San Francisco Street Food Festival 2013 (Slideshow)featured
Have you digested everything from the Night Market yet? Well don’t slow down now. There are too many plates and too little stomach space for that at the San Francisco Street Food Festival. Award-winning restaurants and budding entrepreneurs alike brought their tastiest bites to the street, and the people approved.
Judging from the line of eager customers that snaked down the street, the people particularly approved of Nombe’s Ramen Burger. That’s right. We saw the mythical Ramen Burger in the flesh and got the deets for you. The “bun” is made of ramen noodles that have been mixed with ground nori and pan-fried crispy, and the burger is a 50/50 mix of pork belly and Wagyu beef. Flavor combos for the day were a bacon-cheddar-soy sauce number and the staff favorite, a shiitake-blue cheese-miso sauce option. A shio-koji pickle, tomato, caramelized onions, and mizuna dressed in wasabi vinaigrette topped it all off.
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San Francisco Night Market 2013 (Slideshow)featured
La Cocina’s fifth annual Street Food Festival kicked off with the Night Market, full of great food, music, games and smiling people. Think of it like the best block party you’ve ever been to.
This year the Night Market was divvied up into six different regions (Europe, Mediterranean & Africa, East Asia, China & Southeast Asia, and Latin America, and the American South), making for a delicious tour around the world.
Did you ever have cultural heritage day at school when everyone brought in a dish from a different country, and all the kids ate crepes and lo mein for lunch instead of ham sandwiches and Handi-Snacks? Yeah, the Night Market was like that, but so much better.
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Food, Music, and Fun at Outside Lands (Slideshow)featured
Outside Lands proved once again that it is as much about the food and drink as it is about the music. And, both were as diverse as you can imagine. Dance to the dulcet tones of Paul McCartney, with flowers in your hair and vegan Malaysian Nachos in your hands.
Or maybe Nine Inch Nails and Lamb Poutine are more your speed? It’s cool, we can all get along. Maybe we can find common ground over a gargantuan pan of paella.
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Preparing for Burning Man, Food 101: Tips, Recipes, and Resourcesfeatured
I survived my virgin burn last year and I’m going back for more.
In a few short days, I’ll be pulling on my tutu and heading into the dusty playground that is Burning Man. As others in my camp focus on things like acquiring lasers, remodeling art cars, and learning how to solder el-wire, I’m sticking to what I know: Food.
I’m prepping meals for me plus 20 this year and thought it would be helpful to share some lessons learned from last year’s experience, along with some great tips I’ve come across in my own research of what to eat at Burning Man.
In general, last year’s Tips on Preparing Food for Burning Man hold true — although I did find that buying my coffee at Center Camp was much more preferable to dealing with cleaning out my French press, and forget the sparkle shoes, everything gets coated with dust anyway and glitter is a big MOOPy (Matter Out Of Place) no-no. Here’s an updated list:
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