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Last updated 09/01/2010 at 10:18 p.m. PDT

In Search of Raw-Egg Cocktails (Video)

Has the salmonella scare kept Bay Area hipsters from sipping pisco sours?

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By , , on September 1, 2010 - 1:24 p.m. PDT
Tanya Jo Miller

Before you slurp up that trendy pisco sour, make sure you know what you’re drinking.

As local, organic food has become more popular in the Bay Area in recent years, so have intricate cocktails made from fresh fruits and vegetables — and, yes, often raw eggs.

In recent weeks, 550 million eggs have been pulled off the shelf due to possible salmonella contamination that may have sickened more than 1,400 people. We wondered whether that was having an effect on the local cocktail scene.

Though the risk of salmonella is low — the current large-scale recall accounts for less than 1 percent of total egg production — the public panic appears relatively high. Or is it?

We visited several cocktail bars in San Francisco’s Mission District to find out.

Queena Kim
Queena comes to the Bay Citizen from 89.3-KPCC, Southern California’s leading NPR-affiliate, where she helped start-up its highly-successful arts and culture show Off-Ramp. As a reporter and co-producer of the show, Queena has done hundreds ... View Profile
Tanya Jo Miller
Tanya Jo Miller is the co-host of CyberFrequencies a pop+tech+science podcast that airs on 89.3-KPCC, Sirius XM Channel 136 and is available as a podcast on iTunes. She's an award-winning multimedia producer who has made ... View Profile
Zoe Corneli
Before joining The Bay Citizen as online editor, I was a founding staff member of the daily local news magazine Crosscurrents from KALW, where I reported, edited and produced radio stories in addition to managing ... View Profile
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