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Foie Gras: Rendering the issues The controversial delicacy, foie gras, may be dissappearing under California bill SB-1520, which will ban the sale and production of the fatty duck livers in 2012. Although the bill has been passed, chefs and one of the three national producers of foie gras, Sonoma Valley Foie Gras, struggle to save gastronomic tradition despite the views of animal rights activists.
[ Story by Mike Wille ]
Monday, Apr 17 2006 7:52 PM

HIV/ AIDS Podcast -- The Science Behind the Drugs It has been 25 years since the first cases of immune deficiency were reported to the center of disease control. The disease was given the name "AIDS" a year later in 1982. My guest today is Brian Kearney. He the director of pharmacology studies at Gilead Sciences located in Foster City
[ Story by Mike Wille ]
Tuesday, Mar 14 2006 9:01 AM

Mavericks: Men Who Ride Mountains Twenty-four of the worlds greatest surfers are invited to Half Moon Bay to compete in one of the most challenging surf competitions ever.
[ Story by Mike Wille ]
Wednesday, Feb 15 2006 1:38 PM

Batteries Not Included On the open plains of Greece, wedged between two tributaries, the sweet smell of fennel fills the air. Wild flowers dot the landscape as pine trees climb into the mountains framing the blue sky. An estimated 6,400 Persian corpses lay dead on the battlefield to the mere 192 Athenians slain.
[ Story by Erin Feher and Mike Wille ]
Tuesday, Nov 29 2005 10:00 PM

Editor's Letter Theorist Matthew Arnold refers to culture as "the best that has been thought and said in the world.” Maybe this guy has a point, but I think we all know culture isn’t that easy to define. And we’re not even going to try.
[ Story by Sabra Moallem ]
Friday, Oct 28 2005 11:48 PM

Hamburger & Fries: An American Story In search of the gastronomic grail–or, in this instance, we should say grill–author John T. Edge has dined across America on a quest to “sketch the cultural and historical landscape by way of what we eat.” His four-book series examines what he considers to be the iconic foods of America: fried chicken, burgers and fries, apple pie and donuts.
[ Story by Mike Wille ]
Sunday, Oct 23 2005 10:45 PM

Supperclub: Comfortable Dining Tad Glauthier enters the red room adorned with glittering disco balls and draws the plastic six-shooter tucked from behind the small of his back. “There’s a new sheriff in town,” he says to diners waiting in the bar with his revolver held high. He’s in charge of the dining room floor tonight, and wants to be ready for anything.
[ Story by Mike Wille ]
Sunday, Oct 23 2005 10:35 PM

The Fall of the Wild Salmon farming took off in Washington and British Columbia during the 1980s in hopes that it would create jobs and preserve wild stocks. But today it threatens the livelihood of West Coast fishermen by creating a cheaper product competing with year-round availability. Fishermen say farmed fish are lower quality, although farmers and hatchery workers claim otherwise.
[ Story by Mike; Wille ]
Sunday, Sep 25 2005 8:54 PM

The Romantic Life of the Angelfish Thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, she waits for her prey, her bioluminescent lure glowing with the light of millions of bacteria. Her thin, black jelly-like skin doesn’t reflect a spec of light. It camouflages her from unsuspecting predators of the deep abyss. She opens wide and lunges, extending her flexible jaws around a lantern fish twice her size.
[ Story by Mike Wille ]
Sunday, Sep 25 2005 4:10 PM

Le JambonBerger America may have sent one of its own to France, kicking the saddles of cyclists up and down the Pyrenees, but here on our own turf in the humble little restaurant community of Potrero Hill, the French rein supreme at Chez Maman.
[ Story by Mike; Wille ]
Sunday, Sep 25 2005 4:01 PM