Lucky Peach, the new print quarterly from McSweeney’s and David Chang of New York’s Momofuku restaurants, hit newsstands last week. Co-editor Peter Meehan, who also co-authored the Momofuku cookbook, writes in the introduction that the magazine came about when the group first talked about doing a TV show. That instead morphed into an iPad app, which reportedly features two hours of video and will launch shortly. From there, somehow a ......
In the past week, two new food TV shows with Bay Area roots aired their pilots, each with the goal of raising money for a full series geared toward public television. Neither features celebrity chefs —or celebrity anything, unless you are a farmer groupie. Both focus on that catchphrase of the day: getting in touch with the source of your food. Their approaches to the subject are very different, but ......
Green food labels, or "eco labels" for short, are supposed to help consumers make informed choices. But the labels have become so popular among both consumers and manufacturers (Great marketing tool!) that there are now 377 eco labels in use worldwide, and confusion reigns. That’s the number that was thrown out during a panel discussion on eco labels at the recent Cooking for Solutions Sustainable Foods Institute in Monterey. With ......
If rhubarb consommé sounds like the ultimate in cocktail geekery, well it is. An ingredient featured in the new bar menu at Manresa, which just got its liquor license and reopened after a remodel, it reflects not just the culinary sensibilities at the four-star Los Gatos restaurant, but a Bay Area movement towards locally sourced artisan cocktails.The cocktails from beverage director Jeff Bareilles feature herbs, fruits and vegetables from ......
Sustainable agriculture has become so entwined with the subject of food in the Bay Area that it pops up regularly in this blog, whether the subject is fine dining or cooking at home. Urban dwellers who support the idea of sustainable and local agriculture – and there are legions of them in Northern California—usually do so on the consumer level, whether by participating in a cow share or by just ......
