platitudes one could use when speaking of EDWINS Restaurant: every journey begins with a single step; give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a...
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The Meals that Starving Travelers Dream Of
In the 2001 novel Life of Pi, the castaway protagonist, a 16-year-old Indian boy nicknamed Pi, spends the better part of a year on a lifeboat—and one day as he reaches a near-death peak of hunger,...
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