Get the Skinny on Wine Prices

This is my occasional coverage of shopping and ecommerce search engines. I read about this site in a newspaper article and it sounded so interesting I had to write it up. I’m talking about...

Happy Happy

I discovered I can bake a nice loaf of cornbread in my solar oven. Next up: Hand-ground wheat flour used to bake loaves of bread.

Basic Good Eats, San Francisco Style

Joe’s Cable Car Diner (he calls it “restaurant,” but everybody else calls it “diner”) is at Silver and Mission streets, in the Outer Mission district, about as far from...

In The Mail Today

Do You Cook Ahead?

I’ve always been intrigued by make-ahead cooking. Methods like once-a-month cooking or even weekly cooking are very appealing to me and though I’ve bought a couple of books with recipes...