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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcooking.com/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/logo200.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Cooking School logo\" title=\"San Francisco Cooking School logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49963\">\u003c/a>Ready to make a career change? Always wondered if you had the chops to make it in a restaurant kitchen? Want to whip your skills into shape before you launch that catering/food truck/recipe development business? While the Bay Area has never lacked for cooking schools, cooking classes, or chef demonstrations, the brand-new \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcooking.com/\"> San Francisco Cooking School\u003c/a> is opening this fall at Turk and Van Ness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in January, the school will be offering two programs for would-be professional chefs: a six-month full-time program and an 11-month part-time program with classes on nights and weekends. There'll also be a variety of cookbook signings, chef demos, and \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfcooking.com/\">day-long workshops\u003c/a> on a wide range of topics, from \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfcooking.com/2012/08/03/macaroon-workshop/\">macaroons three ways\u003c/a> with Tartine pastry chef Laurie Ellen Pelicano and regional Italian cooking to a \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfcooking.com/2012/07/17/samins-take-on-turkey-day-1110/\">California Thanksgiving\u003c/a> menu with Pop-Up General Store founder \u003ca href=\"http://saminnosrat.com/\">Samin Nosrat.\u003c/a> \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/jodi-liano800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/jodi-liano560.jpg\" alt=\"Jodi Liano\" title=\"Jodi Liano\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49951\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Jodi Liano.\u003c/strong> Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founder Jodi Liano first trained, then taught, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.tantemarie.com/\">Tante Marie's Cooking School\u003c/a>. In starting her own school, she hopes to break out of the typical French-influenced, recipe-driven mold, inspire her students to cook professionally, and get them tasting, creating, and learning the chemistry behind what works in the kitchen (and how to fix what doesn't). With an advisory board of top Bay Area chefs, and deans including chefs \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/07/urban-chef-report-craig-stolls-favorite-bay-area-eats/\">Craig Stoll\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/01/07/food-secrets-of-chefrestaurateurwriter-daniel-patterson/\">Daniel Patterson\u003c/a> and pastry chef \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/03/02/pastry-chef-profile-bill-corbett-of-absinthe/\">Bill Corbett\u003c/a> she's gotten an earful about the lack of real-world skills in new hires fresh out of culinary school. Sure, these kids might know Escoffier's master sauces, but could they fix a curdled Bearnaise or know how to correct for salt, acid, fat, and sweetness on the fly, without losing their rhythm or dropping into the weeds? What chefs were asking for were employees with culinary intuition, made up of equal parts technical and chemical know-how, a well-developed palate, sensory enthusiasm, and muscle memory--something that could, in fact, be taught, using ratio-based, method-driven systems, not bulky textbooks of recipes to memorize. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/catherine-pantsios800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/catherine-pantsios560.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Pantsios\" title=\"Catherine Pantsios\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49940\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Catherine Pantsios.\u003c/strong> Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, this would be a school that would start with hands-on hows and whys, with the freedom to mess up and be creative. Liano still talks about an \u003cem>a-ha!\u003c/em> moment over a skillet full of onions that wouldn't caramelize. Her pan got a quick glance from teacher and longtime restaurant chef/owner Catherine Pantsios, who then asked if she'd salted the onions before starting. She had, and there was the problem, since the salt was drawing out liquid, making the onions steam rather than brown. She remembers this moment of basic cooking chemistry even now, in a way that a written instruction might never have stuck. And Pantsios is now the lead instructor for the professional school.\"You have to make mistakes,\" emphasizes Pantsios. \"It's so important!\" (As well as learning what to do with less-than-perfect efforts: hello, soup stock!) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/cookingschool-800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/cookingschool-560.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Cooking School main demo area under construction\" title=\"San Francisco Cooking School main demo area under construction\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49942\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Cooking School main area under construction.\u003c/strong> Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a space big enough to equip two full teaching-kitchen spaces (one for the professional school, the other for chef demos, public classes, and events) was a challenge that dragged on for almost a year, until Liano discovered the corner site on Van Ness and Turk. Once part of the original Auto Row on Van Ness, the 100-year-old building had loft-high ceilings and huge windows, with plenty of room for both a demo kitchen up front and a more compact, restaurant-sized kitchen in the back, along with a dishwashing room, storage areas, changing rooms, offices, even a mezzanine that could evolve into a student lounge, meeting rooms and classrooms. Once an auto showroom, it had been a carburator shop, then Speedo 690, a short-lived Jeremiah Tower restaurant. Most recently, it had been a outpost of the Naan and Curry chain, until a fire closed it down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/stoves800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/stoves560.jpg\" alt=\"Stoves in main area workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Stoves in main area workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49956\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Stoves in main area workspace.\u003c/strong> Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liano sees her student demographic as career-changers, people who've been successful in other fields but always felt the lure of the kitchen, and who've made a thoughtful decision to develop the skills and speed required to make it in a professional setting. (And, it goes without saying, have given a long, hard consideration to paying $24,500 for training in a field that pays not much more than minimum wage to start.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/workspace800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/workspace5600.jpg\" alt=\"Workspace for students. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Workspace for students. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49960\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Professional kitchen workspace.\u003c/strong> Photos: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-kitchen800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-kitchen560.jpg\" alt=\"Professional Kitchen workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Professional Kitchen workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49980\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, the professional kitchen is set up like a real (albeit big) restaurant kitchen: a row of ranges, shared prep tables, an adjacent dish room. Expecting an individual \"work station\" of stovetop, oven, and prep area? Not here! Instead, Liano and Pantsios see students learn how to work together, moving gracefully (and fast) around their co-workers, yanking trays of biscuits out of a blasting-hot oven when the range top above is in full filet-searing swing. \"We want to get students used to the pace, rigors, and values of a restaurant kitchen,\" said Pantsios, \"to learn to pay attention to detail, to have that sense of urgency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-workspace8001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-workspace5601.jpg\" alt=\"Professional kitchen workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Professional kitchen workspace. 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And Pantsios is now the lead instructor for the professional school.\"You have to make mistakes,\" emphasizes Pantsios. \"It's so important!\" (As well as learning what to do with less-than-perfect efforts: hello, soup stock!) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/cookingschool-800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/cookingschool-560.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Cooking School main demo area under construction\" title=\"San Francisco Cooking School main demo area under construction\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49942\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Cooking School main area under construction.\u003c/strong> Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a space big enough to equip two full teaching-kitchen spaces (one for the professional school, the other for chef demos, public classes, and events) was a challenge that dragged on for almost a year, until Liano discovered the corner site on Van Ness and Turk. Once part of the original Auto Row on Van Ness, the 100-year-old building had loft-high ceilings and huge windows, with plenty of room for both a demo kitchen up front and a more compact, restaurant-sized kitchen in the back, along with a dishwashing room, storage areas, changing rooms, offices, even a mezzanine that could evolve into a student lounge, meeting rooms and classrooms. Once an auto showroom, it had been a carburator shop, then Speedo 690, a short-lived Jeremiah Tower restaurant. Most recently, it had been a outpost of the Naan and Curry chain, until a fire closed it down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/stoves800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/stoves560.jpg\" alt=\"Stoves in main area workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Stoves in main area workspace. 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Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49960\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Professional kitchen workspace.\u003c/strong> Photos: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-kitchen800.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-kitchen560.jpg\" alt=\"Professional Kitchen workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Professional Kitchen workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49980\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thus, the professional kitchen is set up like a real (albeit big) restaurant kitchen: a row of ranges, shared prep tables, an adjacent dish room. Expecting an individual \"work station\" of stovetop, oven, and prep area? Not here! Instead, Liano and Pantsios see students learn how to work together, moving gracefully (and fast) around their co-workers, yanking trays of biscuits out of a blasting-hot oven when the range top above is in full filet-searing swing. \"We want to get students used to the pace, rigors, and values of a restaurant kitchen,\" said Pantsios, \"to learn to pay attention to detail, to have that sense of urgency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-workspace8001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/prof-workspace5601.jpg\" alt=\"Professional kitchen workspace. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Professional kitchen workspace. 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We're training people to be entry-level cooks,\" said Liano, but cooks with smarts, creativity, and a lively knowledge of how things work in the kitchen and beyond. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/lunch-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/lunch-1.jpg\" alt=\"lunch onigilly\" title=\"lunch onigilly\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49850\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>teriyaki chicken, salmon and hijiki(seaweed) onigiri\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lunch-able staples are culturally relative. While I grew up in LA, toting peanut butter or tuna sandwiches to school, in Denmark, my friend Kim brought a special box from home with his \u003cem>smørrebrød\u003c/em>, open-faced rye bread squares topped with liver spread, cheese or chocolate. And everyday in Japan, Koji Kanematsu’s mother made him \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigiri\">onigiri\u003c/a>, rice balls stuffed with a pickled plum, a dab of salmon or other filling. These ubiquitous, portable snacks, often wrapped in nori (seaweed), are standard lunch fare for adults as well as children and sold in train stations, convenience stores and specialty shops in every Japanese city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/Onigiri_at_a_convenience_store_by_typester_in_Kamakura.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/Onigiri_at_a_convenience_store_by_typester_in_Kamakura.jpg\" alt=\"Onigiri at a convenience store\" title=\"Onigiri at a convenience store\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49847\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>rows of onigiri at Japanese convenience store. photo courtesy: typester at Kamakura\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Koji Kanematsu’s cozy lunch spot on Kearny, \u003ca href=\"http://onigilly.com/\">Onigilly\u003c/a>, had a soft opening to introduce San Franciscans to an updated version of his childhood comfort food, onigiri. The filled rice packets have been enthusiastically welcomed by curious Fi-Di-ers and who’ve been consuming almost 1000 \"onigilly\" a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little explanation of Koji's tweak on the original name: “onigiri” proved challenging for American tongues with its Japanese “r” that’s actually a combination of r, l and d sounds (technically called an \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_flap\">alveolar flap\u003c/a>) So, Koji morphed the word to “onigilly,” with a more familiar English “l” as in silly, frilly, lily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/onigilly-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/onigilly-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"onigilly Collage\" title=\"onigilly Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49862\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first sampled his rice triangles generously topped with eggplant, hijiki and spicy shrimp at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.newpeopleworld.com/eats/\">Cinema Café\u003c/a> in Japantown’s New People building, during a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/01/12/tasting-tour-uncovers-japantown%E2%80%99s-tempting-secrets/\">tasting tour that I wrote about\u003c/a> for BAB. (Note: I so enjoyed that \u003ca href=\"http://www.edibleexcursions.net/japantown_tour.htm\">Edible Excursions\u003c/a> tour, that I am now one of the EE guides and lead Japantown tasting tours several Saturdays a month).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was eager to visit his new restaurant and try some of his many veggie, meat and seafood toppings. Arriving before noon, it was easy to snag a spot at one of the five tiny tables and munch my lunch as a steady stream of trendy young office workers moved through an orderly line and took their lunches in compostable boxes to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/hijiki.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/hijiki.jpg\" alt=\"hijiki\" title=\"hijiki\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49851\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>hijiki and shredded carrots\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 17 choices, it's not easy to narrow it down to a set of three. I picked salmon, teriyaki chicken and hijiki (seaweed with shredded carrots), which came with a salad, edamame and pickled ginger. This is comforting, finger food (except for the salad) with a trio of balanced textures: soft warm rice, crunchy nori (if you eat it right away) and satisfying toppings. Light, healthy and flavorful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/onigilly-lunch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/onigilly-lunch.jpg\" alt=\"onigilly lunch\" title=\"onigilly lunch\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49846\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>onigilly topped with snow crab salad, sesame kale and broiled unagi\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onigilly's menu features traditional Japanese flavored toppings, such as salmon, pickled plum, lotus root and stinky-smelling, but good-for-you-because-it's-fermented \u003cem>natto\u003c/em> (soy beans). Plus a range of non-traditional combos, such as teriyaki tofu, spicy bacon cooked with garlic butter and sesame kale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koji has been selling his nori-wrapped rice packets and toppings from his food cart at Off the Grid Fort Mason, Civic Center Farmers Market and other locations since he completed the food incubation program at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina\u003c/a>. Executive Director, Caleb Zigas, explains that Koji’s \"motivation, talent, entrepreneurial spirit and product quality\" won him one of the few spots awarded to men in the program that prioritizes immigrant women. He was also the first Japanese person to go through La Cocina's training. And now, Mariko Grady, a current La Cocina participant, supplies Onigilly with its fermented foods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koji is from southern Japan. While in college there he worked in a restaurant for five years, ironically one that focused on pizza, pasta and wine.Then he started working in a tech company and came to the Bay Area on a business trip and predictably fell for our weather, culture and people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I interviewed him about his rice-ball business and edited his answers for clarity and length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/koji-and-adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/koji-and-adachi.jpg\" alt=\"koji and adachi\" title=\"koji and adachi\" width=\"560\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49858\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Koji Kanematsu and chef Adachi Hiroyuki\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you come up with the idea for your business?