I’m a big fan of independent films.  Many of them start off with one person’s idea for a great movie and then, they make a good script and the result is pretty good.  On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, we see the same thing.  Someone gets a great idea …

On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy, it’s always interesting how a minor ingredient can make a major difference in the outcome of a dish. For example, take something like Chicken Marsala, being one of my favorite dinners, I make very frequently. For years, I used a “regular” marsala and didn’t give …

That means things like asparagus and berries, but also things like great seafood coming into the markets. This year is supposed to be an exceptional year for salmon. We catch salmon right off of the coast. When it’s fresh like that, I like to sauté it quickly. I liked starting off with a little olive …

With two major holidays coming up, Passover and Easter, we like to look at this time of year through what we see on our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown. For many of us in San Francisco, we’ll be celebrating the holidays, either as part of an organized celebration, with family …

What really makes a good cappuccino, is it the foam, the milk, the coffee, the cup or something else? On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy, it’s a question that we have a great time exploring. While the cappuccino itself is a big part of it, I think a bigger part is …

Fennel is a good example, if you braise it (sauté it quickly at a high heat until it browns a little), toss it some juice and the rinds from a Meyer lemon, then in the fronds from the fennel (the leaves), you end with up with a simple, but incredibly satisfying and delicious dish. I …

On the home front, I end up cooking just about everything with asparagus. From grilled asparagus to asparagus soup, it ends up being a real celebration. Thanks to the wind that we have here, grilling something outdoors is not all the easiest thing to do, so frequently I end up roasting the asparagus in the …

On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, it’s interesting how we can see evidence of Californian’s attachment to our open space. Whether it’s the fresh fruits and vegetables, the fresh flowers, photographs of our open space, or paintings by local artists, they all refer to and highlight our attachment to …

On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, it’s amazing how a few simple ingredients can create an amazing dish. At one of our stops, they started making a dish where they take a Parmesan wheel, then flambé some alcohol inside the parmesan wheel and cook the alcohol until all of …

It seems like most cities have their version of a local dish, such as New Orleans and Gumbo, San Francisco and Cioppino, Philadelphia and Cheesesteaks, and so on. On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, it’s interesting how our local dish Cioppino, reflects both neighborhoods. Cioppino is a seafood dish …