Thoughtful Gourmet Blog

In this weird moment, comfort food is making a comeback in plenty of places. I’ve got my eye on burgers. Beef burgers.

A family meal has to be delicious, it has to be cheap, and it has to be easy enough to cram into the time you have for cooking that night. So sayeth Che Fico Chef David Nayfeld, whose recipes make up a cookbook shared from his perspective as a dad.

Three pizza cookbooks. Three different approaches to make the most of Pizza Night.

What does Mendocino taste like? If pressed to define the essence of this rugged scrap of land in California’s northern reaches, do your senses evoke cypress and bay trees? Cow manure? Fog and salt water? The region’s climatic distinctions are not lost on Chef Matt Kammerer of Elk’s Harbor House, a Michelin two-star restaurant.

A cookbook updates an iconic San Francisco restaurant’s vegetarian idyll with global flavors while honoring its farm-to-table roots.

On a spring trip, I had one night in Boston, three nights in New York. Here’s where and what I ate in Beantown and The Big Apple.

Here are just a few restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area I visited in April. A mind-blowing Korean steak and banchan experience at AB Steak, plus delightful small bites in Union Square at Starlite, squid ink casarecce at Tony’s Seafood in Marin, and more…

No polystyrene? No problem. California restaurants are embracing sustainable takeout solutions, reusable containers like tiffins, and more. For Marin Magazine, I explored ways restaurants in NorCal are utilizing new – and ancient – takeout containers.