To misquote Elmer Fund, ” It’s Tuna Season!” Pacific Albacore tuna season started a bit late this year but is now in full swing, running from July through September. In case you didn’t realize it, Albacore, IS NOT its overfished and mercury-laden tuna cousins. It is troll or pole-and-line caught, endorsed as a “best choice” [...]

There is something I’ve found very disturbing for some time now. And for some reason the political season we are all mired in has intensified the debate and widened that casum. It’s not Democrat versus Republican, left versus right, conservative versus progressive, all though those are bad enough. What I am talking about is the [...]

Recently, I wrote a piece for Eat.Drink.Better about culinary greenwashing, titled Just Add Eco-Friendly Detergent and Rinse. Just when you thought it was safe to good back in the water again, I’ve found another prime example of a local, independent restaurant with the nerve to manipulate us.

Ernest Hemingway in “A Moveable Feast“ wrote: As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with [...]

It’s been all over the food blogosphere and several wire services, but in case you’ve missed what Eater SF calls the Death of Society: The Food Network is getting into the competitive eating genre with a new series, tentatively titled “Eat the Clock.” The show is described as a cross between an eating competition and [...]