10 | EDIBLE SF SUMMER 2025 Letter from the Editor San Francisco devours and rebuilds itself constantly. A city forever changing its skin. As the new Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Edible San Francisco, I’m inheriting a publication filled with a legacy bearing witness to decades of evolution. The pages of Edible San Francisco have always captured this perpetual motion—I step into this role with profound respect for what preceded me, and a frank determination about what comes next. My approach to this stewardship embraces contradictions: respecting tradition and seeking disruption, acknowledging the present while imagining the future, and pushing forward with advised precision guided by unsanctioned intuition. We call this issue THE NEW GUARD because San Francisco has proven it punches far above its weight class. There’s no shortage of innovation or adaptability within this 7x7 city gem—a fractal full of infinite complexity and delight that refuses to calcify even as it transforms. Within these pages are stories that were chosen to represent the edges of where innovation occurs—an organic winery and farm against housing projects, a bizarre pop-up outshining culinary titans, a hospitality group breaking hierarchies. This isn’t about trends, it’s about how our city calibrates when convention falters. The New Guard doesn’t represent people, it represents a perspective. I honor the past by reshaping it. My commitment to you is to continue evolving this publication with the same creative energy that defines our city. This transformation isn’t something I undertake alone—as readers, you are essential partners in this reinvention. Your experiences, discoveries, and hunger for authentic stories will shape Edible San Francisco as much as my editorial decisions. The magazine in your hands will continue to change. It must. San Francisco demands nothing less. I invite you to evolve alongside us. Forward, Melody Saradpon Editor-in-Chief & Publisher
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