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: When I moved here 6 years ago, I found it strange that there were sushi restaurants on every block, but the onigiri snacks that we can buy everywhere in Japan were nowhere to be found. The Japanese friends I met here all missed the same taste of home and urged me to start a business to fill this need. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So did you start with the onigilly the way you make them now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: No, I started with a traditional Japanese style rice ball and tried it out on my Irish roommate and his American friends. They said it was okay, but they wouldn't eat it because it had too much rice and not enough filling. I got the idea to switch brown rice for the traditional white rice, then asked my friend (and now business partner) Adachi Hiroyuki–-who was executive chef for the Tsunami sushi restaurants--if he had any ideas how to make this onigiri for Americans? Adachi came up with the perfect fusion of elements: more filling placed on the top of the triangle of brown rice and an expanded array of traditional and non-traditional toppings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You say that onigiri has a long history. What do you mean?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: Well, they found fossilized rice balls from the Yayoi Period, about 2300 years ago. And in the Middle Ages (1200-1600) samurai used to take onigiri along when they were fighting a war. The traditional filling of \u003cem>ume\u003c/em> pickled plum, helped keep the rice balls fresh. Farmers used to eat the portable snacks too, and office workers--they're the perfect lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>(At this point, chef Adachi Hiroyuki joins the conversation). I notice, chef, that your menu is already changing with the seasons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AH: Yes, we're saying goodbye to eggplant and shishito (little peppers) but we'll have new flavors for the fall like chard, kabocha squash, sesame kale, beet greens with jalapeno and miso-roasted fennel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your plans for the future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AH: As soon as we get our liquor license, we plan to stay open later and add an izakaya bar, with beer, sake, shochu (a barley vodka) and appetizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: Eventually, we want to open 500 Onigilly restaurants around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AH: We want to educate people about how to eat healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: And expand into serving onigilly for school lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://onigilly.com/\">Onigilly\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Address:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/DN3Ay\">Map\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n343 Kearny Street (at Pine)\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94108\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 415-671-4706\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/onigilly\">Onigilly\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/onigilly\">@onigilly\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Note: I so enjoyed that \u003ca href=\"http://www.edibleexcursions.net/japantown_tour.htm\">Edible Excursions\u003c/a> tour, that I am now one of the EE guides and lead Japantown tasting tours several Saturdays a month).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was eager to visit his new restaurant and try some of his many veggie, meat and seafood toppings. Arriving before noon, it was easy to snag a spot at one of the five tiny tables and munch my lunch as a steady stream of trendy young office workers moved through an orderly line and took their lunches in compostable boxes to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/hijiki.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/hijiki.jpg\" alt=\"hijiki\" title=\"hijiki\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49851\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>hijiki and shredded carrots\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 17 choices, it's not easy to narrow it down to a set of three. I picked salmon, teriyaki chicken and hijiki (seaweed with shredded carrots), which came with a salad, edamame and pickled ginger. This is comforting, finger food (except for the salad) with a trio of balanced textures: soft warm rice, crunchy nori (if you eat it right away) and satisfying toppings. Light, healthy and flavorful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/onigilly-lunch.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/onigilly-lunch.jpg\" alt=\"onigilly lunch\" title=\"onigilly lunch\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49846\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>onigilly topped with snow crab salad, sesame kale and broiled unagi\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onigilly's menu features traditional Japanese flavored toppings, such as salmon, pickled plum, lotus root and stinky-smelling, but good-for-you-because-it's-fermented \u003cem>natto\u003c/em> (soy beans). Plus a range of non-traditional combos, such as teriyaki tofu, spicy bacon cooked with garlic butter and sesame kale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koji has been selling his nori-wrapped rice packets and toppings from his food cart at Off the Grid Fort Mason, Civic Center Farmers Market and other locations since he completed the food incubation program at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina\u003c/a>. Executive Director, Caleb Zigas, explains that Koji’s \"motivation, talent, entrepreneurial spirit and product quality\" won him one of the few spots awarded to men in the program that prioritizes immigrant women. He was also the first Japanese person to go through La Cocina's training. And now, Mariko Grady, a current La Cocina participant, supplies Onigilly with its fermented foods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koji is from southern Japan. While in college there he worked in a restaurant for five years, ironically one that focused on pizza, pasta and wine.Then he started working in a tech company and came to the Bay Area on a business trip and predictably fell for our weather, culture and people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I interviewed him about his rice-ball business and edited his answers for clarity and length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/koji-and-adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/koji-and-adachi.jpg\" alt=\"koji and adachi\" title=\"koji and adachi\" width=\"560\" height=\"496\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49858\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Koji Kanematsu and chef Adachi Hiroyuki\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you come up with the idea for your business?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: When I moved here 6 years ago, I found it strange that there were sushi restaurants on every block, but the onigiri snacks that we can buy everywhere in Japan were nowhere to be found. The Japanese friends I met here all missed the same taste of home and urged me to start a business to fill this need. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So did you start with the onigilly the way you make them now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: No, I started with a traditional Japanese style rice ball and tried it out on my Irish roommate and his American friends. They said it was okay, but they wouldn't eat it because it had too much rice and not enough filling. I got the idea to switch brown rice for the traditional white rice, then asked my friend (and now business partner) Adachi Hiroyuki–-who was executive chef for the Tsunami sushi restaurants--if he had any ideas how to make this onigiri for Americans? Adachi came up with the perfect fusion of elements: more filling placed on the top of the triangle of brown rice and an expanded array of traditional and non-traditional toppings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You say that onigiri has a long history. 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I notice, chef, that your menu is already changing with the seasons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AH: Yes, we're saying goodbye to eggplant and shishito (little peppers) but we'll have new flavors for the fall like chard, kabocha squash, sesame kale, beet greens with jalapeno and miso-roasted fennel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your plans for the future?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AH: As soon as we get our liquor license, we plan to stay open later and add an izakaya bar, with beer, sake, shochu (a barley vodka) and appetizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: Eventually, we want to open 500 Onigilly restaurants around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AH: We want to educate people about how to eat healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KK: And expand into serving onigilly for school lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/AdamDulye.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49537\" title=\"Adam Dulye. Photo: Melissa Fuller\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/AdamDulye.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Dulye. Photo: Melissa Fuller\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Adam Dulye. Photo: Melissa Fuller\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://abbotscellar.com/\">Abbot’s Cellar\u003c/a> opened this summer in the Mission, the initial buzz was that it may become something more than a gastropub. The restaurant is considered a local launch for Adam Dulye, 34, who is the chef-owner and hails from Kansas City. Dulye is a a Culinary Institute of America graduate who spent time studying charcuterie and butchery in France after graduation. He first worked at \u003ca href=\"http://monkskettle.com/\">Monk’s Kettle\u003c/a>, which is the sister restaurant to Abbot’s Cellar. Before moving to the Bay Area, Dulye cooked in craft-beer centric locations in Boulder, Vail, and Portland, Oregon, where he caught the eye of the Brewers Association. In 2009, Dulye cooked at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.durango.org/press-room/press-releases.aspx?mode=detail&id=2009-02-04\">James Beard House\u003c/a>, at one of the foundation’s first beer and food pairing dinners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dulye is the Culinary Consultant for the Brewers Association, and has spearheaded the culinary menus of several events including \u003ca href=\"http://www.savorcraftbeer.com/beer-food/chefs/\">SAVOR\u003c/a>: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience, the Farm to Table Pavilion at the Great American Beer Festival, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.worldbeercup.org/\">2012 World Beer Cup Dinner\u003c/a>. In 2009 and 2010, Dulye worked with the Colorado Brewers Guild to showcase beer and food pairings at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandwine.com/classic\">Aspen Food & Wine Classic\u003c/a>. The Noe Valley/Bernal Heights resident is currently consulting with author Janet Fletcher on a book highlighting artisan cheese and craft beer. October's tasting menu at Abbot's Cellar includes pairings like hand cut pasta with brown butter Chanterelle mushrooms, brocolli di ciccio and organic porter from \u003ca href=\"http://www.eelriverbrewing.com/\">Eel River Brewing\u003c/a>; bone marrow roasted root vegetables, chervil pistou with \u003ca href=\"http://www.firestonebeer.com/beers/products/dba-double-barrel-ale\">Double Barrel ale from Firestone Walker\u003c/a>; and for dessert a sour cream cheesecake, Marcona almond shortbread and honey gastrique paired with \u003ca href=\"http://www.moonlightbrewing.com/\">Moonlight Brewing’s\u003c/a> Change of Heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Bites caught up with Dulye via email and in person interviews and his comments have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What do you hope to accomplish at Abbot’s Cellar as Chef-Owner? Is a Michelin star a goal?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> Getting the Michelin star was a one-liner that I used when we opened. The goal here is to keep the conversation going for beer and food, and push Abbot’s to be more than a dining establishment. For diners, that hopefully means that it’s more of an experience and that you leave with more than a full belly. If you focus on that, a lot of times, things like a Michelin star can follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/AbbotsCellar-pork-chop.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49538\" title=\"Abbots Cellar oven-roasted pork chop, caraway spaetzle, peaches and tarragon. Photo courtesy of Christian Albertson\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/AbbotsCellar-pork-chop.jpg\" alt=\"Abbots Cellar oven-roasted pork chop, caraway spaetzle, peaches and tarragon. Photo courtesy of Christian Albertson\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Abbot’s Cellar oven-roasted pork chop, caraway spaetzle, peaches and tarragon--a popular mainstay of the menu. Photo courtesy of Christian Albertson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most passionate about, food-wise? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> Right now one of the areas I am focusing on is highlighting the integrity of simple ingredients. I want to highlight what the farmer believes is ready to pick and how they want it presented. Take carrots for example, they can be prepared in a way that will allow them to shine in the dish, but they have to be harvested at the perfect time. Carrots are always around but when the farmer says, \"Do this with it now,\" then I want to highlight what they grow and not necessarily what I did with it. We took a batch of carrots from Heirloom Organics farm and did them on a plate: puree, roasted, pickled, and raw. I was seeing where the sugar level and texture were, and doing the puree was kind of a natural thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Where do you get your information about food? What’s on your nightstand reading pile?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> It’s all over the place. On my nightstand table right now is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.rivercottage.net/shop/\">River Cottage\u003c/a> book. Oddly if you scrolled through my phone, the texts that go back and forth between chefs would make a pretty good read. Right now I’m texting a lot of brewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My good friend Kyle in Colorado sent over a picture of a one pound Matsutake. He started mushroom foraging, and I did foraging when I lived there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are your thoughts on the state of beer pairing and food in the Bay Area? Where are we with knowledge and appreciation? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye: \u003c/strong>Craft beer in general is on such a growth explosion. Beer pairing right now in the Bay Area is on its way up and there are some really great chefs and restaurants doing some great pairings. With anything else you have to search through all the places doing pairings and find who is really doing a great job and who is just putting a beer on the menu for the name of the beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as knowledge goes, the Bay Area is at a bit of a plateau. Not in a bad way. There is so much to learn and the basics have been hit. Most people know about IPA, Pale Ale, Stout, and Porter, etc. But now we have sours being the \"it\" beer in the Bay right now and the knowledge there is pretty low. Collaboration beers and new versions of old styles are coming out all the time and it is a challenge for everyone to keep up. Sours and IPAs range and people think, \"that’s what it’s supposed to taste like.\" There’s so much polar difference from IPA to IPA. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. People want to learn more about beer. But it’s challenging because people think IPA is the most popular beer style and you have to like it. If you don’t like it, they think it’s not for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appreciation for beer in the Bay Area is at an all-time high. The amount of people who have had their \"a-ha\" that's what beer can do moment is growing and people are seeking to expand their knowledge. Honestly, the best beer you have is the one right in front of you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How did you get into pairing beer with food?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> I grew up in Kansas City, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevard.com/wp-content/themes/boulevard960/ageverify.php?r=http://www.boulevard.com\">Boulevard\u003c/a> is the pillar of brewing. I was doing a lot of different wine, beer and spirits dinners when I was younger. When I was in Vail I did an event called Taste of Vail that was up on top of Vail and a 3000 person event. I was going to lick the snow wall, and thought, this is painfully bright and rather warm. There was one brewer there and we ended up talking and having a few beers. Being in Colorado, it kind of rolled into doing other things with breweries there and I just kept doing it. It was fun. And I enjoyed the people I was working with and how open people are. That openness is unique to brewing and everyone’s willing to share what they know. That’s a rare thing in a competitive industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are some of your favorite food and drink spots in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.rockbarsf.com/\">Rock Bar\u003c/a> for a Manhattan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I get coffee every morning at \u003ca href=\"http://www.caffefioresf.com/\">Cafe Fiore\u003c/a> on 24th Street. That counts, right? Coffee is a Bay Area \"drink\" now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rangesf.com/\">Range\u003c/a> is a great neighbor to have for both food and cocktails. I tend to drink cocktails and wine when I go out more often than beer. 