Ice Cream

Humphry Slocombe Starts "Lickstarter" to Help Fund Ferry Building Spot

By Molly Gore Thu., May 16 2013 at 3:15 PM
Categories: Ice Cream, Kickstarter

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Pending an upcoming expansion into the Ferry Building, Humphry Slocombe is reaching out to the gods of crowdfunding through a campaign they've cleverly coined a "lickstarter." The campaign is run through a thing called "Kudos," which appears to be an online platform that lets you do all kinds of philanthropic things like donating to AIDS research and sending truffles to your friends as a "social accolade."

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20th Century Cafe Launches Kickstarter Campaign With Adorable Old-Timey Video

By Anna Roth Tue., Apr. 23 2013 at 10:10 AM
Categories: Kickstarter

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Polzine buried under paperwork in her old-timey Kickstarter video.
Pastry chef Michelle Polzine has been trying to open 20th Century Café in a converted laundromat at Oak and Gough (across the street from Rich Table) for a while -- we wrote recently about the pop-up bake sales she was holding at State Bird Provisions every Sunday. Now she's looking for Kickstarter dollars to fund the buildout of her new spot, which will draw its inspiration from vintage cookbooks and visits to the café-rich cities of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.

See also: Get a Sneak Peek of 20th Century Cafe at State Bird Provisions

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Ice Cream Travel Guide, All-In-One Utensils and More Need Support

By Tamara Palmer Mon., Feb. 4 2013 at 9:05 AM
Categories: Kickstarter, Palmer

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Alite
The Clover Cook Set combines a spatula, spoon, and tongs in one utensil.
A tour around the current projects bidding for your bucks over at Kickstarter reveals ideas designed to make your cooking and eating pursuits a little bit easier. San Francisco's Alite Designs is looking for assistance to finish creating the Clover Cook Set, which combines a spoon, spatula, and pair of tongs into a three-in-one, interlocking utensil. A donation of at least $20 will get you one of the first sets, and the incentives to give more include other smart Alite products such as hiking and camping kits.

See also: Pal's Takeaway Looking to Move, Raising Funds on Kickstarter


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Schulzies Bread Pudding Readies for Opening, Seeks More Funding on Kickstarter

By Anna Roth Tue., Jan. 8 2013 at 8:55 AM
Categories: Hayes Valley, Kickstarter, Sweet Beat

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Schulzies Bread Pudding
After long last (like, nearly a year), it's looking like Schulzies Bread Pudding is finally about to open in Hayes Valley. The bread pudding has gotten rave reviews down in L.A. where Sarah Schulz operates a bread pudding stand in Venice, but this is the first Bay Area location and the strongest iteration of Schulz's vision: to open a "pudding parlor" based on the same model as an ice cream parlor. Meaning that most of her rotating 108+ bread pudding flavors are served chilled in a gelato-like case, scooped out with an ice cream scoop, and topped with delicious things like chocolate and caramel sauce, fresh berries, crumbled cookies, and more.

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- Apple Fritters at Uncle Benny's Are Crazy Addictive
- Almanac Pairs with Dandelion Chocolate For New Biere de Chocolat
- Hooker's Sweet Treats Seduces With Caramel Ménage À Trois


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Pal's Takeaway Looking to Move, Raising Funds on Kickstarter

By Anna Roth Thu., Dec. 6 2012 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Kickstarter

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Jonathan Kauffman
Lao sausage sandwich from Pal's Takeaway.
If you've ever enjoyed one of the superlative sandwiches from Pal's Takeaway, you know it's located inside the cozy Tony's Market at 24th and Hampshire. Now the shop, which took top honors on SFoodie's Top 10 S.F. Sandwich list earlier this year for its Mrs. Binh's sausage sandwich, is looking to expand into a bigger space sometime next year, hopefully while remaining in the Mission. And it's asking fans to help support the move on Kickstarter.

