8 | EDIBLE SF SPRING 2026 edible san francisco PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Melody Saradpon PUBLISHER Tony Garnicki ART DIRECTOR/DESIGNER Melody Saradpon Chloe Kam COPY DIRECTOR Doug Adrianson ADVERTISING SALES info@ediblesf.com CONTACT US 584 Castro Street, Suite #508 San Francisco, CA 94114 Edible San Francisco is published four times a year and distributed throughout San Francisco. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Every effort has been made to avoid errors, misspellings, and omissions. If an error comes to your attention, please accept our sincere apologies and notify us. Member of Edible Communities @ediblesf EDITOR'S LETTER I started 2026 in Tepoztlán, a small town south of Mexico City, looking for a change. A temezcal sweat lodge ceremony gave me something better: clarity. I was done being distracted by noise. Every year, I start with a word to set a theme for the upcoming months. This year: pioneering. Not by forcing, but by clearing the path. With that intention set, people arrived by pure happenstance, not effort. Creative collaborations, once lofty goals, took shape on their own. Edible San Francisco is becoming more artistic, something I've wanted to make but had not trusted to do until now. One issue before our one-year anniversary marks a beginning: newer voices, clearer vision. Our opener is Li Hui, a photographer I've admired for many months. Her work sets the tone: an intuitive observation of unspoken body language. Carolyn Tillie brings a historical and poetic voice to edible skins and casings. We dive deeper into microbes and the things we leave behind upon a touch, and follow a body experiencing three states of being in a single day. Welcome to the Skin Issue. It's called this because that's what it took to get here: stripping away what was no longer needed and showing up in nothing but our own skin. Exposed. But moving forward anyway. Melody Saradpon Editor-in-Chief & Publisher Onward,
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