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Photo courtesy of Christian Albertson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most passionate about, food-wise? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> Right now one of the areas I am focusing on is highlighting the integrity of simple ingredients. I want to highlight what the farmer believes is ready to pick and how they want it presented. Take carrots for example, they can be prepared in a way that will allow them to shine in the dish, but they have to be harvested at the perfect time. Carrots are always around but when the farmer says, \"Do this with it now,\" then I want to highlight what they grow and not necessarily what I did with it. We took a batch of carrots from Heirloom Organics farm and did them on a plate: puree, roasted, pickled, and raw. 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Sours and IPAs range and people think, \"that’s what it’s supposed to taste like.\" There’s so much polar difference from IPA to IPA. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. People want to learn more about beer. But it’s challenging because people think IPA is the most popular beer style and you have to like it. If you don’t like it, they think it’s not for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appreciation for beer in the Bay Area is at an all-time high. The amount of people who have had their \"a-ha\" that's what beer can do moment is growing and people are seeking to expand their knowledge. Honestly, the best beer you have is the one right in front of you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How did you get into pairing beer with food?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Dulye:\u003c/strong> I grew up in Kansas City, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevard.com/wp-content/themes/boulevard960/ageverify.php?r=http://www.boulevard.com\">Boulevard\u003c/a> is the pillar of brewing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/560_BAB_CharlesPhan_ImagesBy-EricWolfinger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/560_BAB_CharlesPhan_ImagesBy-EricWolfinger.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Phan. Images courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.\" title=\"Charles Phan. Images courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49674\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Charles Phan. Image courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting a reservation at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.slanteddoor.com/\">Slanted Door\u003c/a> is a constant challenge for both locals and tourists which shows the power of home-style Vietnamese dishes like shaking beef, crab noodles and spring rolls served in a stylish setting with fabulous views. There’s now something of a solution for those pining for a Slanted Door fix: Chef-Restaurateur Charles Phan has a new cookbook called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/104012307/Vietnamese-Home-Cooking\">Vietnamese Home Cooking\u003c/a>.” The book is Phan’s first and offers how-to tips for creating dishes like black cod with lily buds and dried shiitakes, lemongrass beef stew, pork and shrimp spring rolls, and Sichuan cucumber pickles. Phan will be discussing his book at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2012-10-04/chef-charles-phan\">Commonwealth Club\u003c/a> tonight Thursday, October 4. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/104012307/Vietnamese-Home-Cooking\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/400_CoverArt_Vietnamese-Home-Cooking.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese Home Cooking by Charles Phan\" title=\"Vietnamese Home Cooking by Charles Phan\" width=\"400\" height=\"493\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49673\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phan put Vietnamese cooking on the American culinary landscape when he opened the Slanted Door restaurant on Valencia Street in the Mission back in 1995. It was the first restaurant of its type to offer high-end Vietnamese food, often made with farm-fresh and as-local-as-possible ingredients. From there, he has built a mini-empire of Bay Area restaurants and was one of the first anchor tenants to sign on to the remodeled Ferry Building landmark in 2004. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, he won the James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef, California and in 2011 was inducted into the foundation's \u003ca href=\"http://sf.eater.com/archives/2011/05/10/mike_tusk_and_charles_phan_win_james_beard_restaurant_and_chef_awards_2011_mike_tusk_and_charles_pha.php\">Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America\u003c/a>. Born in Da Lat, Vietnam in 1962, Phan and his parents and siblings all relocated to Guam just before the fall of Saigon. They spent two years there before settling in San Francisco in 1977. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Bites talked to Phan via phone interview about his new book, cooking with Alice Waters, his “refugee thinking” and upcoming Bourbon and fried chicken “Southern bar” concept. His comments have been edited for clarity and length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Why do a book now?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: I needed more recipes to fill the book so I had to wait. [Laughs.] The recipes are all similar to what we do at the restaurant, which is to promote Vietnamese cooking. I think a lot of people don't understand the way and how Vietnamese eat their food and what the philosophy is behind each technique. We have to explain that all the time and tell people “this is how you eat the food.” I did the book because I hope there’s interest. I lunch every year with the Ten Speed and Chronicle Books folks, and they’ve encouraged me for the last ten years to do this book. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Out the Door at the Westfield Mall shuttered under somewhat mysterious circumstances. What happened?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: I can’t really talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Where do you see yourself in relation to being a cook and businessman?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: For the title of chef or cook, I don’t really differentiate. At the end of day, you’re making food for people. I didn’t come from formal training. Yet, we’re all after the same thing -- making amazing food for people. I don’t really worry about the hierarchy of a name. I think every chef is nervous about what they do. If not, then it’s not interesting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for business, it’s like doing homework in college. If you want to pass the test, you have to do it. Or you blow it and don’t turn in your paper. A lot of people become our family soon after they become our staff. I don't see them leaving and so it makes sense for me to figure out a way to make a lot of money for all of us, a nest egg. Work-wise, we grow and change and can’t always be in the same spot. Like when a bartender becomes a bar manager, we can take that into account when we're looking at growing the business. We’re about to start a bourbon concept and will be able to move as a group. We may do something that’s cocktail-centric but food’s always in play. Maybe the next project could be a wine bar. It’s really about growing the family so we don't put all our eggs in one basket. I enjoy the business and work side of it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/560_BABVHC_VietnameseMeal_ImagesBy-EricWolfinger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/560_BABVHC_VietnameseMeal_ImagesBy-EricWolfinger.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese meal. Image courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.\" title=\"Vietnamese meal. Image courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49675\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vietnamese meal. Image courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the existing restaurant, we look at how to improve and change it so we’re not stagnant. We’re always asking, “Is there anything else we can do?” Also people come for shaking beef... they are looking for that and that’s what they want. Especially if it takes a couple of weeks to get a reservation! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was just cooking at \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/reservations/\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a> the other night, for the book tour. And Alice said “You’re so good at this and so comfortable.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I said, “Yeah, I don’t get to do this every day. I have other obligations.” She said if she had her druthers, she’d also be in the kitchen every day. But we are grown-ups so we have to take care of things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You live near the Fillmore. Do you have any favorite food or drink spots?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: If I go home, I go home. I promised my kids that I’ll be home 3-4 nights a week. Yet I don’t go home every night by dinnertime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chutneysf.com/\">Chutney\u003c/a> is one of my favorites. Usually, I get a cocktail at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/\">Bourbon and Branch\u003c/a> or at \u003ca href=\"http://tradbar.com/\">Tradition bar\u003c/a> across the street. There I can get high-end cocktails and good food. At Chutney, I really like their food and I don’t have to make a reservation. I think a lot of restaurant people can’t deal with doing a reservation at a restaurant on a busy night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For cocktails, often I drink at my own place because I get them for free. [Laughs.] At least in my head I’m not paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baragricole.com/\">Bar Agricole\u003c/a> is a good spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re doing a whole bourbon and fried chicken “Southern bar” concept. I’m working with my good friend Olle Lundberg. He and I both got addicted to bourbon, which is why were doing this project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t really drink a lot of cocktails until we moved to the Ferry Building. I started with a Margarita and tequila. Next thing you know I tried bourbon. I tend to like it straight up and neat to cut back on the sugar. Bourbon is sort of like the alcohol of choice. It’s going to be harder and harder to get good bourbon. Big companies are taking over all these small distilleries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Who are your mentors?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: My father. My parents ended up doing stuff they’d never done before. They opened a sewing shop -- and my mother had never threaded before. I call it the refugee thinking. Do your homework, and if you can deal with the worst-case scenario, you can deal with it. And if you can’t, you can’t. I always look to other chefs and reflect on what they are doing. With Alice Waters and her restaurant: when I was in Berkeley, it was seeing not just how she did the organic thing but the way she runs her business. Her menu was small. She’d put up six to seven items and customers would come in to eat. Prior to that, most Chinese restaurants had 100 items. That just gave me the confidence I needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the pros and cons of building a restaurant business? Do you have any funny stories?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: I was cooking at Chez Panisse, cooking on Monday and it was really hot. I felt like people were making fun of me for bringing Vietnamese food to Berkeley and also the weather from Vietnam. On the second seating, the power went out and we had to put out the fire. There was smoke and dust everywhere. I looked like I had Richard Gere’s hair -- it was grey. [Laughs.] I don’t look like Richard Gere. I wish I did. But I had his hair! That’s how it rolls. Nobody seemed to care that we didn’t have power. We made everybody’s food and the power went out twice. I just had a long shower after that. I was covered in dust and soot. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How did you learn to cook such great food?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nPhan: I think the key is to learn how to eat first. If you are exposed to a lot of great food and you start building your vocabulary of flavor. First you need the palate: how to visualize the picture and how to get there. I think the book is the same -- learning how to know each dish and visualize it. Just don’t come and tell me “it’s really good.” I do that to kids a lot -- my goal is to really affect kids and get them addicted to good food. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/beth-arlene500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/beth-arlene500.jpg\" alt=\"Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte at Porchlight\" title=\"Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte at Porchlight\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49061\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte at Porchlight\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seriously, every storytelling/reading/performance art show should start in a room that smells like bourbon and banh mi. On Monday, that was the scene at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.verdiclub.net\">Verdi Club\u003c/a> in the northeast Mission, as a capacity crowd squeezed in for the 11th season opener of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.porchlightsf.com\">Porchlight Storytelling Series\u003c/a>. At the old-fashioned bar, the bartenders were busy mixing highballs, grabbing bottles of Peroni and filling stubby glasses to the brim with Italian red. And at a makeshift kitchen (toaster oven, a couple of crock pots, tubs of pickled chiles and squeeze bottles of Sriracha), Jessica Nguyen of \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/bikebanhmi\">Banh Mi Love You Long Time\u003c/a> was stuffing crisp-toasted lengths of baguette with curry tofu, curry chicken, or slow-cooked pork, adding the necessary magic of cilantro, cucumber, carrot, daikon, and chiles, and handing out dozens of the paper-wrapped sandwiches to the chattering crowd with a smile. At $7, a glass of wine cost a buck more than a sandwich, but with both, you could be very happy for less than fifteen bucks. (Or fifteen even, if you did right and tipped both your bartender and your sandwich-maker.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Jessica500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Jessica500.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Nguyen of Banh Mi Love You Long Time making sandwiches\" title=\"Jessica Nguyen of Banh Mi Love You Long Time making sandwiches\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49064\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Jessica Nguyen of Banh Mi Love You Long Time making Vietnamese sandwiches\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having moved to Brooklyn just 6 weeks ago, host Beth Lisick was happy to be back in town and back on stage with her co-host, Arline Klatte, after Porchlight's August hiatus. The theme this time? \u003cstrong>Double Dare\u003c/strong>, one story told in tandem by two tellers. (Although \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BootsRiley\">Boots Riley\u003c/a>, of Oakland hip-hop band \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/TheCoup\">The Coup\u003c/a>, did get a pass to perform solo, by counting his 6-week-old son in the audience as his silent partner.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First up, a word from the show's sponsor: a don't-quit-your-day-job turn by Chris Mittelstaedt, founder and CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://fruitguys.com\">The Fruit Guys\u003c/a>, who wore a full-length banana suit while belting out an ode to fruit, backed by Fiona and Simone, his (much cooler) twin 11-year-old daughters on drums and bass, who could ditch Dad and start a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedonnas.com\">Donnas\u003c/a> cover band any day now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In fact, as we discovered via an email from Mittelstaedt after this article was posted, the girls have been in an all-girl band, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlEtDw3umk\">Mysturbia\u003c/a>, for several years now. They'll be playing at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.polkstreetbluesfestival.com\">Polk Street Blues Festival\u003c/a> on Sunday, September 30, at 12 noon as part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bird-sf.com/music.html\">Bird Music School\u003c/a> set.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Carol-Robert500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Carol-Robert500.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Lawrence and Carol Queen at Porchlight\" title=\"Robert Lawrence and Carol Queen at Porchlight\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49062\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Robert Lawrence and Carol Queen at Porchlight\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up, doctors of sexology \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/carolqueen\">Carol Queen\u003c/a> and Robert Lawrence, founders of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sexandculture.org\">Center for Sex and Culture\u003c/a>, and longtime sex educators, authors, and performers. Carol and I even share a food world connection: back in 1996, we were both contributors to a (now long out-of-print) cookbook of celebrity recipes put together to raise money for AIDS organizations. Titled \u003cem>Food for Life and Other Dish, \u003c/em>it offered recipes for novelist Dorothy Allison's Red Velvet Cake, drag star RuPaul's Coush-Coush, \"The Apple Pie That Seduced My Girlfriend\" from writer Rebecca Brown, and many more. Carol was posed in front of her kitchen counter, breaking eggs, while I was snapped standing on top of my stove holding a pie while wearing a checked gingham dress and a Louise Brooks wig. