Shark Fin Ban Signed Into Law; But Shark Fin Soup Will Be Around for Two Years At Least
Shark fins already in the state can be sold, or eaten, through July 2013.
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Restaurant Workers Right Up There With Miners as Big Smokers
The CDC's list of occupations that smoke the most is usually topped by roofers and bricklayers and such.
Lab-Grown Meat Will Save Us All!
We could be seeing "in-vitro" meat products on shelves and in restaurants within six months, supposedly.
Mark Zuckerberg Gets All Teddy Roosevelt on Innocent Bison
He graduates from chicken and pigs to bigger game in his new "kill-it-yourself" regime.
Eagles Draft Garces For Home Games; Dandelion Opens Crazy Early For Soccer Fans
Guapos Tacos rolls up on the Linc, and Dandelion serves an early breakfast for the Manchester City vs Everton game.
Red Tide Causes Massive Abalone Die-Off on Sonoma Coast
Locals say this is the worst red tide they've seen in thirty years.
Some CA Chefs Lament as Both Shark Fin and Foie Gras Get Set to Be Banned
Chefs aren't too quick to defend the practice of killing sharks for their fins, but when it comes to taking away their foie, they're pretty angry about that.
Vallejo Couple Goes Grocery-Free For a Year, Likes It
Rachel Hoff and Tom Ferguson have eaten only what they could grow (and, for a few months, what they could get at farmers' markets) for the last year.
Bi-Rite Market Hires a Bouncer
Also, they had a one-in-one-out policy at the height of Labor Day madness.
Will New FDA Regulations Affect Thomas Keller’s Line of Gluten-Free Flour?
Keller's proprietary blend of gluten-free pastry flour is one of many products soon to be strictly regulated by the feds.
FDA to Helpfully Identify All Fish Species So That You Don’t Get Poisoned
The agency is working on a database to identify all (or most) of the 30,000 fish species in the world by their DNA.
Hurrah! You May Soon Be Able to Infuse Vodka In California Without Breaking the Law
Senator Mark Leno has finally gotten his bill passed, eradicating that weird Prohibition-era law.
San Francisco May Be Reaching Its Farmers’ Market Saturation Point
It isn't just a San Francisco thing; the number of farmers' markets has been on a steady rise all over the country. But now that we have more than a dozen of them happening weekly across the city, doesn't that...
Homeslice's New Owners Dispel Fears of an Eastside vs Westside Turf Battle on Liberties Walk
The new owners of the NoLibs pizza joint simply added the word West to their address so customers could find the,
Got V.D.? You Technically Can’t Work in an S.F. Restaurant
Perusing Article 8 of the City health code (as they're wont to do), SFoodie today finds that anyone carrying any sort of venereal disease, including the ones like HPV and herpes that every other person has, isn't allowed to work...
Watch an Interesting Video About the History of Charcuterie, and Europe’s Enduring Love of the Pig
Everything you need to know about cured and smoked meats, in sixteen minutes.