Taste-Off: The best (and worst) chocolate frostings
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 19:37:17 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Dump a few ingredients into a bowl, beat for a few minutes, then taste, tweak and frost. But for those who need to make dessert on the fly, pre-made frosting can be a lifesaver. It comes in a handful of...
Mark di Suvero review: Grand at any scale
Source: SF Gate
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 17:31:13 -0700 | arts-culture-news
This Sculpture at monumental scale makes us conscious of our approach to it in ways and to an extent that small work cannot. Whether you approach Crissy Field by car, by bicycle or on foot, the eight towering Mark di...
The 32nd Northern California Book Awards
Source: KQED
Baghdad :: Iraq | updated 2013-05-22 13:05:56 -0700 | arts-culture-news
New and Selected Poems . Fiction: A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois, a debut novel about the meeting of unlikely characters. Poetry: D.A.
Salad days
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 06:38:02 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) Arizona Daily Sun With spring lettuce and all variety of greens enjoying their salad days now, it's a good time to think about how to dress them up right. And that doesn't have to mean reaching...
Entrepreneur bakes up Starbucks' sweet pastry plan
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 06:38:00 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Savvy as Starbucks is about coffee, it has not had much luck with food. Although the chain revamps its pastry case every few years, sometimes with promises about "health and wellness," food represents just 19 percent of its U.S. sales....
Wine Pick of the Week
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
Mendoza :: Argentina | updated 2013-05-22 06:37:57 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Alamos 2010 Malbec "Seleccion, Mendoza, Argentina" ($20) Like most Malbecs, the Alamos Seleccion has great color depth. Its nose is a bit light, but the flavors are much more memorable, featuring rich fruit, modest tannins, thick texture and a long...
Bay Area's best restaurant kid's meals
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 15:14:41 -0700 | arts-culture-news
At a time when even school cafeterias serve adobo and sushi, it's surprising that so many restaurants still resort to chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese for their youngest clientele...Meanwhile, their parents, who keep an eye on selection, nutrition and...
Nine San Francisco restaurants for young foodies
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 15:14:38 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Since they started their food blog for kids three years ago, San Francisco's Stacie Dong and Simran Singh of A Little Yumminess have become experts not only in keeping their children's appetites stoked at home but also when they are...
Recent restaurant reviews
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 13:06:02 -0700 | arts-culture-news
For the newest full-length reviews, go to www.mercurynews.com/ restaurants...Groovy crescent-shaped red leather booths, chairs carved from oak barrels, charming service, handcrafted cocktails and comfort food make this gastropub a winner. $$. (* * * on 5/9/13) The Forge, 66 Franklin...
Live chat: Restaurant critics: Behind the scenes
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-21 13:05:54 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Paul Pioneer Press restaurant critic Jessica Fleming , Denver Post restaurant critic William Porter and Bay Area News Group food and wine writer Jessica Yadegaran for a behind-the-scenes look at reviewing restaurants on Thursday, May 23 at 2 p.m...Submit your...
Bay Area food news: Sunset's Celebration Weekend a foodie affair
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 13:54:07 -0700 | arts-culture-news
And, from the looks of things, it's shaping up to be the foodiest year ever for the fest. Celebrity chefs Fabio Viviani ("Top Chef") and Susan Feniger (LA's Border Grill) have both been tapped as headliners for the June 1-2...
Bay Area Restaurant News: SF MoMA launches dinners
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 13:54:04 -0700 | arts-culture-news
We talked about the exciting culinary creations coming out of the Bay Area's new wave museum cafes last week in a front-page story headlined "Curated cuisine." Now comes word from Eater SF that SFMoMA is taking that concept even further....
Bay Area restaurant news: Sole Ristorante in San Mateo, Kings of Calamari in Monterey
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Mateo :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 13:54:03 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Two of the chefs involved with Sapore Italiano in Burlingame have taken over a former San Mateo pizzeria and transformed it into the white-tablecoth Sole Ristorante Italiano. Mario Di Paola and Angelo Cucco, both born in Sicily, specialize in homemade...
Book Review: Eve Ensler: 'In the Body of the World'
Source: KQED
Brazzaville :: Congo | updated 2013-05-20 06:47:59 -0700 | arts-culture-news
In the Body of the World' There are some stories that get under your skin and into your psyche and they change everything. For Eve Ensler, activist and playwright best known for The Vagina Monologues , one such story caused...
Art Review: SFAI MFA Students Overtake the Old Mint in 'Currency'
Source: KQED
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 06:10:02 -0700 | arts-culture-news
MFA Students Overtake the Old Mint in 'Currency' Geoffrey Traxler, Untitled , 2013. With its MFA exhibition in a new venue every year, the San Francisco Art Institute challenges both its graduate students and the final exhibition's audience to rethink...
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