While on the topic of local authors, The Bold Italic got a sneak peak of Mission Street Food's new cookbook, set to be released later this month (and potentially available now at Mission Chinese Food):

Mission Street Food is more than your average cookbook. It chronicles the development of Myint and Leibowitz's journey through food, starting from their days of operating a food cart, to their days of hosting Mission Street Food with guest chefs on Tuesdays and Sundays, and finally, to the present, of running Mission Chinese Food.

Read on.