AltWeeklies Wire
The Water Curenew
Maybe those who insist on bottled water should be obliged to join the smokers outside.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
04-02-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Republic of Fennelnew
Pale bulbs found in abundance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
03-26-2008 |
Food+Drink
A Small Beefnew
Japan, like Europe, has its venerated, slow food-style traditions.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
03-19-2008 |
Food+Drink
White Made Rightnew
When Californians mention wines they like, the wines are almost always red ones.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
03-12-2008 |
Food+Drink
New Soup for You!new
Like all repertoires, the soup repertoire is in need of constant tending.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
03-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Saving Food From Too Much Saltnew
There is hope if you've added too much salt to a dish or store-bought food is too salty out of the jar.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
01-23-2008 |
Food+Drink
Michael Pollan Returns With 'In Defense of Food'new
If The Omnivore's Dilemma was a large conceit, Defense is a potent essay whose subject is, finally, the ways in which food science has misled us into various foolish wars: against fat, against carbs, and on behalf of supplements, to name just a few.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
01-03-2008 |
Food+Drink
Feeding the Food Brainiacnew
One of the better food brainiac-friendly books available is Lilia Zaouali's Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
12-19-2007 |
Food+Drink
Beers for Dessertnew
In beer's ongoing search for a place at the table set with a white linen tablecloth, dessert presents itself as an unlikely but promising niche.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
11-14-2007 |
Food+Drink
'King Corn' Examines What Health is Worthnew
This documentary follows the directors as they arrange to farm an acre of corn in Iowa, then follow the harvest as best they can as it flows into the whitewater river of agrocommerce.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
My Kingdom for a Legume!new
The American heartland doesn't know beans.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
09-20-2007 |
Food+Drink
Let Bison Be Bisonnew
Arguments for choosing bison over beef include the likelihood that bison is, on balance, better for you and is a meat from a once nearly extinct North American species whose prospects for survival are, perhaps ironically, enhanced by its homecoming as a food animal.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
09-12-2007 |
Food+Drink
Learning to Eat Like Aboriginalsnew
A glowing shard of the continent's aboriginal culinary past can be found in Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
07-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
Porn in Pairsnew
The best pairings are food, wine, and connections to other people.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
07-05-2007 |
Food+Drink
Clear-Eyed Views About Dessertnew
In Classic Stars Desserts, Emily Luchetti's new cookbook, intensity, not scale, is the measure of all desserts.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Paul Reidinger |
06-21-2007 |
Food+Drink