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The Tacolicious Guest Chef Series 2011

This Thursday will be the second of our Spring 2011 guest chef series at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market stand. (Last Thursday, Hoss Zare of Zaré at Flytrap made his move.) A fundraiser for CUESA (Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture), the folks behind the nationally-renowed market itself, all…

Tacolicious’s Guest Chef Series is Back!

In the spring of this year, some of the city’s top chefs, from Delfina’s Craig Stoll to Betelnut’s Alex Ong, took over the Tacolicious Thursday market stand for a day and cooked up some outstanding tacos. (The octopus and potato taco from former Fish & Farm chef Chad Newton might…

Rick Bayless Talks Mexican vs. Mexican

On SF Gate’s Inside Scoop today, the honorable Paolo Lucchesi sat down with the venerable Rick Bayless to talk shop. After he got done waxing on about his good eating in SF (none of it Mexican), he got down to business. A man with a sharp mind, Bayless always has…

What Happens In San Miguel …

The last time I was in San Miguel de Allende, I was going through a divorce. It was my first Christmas without my boys and my parents had thought that it would be good for me to get away from it all, so they bought me an airline ticket to…

Exit Interview: Perbacco chef Staffan Terje

A Swedish chef in San Francisco running an Italian restaurant comes to cook Cal-Mexican for Tacolicious’s farmers market stand. Hooray for America. First taco memory? Being from Sweden, unfortunately it was at Taco Bell. Also, although it’s not a true taco, in Sweden, we make something similar called a “klamma.”…