Thanksgiving is a time for lots of food and gratitude. In our home, it is also a time to celebrate birthdays. Our family (thanks to my sister and her family) has a very popular birthday tradition. The doughnut. Yes, I admit it. We get doughnuts early in the morning (while they are yummy and fresh) []
There’s Something Special About Nob Hill
San Francisco is comprised of many eclectic and fascinating neighborhoods, each with their own flair and sense of enjoyment. As you begin to explore these areas, you get a feeling of what each neighborhood is like — at least as a visitor. But what would it be like to actually live there, be a part []
SF Food Bank’s Third Annual Hunger Challenge
The San Francisco Food Bank’s third annual Hunger Challenge kicked off yesterday with several participants who have agreed to spend one week eating on just $4 per day. The Hunger Challenge allows its participants to eat for one day or a whole week on $4/day to experience what it is like to have very limited []
Peaches!
Hayes Valley Farm
In the last few years, there have been several proposals to use lots throughout the city of San Francisco that are slated for development as interim green spaces. The idea behind this is that using land for temporary parks or public spaces while development is stalled (happening frequently in this economy) is better for []
Coming to a City Near You!
I’ve been loving the explosion of choices and awareness in the last fewyears regarding our food and how it is grown and brought to ourtables. When I first got a CSA (community supported agriculture) boxin Boston almost 20 years ago, I had to help organize and enroll 9neighbors and offer my house as the weekly drop-off []
Peach Picking at the Masumoto Farm
Last weekend, I went to pick peaches at our adoptive tree at the Masumoto Family Farm in Del Ray. This has become an annual ritual, including the taco stops on the way and dinner at Uncle Harry’s restaurant in Reidley. This year, the peaches have ripened quickly. Got to run, making jam, canning salsa and giving []
Street Food Festival Supports Micro-Entrepreneurs
A Street Food Festival to support La Cocina, a non-profit located on Folsom Street in the Mission that is a business incubator for food businesses in San Francisco. I first learned of La Cocina at last year’s Slow Food Festival–one of the businesses that started at La Cocina was at the event. Serving food in []
More Urban Farming–Up on the Roof
More people are farming in urban areas, a recent article in the New York Times reports about roof top gardening in cities throughout the country. I have been fascinated in recent years about the boom in urban gardening. I was looking for an article that I wrote a few years ago about urban gardening in []
Good ____________ (food, wine, cause, friends, fun)
Last night I attended a food and wine pairing, to benefit the Friends of San Francisco Independent Living Skills Program, hosted by a good friend (and attended by old friends and new friends). It was great fun! Gwendolyn Wilson, the manager of wine.com‘s retail store (4th Ave in Berkeley), is an incredibly knowledgable []
