Get on Board the Tacolicious Train

I'd heard about Tacolicious before. They're at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market on Thursday, they're always doing cool special guest chef tacos there, and they're constantly being talked about on Twitter, including a recent tweet by @davkyl, which I enjoyed, "If Beretta f***** a Mexican taco cart in Ensenada, you would have Tacolicious. That place can hang even by the SoCal-Mexican-food standard." Not sure what most of that means, but couldn't have said it any better.

Should We Know What We Eat?

One of the less discussed aspects of Obama's new health care bill is that it now requires chain restaurants (and vending machines) to disclose information about calories directly on the menu.

Buried deep in the health care bill, section 4205 calls for mandatory nutrition labeling of menu items at chains with more than 20 restaurants. While it’s not necessarily the most groundbreaking change, it represents a wider shift by lawmakers not only to provide better health care but also to help prevent disease in the first place. (The bill also includes $15 billion for other preventative health programs over the next decade.)

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While cities like New York and Philadelphia have already tested the waters in this sort of legislation, a nation-wide mandate should set a new precedent for transparency in what you eat.

One of our goals here at menuvore is to give people more information about what they eat, whether it be "Does it taste good?" or "Is it good for you?". We think that the more information you have, the better your eating experience will be.

The details on implementation are still a little fuzzy, but for now we are optimistic and will watching to see how it unfolds.

Do you want to know how many calories you are eating when you go out? Let us know!

Good News for the Irish

Just in time for St. Patrick's day, another John Campbell's Irish Bakery has opened up (yesterday) in Pacific Heights/Cow Hollow (San Francisco). In case you're not familiar, the other one is on Geary Blvd. in Outer Richmond and boasts some of the tastiest Irish breads/desserts around.

A few items that are particularly tasty are the Irish Raisin Soda Bread, chocolate cherry bread and snowballs. What is a snowball? Remember this:

It's more or less a classy, tastier version of these. Didn't know these were in the Irish repertoire, but they are frickin good.

Congrats to John Campbell's on a well deserved second store.

4th Annual Bacon Eating Contest in Boston!

No bacon is not good for you, but it is hilarious, delicious, and now even hip. Atwoods Tavern in Boston Massachusetts is having their 4th annual Bacon Eating Contest. I haven't been able to find the specifics on the competition, but can assume it will involve eating eating mass quantities of bacon strips. You can find more information at the Atwoods Tavern website and follow them on twitter at @atwoodstavern for updates.

So bring your bacon tie, your bacon wallet, your bacon bra and get ready to POUND some PORK. Since this is a civilized competition you might want to leave your bacon gun at home.

San Francisco Underground Market

San Francisco is known for their Farmer's Markets, but for to the casual cook, chef, or farmer the barrier to entry is often too steep to participate. In order to sell at a farmer's market in the state of California, you to prepare your food in a commercial kitchen. Unless that is your market is "underground". A couple of local foodies started the SF Underground Market. A farmer's market where amateurs sell food and goods they prepared in the confines of their own home. Debuing in December, the market has been a huge success. They have been growing each month with the most recent market on March 6th offering almost 50 tables.

I was pretty excited to read about this and will even considering participating.

You can read more about it on their website.

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Happy eating to all.

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