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Bored At Work? Ben & Jerry's Wants Your Help With City-Themed Flavors.

DC, NYC, SF, Portland and Seattle getting flavors

Jun 18, 2013 4:31 pm

Ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s is creating a line of city-themed ice creams and is looking to you – that’s right, you! – for help. Why spend your lunch break researching candidates’ viewpoints in upcoming local elections or filling out MLB All-Star ballots when you could be voting on spoonable caramels versus waffle cone pieces for the New York City frozen yogurt flavor? Read on.

FR Interview

Into The Wild With Charlie Palmer

The chef's new cookbook is for the outdoor gourmet

Jun 6, 2013 9:01 am

Photo: Bill Milne

Charlie Palmer talks about the old and the new Aureole in NYC, his cookbook with Remington Arms, his California ventures and more in this candid chat, the latest installment of a little feature we like to call the FR Interview!

Grilling Month

Grilling God: Chad Newton

Bay Area chef talks surefire tips, Giants baseball

May 17, 2013 12:02 pm

Chad Newton — along with his wife Grace Nguyen — are the culinary forces behind Asian Box, the Vietnamese fast casual mini-chain located in Palo Alto and Mountain View, California.

Festivals

Chipotle Is Getting Into The Craft Beer Game

Producing microbrews for the Cultivate Festival

May 14, 2013 4:31 pm

This afternoon we were given world that the Denver-based burrito-bowl bosses Chipotle is releasing their own microbrews, to flow in conjunction with their annual traveling Cultivate Music Festival — with stops this year in San Francisco (June 8), Denver (August 17) and Chicago (September 7). Details, this way...

FR Interview

In A New York State Of Mind With David Kinch

Bay Area legend was in town, so we had a drink

May 2, 2013 9:02 am

“It’s like I am a new bornbaby and have never worked in a kitchen I my entire life,” says David Kinch, Negroni in hand, as we share a booth in the ancient backroom at Keen’s Steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan. We’re talking about the food of Japan, a topic that excites the eccentric chef-owner of Manresa in Los Gatos, California. We get to talking about New York City in the '80s...

Awards

2013 IACP Cookbook And Media Awards Presented Last Night In San Francisco

Awards for food writing, photography and design

Apr 10, 2013 11:03 am

The International Association of Culinary Professionals is one of the main arbiters of taste within the close-knit food writing community (which encompasses journalism, cookbooks and photography) — acknowledging the best of the best in a yearly awards program. Last night in San Francisco, those awards were given out to wide range of creators.

Video Time

Video: The Time Jim Morrison Asked ‘What’s Wrong With Being Fat?’

For the Doors frontman, thin was NOT in

Apr 2, 2013 12:03 pm

Blank On Blank, in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios, has animated a colorful exchange between Jim Morrison and journalist Howard Smith. It details Morrison’s eating habits in college, which apparently included a lot of mashed potatoes.

Just Back From...

Michael Tusk Bought Some New Steak Knives In Argentina

The Quince chef on his Mendoza, Buenos Aires trip

Mar 6, 2013 2:02 pm

The James Beard Award–winning chef/owner of Quince and Cotogna, two beloved San Francisco Italian restaurants, spills on his recent trip to Argentina. What he ate, drank and brought back, right this way...