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, we go way back, Carol and I, but I didn't know that, around the same time as that cookbook was coming out, she and Robert had gotten a $24,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to present a sex-ed lecture (and some educational porn) to the top brass of China's health administration in Beijing. Their week in Beijing, buttressed by a squadron of translators, included a foray to what was, at the time, Beijing's only gay bar, and the discovery of the late-night gay cruising scene near the illegal bok choy market. The Chinese phrase for the semi-public sex happening wherever a tiny slice of semi-privacy could be found? \"Trembling bushes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it was over to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.senorfrogs.com/\">Senor Frogs\u003c/a> in Nassau with Anneke Swinehart and Sean Kelly, a place of \"wet t-shirts, yard-long margarita glasses, and alcoholic Kool-Aid,\" that was the first stop of the Bruise Cruise, a floating indie-rock extravaganza of dozens of bands and a whole lot of booze. Swinehart came to the rescue of a friend who was about get roundhoused by a drunken \"cube of jerk\" for pointing that maybe 2AM was a little late for the guy to be out with a baby in tow. \"He was feeding the kid caffeinated beverages so the baby would stay awake and let him keep hanging out at the bar, hitting on teenagers,\" said Swinehart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the \"cube of jerk\" (which, as Klatte said, should really be your next band name) punched Swinehart, Kelly jumped the guy from behind, and a lot of drunken security staff moved in. Eventually, the guy was 86'd, only to call the cops and finger a completely different guy--in fact, the drummer of one of the bands--as his attacker. It was a long night, punctuated by an \"indie rock riot\" of crying drunk girls pounding on the police car as the misidentified drummer was hauled away. Eventually, with no charges pressed, everyone got back on the boat for some much-needed cocktails, only to find out that rocker gossip had Swinehart and Kelly busted by the cops for trying to swipe the guy's kid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Swinehart deadpanned, \"We did not steal a baby at Senor Frogs.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/sandwich500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/sandwich500.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese sandwich from Banh Mi Love You Long Time\" title=\"Vietnamese sandwich from Banh Mi Love You Long Time\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49065\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vietnamese sandwich from Banh Mi Love You Long Time\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the intermission, during a second round of equally excellent Vietnamese sandwiches, we found out that Nguyen also makes sandwiches at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.reddevillounge.com/\">Red Devil Lounge\u003c/a>'s open mic every Tuesday, and does bicycle deliveries throughout the city. Her whole setup--baguettes, toaster oven, ingredients--can fit on a bike trailer. Delivery orders of pre-made sandwiches are packed in re-purposed Anchor Steam six-pack cartons and toted in panniers on her regular bike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/sandwichmaking500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/sandwichmaking500.jpg\" alt=\"Making Vietnamese Sandwiches\" title=\"Making Vietnamese Sandwiches\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49066\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Jessica Nguyen making Vietnamese Sandwiches\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in our seats, we were hoping for some food talk from NPR darlings the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, but instead, they'd brought a snippet of their upcoming radio show, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/makingof/\">The Making of...\u003c/a>, a collaboration with KQED. While there will be food-related segments on upcoming shows, this one focused on the making of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/homobiles-san-francisco\">Homomobiles\u003c/a>, musician/performer/writer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Breedlove\">Lynn Breedlove\u003c/a>'s non-profit cab company geared towards anyone who, by virtue of gender identity, size of wig or volume of body glitter, might not get a fast, safe ride home in an ordinary cab. As Breedlove said, \"You don't have to be a big bad queer to get a ride, but it does help.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, after Boots Riley's truly hair-raising story of getting stopped by MPs on Treasure Island (lesson learned: if an MP orders you to pick up your bullet-less, legally registered gun from the trunk of your car to prove that it's unloaded, do not agree), writers and performance artists Ed Wolf and Kirk Read came on to show how it's a slippery slope from veganism to paying $700 to be locked behind barbed-wire gates while rinsing your lower intestines in wheatgrass juice. According to Wolf, identity in San Francisco was easy in the 1970s. You picked your sexual orientation, your hairdo, your drug(s) of choice, and you were set. By the 1990s, when Reed arrived in the City, \"the whole food thing had got out of hand,\" said Wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You had to know what you were going to be intolerant of,\" said Reed, \"what enzyme your body was going to not produce.\" Working at a health clinic, surrounded by co-workers who smoke and drank, even did a little recreational heroin but also ate raw or were vegan, Reed heard a lot about a quasi-spiritual, raw-food retreat in San Diego. A two-for-one week was $700. How bad could it be? As freshly minted vegans, they already felt smug--not our problem!--as they drove down I-5 past the \"cowschweitz\" of the Harris Ranch feedlots. 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Carol and I even share a food world connection: back in 1996, we were both contributors to a (now long out-of-print) cookbook of celebrity recipes put together to raise money for AIDS organizations. Titled \u003cem>Food for Life and Other Dish, \u003c/em>it offered recipes for novelist Dorothy Allison's Red Velvet Cake, drag star RuPaul's Coush-Coush, \"The Apple Pie That Seduced My Girlfriend\" from writer Rebecca Brown, and many more. Carol was posed in front of her kitchen counter, breaking eggs, while I was snapped standing on top of my stove holding a pie while wearing a checked gingham dress and a Louise Brooks wig. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, we go way back, Carol and I, but I didn't know that, around the same time as that cookbook was coming out, she and Robert had gotten a $24,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to present a sex-ed lecture (and some educational porn) to the top brass of China's health administration in Beijing. 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Swinehart came to the rescue of a friend who was about get roundhoused by a drunken \"cube of jerk\" for pointing that maybe 2AM was a little late for the guy to be out with a baby in tow. \"He was feeding the kid caffeinated beverages so the baby would stay awake and let him keep hanging out at the bar, hitting on teenagers,\" said Swinehart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the \"cube of jerk\" (which, as Klatte said, should really be your next band name) punched Swinehart, Kelly jumped the guy from behind, and a lot of drunken security staff moved in. Eventually, the guy was 86'd, only to call the cops and finger a completely different guy--in fact, the drummer of one of the bands--as his attacker. It was a long night, punctuated by an \"indie rock riot\" of crying drunk girls pounding on the police car as the misidentified drummer was hauled away. 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Her whole setup--baguettes, toaster oven, ingredients--can fit on a bike trailer. Delivery orders of pre-made sandwiches are packed in re-purposed Anchor Steam six-pack cartons and toted in panniers on her regular bike. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/sandwichmaking500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/sandwichmaking500.jpg\" alt=\"Making Vietnamese Sandwiches\" title=\"Making Vietnamese Sandwiches\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49066\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Jessica Nguyen making Vietnamese Sandwiches\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in our seats, we were hoping for some food talk from NPR darlings the Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, but instead, they'd brought a snippet of their upcoming radio show, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/makingof/\">The Making of...\u003c/a>, a collaboration with KQED. While there will be food-related segments on upcoming shows, this one focused on the making of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/homobiles-san-francisco\">Homomobiles\u003c/a>, musician/performer/writer \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Breedlove\">Lynn Breedlove\u003c/a>'s non-profit cab company geared towards anyone who, by virtue of gender identity, size of wig or volume of body glitter, might not get a fast, safe ride home in an ordinary cab. 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By the 1990s, when Reed arrived in the City, \"the whole food thing had got out of hand,\" said Wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You had to know what you were going to be intolerant of,\" said Reed, \"what enzyme your body was going to not produce.\" Working at a health clinic, surrounded by co-workers who smoke and drank, even did a little recreational heroin but also ate raw or were vegan, Reed heard a lot about a quasi-spiritual, raw-food retreat in San Diego. A two-for-one week was $700. How bad could it be? As freshly minted vegans, they already felt smug--not our problem!--as they drove down I-5 past the \"cowschweitz\" of the Harris Ranch feedlots. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB560_TDesJ_WillieBrown.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB560_TDesJ_WillieBrown.jpg\" alt=\"Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown\" title=\"Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown\" width=\"560\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49002\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown at Jardinière anniversary party. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month in Hayes Valley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardinière\u003c/a> Restaurant and chef-owner \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chef_traci\">Traci Des Jardins\u003c/a> celebrate 15 years of business, a notable feat for any fine dining spot. Along with launching a revamped menu, Des Jardins and executive chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/The-Inside-Scoop-New-chef-wine-director-head-up-3268029.php\">Morgan Mueller\u003c/a> hosted a party at Jardinière attended by luminaries from both the culinary and political worlds, including Jardinière alums and folks like Willie Brown. In other exciting news, Des Jardins flew to Southern California days later to help her friend \u003ca href=\"http://marysueandsusan.com/about/about_msm.htm\">Mary Sue Milliken\u003c/a> -- along with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Goin\">Suzanne Goin\u003c/a>, Karen Hatfield, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em8B1iCQl7E\">Hans Rockenwagner\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef-masters/bio/michael-cimarusti\">Michael Cimarusti\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://melisse.com/josiah-citrin\">Josiah Citrin\u003c/a> for a sold out dinner \u003ca href=\"https://donate.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/2012/Food4Thought\">event\u003c/a> to raise funds for President Obama’s re-election. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Des Jardins is known for her cooking, \u003ca href=\"http://tracidesjardins.com/chef\">awards\u003c/a> from Esquire, SF Chronicle, James Beard, Food & Wine, philanthropy and time on TV for Top Chef: Masters, Iron Chef (remember how she beat Mario Batali, anyone?), and The Next Iron Chef. Des Jardins is chef/co-owner of Mijita Cocina Mexicana as well as Chef and Partner of Public House and Manzanita. She shared her thoughts with Bay Area Bites via telephone interview and her comments have been edited for clarity and grammar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How have you stayed in business for 15 years? What are the secrets of success? Do you have any horror stories?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins:\u003c/strong> There’s been a lot of ups and downs and we had the boom years in the early years. Back then, the restaurant was so busy and honestly there was a lot of money coming in. Our problems were control and keeping track of everything and the real trick was getting ready for service every day. I was 32 when I opened the restaurant and was more the chef in the kitchen. I’ve evolved to more of a business person and am always looking at how to stay in business. You have to have business acumen and know what’s happening behind the scenes. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Nieporent\">Drew Nieporent\u003c/a> said “it’s a nickel and dime business and you have to track every nickel and dime.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most important thing -- and I tell my managers this all the time -- is the guest experience. That is the best marketing tool. You have to be a good listener and listen to what the guests feedback is and what that means. It’s key to being a good chef or restaurateur. The guests will tell you and that’s the name of the game. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first three to four years with Jardinière were insanely busy and then after 9/11 things got a lot trickier. When 9/11 happened our revenue dropped by 20 percent or something like that day to day. That was our most challenging time. 9/11 just sort of sealed the deal and it was really hard. I think a lot of people went out of business at that time. Over the last decade, we haven’t had as many fluctuations but the costs have gone up so much. The public doesn't really see that. How much things cost has changed so much. Our percentages have dwindled due to uncontrollable costs on things like mandatory healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" title=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49001\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Morgan Mueller and Traci Des Jardins. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the best and worst things about running a restaurant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The best is that our job is to make people happy. That makes it super, super fun and satisfying. It’s horrifying when they aren’t happy. People are coming in to have a good time and our job is to deliver. It’s kind of like theatre and you’re putting on the best show possible. When the day ends, then the show begins again. There are a lot of tiny, tiny details. My job is super fun; the business part I don't love but the feeding people part is fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst part is the amount of effort that goes into what we do every day. There’s not a huge monetary reward. It’s an act of love. Maybe people are making a ton of money and yet -- it seems so expensive. If you knew what goes into that experience then that’s hard. It’s even been exacerbated with the whole celebrity thing because people think that if you are on TV then you must have millions of dollars and you must have a Ferrari (laughs). People are making money from product lines and endorsements and there are folks making a tremendous amount of money but I’m not one of them. With the whole celebrity thing, people think that’s the kind of lifestyle were living. Right now, I’m sitting in my office and it’s really a storeroom. There are dry goods, an ice cream machine, and no place to sit. It’s not all that glamorous. But I love it. That’s the great thing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Can you talk about your role becoming a successful woman in the culinary field? Do you have any positive versus negative experiences regarding being a female in a male dominated profession?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>I’ve never felt discriminated against in this business. I was so young when I started. A lot of what I endured was pure naïveté and putting my head down and I was determined and dogged and I didn’t think about “yeah, I was the only woman.” I didn’t focus on that. I was smaller and wasn’t as strong and the actual physicality was a challenge. It’s harder for me to pick up big bags of stuff; that’s made it harder. Was it hard? Yeah. But it’s hard for everybody. You’ve got to be tough and strong. I think it’s the same answer as every other industry: when faced with taking care of family -- when women have to make that choice, they’re always going to pick the family. That kind of bleeds a lot of people out of the field. When they get to childbearing years, it’s pretty hard to be able to that in our business. Is that discrimination? I think it’s choice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One form of discrimination is more to do with a woman who’s older, which is a Hollywood thing. Actors can be sexy into their 60s and 70s and the women actresses aren’t. It’s the same thing and exacerbated with the celebrity of chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Did you feel or notice that when you were on TV? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong> I didn't feel it personally. If you look at the men who have been successful and most of the women who are successful, it’s sex appeal and showing cleavage. Right? That’s kind of interesting. For the men, that’s not criteria. They don’t have to be strikingly handsome. None of it’s absolute. There are exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most excited about on the new menu?