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Making Ten Dozen Tamales for Christmas; Cooking Shows Score Gangbuster Ratings

• An SF food writer indulges in the Mexican Christmas tradition of cooking tamales with home-braised pork and prepared masa from La Palma. [Mmm… That’s Good]

• Cooking with the Single Guy calls Camino in Oakland “a place Alice Waters would love.” [Cooking with the Single Guy]

Yoshi’s SF chef Sho Kamio has been using soy crêpes to wrap sushi rolls because “Americans don’t like the taste of seaweed.” [SFoodie]

• Cooking shows, from Top Chef to The Next Food Network Star, are scoring gangbuster ratings. [USA Today]

• The ever-increasing popularity of oysters on restaurant menus (and the demand for variety therein) has lead to boom times for oyster farmers. [WSJ]

• A Texas woman called 911 last week to report that her husband refused to eat his dinner. [AP]

Making Ten Dozen Tamales for Christmas; Cooking Shows Score Gangbuster Ratings