Corey Lee Benu chef Corey Lee is speaking today at 4 p.m. on the subject of science and the culinary arts, and "the increasingly parallel technologies behind modern cooking and bioscience." The lecture will also feature demos of some of Lee's emulsions... »
• Activists descended on an abandoned factory farm in Stanislaus County housing 50,000 starving, dead, and nearly dead chickens and managed to save about 4,600 birds, which are now being put up for adoption. The owner of the farm had walked away becaus... »
• An Arizona-based developer building a 12,000-unit mixed-use development called Saltworks on the salt flats in Redwood City, is looking into providing water to the entire complex by building a desalinization plant. They can expect some controversy ove... »
The bacon 'bouquet.' In the borderland between the Haight, Cole Valley, and Ashbury Heights, some new life has just appeared in the vacant Ashbury Market space (205 Frederick Street). As we heard a couple months back, Bacon Bacon and Three Babes Bakesh... »
This is only a re-enactment, folks. We'll be the first to admit that San Francisco gets kookier by the day, but this story has us realizing how much we don't know about what goes on here every day. It turns out that a popular Japanese television show, ... »
Western Addition: Jeremy Tooker of Four Barrel Coffee fame is opening a large new café at 736 Divisadero (at Fulton) with a bakery in back by Josey Baker. The name is still TBD. [Josey Baker via Tablehopper] Fort Mason: Off the Grid ends its run for th... »
