Growers and Grocers

The Fancy Food Show is the ultimate in “specialty foods.” Often that means aisles and aisles of uninspired barbecue sauce, but occasionally an interesting product finds its way to San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Sometimes you can divine a trend here and there that’s worth noticing: You’ll see it on your supermarket’s shelves before the year […]

Heidi Swanson of 101 Cookbooks sent me a link to Mighty Foods, a new group blog she helped start. It took me a while to visit it, but now that I’ve looked it over, I’ll be adding the site to the Links section on the right.
The group is focusing on “natural foods” with “veg-friendly” […]

SFist.com editor-at-large Jackson West rhapsodized about the taste of freshly killed chicken in this post. Few consumers get the chance to eat really fresh meat, but this love letter to perky poultry will inspire you to seek it out.
He found his dinner at a store in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ethnic markets in other large […]

Cookbooks from high-end Bay Area chefs often encourage readers to use salt-packed anchovies over the standard oil-packed tin. But Brett Emerson, who shares his professional culinary experience on in praise of sardines, makes the case that oil-packed anchovies are better.
Provided you buy the right ones.
I love anchovies, and I’m curious to try the brand. Even […]