Bay Area Bites

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A chilly Spring has me longing for a tropical vacation. One way to get a little taste of the islands in our own backyard is to dine at Roy...

"The chestnut soup was good, but not Bar Jules good," a friend told me the other day. She was referring to a delicious chestnut a...

Blueberries and oysters? Chocolate and cauliflower? Blue cheese and rhubarb and pineapple? If taste buds could cringe, then mine were recoil...

I usually try to buy local and organic foods, but am not always successful. Choosing to buy locally is often inconvenient, while buying orga...

Dear Miss Manners, "When dining, does one place one's Blackberry to the right of the plate, or to the left, near the salad fork?...

If you know me, you know I have a taste for whisky. My palate is slowly (ever so slowly and with much repetitive training) being refined and...

We can't ever have too many chocolate recipes, can we? Since the quality of chocolate available in the supermarket has dramatically imp...