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The evolution of the food. I’m excited about the next 15 years. I want this restaurant to be 30 years old. It requires evolution and change. We’ve started out kind of small by changing the format and focus. The menu changes are about my own taste and about what I want to express in the food: I want to have smaller portions because it’s healthier. I don’t like a ton of ingredients -- mostly three to five ingredients. I also want distilled flavors. I’m returning to simplicity. The evolution of the menu is also driven by the products we have here, and the idea is to let them shine. Less is more; accent natural fabulousness and let the ingredients shine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDesJwithJard_Alums560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDesJwithJard_Alums560.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Des Jardin with Jardinere alumni\" title=\"Traci Des Jardin with Jardinere alumni\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49003\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Jardinière Alums: L to R with Traci Des Jardins: Lizzie Binder, Deepak Kaul, Michael Hung, Morgan Mueller, Robbie Lewis and Richard Reddington. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You've groomed many chefs who have gone on to do their own thing. What’s that like and who are your mentors?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins:\u003c/strong> I don't know that I’ve been so great at mentoring. That’s shepherding. The people who have come through my kitchen have been influenced by me. But I wish I had been more of a mentor. It could be something I work on in the next 15 years. I give just by being. I learned by watching. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Nieporent\">Drew Nieperont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Splichal\">Joachim Splichal\u003c/a> are people who had the same sort of huge influence on me. There are also people who’ve taught me a lot about business. I’ve sought out counsel from people and that’s been key to learning for sure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardinière\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Address:\u003c/strong> 300 Grove St. (at Franklin) \u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/5LaSz\">Map\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco, CA 94102.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Telephone:\u003c/strong> (415) 861-5555\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Open everyday at 5pm\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JardiniereSF\">@JardiniereSF\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/jardinieresf\">Jardinière\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB560_TDesJ_WillieBrown.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB560_TDesJ_WillieBrown.jpg\" alt=\"Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown\" title=\"Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown\" width=\"560\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49002\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown at Jardinière anniversary party. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month in Hayes Valley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardinière\u003c/a> Restaurant and chef-owner \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chef_traci\">Traci Des Jardins\u003c/a> celebrate 15 years of business, a notable feat for any fine dining spot. Along with launching a revamped menu, Des Jardins and executive chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/The-Inside-Scoop-New-chef-wine-director-head-up-3268029.php\">Morgan Mueller\u003c/a> hosted a party at Jardinière attended by luminaries from both the culinary and political worlds, including Jardinière alums and folks like Willie Brown. In other exciting news, Des Jardins flew to Southern California days later to help her friend \u003ca href=\"http://marysueandsusan.com/about/about_msm.htm\">Mary Sue Milliken\u003c/a> -- along with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Goin\">Suzanne Goin\u003c/a>, Karen Hatfield, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em8B1iCQl7E\">Hans Rockenwagner\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef-masters/bio/michael-cimarusti\">Michael Cimarusti\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://melisse.com/josiah-citrin\">Josiah Citrin\u003c/a> for a sold out dinner \u003ca href=\"https://donate.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/2012/Food4Thought\">event\u003c/a> to raise funds for President Obama’s re-election. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Des Jardins is known for her cooking, \u003ca href=\"http://tracidesjardins.com/chef\">awards\u003c/a> from Esquire, SF Chronicle, James Beard, Food & Wine, philanthropy and time on TV for Top Chef: Masters, Iron Chef (remember how she beat Mario Batali, anyone?), and The Next Iron Chef. Des Jardins is chef/co-owner of Mijita Cocina Mexicana as well as Chef and Partner of Public House and Manzanita. She shared her thoughts with Bay Area Bites via telephone interview and her comments have been edited for clarity and grammar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How have you stayed in business for 15 years? What are the secrets of success? Do you have any horror stories?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins:\u003c/strong> There’s been a lot of ups and downs and we had the boom years in the early years. Back then, the restaurant was so busy and honestly there was a lot of money coming in. Our problems were control and keeping track of everything and the real trick was getting ready for service every day. I was 32 when I opened the restaurant and was more the chef in the kitchen. I’ve evolved to more of a business person and am always looking at how to stay in business. You have to have business acumen and know what’s happening behind the scenes. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Nieporent\">Drew Nieporent\u003c/a> said “it’s a nickel and dime business and you have to track every nickel and dime.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most important thing -- and I tell my managers this all the time -- is the guest experience. That is the best marketing tool. You have to be a good listener and listen to what the guests feedback is and what that means. It’s key to being a good chef or restaurateur. The guests will tell you and that’s the name of the game. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first three to four years with Jardinière were insanely busy and then after 9/11 things got a lot trickier. When 9/11 happened our revenue dropped by 20 percent or something like that day to day. That was our most challenging time. 9/11 just sort of sealed the deal and it was really hard. I think a lot of people went out of business at that time. Over the last decade, we haven’t had as many fluctuations but the costs have gone up so much. The public doesn't really see that. How much things cost has changed so much. Our percentages have dwindled due to uncontrollable costs on things like mandatory healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" title=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49001\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Morgan Mueller and Traci Des Jardins. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the best and worst things about running a restaurant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The best is that our job is to make people happy. That makes it super, super fun and satisfying. It’s horrifying when they aren’t happy. People are coming in to have a good time and our job is to deliver. It’s kind of like theatre and you’re putting on the best show possible. When the day ends, then the show begins again. There are a lot of tiny, tiny details. My job is super fun; the business part I don't love but the feeding people part is fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst part is the amount of effort that goes into what we do every day. There’s not a huge monetary reward. It’s an act of love. Maybe people are making a ton of money and yet -- it seems so expensive. If you knew what goes into that experience then that’s hard. It’s even been exacerbated with the whole celebrity thing because people think that if you are on TV then you must have millions of dollars and you must have a Ferrari (laughs). People are making money from product lines and endorsements and there are folks making a tremendous amount of money but I’m not one of them. With the whole celebrity thing, people think that’s the kind of lifestyle were living. Right now, I’m sitting in my office and it’s really a storeroom. There are dry goods, an ice cream machine, and no place to sit. It’s not all that glamorous. But I love it. That’s the great thing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Can you talk about your role becoming a successful woman in the culinary field? Do you have any positive versus negative experiences regarding being a female in a male dominated profession?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>I’ve never felt discriminated against in this business. I was so young when I started. A lot of what I endured was pure naïveté and putting my head down and I was determined and dogged and I didn’t think about “yeah, I was the only woman.” I didn’t focus on that. I was smaller and wasn’t as strong and the actual physicality was a challenge. It’s harder for me to pick up big bags of stuff; that’s made it harder. Was it hard? Yeah. But it’s hard for everybody. You’ve got to be tough and strong. I think it’s the same answer as every other industry: when faced with taking care of family -- when women have to make that choice, they’re always going to pick the family. That kind of bleeds a lot of people out of the field. When they get to childbearing years, it’s pretty hard to be able to that in our business. Is that discrimination? I think it’s choice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One form of discrimination is more to do with a woman who’s older, which is a Hollywood thing. Actors can be sexy into their 60s and 70s and the women actresses aren’t. It’s the same thing and exacerbated with the celebrity of chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Did you feel or notice that when you were on TV? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong> I didn't feel it personally. If you look at the men who have been successful and most of the women who are successful, it’s sex appeal and showing cleavage. Right? That’s kind of interesting. For the men, that’s not criteria. They don’t have to be strikingly handsome. None of it’s absolute. There are exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most excited about on the new menu?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The evolution of the food. I’m excited about the next 15 years. I want this restaurant to be 30 years old. It requires evolution and change. We’ve started out kind of small by changing the format and focus. The menu changes are about my own taste and about what I want to express in the food: I want to have smaller portions because it’s healthier. I don’t like a ton of ingredients -- mostly three to five ingredients. I also want distilled flavors. I’m returning to simplicity. The evolution of the menu is also driven by the products we have here, and the idea is to let them shine. Less is more; accent natural fabulousness and let the ingredients shine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDesJwithJard_Alums560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDesJwithJard_Alums560.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Des Jardin with Jardinere alumni\" title=\"Traci Des Jardin with Jardinere alumni\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49003\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Jardinière Alums: L to R with Traci Des Jardins: Lizzie Binder, Deepak Kaul, Michael Hung, Morgan Mueller, Robbie Lewis and Richard Reddington. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You've groomed many chefs who have gone on to do their own thing. What’s that like and who are your mentors?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins:\u003c/strong> I don't know that I’ve been so great at mentoring. That’s shepherding. The people who have come through my kitchen have been influenced by me. But I wish I had been more of a mentor. It could be something I work on in the next 15 years. I give just by being. I learned by watching. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Nieporent\">Drew Nieperont\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Splichal\">Joachim Splichal\u003c/a> are people who had the same sort of huge influence on me. There are also people who’ve taught me a lot about business. I’ve sought out counsel from people and that’s been key to learning for sure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-streatfood1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-streatfood1000.jpg\" alt=\"Check, Please! host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Check, Please! host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48931\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Check, Please! Bay Area host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin' Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night, to celebrate the continuation of the seventh season of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/\">Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a> on KQED, host \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/host-biography/\">Leslie Sbrocco\u003c/a> and her crew were taking it to the streets--or more specifically, to the \u003ca href=\"http://somastreatfoodpark.com/\">SoMa StrEat Food Park\u003c/a>, the city's latest food-truck hangout. It was a savvy pick for the everyone's-a-critic show, in which a roundtable of everyday Bay Area denizens dine and debate the merits (and mistakes) of their favorite neighborhood restaurants. After all, nothing sparks easy, whaddya-got chat like a food truck event, where the buy-in's cheap (most of the items on offer were $10 or less) and the casual, picnic-table environment makes foodie cross-talk a breeze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eating-area1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eating-area1000.jpg\" alt=\"Picnic-style eating area at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Picnic-style eating area at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48957\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Picnic-table environment at SoMa StrEat Food Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48926\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco trying some \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldenwaffle.net/#!home/mainPage\">Golden Waffles\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, the presence of the blonde, wide-smiling Sbrocco--in 4-inch-high silver wedge sandals and a deep V-neck blue dress, trailing a mike and a camera crew--added some glamour to the next-to-the-freeway event. Making the rounds of the park's handful of trucks, Sbrocco did brief on-camera interviews with each truck's owners, enthusiastically sampling everything from Belgian waffles to Argentinian empanadas. In between bites, Sbrocco paused to chat with fans of the show, posing for snapshots and swapping restaurant tips. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual with food trucks, the focus was meat: in a bun, in a crust, piled high, squirted with sauces mayo-y, herby, smoky or sweet. For sheer size, there were the sloppy, Godzilla-sized sandwiches of \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamsgrubtruck.com\">Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/a>, colossally stacked combos of panko-fried or garlicky grilled chicken cutlets, pulled pork, cheese, bacon, fried eggs, and chunky Napa cabbage slaw on squashy, sweet brioche buns. And for sheer deliciousness, there were the can't-miss Hawaiian sliders served under a roll-down thatched palapa awning by \u003ca href=\"http://www.slidershacksf.com/\">Slider Shack\u003c/a>, fluffy little buns filled to bursting with succulent strands of slow-cooked BBQ pork or carnitas-like chunks of kalua pork, dolloped with a mouth-tingling cilantro sauce fiery with fresh hot peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" title=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48919\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slider Shack owner John Cade, a native San Franciscan whose truck has been serving for just 6 months, got into the biz after 14 years in finance and at least a decade of dedicated backyard barbecuing for family and friends. His Hawaiian mother took the family back the islands frequently, and he grew up on Hawaiian staples like kalua pork. But right now, it's the green sauce he's most excited about. In a month or so, Slider Shack will have it bottled for sale on the truck, with grocery stores to follow. The inspiration? The green sauce at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sophiescuban.com/\">Sophie's Cuban\u003c/a> restaurant near the American Stock Exchange in New York City, where Cade spent time during his finance career. He and a buddy would lunch there every day, emptying the tabletop bottle of green sauce (which, thanks to Peruvian owners, was a jalapeno-based variation of Peruvian aji sauce) on every visit. Determined to reverse-engineer the sauce, Cade ended up with his own creation, one that was herby, tangy, and spicy, a perfect foil to the unctuous pork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders.Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48932\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Slider Shack Hawaiian Pork Sliders.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48974\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco, Slider Shack owner John Cade and KQED camera engineer Blake McHugh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the South Seas theme of the truck, it's Cade's hope that his customers can relax and enjoy a little Pacific-island getaway over their kalua pork or panko chicken rather than just the usual deli grab-and-go before returning to cubicle-land. (There's even a Cast Away-style Wilson volleyball tied to the surfboard-mounted menu in front of the truck.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over at \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/LetsEatGrillStop\">Let's Eat Grill Stop\u003c/a>, the showstopper is the South-by-Southwest buttermilk-fried chicken, zingy with Southwestern spices and a lime-cilantro-Sriracha butter, alongside an arugula salad (one of the few green vegetables to be seen on these meat-dominated menus). Owner Carlos Williams, based in Mill Valley, was also touting his wild salmon plate, served over a bed of similar greens with avocado and red onions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48930\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48923\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48934\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Salmon.