David Mas Masumoto's Lessons for Sustainability David Masumoto on writing and the search for truth
"Writers are always a bit neurotic, they probably lack self confidence, and that's why they like writing. They are always searching for the truth, and yet they know when they write they have to speak as if they know the truth. Talk about a contrad… Add new comment
SF Superfoods: Basil By Darya Pino
Stroll through a farmers’ market at the height of summer
and you’ll be tantalized by the sweet perfume of
basil. This pungent herb brings a taste of the garden to
summertime dishes around the city. Basil’s intoxicating aroma
comes from several different essential oils, many of whi…I've seen the best fish of my generation destroyed by madness and greed "200 billion pounds’ worth of cod were taken from Canada’s Grand Banks before 1992, when the cod simply ran out."
1. Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker > The Scales Fall: Is there any hope for our overfished oceans?
"As recently as the late nineteen-sixties, bluefin in the United States sold fo…Urban Agtivist: Cultivating an Urban Agroecology Entrepreneurs are seeking sustainability and equitability in San Francisco’s urban ag movement
By Sarah Rich
In a region where people are passionate about the advancement
of urban farming, it’s only natural that our local food
magazine would dedicate some ink in each issue to talking
about this…By the book — or not A brief, semi-autobiographical, history of recipes. By Molly Watson - Photos by Naomi Fiss
These four San Francisco walls are full of recipes.
Scads of cookbooks, more than I’m willing to
count—each of which is crammed with scores, if
not hundreds of recipes—fill a towering bookcase
in my kitch…To Nature or to Nurture? What “natural” means when it comes to wine—sometimes
a little interference is just what the grape needs.
By Wayne Garcia - Photos by Naomi Fiss - Cover illustration by Eamo Donnelly
Natural wine” is a hot topic. From magazines
to the blogosphere, every oenophile
seems to have an opinion. But pr…I Left My Fridge in San Francisco: Jon Miller In honor of San Francisco Giant's broadcaster Jon Miller's upcoming induction into the baseball hall of fame as the recipient of the Ford C. Frick award, we revisit Emily Kaiser's interview from August 2006.
Jon Miller has provided the play-by-play for baseball games
in San Francisco as the “Voic…Yes We Can Trotters This month, only the strong survive as Yes, We Can jumps into canning feet-first. They'll be canning trotters (yep, that's right, pig's feet) two ways. You'll learn to make spicy pickled feet as well as "trotter gear," an extraordinarily delicious piggy gelatin perfect for cooking beans or stews (m…Marin Farmers Market Flash Mob! Last Sunday, over 200 volunteer dancers flooded the Marin Farmers Market in San Rafael, CA, surprising our farmers market community with an extraordinary “Good Morning!” The flash mob was the culmination of months of collaboration between a number of Marin County non-profits including: Agricultural…Plant a Sunflower - Save a Honeybee February 2007 map showing states affected by the honey bee collapse
disorder. Map courtesy MAAREC.
Honeybee colonies used for pollinating commercial crops are dying off at an unprecedented rate. More than 1/3 of the commercial bee colonies across the country perished this past winter and many w… |
