prestigious news organizations like the New York Times, that your industry has more to defend than Scott.

Weren’t those theaters magnificent? The Spreckels and the Fox theaters in San Diego both had great pipe organs! They didn’t do it for matinees, but for the paying crowds in the evenings, they had organists working...

to make a snack, and every single week it was either chocolate chip cookies or brownies. When it was my turn, my mom (being a big hippie at the time) decided to make this hideous organic cobbler-like thing, that had nuts and...

and '88 by Banco Nacional de Credito Rural, and now re-published by Editorial Oceana and the Mexican cultural organization Conaculta. There might have been a more expensive earlier edition, since the ones I have mention that the...

College was a cullinary ceasepool mired in raman noodles, generic PB&Js and Tuna Helper. At one point I delivered pizzas, and the kitchen’s mistakes were my dinner and breakfast. One of the benefits of being in any student...

a bottle), buy a bunch of wines and taste them side by side. If one or two people do the choosing (maybe with the help of a trustworthy wine store clerk), the wines can easily be organized into flights of three to five bottles....

In what sense genetically engineered? Some arthropod’s or mammal’s or plant’s resistance to peanut allergy put into a vaccine? What organisms have peanut allergy resistance? Meaning, first, which have peanut...

I like the taste giblets give the gravy, but I try my hardest not to eat any...I dont eat organs

- since you did ask – cook veggies JUST before you are ready to plate the meal. I like getting greenbeans in the organic section of the grocery – the ones in the little bags. Just snip the corner & micro them for 2...

Maybe not tricks, but a couple of shortcuts: -for a quick mole sauce, buy it from the supermarket in the glass jar, grate some mexican hot chocolate into it (has sugar, cinammon in it already) and reduce with boxed organic chicken...

, and almost everyone has a better time than if they were in a narrow demographic. Finally, organize yourself with good master lists for prep and have convenient waste receptacles. Be well rested, and don’t drink too much...

are notoriously slow about RSVP’s and planning a wedding takes a lot of time and energy and planning and it’s helpful to be as organized as possible. Having a guest show up and changing their choice would be rude and...

adventurous of diners (organ meat freaks me out... and foie gras is no exception). But we do live in San Francisco, so we get our share of excellent food. In other words, while we may not be hard-core foodies, I like to think we...

Not really. If I ever do find out a server’s name, it’s because of an organic process where I am a regular in the place and get to know and like the server because we hit it off. Not because the server is running some...

seen missing at the market and I’ve braved years of stormy winter Saturdays at Ferry Plaza. Out: Achadinha Cheese Co., Allstar Organics, Andante Dairy, Bella Viva Orchards, Bernard Ranches, Chan’s Nursery, Cowgirl...