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wash it down? From the new StrEat Brew truck, PBR, Stella, Sierra, Blue Moon, Bud, a couple of not-so-great wines but four tasty sangrias, including white with watermelon and strawberries, and red with orange and ginger. (And hey, they're \u003ca href=\"http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fbh/3221493580.html\">hiring\u003c/a>!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/alcoholic-bev1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/alcoholic-bev1000.jpg\" alt=\"Sangria, beer and wine were available. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Sangria, beer and wine were available. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48958\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sangria, beer and wine were available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still hungry? Not to be missed were the hot, buttery-crusted empanadas from \u003ca href=\"http://www.elsursf.com/\">El Sur\u003c/a>'s groovy, cream-colored Citroen van. This time, having tried the beef version at last month's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/night-market-sf-street-food-festival/\">Night Market\u003c/a>, we went for the pollo (delish, with bits of hard-boiled egg and olives) and verde (chard and spinach with onions and five cheeses) which had a nuanced hint of nutmeg. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/veg-empanada1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/veg-empanada1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Verde - Vegetarian empanada from El Sur. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Verde - Vegetarian empanada from El Sur. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48940\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Verde - Vegetarian empanada from El Sur.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-el-sur-empanadas1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-el-sur-empanadas1000.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco with El Sur owner Marianne Despres. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco with El Sur owner Marianne Despres. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-streatfood1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-streatfood1000.jpg\" alt=\"Check, Please! host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Check, Please! host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48931\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Check, Please! Bay Area host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin' Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night, to celebrate the continuation of the seventh season of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/\">Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a> on KQED, host \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/host-biography/\">Leslie Sbrocco\u003c/a> and her crew were taking it to the streets--or more specifically, to the \u003ca href=\"http://somastreatfoodpark.com/\">SoMa StrEat Food Park\u003c/a>, the city's latest food-truck hangout. It was a savvy pick for the everyone's-a-critic show, in which a roundtable of everyday Bay Area denizens dine and debate the merits (and mistakes) of their favorite neighborhood restaurants. After all, nothing sparks easy, whaddya-got chat like a food truck event, where the buy-in's cheap (most of the items on offer were $10 or less) and the casual, picnic-table environment makes foodie cross-talk a breeze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eating-area1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eating-area1000.jpg\" alt=\"Picnic-style eating area at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Picnic-style eating area at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48957\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Picnic-table environment at SoMa StrEat Food Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48926\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco trying some \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldenwaffle.net/#!home/mainPage\">Golden Waffles\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, the presence of the blonde, wide-smiling Sbrocco--in 4-inch-high silver wedge sandals and a deep V-neck blue dress, trailing a mike and a camera crew--added some glamour to the next-to-the-freeway event. Making the rounds of the park's handful of trucks, Sbrocco did brief on-camera interviews with each truck's owners, enthusiastically sampling everything from Belgian waffles to Argentinian empanadas. In between bites, Sbrocco paused to chat with fans of the show, posing for snapshots and swapping restaurant tips. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual with food trucks, the focus was meat: in a bun, in a crust, piled high, squirted with sauces mayo-y, herby, smoky or sweet. For sheer size, there were the sloppy, Godzilla-sized sandwiches of \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamsgrubtruck.com\">Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/a>, colossally stacked combos of panko-fried or garlicky grilled chicken cutlets, pulled pork, cheese, bacon, fried eggs, and chunky Napa cabbage slaw on squashy, sweet brioche buns. And for sheer deliciousness, there were the can't-miss Hawaiian sliders served under a roll-down thatched palapa awning by \u003ca href=\"http://www.slidershacksf.com/\">Slider Shack\u003c/a>, fluffy little buns filled to bursting with succulent strands of slow-cooked BBQ pork or carnitas-like chunks of kalua pork, dolloped with a mouth-tingling cilantro sauce fiery with fresh hot peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" title=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48919\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slider Shack owner John Cade, a native San Franciscan whose truck has been serving for just 6 months, got into the biz after 14 years in finance and at least a decade of dedicated backyard barbecuing for family and friends. His Hawaiian mother took the family back the islands frequently, and he grew up on Hawaiian staples like kalua pork. But right now, it's the green sauce he's most excited about. In a month or so, Slider Shack will have it bottled for sale on the truck, with grocery stores to follow. The inspiration? The green sauce at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sophiescuban.com/\">Sophie's Cuban\u003c/a> restaurant near the American Stock Exchange in New York City, where Cade spent time during his finance career. He and a buddy would lunch there every day, emptying the tabletop bottle of green sauce (which, thanks to Peruvian owners, was a jalapeno-based variation of Peruvian aji sauce) on every visit. Determined to reverse-engineer the sauce, Cade ended up with his own creation, one that was herby, tangy, and spicy, a perfect foil to the unctuous pork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders.Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48932\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Slider Shack Hawaiian Pork Sliders.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48974\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco, Slider Shack owner John Cade and KQED camera engineer Blake McHugh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the South Seas theme of the truck, it's Cade's hope that his customers can relax and enjoy a little Pacific-island getaway over their kalua pork or panko chicken rather than just the usual deli grab-and-go before returning to cubicle-land. (There's even a Cast Away-style Wilson volleyball tied to the surfboard-mounted menu in front of the truck.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over at \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/LetsEatGrillStop\">Let's Eat Grill Stop\u003c/a>, the showstopper is the South-by-Southwest buttermilk-fried chicken, zingy with Southwestern spices and a lime-cilantro-Sriracha butter, alongside an arugula salad (one of the few green vegetables to be seen on these meat-dominated menus). Owner Carlos Williams, based in Mill Valley, was also touting his wild salmon plate, served over a bed of similar greens with avocado and red onions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48930\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48923\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48934\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Salmon.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wash it down? From the new StrEat Brew truck, PBR, Stella, Sierra, Blue Moon, Bud, a couple of not-so-great wines but four tasty sangrias, including white with watermelon and strawberries, and red with orange and ginger. (And hey, they're \u003ca href=\"http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fbh/3221493580.html\">hiring\u003c/a>!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/alcoholic-bev1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/alcoholic-bev1000.jpg\" alt=\"Sangria, beer and wine were available. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Sangria, beer and wine were available. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/John-T400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/John-T400.jpg\" alt=\"John T. Edge. Image courtesy of Lou Weinert\" title=\"John T. Edge. Image courtesy of Lou Weinert\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48758\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>John T. Edge. Image courtesy of Lou Weinert\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food celeb alert! One of the most intriguing parts about La Cocina’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/night-market-sf-street-food-festival/\">Night Market\u003c/a> last month was spying a smiling \u003ca href=\"http://www.johntedge.com/\">John T. Edge\u003c/a> at the entrance. The Southern food and culture expert is good pals with La Cocina's Caleb Zigas, and was in town to yes, eat, but also help with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/san-francisco-street-food-festival-2012-photo-slideshow/\">SF Street Food Fest\u003c/a> and third annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/classes-workshops/conference/\">Food & Entrepreneurship Conference\u003c/a> from La Cocina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edge is the author of the recently published \u003ca href=\"http://truckfoodcookbook.tumblr.com/\">The Truck Food Cookbook\u003c/a>, which is billed as “a cookbook and travelogue that catalogues modern American street and truck food.” He has authored and edited more than ten books and is well known for researching and championing food via his work with the \u003ca href=\"http://southernfoodways.org/\">Southern Foodways Alliance\u003c/a> (SFA). Next month, the Southern Foodways Alliance will hold a symposium in Oxford, Mississippi and Edge wears many caps: organizer, host, and master of ceremonies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is also a columnist for the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, the \u003cem>Oxford American\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"http://gardenandgun.com/food\">\u003cem>Garden & Gun\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Radio fans can catch him often on NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> and he has appeared on Iron Chef and has a MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation under his belt. His work has also been featured in 10 editions of the Best Food Writing Anthology, and yes, you may at this point wonder when he ever sleeps, too. 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Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47894\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/JessBanhMiLoveYouLongtime.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/JessBanhMiLoveYouLongtime-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Jess from Banh Mi Love You Longtime. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Jess from Banh Mi Love You Longtime. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47892\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/hawker-fare-sabores-del-sur1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/hawker-fare-sabores-del-sur1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Hawker Fare and Sabores del Sur. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Hawker Fare and Sabores del Sur. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47898\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/estrellitas-snacks1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/estrellitas-snacks1000a-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Estrellitas Snacks. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Estrellitas Snacks. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47958\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/chiefos-kitchen1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/chiefos-kitchen1000a-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Chiefos Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Chiefos Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47900\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/la-torta-gorda-quezadilla1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/la-torta-gorda-quezadilla1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"La Torta Gorda quezadilla. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"La Torta Gorda quezadilla. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47901\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/girls-dog1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/girls-dog1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"3 women and a dog with a high-pitched bark. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"3 women and a dog with a high-pitched bark. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47903\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/wisesons-babka1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/wisesons-babka1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Wise Sons Babka. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Wise Sons Babka. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47905\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/hawker-fare-justin-yu1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/hawker-fare-justin-yu1000.jpg\" alt=\"Hawker Fare Justin Yu. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Hawker Fare Justin Yu. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"523\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47907\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/threetwins600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/threetwins600-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Three Twins Ice Cream. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Three Twins Ice Cream. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47910\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/hawker-fare-siamese-peanuts1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/hawker-fare-siamese-peanuts1000a-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Hawker Fare Siamese Peanuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Hawker Fare Siamese Peanuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47912\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/world-peached1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/world-peached1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"World Peached. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"World Peached. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47916\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ms-linda-greens-catering1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ms-linda-greens-catering1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Ms Linda Greens Catering. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Ms Linda Greens Catering. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47918\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/osha-thai1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/osha-thai1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Osha Thai. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Osha Thai. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47920\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/wisesons-pickle1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/wisesons-pickle1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Wise Sons Deli. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Wise Sons Deli. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47914\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/la-victoria-bakery1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/la-victoria-bakery1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"La Victoria Bakery. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"La Victoria Bakery. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47923\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/la-torta-gorda-1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/la-torta-gorda-1000a-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"La Torta Gorda. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"La Torta Gorda. