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Funeral fair opens door to eco-friendly exits

"It's really going back to the past, when people took care of their own dead, and to a time when the cradlemaker, cabinetmaker and casketmaker were all one," Liz O'Connell-Gates said. "People would know who to go to. Now it's more anonymous. I grew up ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: HBO,  John Mabry

New factory to help unravel mystery that's tofu

The 38-year-old Albany resident makes and sells tofu to customers at 10 Bay Area farmers' markets and to top restaurants such as Greens, Coi and the Slanted Door. In mid-October, his company, Hodo Soy Beanery, opened a state-of-the-art factory in ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Daniel Patterson,  Michael McCarthy

Adopting a homemade tamale tradition

"My brothers and sisters and I pooled our 'red wrap' quarters from Chinese New Year and bought a couple," Lily Wong Fillmore recalled. "Then we took them home, cut them into pieces and ate them with chopsticks." Although she just turned 75, the memory ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of California Berkeley,  Stanford University

Female scribe at Contemporary Jewish Museum

On Monday, she began writing - in public view - a Torah scroll, the holiest object in Judaism, for the Contemporary Jewish Museum's new exhibition "As It Is Written: Project 304,805." This kind of labor has always been done in private and largely by ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Oct 2009

Bay Area is biggest Little Italy for preschools

"When she's by herself with her dolls, she sings all these songs in Italian," said Abigail's mother, Jessica Hall. "I'm a parent, so of course it makes me want to cry - to think that her little brain, in those unprompted moments of alone time, chooses ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  2 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Emilia (musician)

S.F. native's quest to fill city with natives

The butterfly had come to the right place: The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's Native Plant Nursery lures all kinds of wildlife to the southeast corner of Golden Gate Park. Gaar, however, would like to attract more humans to the undertaking he ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Jul 2009

Bay Area's new crop of gardeners digging in

"I had no idea how many bugs there were in my backyard," said the 40-year-old, who lives in Bernal Heights. "A lot of the leaves on my plants have holes in them. It's like this horror movie." Still, he insists the struggle is worth it, and he's far ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  23 May 2009

Related Topics: Michael Pollan,  University of California Berkeley,  Michelle Obama

Exotic fruit plants show in Golden Gate Park

One occurred when he was 7. "I remember the first time I saw these green things hanging upside down," Dennis recalled. "Somebody said, 'That's a banana.' I thought they were just yellow and at the grocery store." It happened in a botanical conservatory ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 May 2009

Related Topics: Mike Gonzalez

The rapture of the raptors on a downtown corner

The creatures in question are a pair of peregrine falcons, dubbed Dapper Dan and Diamond Lil, who have built a nest on top of Pacific Gas & Electric Co. headquarters at 245 Market St. The falcons are just one example of the Bay Area's rich assortment ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Apr 2009

Related Topics: Pacific Gas & Electric,  PG&E

Sea horse fun facts Sea horses bump jellyfish at Monterey aquarium

"They're strangely exquisite," said Ava Ferguson, senior exhibition developer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where "The Secret Lives of Seahorses" opened earlier this week. The special exhibition, which runs until Sept. 3, 2012, features more than 15 ...

From PATRICIA YOLLIN, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Apr 2009

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