Great Food Finds San Francisco: Delicious Food from the City's Top Eateries [Paperback]

Food, cooking and restaurants reflect the spirit of San Francisco, the people who live there, and their many cultures and cuisines. Culinary traditions here are firm, but there is a dynamic food/dining evolution taking placefrom the finest white tablecloth restaurants to homey mom and pop cafes and chic new eateries. Great Food Finds San Francisco features recipes for the home cook from some of the citys most celebrated eateries alongside beautiful photography.Carolyn Jung an award-winning food and wine writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of a James Beard Award for feature writing about restaurants/chefs, a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism award of excellence for diversity writing, an award from the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors, and numerous first-place honors from the Association of Food Journalists, and the Peninsula Press Club. In 2015, she was named an IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) finalist for narrative food writing. She has judged a bevy of food contests, including the biggie of them all, the Pillsbury Bake-Off.For eleven years, she was the food writer/editor for the San Jose Mercury News. She also was a contributor to the Good Living section of Gourmet magazine, and to the book, The Slow Food Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area.Currently, she is a freelance food writer. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, Silicon Valley magazine, Eating Well, Coastal Living, Food Arts, Wine Spectator, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Plate magazine, and other publications, including the online site, Tasting Table San Francisco. Her first cookbook, San Francisco Chefs Table, debuted in winter 2013.In 2008, she created FoodGal.com, a food and wine blog that features interviews with celebrated chefs, reviews of intriguing cookbooks and products, the scoop on new restaurants, irresistible recipes, and her singular take on how food touclƒ˝