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group-table1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group-table1000.jpg\" alt=\"people socializing at Night Market. photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"people socializing at Night Market. photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47751\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/signage10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/signage10001-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47790\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/couple-eating1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/couple-eating1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"People eating at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"People eating at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47747\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Group socializing at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Group socializing at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47787\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/stephanie-david-hua10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/stephanie-david-hua10001-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Lick My Spoon meets Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lick My Spoon meets Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47794\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>All Photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Click on images to view full-sized photos and activate the slideshow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what we thought the first festival would be like,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org\">La Cocina\u003c/a> executive director Caleb Zigas at Friday's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfstreetfoodfest.com/night_market.php\">Night Market\u003c/a>, looking out at the mellow, well-fed clusters of friends and foodies strolling from booth to booth, bourbon hot toddies in hand, through the latest addition to the now four-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfstreetfoodfest.com\">SF Street Food Festival\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/caleb-zigas1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/caleb-zigas1000.jpg\" alt=\"Caleb Zigas\" title=\"Caleb Zigas\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47745\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n \u003cem>La Cocina executive director Caleb Zigas.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was being honest, if a little rueful, and everyone around him laughed. That first two-block festival in 2009 was planned as a cheerful neighborhood celebration of La Cocina's newly legit food vendors and entrepreneurs. Instead, thousands of people showed up, which led to endless lines, grumpy neighbors, and a lot of cranky press in the blogosphere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In planning for this year, Zigas and his staff (supported by a large, dedicated crew of volunteers) took the lessons of the past four years to heart. Saturday's daytime food fest, now stretching across six blocks of Folsom Street, with additional space in parks, parking lots, and side streets along the way, was remarkably well-organized. Long lines for the most popular booths, sure, but most of the businesses were smoothly oiled machines by now, with lots of hands behind the counter and a well-practiced flow. (As well they should be, given that some of same vendors had just served similar menus to even bigger crowds at last weekend's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/13/outside-lands-2012-photos-food-art-music-people/\">Outside Lands\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back to the Night Market. Held at the site of the Alemany Farmers' Market at the southern edge of Bernal Heights from 6 to 9pm, the market was much more casual event, with lots of space, 26 vendors, and almost no lines (except, of course, for beer). Vendors were tucked into the concrete stalls used on Saturday mornings by the farmers' market, most decorated only with handmade signs and a relaxed attitude. Since the whole market was fenced off for the event, market-goers could walk from booth to booth sipping their drinks, including icy mint juleps and spiced hot toddies by \u003ca href=\"http://www.ryeontheroad.com\">Rye on the Road\u003c/a>, rather than being corralled into a drinkers'-only beer garden. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/Rye-line1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/Rye-line1000.jpg\" alt=\"Line for cocktails at RYE. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Line for cocktails at RYE. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47763\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Line for cocktails at RYE.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/making-cocktails1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/making-cocktails1000.jpg\" alt=\"Crew making cocktails. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Crew making cocktails. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47797\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/cocktail1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/cocktail1000.jpg\" alt=\"Icy Mint Julep cocktail. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Icy Mint Julep cocktail. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47783\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Icy Mint Julep cocktail.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This being summer in San Francisco (ah, Fogust, our other winter month), chilly winds whipped through the crowds, making the scattered heat lamps and fleecy blue blankets on offer very welcome. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com\">Jardiniere\u003c/a>, slumming it with burgers and fries, put out a big bowl of matchboxes, which we were tempted to ignite and huddle over for warmth, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q\">Little Match Girl\u003c/a>-style.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/snuggie-like1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/snuggie-like1000.jpg\" alt=\"Night Market patrons wearing Snuggie-like attire. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Night Market patrons wearing Snuggie-like attire. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47755\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Night Market patrons wearing Snuggie-like attire.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smart vendors offered steaming tubs of soup: tomatoey rice noodle broth with bits of crab omelette and water spinach at \u003ca href=\"http://www.soupjunkiesf.com\">Soup Junkie\u003c/a>; pungently spiced, coconut-based Malaysian laksa with curls of veal brain from \u003ca href=\"http://www.azalinas.com/\">Azalina's\u003c/a>, big enough for two; and our favorite, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huaracheloco.com\">El Huarache Loco\u003c/a>'s spicy, warm-you-through birria, a goat-filled broth served in a flowered terra cotta cup with a shredded lamb taco on the side. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/birria1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/birria1000.jpg\" alt=\"Birria from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Birria from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47776\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Birria from El Huarache Loco.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/el-huarache-loco10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/el-huarache-loco10001.jpg\" alt=\" Lamb taco from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\" Lamb taco from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47767\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lamb taco from El Huarache Loco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/veronica-salazar-elhuaracheloco1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/veronica-salazar-elhuaracheloco1.jpg\" alt=\"Veronica Salazar owner of El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Veronica Salazar owner of El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47774\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Veronica Salazar, owner of El Huarache Loco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Huarache Loco is one of La Cocina's particular success stories. Born in Mexico City to a restaurant-owning family, Veronica Salazar, owner of El Huarache Loco joined La Cocina's incubator program in 2005, and now has 22 employees and her own restaurant in the Marin Country Mart in Larkspur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the big buzz was the Boss Hog, a belly-busting sandwich created by the Bone and Gristle Boys, a.k.a. Ryan Farr of \u003ca href=\"http://www.4505meats.com\">4505 Meats\u003c/a> and three-time \u003ca href=\"http://www.cochon555.com/\">Cochon 555\u003c/a> winner Matt Jennings of Providence, Rhode Island's \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmsteadinc.com/farmstead/\">Farmstead\u003c/a> market and restaurant. The hand-drawn sign offered a cross-section of their creation, starting with a buttery toasted English muffin on top and proceeding through jalapeno ranch dressing, chicharrones, greens, red onions, Vermont cheddar, a cornmeal-crusted deep-fried pork cutlet, smoked pickles, AND some chile-rubbed slow-roasted pork, just in case you were still hungry. And then the bottom half of said buttery muffin, plus a wooden stake, we mean skewer, to hold it all together. No one does extreme pork like Farr, who would, the following day, be selling $3 Rice Krispie treats, speckled with Cocoa Puffs and larded with crushed chicharrones. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bone-gristle-boss-hog1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bone-gristle-boss-hog1000.jpg\" alt=\"Bone and Gristle Boys - Boss Hog. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bone and Gristle Boys - Boss Hog. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47744\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Bone and Gristle Boys - Boss Hog.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-matt-jennings1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-matt-jennings1000.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Farr and Matt Jennings. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Ryan Farr and Matt Jennings. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47769\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ryan Farr and Matt Jennings - The Bone and Gristle Boys.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-bone-gristle1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-bone-gristle1000.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Farr and the Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Ryan Farr and the Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47768\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ryan Farr with crew behind the scenes - Boss Hog production.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef-stuffed pastries sold out of a vintage-1970 Citroen H-van by local mom (and Cordon Bleu-trained chef) Marianne Depres of \u003ca href=\"http://www.elsursf.com\">El Sur Empanadas\u003c/a> made great handwarmers, at least for the 5 seconds before we happily gobbled them up, enjoying the Argentine additions of hard-boiled egg and olive inside. Also tasty were the baked beef-and-onion piroshki from \u003ca href=\"http://www.andapiroshki.com\">Anda Piroshki\u003c/a>, a very local offering coming from owner Anna Tvelova's counter in the 331 Cortland Marketplace just a few blocks up the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And did we mention the bacon maple kettle corn, served in big movie-theater buckets, by \u003ca href=\"http://www.endlesssummersweets.com/\">Endless Summer Sweets\u003c/a>? Oddly, for a town that loves its chocolate truffles and watermelon popsicles, the salty-sweet popcorn was the only sweet thing at the Night Market. Note for next year: a hot chocolate-and-churros vendor, not to mention \u003ca href=\"http://www.ritualroasters.com/\">Ritual Roasters\u003c/a>' cute red coffee truck, would be very much appreciated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/kettle-corn1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/kettle-corn1000.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Summer Sweets- Kettle Corn. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Endless Summer Sweets- Kettle Corn. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47810\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Endless Summer Sweets Bacon Maple Kettle Corn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking coffee and dessert, Night Market-goers just ate more meat. (Surprisingly, given that we're at the bountiful apex of summer's harvest, fruits and vegetables were mostly limited to slice-of-tomato, sprig-of-cilantro supporting roles.) Second only to pork was lamb, clearly the meat of the moment at both the Night Market and the SF Street Food Festival. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewholebeastsf.com/\">The Whole Beast\u003c/a>'s John Fink was grilling up the last of the 800+ Merengez sausages made for last week's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/12/outside-lambs-a-moroccan-oasis-within-outside-lands/\">Outside Lambs\u003c/a> booth by his meat-world buddy Ryan Farr, along with kefta meatballs, chubby cylinders of spiced ground lamb wrapped around wooden skewers and dunked in a thick, herby yogurt aioli, and a coconut-based lamb mulligatawny soup. Sadly, though, there was no lamb poutine, the seriously delicious fries-n-lamb gravy treat that was the hit of Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/john-fink1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/john-fink1000.jpg\" alt=\"John Fink cooking up smoked Merengez sausages. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"John Fink cooking up smoked Merengez sausages. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47807\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>John Fink cooking up smoked Merengez sausages.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.radioafricakitchen.com\">Radio Africa & Kitchen\u003c/a> dished up gorgeously rosy slices of grilled lamb leg, for those with the fortitude to queue. (If not, you could sit down and eat it in Bayview, where Ethiopian-born chef/owner Eskender Aseged recently opened his own restaurant.) Hoss Zare of \u003ca href=\"http://www.zareatflytrap.com\">Zare at Fly Trap\u003c/a> made a Persian-inspired abhogsht wrap, recommended by San Francisco's finest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/radio-afrika-lamb1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/radio-afrika-lamb1000.jpg\" alt=\"Grilling lamb for Radio Africa & Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Grilling lamb for Radio Africa & Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47814\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Grilling lamb for Radio Africa & Kitchen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/zare-at-fly-trap1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/zare-at-fly-trap1000.jpg\" alt=\"Zare at Fly Trap - making Persian Abhogsht wrap. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Zare at Fly Trap - making Persian Abhogsht wrap. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47831\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Zare at Fly Trap - making Persian Abhogsht wrap.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/sfpolice-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/sfpolice-1000.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police officer eating Zare at Fly Trap - Persian Abhogsht Wrap. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"San Francisco Police officer eating Zare at Fly Trap - Persian Abhogsht Wrap. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47813\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>San Francisco Police officer eating a Zare at Fly Trap Persian Abhogsht Wrap.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, given that this event is a fundraiser for La Cocina's work throughout the year, where does the money come from? Booths at the Street Food Festival cost vendors up to $600, depending on the status of their business. (Presumably, established restaurants pay more, while beginning entrepreneurs get a break.) But the booth fees barely cover La Cocina's per-booth expenses, including signage, the custom-built booths themselves, and health, fire, and city permits for each vendor. Vendors are encouraged to donate some of the day's profits to the organization, but marketing and communications manager Margarita Rojas admits this rarely happens. Instead, the non-profit makes its money off alcohol sales (all the beer and spirits are donated) and corporate sponsorship, from big guys like Whole Foods, Wells Fargo, Zipcar, Zagat, PG&E, and Gruppo Campari to local companies like the Bay Guardian, San Francisco Cooking School, Good Eggs, Rainbow Grocery, Berkeley Farms, Off the Grid, 7X7 magazine, Veritable Vegetable, and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bar1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bar1000.jpg\" alt=\"Bar at SF Street Food Fest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bar at SF Street Food Fest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47828\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/drinkers1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/drinkers1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"People drinking in dedicated bar area. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"People drinking in dedicated bar area. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47836\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/deejay1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/deejay1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Deejay spinning in dedicated bar area. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Deejay spinning in dedicated bar area. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47834\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bartender600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bartender600-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Bartender in the bar area at the SF Street Food Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bartender in the bar area at the SF Street Food Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47833\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bar-signage1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bar-signage1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Bar signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bar signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47840\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the event was, of course, locally-focused, five hand-picked vendors from around the country were invited by La Cocina to share their wares. The companies, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodcartsportland.com/2010/09/29/euro-trash/\">Eurotrash\u003c/a>, one of Portland, Oregon's most popular food trucks, got volunteer labor, ingredients, and kitchen space for prepping; in exchange, they donated their day's take to La Cocina. There was a Southern contingent, too, rounded up by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfoodways.com\">Southern Foodways Alliance\u003c/a>'s John T. Edge, author of the recently published \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076115616X/kqedorg-20\">Truck Food Cookbook\u003c/a> and a good friend of Zigas's. Gamely, they served up pulled pork and sweet tea and crayfish boudin balls, sporting fleece hoodies typically unnecessary when, say, cooking in Birmingham at this time of year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/eurotrash1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/eurotrash1000.jpg\" alt=\"Eurotrash - making THE! Prawn Baguette. