In its latest issue, Kinfolk continues to charm and soothe us with its incomparable combination of delicately stylized writing and evocative photos. If ever there's been a magazine to be savored, this is the one.Organized into three sections ("One," "Two," and "Few") that correspond to how many guests are gathered MORE...

Kam Po Kitchen 801 Broadway (at Powell St.) San Francisco, CA 94133 My colleague Lou has long impressed me as a man-of-all-trades. Or a man-about-town. Actually, he’s a bit of both. He either knows first-hand where to eat and drink or he's picked up a good lead while covering the spirits beat for a variety of MORE...

While my wife, two teenage daughters, and I are avid readers, it's rare for us to have all read the same book (not counting the 2,500 times we read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Barnyard Dance! when the girls were growing up). For a while the only book that snared all four of us (along with MORE...

Shot by our very own art director Ali Ziegler, starring the hands and consummate baking skills of the book's author (and Weldon Owen executive editor) Kim Laidlaw, edited and mixed by yours truly, and codirected by the three of us ("Sorta like Joel and Ethan Coen plus one," I kept pointing out, over and over, with MORE...