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Pizza places in the Bay Area (California) ?

Also: http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Bay+Area

Adam Kuban at 7:49PM on 02/06/10

Pizza places in the Bay Area (California) ?

Emilia's Pizzeria (Berekely)
http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Emilia's+Pizzeria

Gialina Pizzeria (Glen Park, SF)
http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Gialina+Pizzeria

Pizzeria Delfina (Mission/Pacific Heights, SF)
http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Pizzeria+Delfina

Tony's Pizza Napoletana (North Beach, SF)
http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Tony's+Pizza+Napoletana

Pizzeria Picco (Larkspur)
http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Pizzeria+Picco

A16 (Marina, SF)
http://slice.seriouseats.com/tags/A16

Adam Kuban at 7:49PM on 02/06/10

Seriously Delicious Super Bowl Party Giveaway: Mike Mills Baby Back Ribs and Pulled Pork

And we have our winners! They are:

sPaskowitz
Newtonian dream;
Pulled pork falls from heaven,
and lands in my lap.

zEli173
ship 'cue to my door
UPS guy smells like smoke
sign here, eat contents

leglesspuppy
I've never had Mills,
Nor have any of my friends,
Fix our conundrum?

Congrats, folks, and thanks to everyone who entered! As always, winners may be found on our Contest Winners page.

Adam Kuban at 10:28AM on 02/04/10

Super Bowl Giveaway: The Bacon Explosion

And the BBQ Addict guys have chosen the three winners, who have been contacted. They are:

my4glamgirlz: "Mom, can you like get a bacon plant and grow it so I can eat it with everything?"
BBQ Addicts say: A 6-year-old Bacon Fan!

gratefulted: "There never was a good war or a bad piece of bacon."

13tracker
BBQ Addicts say: Cause his wife needs to try it ;)

Adam Kuban at 9:46AM on 02/04/10

From Slice

Taste Test: 5 Frozen Pepperoni Pizzas

I will just pipe in and say I loved this taste test. I love frozen pizza! I kept nibbling at the leftovers on the table long after all the pizza snobs in the office grumbled back to their desks.

I'm also going to say that, No, you CANNOT judge a FroPi by distribution of its toppings. God knows how it's handled before it gets to you, and it's often stored in a vertical position. So, yes, the onus really is on the end user to normalize topping distro on home-bake.

Also: TOTINO'S/JENO'S FTW!!!!

Adam Kuban at 5:07PM on 02/03/10

Video: Pepsi Refresh Commercial Not So Fresh

@Larikatz: I'm no IP lawyer, but it seems like Pepsi wouldn't necessarily need permission as there doesn't seem to be anything copyrightable here.

Adam Kuban at 10:17AM on 02/03/10

How can I "unfavorite?"

First, apologies for the delay in responding to this topic. Some of you may have seen the response I just posted in a different, more recent thread about favoriting:

As far as unfavoriting goes, the software used to run the site, for some frustrating reason, was never built with an "unfavorite" option. At this point, we are looking at upgrading community features in Q2 of 2010 by installing some new software. When we do that, there's a functioning favorite/unfavorite scheme in this new package of tools. (If you're wondering, it's the same community package used by Heroes's Zachary Quinto and has more toys built in than what we currently have.)

Until we install that software, we'll be stuck without the "unfavoriting" option, since we can only allocate so much cashola for nerd stuff — it's either spend a lot of money paying the tech team to implement "unfavoriting" on the current software system or apply that money to upgrading to a better package of tools that includes working favoriting/unfavoriting and a host of other cool options.

Adam Kuban at 9:51AM on 02/03/10

Favorites

@bareneed: It's being worked on. I think we have your information on this? (I.e., what type and version of browser you're using?) We've had a lot of trouble with it with Explorer. Our nerds are working on it but have been puzzled so far. I didn't know that AHT's worked when others didn't. I can point them to this for clues. Thanks for that tip, Cary.

I know that "unfavoriting" was asked about recently, too. As far as unfavoriting goes, the software used to run the site, for some frustrating reason, was never built with an "unfavorite" option. At this point, we are looking at upgrading community features in Q2 of 2010 by installing some new software. When we do that, there's a functioning favorite/unfavorite scheme in this new package of tools. (If you're wondering, it's the same community package used by Heroes's Zachary Quinto and has more toys built in than what we currently have.)

I'm sorry that this continues to be an issue. I'll ping the tech team with the AHT clue and see if that helps.

Adam Kuban at 9:45AM on 02/03/10

From Recipes

Eat for Eight Bucks: Sweet Potato Leek Soup

@bareneed: LOL

Adam Kuban at 6:37PM on 02/02/10

Any Use for Leek Tops?

