Join us at Rockridge Market Hall for an afternoon with some of our favorite independent artisan food makers from across the nation. This market-wide food festival will feature tastings of cheese, charcuterie, olive oil and more.
In addition to all the wonderful makers, we are thrilled to host Georgia Freedman, author of the new cookbook, Snacking Dinners, as well as Chef Katie Reicher, author of Seasons of Greens. Both authors will be here signing copies of their latest cookbooks!
Georgia Freedman’s Snacking Dinners is an ode to the joys of snacking meals with over 50 recipes that pull from a global pantry and reference snacking (and light meal) traditions from across the globe.
Chef Katie Reicher of legendary San Francisco restaurant Greens shares over 120 plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook Seasons of Greens. Reicher puts vegetables at the center of the plate in a collection of recipes that celebrate the bright, bold and diverse range of vegetable cookery.
Taste, mingle and chat with the following indie producers:
Katie Reicher, current chef at Greens, has a new cookbook, Seasons of Greens
The cookbook is a collection of dishes that sound familiar, deeply satisfying, and a little bit special. Think rich, creamy grits crowned with Creole-style mushrooms; saffron risotto layered with the tang of goat cheese, silky eggplant, and the briny bite of olives. A dish of tender asparagus with cannellini beans is dressed in a tarragon vinaigrette and brightened by pickled mustard seeds. Golden, crisp-edged brown sugar cookies have their sweetness deepened by the nutty warmth of sesame oil and whole seeds.
Greens
2 Marina Blvd
Fort Mason Center Building A
San Francisco, CA 94123
Janelle Bitker, in the SF Chronicle, writes about the recipe for Green Goddess Hummus from Greens’ chef Katie Reicher’s new cookbook, Seasons of Greens.
In the new “Greens” cookbook, Katie Reicher shares the recipe for the restaurant’s most popular hummus. Creamy and herbaceous, this Green Goddess Hummus is inspired by the spring bounty at the restaurant’s farm, Green Gulch. It’s flavored with new spring herbs, green garlic and avocados from farmers market favorite Brokaw Ranch. While freshly cooked chickpeas are recommended, this recipe also works well with canned, rinsed beans.
Never went to the artichoke festival but my family use to stop in Castroville as a kid to buy a couple flat before heading to SF to see relatives…before I-5 went through. I never understood artichokes as kid…still don’t except marinated hearts. Too bad about the festival.
Columns and Newsletters
This award recognizes the work of an individual or team/group that demonstrates thought-provoking opinion and a compelling style on food- or drink-related topics.
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“Chinese Skewers Are the Last Bastion of Late-Night Dining in the Bay”; “Sunnyvale’s Hottest Late-Night Food Spot Is the 24-Hour Indian Grocery Store”; “Taquerias Come and Go, but La Vic’s Orange Sauce Is Forever” Thien Pham and Luke Tsai KQED
live today at 9am, May 12. Repeated at 8 pm and also archived online this evening. Guests include Kadvany of the Chron and Paul Iglesias, owner of Parche (Colombian) and Jaji (Afghan)
Oakland’s restaurant industry is a conundrum. It’s been celebrated as the best restaurant city in the country. But restaurateurs almost universally say they are struggling to make ends meet. As part of our series about how the pandemic changed us, 5 years on, we spotlight Oakland to look at whether the long trudge to pandemic recovery for restaurants will ever end. We talk with restaurant owners and industry experts about the big successes and major struggles of Oakland’s food scene and what it means to support a restaurant.
Guests:
Elena Kadvany, food reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
Paul Iglesias, chef and owner, Parché; co-owner, Jaji
Christ Aivaliotis, owner, Lil Hill Lounge; former owner, Palmetto and Kon-Tiki
Just wondering, are there any longtime restaurants still in business in Oakland and Berkeley. Longtime as in 25+ years? I was feeling nostalgic the other day and thinking of some of my favorites BITD.
Chez Panisse just turned 50. Juan’s Place is also over 50. Nation’s burgers started in the 1940s, but I don’t know about the Berkeley location. Cafe Strada is over 25. Great China opened in 1985, but not in the current location. Cheese Board Pizza? Macdonalds?
ETA: La Note is over 25, too. Smokehouse opened in 1951.
A side note re Juan’s Place: A hour after the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989), husband was cruising around Berkeley looking for a functioning gas station. Most were down because of power outage. He was highly amused to see that Juan’s was lit up like a Christmas tree and providing full service, having the prescience to have high powered generators. It isn’t just luck that Juan’s has thrived for over 50 years!