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Eurotrash - making THE! Prawn Baguette. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47825\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Eurotrash - making THE! Prawn Baguette.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, waiting in line to try yet another taco or spring roll can seem a little absurd, here in the Mission where taquerias and inexpensive Central American, South American, Asian, and Middle Eastern restaurants abound, and where Valencia Street offers every trendy snack of the moment. Still, after four years, the Street Food Festival has become part of the San Francisco calendar, that alternative string of holidays and festivities that goes from Chinese New Year, Bay to Breakers, and Pride to Outside Lands, Litquake, Folsom Street Fair, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Day of the Dead. And for every recently laid-off person with a secret recipe, a Twitter handle, and a food-biz plan, it was tasty evidence that hard work (and savvy marketing) can make an entrepreneur's dream come true. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/endlesssummersweets-funnelcake.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/endlesssummersweets-funnelcake-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Summer Sweets- funnelcake. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Endless Summer Sweets- funnelcake. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47851\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/los-cilantros-pozole-10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/los-cilantros-pozole-10001-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Los Cilantros Pozole Blanco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Los Cilantros Pozole Blanco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47850\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/burrata-tomato-giardinier1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/burrata-tomato-giardinier1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Burrata and Tomato Giardinier from State Bird Provisions. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Burrata and Tomato Giardinier from State Bird Provisions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group-table1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group-table1000.jpg\" alt=\"people socializing at Night Market. photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"people socializing at Night Market. photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47751\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/signage10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/signage10001-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47790\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/couple-eating1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/couple-eating1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"People eating at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"People eating at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47747\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/group1000-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Group socializing at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Group socializing at the Night Market. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47787\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/stephanie-david-hua10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/stephanie-david-hua10001-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Lick My Spoon meets Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lick My Spoon meets Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-47794\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>All Photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Click on images to view full-sized photos and activate the slideshow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what we thought the first festival would be like,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org\">La Cocina\u003c/a> executive director Caleb Zigas at Friday's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfstreetfoodfest.com/night_market.php\">Night Market\u003c/a>, looking out at the mellow, well-fed clusters of friends and foodies strolling from booth to booth, bourbon hot toddies in hand, through the latest addition to the now four-year-old \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfstreetfoodfest.com\">SF Street Food Festival\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/caleb-zigas1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/caleb-zigas1000.jpg\" alt=\"Caleb Zigas\" title=\"Caleb Zigas\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47745\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n \u003cem>La Cocina executive director Caleb Zigas.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was being honest, if a little rueful, and everyone around him laughed. That first two-block festival in 2009 was planned as a cheerful neighborhood celebration of La Cocina's newly legit food vendors and entrepreneurs. Instead, thousands of people showed up, which led to endless lines, grumpy neighbors, and a lot of cranky press in the blogosphere. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In planning for this year, Zigas and his staff (supported by a large, dedicated crew of volunteers) took the lessons of the past four years to heart. Saturday's daytime food fest, now stretching across six blocks of Folsom Street, with additional space in parks, parking lots, and side streets along the way, was remarkably well-organized. Long lines for the most popular booths, sure, but most of the businesses were smoothly oiled machines by now, with lots of hands behind the counter and a well-practiced flow. (As well they should be, given that some of same vendors had just served similar menus to even bigger crowds at last weekend's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/13/outside-lands-2012-photos-food-art-music-people/\">Outside Lands\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back to the Night Market. Held at the site of the Alemany Farmers' Market at the southern edge of Bernal Heights from 6 to 9pm, the market was much more casual event, with lots of space, 26 vendors, and almost no lines (except, of course, for beer). Vendors were tucked into the concrete stalls used on Saturday mornings by the farmers' market, most decorated only with handmade signs and a relaxed attitude. Since the whole market was fenced off for the event, market-goers could walk from booth to booth sipping their drinks, including icy mint juleps and spiced hot toddies by \u003ca href=\"http://www.ryeontheroad.com\">Rye on the Road\u003c/a>, rather than being corralled into a drinkers'-only beer garden. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/Rye-line1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/Rye-line1000.jpg\" alt=\"Line for cocktails at RYE. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Line for cocktails at RYE. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47763\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Line for cocktails at RYE.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/making-cocktails1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/making-cocktails1000.jpg\" alt=\"Crew making cocktails. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Crew making cocktails. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47797\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/cocktail1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/cocktail1000.jpg\" alt=\"Icy Mint Julep cocktail. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Icy Mint Julep cocktail. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47783\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Icy Mint Julep cocktail.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This being summer in San Francisco (ah, Fogust, our other winter month), chilly winds whipped through the crowds, making the scattered heat lamps and fleecy blue blankets on offer very welcome. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com\">Jardiniere\u003c/a>, slumming it with burgers and fries, put out a big bowl of matchboxes, which we were tempted to ignite and huddle over for warmth, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q\">Little Match Girl\u003c/a>-style.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/snuggie-like1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/snuggie-like1000.jpg\" alt=\"Night Market patrons wearing Snuggie-like attire. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Night Market patrons wearing Snuggie-like attire. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47755\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Night Market patrons wearing Snuggie-like attire.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smart vendors offered steaming tubs of soup: tomatoey rice noodle broth with bits of crab omelette and water spinach at \u003ca href=\"http://www.soupjunkiesf.com\">Soup Junkie\u003c/a>; pungently spiced, coconut-based Malaysian laksa with curls of veal brain from \u003ca href=\"http://www.azalinas.com/\">Azalina's\u003c/a>, big enough for two; and our favorite, \u003ca href=\"http://www.huaracheloco.com\">El Huarache Loco\u003c/a>'s spicy, warm-you-through birria, a goat-filled broth served in a flowered terra cotta cup with a shredded lamb taco on the side. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/birria1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/birria1000.jpg\" alt=\"Birria from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Birria from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47776\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Birria from El Huarache Loco.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/el-huarache-loco10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/el-huarache-loco10001.jpg\" alt=\" Lamb taco from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\" Lamb taco from El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47767\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lamb taco from El Huarache Loco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/veronica-salazar-elhuaracheloco1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/veronica-salazar-elhuaracheloco1.jpg\" alt=\"Veronica Salazar owner of El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Veronica Salazar owner of El Huarache Loco. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47774\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Veronica Salazar, owner of El Huarache Loco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Huarache Loco is one of La Cocina's particular success stories. Born in Mexico City to a restaurant-owning family, Veronica Salazar, owner of El Huarache Loco joined La Cocina's incubator program in 2005, and now has 22 employees and her own restaurant in the Marin Country Mart in Larkspur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the big buzz was the Boss Hog, a belly-busting sandwich created by the Bone and Gristle Boys, a.k.a. Ryan Farr of \u003ca href=\"http://www.4505meats.com\">4505 Meats\u003c/a> and three-time \u003ca href=\"http://www.cochon555.com/\">Cochon 555\u003c/a> winner Matt Jennings of Providence, Rhode Island's \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmsteadinc.com/farmstead/\">Farmstead\u003c/a> market and restaurant. The hand-drawn sign offered a cross-section of their creation, starting with a buttery toasted English muffin on top and proceeding through jalapeno ranch dressing, chicharrones, greens, red onions, Vermont cheddar, a cornmeal-crusted deep-fried pork cutlet, smoked pickles, AND some chile-rubbed slow-roasted pork, just in case you were still hungry. And then the bottom half of said buttery muffin, plus a wooden stake, we mean skewer, to hold it all together. No one does extreme pork like Farr, who would, the following day, be selling $3 Rice Krispie treats, speckled with Cocoa Puffs and larded with crushed chicharrones. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bone-gristle-boss-hog1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/bone-gristle-boss-hog1000.jpg\" alt=\"Bone and Gristle Boys - Boss Hog. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bone and Gristle Boys - Boss Hog. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47744\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Bone and Gristle Boys - Boss Hog.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-matt-jennings1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-matt-jennings1000.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Farr and Matt Jennings. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Ryan Farr and Matt Jennings. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47769\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ryan Farr and Matt Jennings - The Bone and Gristle Boys.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-bone-gristle1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/ryan-farr-bone-gristle1000.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Farr and the Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Ryan Farr and the Bone and Gristle Boys. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47768\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ryan Farr with crew behind the scenes - Boss Hog production.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The beef-stuffed pastries sold out of a vintage-1970 Citroen H-van by local mom (and Cordon Bleu-trained chef) Marianne Depres of \u003ca href=\"http://www.elsursf.com\">El Sur Empanadas\u003c/a> made great handwarmers, at least for the 5 seconds before we happily gobbled them up, enjoying the Argentine additions of hard-boiled egg and olive inside. Also tasty were the baked beef-and-onion piroshki from \u003ca href=\"http://www.andapiroshki.com\">Anda Piroshki\u003c/a>, a very local offering coming from owner Anna Tvelova's counter in the 331 Cortland Marketplace just a few blocks up the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And did we mention the bacon maple kettle corn, served in big movie-theater buckets, by \u003ca href=\"http://www.endlesssummersweets.com/\">Endless Summer Sweets\u003c/a>? Oddly, for a town that loves its chocolate truffles and watermelon popsicles, the salty-sweet popcorn was the only sweet thing at the Night Market. Note for next year: a hot chocolate-and-churros vendor, not to mention \u003ca href=\"http://www.ritualroasters.com/\">Ritual Roasters\u003c/a>' cute red coffee truck, would be very much appreciated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/kettle-corn1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/kettle-corn1000.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Summer Sweets- Kettle Corn. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Endless Summer Sweets- Kettle Corn. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47810\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Endless Summer Sweets Bacon Maple Kettle Corn.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking coffee and dessert, Night Market-goers just ate more meat. (Surprisingly, given that we're at the bountiful apex of summer's harvest, fruits and vegetables were mostly limited to slice-of-tomato, sprig-of-cilantro supporting roles.) Second only to pork was lamb, clearly the meat of the moment at both the Night Market and the SF Street Food Festival. \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewholebeastsf.com/\">The Whole Beast\u003c/a>'s John Fink was grilling up the last of the 800+ Merengez sausages made for last week's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/12/outside-lambs-a-moroccan-oasis-within-outside-lands/\">Outside Lambs\u003c/a> booth by his meat-world buddy Ryan Farr, along with kefta meatballs, chubby cylinders of spiced ground lamb wrapped around wooden skewers and dunked in a thick, herby yogurt aioli, and a coconut-based lamb mulligatawny soup. Sadly, though, there was no lamb poutine, the seriously delicious fries-n-lamb gravy treat that was the hit of Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/john-fink1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/john-fink1000.jpg\" alt=\"John Fink cooking up smoked Merengez sausages. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"John Fink cooking up smoked Merengez sausages. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47807\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>John Fink cooking up smoked Merengez sausages.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, \u003ca href=\"http://www.radioafricakitchen.com\">Radio Africa & Kitchen\u003c/a> dished up gorgeously rosy slices of grilled lamb leg, for those with the fortitude to queue. (If not, you could sit down and eat it in Bayview, where Ethiopian-born chef/owner Eskender Aseged recently opened his own restaurant.) Hoss Zare of \u003ca href=\"http://www.zareatflytrap.com\">Zare at Fly Trap\u003c/a> made a Persian-inspired abhogsht wrap, recommended by San Francisco's finest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/radio-afrika-lamb1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/radio-afrika-lamb1000.jpg\" alt=\"Grilling lamb for Radio Africa & Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Grilling lamb for Radio Africa & Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47814\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Grilling lamb for Radio Africa & Kitchen.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/zare-at-fly-trap1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/08/zare-at-fly-trap1000.jpg\" alt=\"Zare at Fly Trap - making Persian Abhogsht wrap. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Zare at Fly Trap - making Persian Abhogsht wrap. 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