Eat & Drink

07 Jan 2025

Wonderful, Culturally Rich Events in SF

KQED is hosting a series of events in San Francisco this winter, including Fixit Clinics, Dungeons and Dragons Live, Chinese New Year Parade Viewing Party, Hella Asian: Bridging the Bay, and The Flavors of the Levant, all of which offer live journalism, performance art, and community-building activities.

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27 Dec 2024

Zeitgeist Fries Returning in 2025

A dive bar lives a thousand lives, sometimes in one day. But over the years, Zeitgeist was known for two things: delicious fried food and good live music. And then the inspection happened. Wait, before you freak – they passed all other parts of the inspection. But the outdoor kitchen

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22 Dec 2024

Broke-Ass Recipes: Beef Stroganov

To be sure, Beef Stroganov most certainly does not refer to a lewd act committed with cattle. As a matter of fact, it is a hearty dish of Russian origin defined by the sour cream and Dijon mustard that go into its proprietary sauce and damn good eating on cold

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19 Dec 2024

Dungeons, Dragons, and Drag Queens: Let’s Ride

Not your average—if there is such a thing—game of D&D. These magical queens take things to the next level at Rockridge Improvement Club monthly. Roll for Shade  Rockridge Improvement Club  5515 College ave, Oakland CA December 8, 2024 It’s not every day you get to watch a drag queen wielding

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18 Dec 2024

Behind-the-Scenes with the Talented Cast of the Dickens Fair

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and Holiday Market is a massive immersive theatrical experience made possible by hundreds of actors, musicians, artists, cooks, cleaners, carpenters, and chestnut roasters, including Mark Montgomery French, Sean Owens, Polly Amber Ross, Brendan Getzell, and Kerri Jones.

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15 Dec 2024

Broke-Ass Recipes: Cock-a-leekie

Though cock-a-leekie is considered Scotland’s official soup, it was adapted from a French recipe using chicken, broth and onions through replacing the latter with its gentler taxonomic relative, the leek, which has been widely cultivated in Scotland since the Middle Ages. Though the first recorded instance of this change dates

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12 Dec 2024

A Delicious New Chapter for Berkeley’s Favorite Thai Spot; Tanzie’s

Since Tanzie’s in Berkeley opened in March as a unique Thai brunch spot, it quickly became a favorite “secret spot” for some of the best Thai food in The Bay Area. The restaurant has earned well-deserved recognition, including being featured on The Chronicle’s list of Top 25 Restaurants in the

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09 Dec 2024

Broke-Ass Recipes: Trifle

The word “trifle” was first used in a culinary context in 1585, appearing in The Good Husvvifes Ievvell, a cookbook by English author Thomas Dawson. The term referred to a thick cream flavoured with sugar, ginger and rosewater. By the middle 18th century, the recipe evolved to entail setting biscuits

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