4 | EDIBLE SF FALL 2025 CONTENTS On the cover: 'Peach Melba', oil painting by Laura Rokas. Courtesy of artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents Photographers: Jason Leung, Carter Hiyama, Francesca Soo, Melody Saradpon ON THE COVER 14 PAINTING THE TENSION Laura Rokas transforms vintage recipe cards into art ON EXCESS 16 ONE MORE SLICE A study in mindful excess 20 PARADOX ON OUR PLATES In San Francisco, extreme wealth and food insecurity share the same streets 22 MY BIRTHDAY CAKE MANTRA On processed food, access, and the right to choose ON RECIPROCITY 24 TOO GOOD TO WASTE How surprise bags are feeding San Francisco—and fighting food waste 26 ALLIED TABLES San Francisco's successful kitchens and bars are discovering true success means opening their doors to each other 30 GILT COMPLEX Ken Fulk knows when too much is just enough 32 THE GENEROSITY PRINCIPLE How Foreign Cinema thrives by never cutting back 36 BAROQUE MINIMALISM Bar Sprezzatura's ornate approach to using everything ON DISCOVERY 38 HOT RESTAURANTS These six openings prove that when SF restaurants take risks, we all eat better 40 CULTURE CALENDAR No better time than this fall to be outside Bar Iris Block Party, p40 Creativity unbound, p14 Buoy Bar's kampachi yuzu, p38 A cappelletti collab, p26 Cake excess, p16
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