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- San Francisco's 10 Best Sandwiches
- Pal's Third Anniversary Party: The Return of the Coffee-Rubbed Pulled Pork Sandwich

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Grilled Cheez Guy Wants a Food Truck

By Tamara Palmer Thu., Oct. 18 2012 at 2:00 PM
Categories: Kickstarter

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Grilled Cheez Guy puts a brick on it.
Oakland's Michael Davidson, aka Grilled Cheez Guy, is using Kickstarter in hopes of raising $33,000 to buy and equip a food truck. He's about 5% of the way there, with 33 days to go.

Davidson isn't the first multi-titled Grilled Cheese Invitational champ to take his skills to a bigger market here in San Francisco. Heidi Gibson, co-owner of the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in South Park is readying a second location in the Mission, and it's all the extension of a dream formed when winning the super-competitive sandwich battle for the umpteenth time. He's also not the first local grilled cheese cart with truck aspirations; Toasty Melts can claim that title. So why support Davidson's initiative?

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- Saturday: Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park
- The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Bottles Its Relish
- American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Expected to Launch Any Day Now

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Intriguing New Food Atlas Looking for Kickstarter Funding

By Anna Roth Thu., Oct. 11 2012 at 5:00 AM
Categories: Books, Food History, Kickstarter

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Map slices from the book: Los Angeles' lost agrarian landscape, West Oakland's City Slicker Farms' backyard garden program, California's world almond trade, US farmers' markets and food stamp access, SF Bay Area potential food resiliency.
Remember those rad children's atlases that had cartoonish representations of the major exports of every region around the world, kinda like the map mural at Kate's Kitchen? Well, get excited: a group of Berkeley cartographers and more than 80 volunteers around the globe have banded together to create the grownup version. Food: An Atlas will be a visual representation of food systems around the world, with more than 60 maps covering everything from the United States "beershed" (where our beer ingredients come from) to the global distribution of California almonds. The crowdsourced project is one of the first of its kind. And it needs your help, via Kickstarter, to become a reality.

See also:
- How Christopher Columbus Changed the Way We Eat
- New Cookbook Explores California's Culinary Past
- The 20 Most Significant Food Inventions in History


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Honey Badger Don't Care That It Inspired Some BBQ Sauce

By Tamara Palmer Wed., Aug. 22 2012 at 10:35 AM
Categories: Kickstarter, Local Flavor, Palmer

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Honey Badger BBQ Sauce
A video posted on YouTube called "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger," a witty parody of a National Geographic wildlife documentary, has garnered more than 48 million views since January 2011 and officiated a meme and catchphrase: "Honey badger don't care!" More recently, it has inspired a new line of barbecue sauce from San Francisco.

Honey Badger BBQ Sauce comes in a container that looks like a honey bear but is actually a vicious creature holding a snake and snarling, which is pretty much what the honey badger does in the YouTube video. The sauce has a honey and habanero pepper base, and there's also a limited edition "triple cobra strength" version that is only fit for humans with a badass capacity for extreme hot sauce.


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Get Your Snack On: Toasted Coconut Chips

By Anna Roth Wed., Aug. 15 2012 at 8:15 AM
Categories: Food Find, Kickstarter

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Dang Foods
Imagine these in your trail mix or granola.
A pouch of toasted coconut chips from local (and, it must be said, unfortunately named) Dang Foods came in the mail the other day. Like all unsolicited food samples that arrive at SFoodie headquarters, we sampled them diligently ... then found ourselves eating the whole bag.

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Hapa Ramen Seeks Public Support to Build Dream Kitchen

By Tamara Palmer Thu., Jul. 19 2012 at 3:00 PM
Categories: Kickstarter, Palmer

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John Birdsall
Hapa Ramen, vegetarian-style.
Chef Richie Nakano and crew have worked for nearly a year to open the first brick-and-mortar location of Hapa Ramen. While an opening date has yet to be set, after two years of throwing pop-up events and appearing at Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market and Off the Grid events, Nakano's kitchen equipment has taken a bit of a beating and hopes for a fresh start in the new space.


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