In the shade of large, leafy lettuce and kale and tall stalks of beans, approximately 150 Bay Area residents met Saturday at the Saint Martin de Porres Elementary School garden to show their support for the nonprofit organization that planted it to give Oakland students a chance to learn about nutrition.
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May 26, 2010 – 10:11 am
Jon’s Street Eats is one of a new series of food trucks popping up all over the East Bay serving innovative street food — in this case, gourmet grub like grilled asparagus, butterscotch pudding and panko-coated mac and cheese. As Oakland-based chef Jon Kosorek puts it: “There’s not a lot of places where you can get hand-pulled mozzarella. I would never be able to do a hot dog cart with just boiled hot dogs. I’d go crazy.”
Berkeley farmers’ markets become zero waste zones
April 10, 2009 – 9:51 pm
By Lauren Rudser and Brittney Johnson/Oakland North
The three weekly Berkeley farmers’ markets are now zero waste zones. The goal is to reduce, recycle or compost all materials generated by the markets –- and shoppers are asked to do their part when it comes to how they transport their purchases home.
VIDEO: What’s in your box? CSA members look forward to spring
April 9, 2009 – 2:35 pm
by Elise Craig and Brittney Johnson/Oakland North
Community Supported Agriculture or CSAs are programs that allow consumers to skip the grocery store and buy their produce directly from farmers. Every week, subscribers get a box full of the fresh fruit and veggies of the season delivered to a pick up spot near their homes. Some CSAs [...]
Oakland’s pushcart organizers fight illegal street vending
March 30, 2009 – 12:34 pm
Pushcart vendors from Anna Bloom on Vimeo.
By Anna Bloom/Special to Oakland North
Emilia Otero, and her daughter, Shelly Garza, longtime organizers of food vendors in East Oakland, say they are seeing a marked increase in illegal street vending.
A tribute to Kasper’s: History, in hot dogs
March 18, 2009 – 1:28 pm
By Samson Reiny/Oakland North
Her water broke. They grabbed what they needed, scrambled out of the house and hit the road. The couple finally arrived, and it wasn’t a minute too soon. The husband jumped out of the car and rushed inside to the counter. “I’ll take two hot dogs please—to go!” he said.
“I can’t [...]
At Manzanita, you really are what you eat
January 14, 2009 – 6:57 pm
video by MARTIN RICARD
If you’re vegan and you live in North Oakland, this is the place to be. Even if you’re not, , 1050 40th St., is the place to get a good meal that is both organic and macrobiotic.
Farmer’s market both hurt & helped by money crisis
October 19, 2008 – 9:45 pm
By BAGASSI KOURA
At first it looked like a great Sunday for Samuel Lunes. Just after 9am, when the Temescal Farmers Market opened, customers lined up by the dozen before his produce stand. For hours, working with his son and his son’s friend, Lunes was busy selling organic fruits and vegetables. But by the end of [...]
Competing chefs sweat out Crabby Chef cookoff
October 14, 2008 – 8:48 pm
by MAGGIE FAZELI FARD
Oct. 12–If crab legs and butter sauce are a match made in heaven, consider the annual Crabby Chef competition the ultimate home-wrecker.
Hosted every year by Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley, the Iron Chef-style fundraiser has paired King Crab’s sweet, succulent legs with surprising mistresses like papaya and pumpkin for the past [...]
County’s food bank now needs virtual food, too
September 24, 2008 – 5:53 pm
By SAMSON REINY
The warehouse of the Alameda County Community Food Bank is a center of constant activity. Every day, delivery trucks bustle in and out of loading zones as workers drop off grocery deliveries from growers and discount sellers, volunteers sort and package food items, and employees from local nonprofit agencies go “shopping” for [...]