@ChefR0b: You've been asked to do something about your tone on Serious Eats before. I'm sorry to see you have not heeded the request. Your most recent reply to Martini Me (which we'll be removing shortly) goes beyond the pale. We do not tolerate that type of ad hominem attack here. You may consider this a final warning.

Adam Kuban at 2:50PM on 02/02/10

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/02/quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-new-orleans-food.html

Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Indianapolis Food Culture?

@gastronomeg: Did you not try your hand at the NOLA quiz yesterday?

Adam Kuban at 11:50AM on 02/02/10

The Serious Eats Store Is In Business

@gingercookiewithlime: No purchase necessary, as per the contest rules.

Here's the link again: http://www.cooking.com/checkout/contests/20100331GiftCertificateSweepstakes.aspx

Adam Kuban at 8:01AM on 02/02/10

Edit/Delete function

chiff: Right now, there's not, though I totally understand why you would want comment-notification on a thread-by-thread basis ... because I want it, too! The good news is that we are working on that; the bad news is that Alaina, who knows exactly where we are in the development phase for that feature, is on vacay right now and won't be back for a couple weeks.

You could either turn it off completely until we get the thread-by-thread feature going or you could use your email app to filter comments into a separate folder — which is what I do.

Adam Kuban at 4:13PM on 01/30/10

From Slice

Pizza Girl: I'm Doing It for More Than Just Money

Great debut! Cannot wait to read more, PG!

Adam Kuban at 5:51PM on 01/29/10

Shakedown, an iPhone App That Helps You Cut the Line at Shake Shack

How does it know there are 91 people in line?

Seriously? This is stupid. The free Shake Shack iPhone app is basically all you'd need to monitor the line situation—and it gives you the menu and it doesn't cost two bucks.

Adam Kuban at 4:56PM on 01/29/10

Black Garlic

I just encountered it at a pizzeria last weekend. Then did a litle googling. Found the blackgarlic.com that caramel mentions. It's apparently a big thing in Korean cooking. It's garlic that's fermented at a high temperature. It becomes sort of sweet and sort of balsamic-tasting. I'd liken it to sort of like roasted garlic mixed with a caramelized onion flavor. I also found a New York Times article from 2008 declaring it the next "it" item. I guess not everyone in the (Western) food world got the memo. But it's weird, because after I found it on that pizza and googled it, a couple days later I also found an item about it in the Philadelphia Inquirer. So I wonder if it's now FINALLY popping up on people's radar.

Adam Kuban at 2:24PM on 01/29/10

Edit/Delete function

Late response, but better than never ...

We've thought about implementing some sort of editing function, and from what I understand, it might be possible with a new community-publishing system we're looking at. If we do, it would probably be something where you could go back and edit within a 15-minute window, which would help with typos (which is what most people seem to want the editing function for).

Adam Kuban at 2:16PM on 01/29/10

Dear AHT: You Have to Check Out Bare Burger in Astoria

OK, Simon. Finally tried it. I liked it. Thanks for the rec!

Linky dink: http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/01/astoria-nyc-bareburger-organic-and-game-burgers-queens-nyc-review.html

Adam Kuban at 1:31PM on 01/29/10

The Burger Lab: Which Makes A Better Burger, Grass-Fed or Grain?

@DZ: For the record, I picked La Frieda. I think I was the one who made the "most straightforward 'burger' flavor" comment. I guess I've been conditioned to love the La Frieda by all my burger meals at Shake Shack. (As much as I am loath to admit it, since I often think all the La Frieda foaming by people is a little insane.)

Adam Kuban at 11:08AM on 01/29/10

The Burger Lab: Which Makes A Better Burger, Grass-Fed or Grain?

The Whole Foods preground beef is so, so not good. Flavor, sure. Juiciness, sure. But this one ranked dead last on my list* because of its dense, finely ground texture. It's just horrible as a burger meat.

*Yes, I was one of the two who did not rank the Select beef as last. I had it third. I had to give the WF beef last place—even though it was pretty juicy—because of the blah texture.

Adam Kuban at 10:26AM on 01/29/10

From Slice

Manhattan: Fanelli's Cafe (Yes, It Serves Pizza)

Hahah, Nick. I feel for you. You probably thought, "Wow! I'm going to find a hidden gem that's been right under everyone's nose." D'oh! Sorry.

The Fanelli burger is good, though. And it's a fun place. A reliable respite from the Soho craziness—especially during the holidays.

Adam Kuban at 10:10AM on 01/29/10

http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/08/eat-me-life-philosophy-kenny-shopsin-memoir-cookbook.html

Top 5 Food Places to Take a Tourist in Manhattan

Nick, for an idea of what bessfour is talking about re Shopsins, see this post by Ed Levine:

Adam Kuban at 7:57AM on 01/29/10