on the farms? SF day: go to the museums, oysters at hog island, try some chowder at crudo. maybe dinner at ilcanto or pizzaiolo. seafood at swann oyster depot for lunch. cheese from cheese board and bread from acme bread. i saw...

(Formatted with All Pictures here: http://exilekiss.blogspot.com/2008/11/culinary-tour-of-ramen-shops-of.html) I’m still trying to recount how the events transpired that propelled me through 5(!) Ramen Shops during a lazy...

Twentysomething sommelier and one-time Top Chef villain Stephen Asprinio is nearing completion on two new ventures, including a pretty great-sounding wine store and a less promising restaurant.

It’s a common question for people who love food—should I scrap my current career and go to culinary school? Before you plunk down money and buy a white coat, hear what the pros have to say.

Johnson & Wales has a culinary museum and archive that also has a presence on the web. Here’s a link to a nice exhibit they’ve posted called America the Bountiful: Classic American Food from Antiquity to the Space...

Dubrovnik: It’s the new Prague! Blogger Ayun Halliday gets jiggy with the cevapcici.

Is your coffee scoop approved by the Institute?

Lady Marmalade (and some of her fellow musicians) are pushing food products.

Foodie extraordinaire Calvin Trillin has a piece in the new New Yorker about the street vendors of Singapore.

A librarian discovers Salvador Dali’s surrealist cookbook.

The bloggers at The Food Museum ruffled a few feathers yesterday with a snarky post about obesity rates in the U.S. that puts the responsibility for overweight squarely onto eaters’ shoulders.

Everyone’s serving up tributes to MePa landmark diner Florent.

When it comes to the freshest local foods prepared well, David Lebovitz thinks the French may no longer be on their game. Is American food better than French?

Is her new Hardee’s commercial hot or not?

The cafeteria at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, a.k.a. Mitsitam Café, seems enticing.