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Hi, welcome to your Weekend!This is Jillian Goodman, The Information’s opinion editor, taking over for your usual newsletter-er, Jon Steinberg.The official start of summer isn’t for ten days yet, but here at Weekend, we’re already in full sunglasses mode. I’m filling in for Jon this week while ...
It was announced Friday morning that former A’s player Jeremy Giambi died by suicide Wednesday, the Outer Sunset is one step closer to getting its first dispensary, and Barack and Michelle Obama's nearly life-sized portraits in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are coming to SF this summer.
Buoyed in part by a national resurgence in Jell-O cakes, Bay Area makers are turning to...
An ambitious new crop of California olive oil artisans is going all-in on creative, flavorful versions Flora Tsapovksy FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Olive trees are illuminated by the morning light on one of Grove 45's olive groves in St. HelenaJessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Marcela Hernandez (left) and her mother, Ana Hernandez, walk through an olive grove at their Grove 45 olive oil company in St. Helena.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Grove 45 co-owner Marcela Hernandez stands among a grove of 19th century olive trees in St. Helena.Jessica Chr...
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, my mind prickling like one who has become suddenly lucid after a fugue state: I suddenly realized tha...