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Hollywood Food Stylists Know: You Can’t Film Styrofoam Cake And Eat It, Too
Food stylist Melissa McSorley demonstrates how she prepared the Cubano sandwich from the movie Chef. Photo: Cindy Carpien/NPR Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:...
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CAAMFest 2015: This Year’s Festival is Full of Food Films
CAAMFest, the largest film festival of its kind in North America featuring Asian and Asian American film, food and music, comes back to San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley March 12-22. Off the Menu:...
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Do TV Cooking Shows Make Us Fat?
Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis during a guest appearance on ABC’s The Chew last fall. She can cook rich foods and keep her trim figure, but new research suggests that’s a difficult feat for...
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Drinking with Mad Men: Cocktail Culture and the Myth of Don Draper
Ah, 2007: the year in which we met the first-ever iPhone, a Presidential candidate called Barack Obama… and an inscrutable ad man named Don Draper. With its final seven episodes kicking off on Sunday,...
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10 Best Looks from the Leslie Sbrocco Archives, To Celebrate 10 Seasons of...
It’s hard to believe Check, Please! Bay Area will kick off its tenth season on KQED 9 on April 16, hosted — as ever — by beloved vino maven Leslie Sbrocco. So what better way to raise a glass (or...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area Season 10 Premiere!
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 premieres tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The episode will also be available online this evening on the Check, Please!...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Ristorante Milano, Scolari’s Good Eats, FuseBOX
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 2 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The episode will also be available online this eve at the Check, Please!...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: PintxoPote, Red Hill Station and Osmanthus
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 3 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The episode will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Oi-C Bowl Chinese Restaurant, Los Moles,...
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 4 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The episode will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
View Article‘Around the World’ with Check, Please! Bay Area
“Around the World” is the theme for this episode which combines restaurants from previous Check, Please! Bay Area shows to highlight local restaurants serving up diverse regional cuisines. The chefs at...
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‘Just Eat It’ Demonstrates a Widespread System of Food Waste
A couple weeks ago I made the Chili Shrimp recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. I am not a very practiced cook, which was why my partner bought me this book, and also why he creates...
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California Matters: Mark Bittman’s Online Video Series Premieres with ‘Take a...
Gushing over the Meyer lemons growing in his backyard was one of the first signs that Mark Bittman was falling for California. The celebrated food writer and New York Times columnist began what was...
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GUIDE: Bay Area Restaurants On Film (For Hungry Movie Buffs)
Mrs Doubtfire’s Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan in Bridges, Danville (Screenshot: 20th Century Fox) The San Francisco Bay Area may lack many things — rain, summer, affordable housing — but at least you...
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To Tackle Food Waste, Big Grocery Chain Will Sell Produce Rejects
It’s easy to blame someone else for food waste. If this is really a $2.6 trillion issue, as the United Nations estimates, then who’s in charge of fixing it? Turns out, we the eaters play a big role...
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Watch the ‘Jacques Pépin Heart & Soul’ Series Premiere September 12 on KQED
The series premiere of Jacques Pépin Heart & Soul airs Saturday, September 12 at 10:30am on KQED 9. This will be chef Jacques Pépin’s final television cooking series. The 26 programs were taped in...
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‘East Side Sushi’ Explores a Culture Clash Through Food in Oakland
Yes, it’s a film about sushi, but that’s where any comparison with that other film ends. After winning over audiences at numerous film festivals, “East Side Sushi,” which takes place in Oakland, and...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Lou’s Cafe, Pappo and LaSalette Restaurant
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 5 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The episode will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Papillon, Marla Bakery, La Viga Restaurant
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 6 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The program will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
View ArticleWhat Would Julia Child Do? Jacques Pépin Says: Add More Butter
Listen to Weekend Edition Saturday: http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2015/10/20151003_wesat_what_would_julia_child_do_jacques_pepin_says_add_more_butter.mp3 Jacques Pépin says his new cookbook,...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Camber Montclair, Cole’s Chop House, Wise...
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 7 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The program will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
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