Susan Dyer Reynolds

Vegetarian Goose from Shanghai House. PHOTO: SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS
At the Table

Fab Five tofu dishes

Plant-based may be trendy, but it’s certainly not new
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Back of the House founder Adriano Paganini recently shuttered Belga, his popular four-year-old sausage and beer house on Union Street in Cow Hollow and opened Wildseed. Now one of ... Read More
Crab Louie at The Grotto. Photo: Susan Dyer Reynolds
At the Table

Crab for the holidays

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

With Dungeness crab season scheduled to kick off Dec. 15 and people looking for places to take out-of-town holiday guests to enjoy one of our greatest local treasures, I decided to... Read More
Johnny Mathis began his legendary career in San Francisco. Photo: Rojon Productions
Reynolds Rap

Johnny Mathis comes home for the holidays

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It’s hard to imagine the holidays without Johnny Mathis. From “The Christmas Song” (“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”) to “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” his smoot... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Cirque du Soleil

With rambling diatribes on cultural appropriation, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Soleil Ho makes a mockery of food criticism
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When the San Francisco Chronicle decided to replace food critic Michael Bauer, I wasn’t alone in thinking “It’s about time.” After all, the New York Times had six food cri... Read More
La Deliziosa Vita

Winter squash: Perfect for the holidays and beyond

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

I say this every year but I’ll say it again: Fall is my favorite time of year and one of my favorite fall ingredients is winter squash in all its bounty. These recipes will work... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Are the candidates for San Francisco district attorney tough enough?

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Current San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón’s decision not to run for reelection makes this Nov. 5 more important than ever. Not since William Langdon stepped aside in... Read More
Political Animal

S.F. SPCA using underhanded tactics to push controversial feral cat policy

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When San Francisco SPCA volunteer Amy Jones attended the June 20 hearing of the Animal Welfare Commission regarding the SPCA’s controversial new feral cat program, she had no int... Read More
Reynolds Rap

State of emergency

Leaders fiddle while San Francisco burns
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

At 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 11, Paneez Kosarian came home to The Watermark condominium complex on Beale Street, just steps away from a planned homeless navigation center, when she was sud... Read More
La Deliziosa Vita

Comforting pasta favorites for fall

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When the fall chill hit the air and the days grew shorter, my mom would often make one of my favorite comfort pastas: pasta alla Romano with cream, butter, and cheese or pasta al b... Read More
Political Animal

Leaving feral kittens outside longer is a bad idea

San Francisco SPCA needs to listen to those doing the work, not scientists and studies
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

When I moved to the Haight in 1989, our backyard was overrun with feral cats. Neighbors complained about the fighting and breeding, but no one did anything. I turned to a friend wh... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Dignity through accountability

Austin’s Community First Village knows the homeless aren’t helpless
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

It’s 98 degrees on a June day in Austin, Tex., but the humidity makes it a balmy 118. I’m sitting on a shaded bench waiting for Alan Graham, founder of Community First Village,... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Irrevocable parole and our property crime crisis

Arrest, charge, release, and repeat
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Last month the Marina Times ran a quality of life survey, and it comes as no surprise that the two major concerns for city residents remain homelessness and property crime. I’ll ... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Uber and Lyft, Mohammed Nuru, Navigation Centers

Your letters and some updates on recent columns
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

My last three columns garnered correspondence from residents all over the city. From a formerly homeless man who wrote the most touching letter I’ve received on the topic, to ins... Read More
Jackson Galaxy uses his “cat mojo” on a feline friend. Photo: courtesy JACKSON GALAXY
Pets

Jackson Galaxy from ‘My Cat from Hell’

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

On the hit Animal Planet series, My Cat from Hell, Jackson Galaxy, armed with a guitar case full of toys, visits the homes of people who have reached their wit’s end with incorri... Read More
Reynolds Rap

Real reason to stop navigation centers: They don’t work

Success rate for permanently housing the homeless just 14 percent
By Susan Dyer Reynolds

“I don’t want to obsess over one little piece of the system, because navigation centers do not exit people from homelessness, they’re a path towards that.” — Jeff Kositsk... Read More


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