10 | EDIBLE SF FALL 2025 EDITOR'S LETTER Melody Saradpon Editor-in-Chief & Publisher San Francisco has 3,000 restaurants and 130,000 food-insecure residents. This mathematics of abundance defines our city. In this issue, we examine what it means to have too much and not enough, often simultaneously. Francesca Soo bakes her thousandth cake while wrestling with waste. Larissa Zimberoff volunteers at a food pantry, torn between gratitude and dismay at processed donations. The city's top kitchens collaborate rather than compete, finding abundance in generosity. We explore solutions: apps that turn surplus into $6 meals, entrepreneurs who see excess as opportunity, chefs who transform leftovers into community. Ken Fulk shows us how to gather generously. Foreign Cinema and Bar Sprezzatura remind us that hospitality, at its core, is about sharing and using all that we have. Laura Rokas's cover art—vintage recipe cards rendered in paint—captures our central paradox: how too much can make you feel empty. Her work asks what we've always wondered: What does it mean to feast while others hunger? Welcome to the table. Bon appétit,
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