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Some cautious optimism amid indoor dinings return in the Bay Area FacebookTwitterEmail Daniel Morales serves meals to a table of diners at La Mar on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in San Francisco.Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle Last week, San Francisco officials announced that indoor dining at 25% capacity would likely return as the county descends into the “red tier” of the state’s reopening plan: possibly as soon as this coming Wednesday, March 3. That is, if coronavirus infection rates don’t...

Jams, jellies and hot sauces capture the moment better than words can FacebookTwitterEmail Peach preserves, made by Shakirah Simley in her San Francisco apartment on August 8, 2020. Simley prefers a mix of just ripe and slightly underripe fruit for a mix of sweet and acid. She always tastes the fruit once at home. “You want the best fruit because you can’t put lipstick on a pig,” Simley says.Celeste Noche / Special to The Chronicle A few weeks ago, I found myself staring into my fridge, m...

For the year of the ox, Bay Areas food community is grounding itself FacebookTwitterEmail Water buffalo, whose milk is used to make Italian style mozzarella di bufala, at the Ramini facility in Tomales. The buffalo have rock star names like Pat Benetar, Van Morrison, and Chris Isaac.Jason Henry / Special To The Chronicle 2015 We’re entering this new phase in the lunar calendar, which has come along with a palpable period of mental and physical fatigue among a lot of people I know. The year of...

A good breakfast taco is a rare bird in San Francisco, but this pop-up nails them FacebookTwitterEmail LoJos Tacos is a breakfast taco pop-up at Avedanos Meats in Bernal Heights.Loren Johnson In “The Austin Cookbook,” author Paula Forbes writes that the breakfast taco, being one of the city’s highest art forms, is both deceptively simple and tricky to master. “Every element must be on point,” she writes: Tortillas must be fresh; salsa, scalding; and the other components, layered thoug...

The best way to enjoy the Bay Areas food pop-ups is to embrace chaos FacebookTwitterEmail Chefs Ryan Stagg (left) next to his fiancee Danielle Banchero (right) as they load cinnamon rolls for a customer seen at his pop-up bakery out of their home on Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in San Francisco, Calif.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle When you go to as many pop-ups as I do, you quickly come to realize that enjoying them means throwing yourself through endless hoops, all in the name of finally getting to buy...