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"content": "\u003cp>Northern California is this beautiful piece of land where high mountains, deep valleys, and cold beaches can bring about a sense of peace. At the same time, the people who live here are constantly debating the land itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeownership isn’t possible for many of us and as James McMillan III famously said, the rent is too damn high. There are an extraordinary amount of people experiencing homelessness, while this place is home to the highest concentration of billionaires. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>¡Hella Hungry! is a column about Bay Area foodmakers, exploring the region’s culinary cultures through the mouth of a first-generation local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have a bite-sized confession to make: I originally planned to write about San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/kokakchocolates/\">Kokak Chocolates\u003c/a> last month for Valentine’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the LGBTQ woman-owned chocolate business was preparing to debut a love-themed set of flavors, including “Heat of the Moment,” which is a combo of dark and white chocolates with Mexican Comapeño chiles sourced from the woman-owned \u003ca href=\"https://www.boonvillebarn.com/\">Boonville Barn Collective\u003c/a>. But I wasn’t able to make it happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be fair, my first child was born just days ahead of my scheduled interview with Carol Gancia, the self-taught Filipina chocolatier who founded Kokak — so I spent the following weeks, including Valentine’s Day, with a small, heartwarming human in my arms instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kokak, it turns out, is just as good in March as it is in February — or any time of year, for that matter. In fact, having to wait that extra month infused me with even more desire to taste the premium Bay Area chocolates, which are filled with joy and spices in all their flavorful forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With creative options that defy the conventional notions of chocolate — Kokak’s seasonal flavors include pizza and ramen, for example — Gancia doesn’t play it safe. Instead, she enjoys challenging herself to push past her comfort zone, a trait she gained when she first immigrated to California from her native Philippine islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rooted in her vibrant Asian Pacific heritage and driven by a passion to connect with ancestral flavors through rare, organic ingredients like \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190916-the-worlds-most-exquisite-chocolate\">Ecuadorian Nacional cacao\u003c/a>, Kokak is more than just chocolates. It’s a way, Gancia says, to tell others, “I love you just the way you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">********\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALAN CHAZARO: When did your appreciation for chocolates first begin?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CAROL GANCIA: \u003c/b>I grew up on the Philippine islands. I was lucky, being from a middle-class family, to have an uncle who was a sought-after engineer. He got contracts that had him travel abroad, around Western Europe, where they have quality chocolates. He would bring them back home — dark chocolate, mint, even liqueurs. I had a chance to taste those, not realizing my love of chocolate came from him. I [later] realized chocolate is a memory, a happy memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925997\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925997\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"dried mangoes dipped in chocolates\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_mango-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tropical flavors like these chocolate-dipped dried mangoes are inspired by Carol Gancia’s upbringing on the Philippine islands. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>How did that translate into you becoming a professional chocolatier?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I make chocolates in the form of truffles and bars. I do it every day with two other chocolatiers. The kind of shop we have is tropically inspired and based on my background. We’re a couple blocks from Castro Street on 18th and Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was growing up, chocolate was in the background; I always had chocolate in my pockets. But I started out as a journalist broadcasting in the Philippines. I got involved in video production and continued that work in the U.S. [after moving here in 2004]. I even worked as a producer for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/checkplease\">Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>” on KQED. I produced for Jacques Pépin, and that helped me improve my palette. You read the recipe, and plan it out with the executive producer. That’s how I learned informally about the culinary world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was still producing, and after 20 years — about five years ago — I was eager to do something different that I would be scared about. I was too complacent [as a video producer]. I wanted to feel what it was like to start something and be clueless. I decided to learn about chocolates and sell on the side until it became a full business [in 2020]. Sometimes I still don’t know what I’m doing. I’m still learning, and I still operate a video production business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A tray of colorfully decorated chocolates at Kokak in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_truffles.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A preview of the seasonal Easter chocolates that will be available at Kokak this month. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What does the word “kokak” represent for you?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kokak literally means “ribbit” in English. I was conceptualizing the name of my shop and noticing the [other] chocolate brands and names. It was usually last names or serious words. I wanted to make a splash, [since] I had no background in chocolate. I chose Kokak and added an exclamation point because I wanted to represent myself and who I am. I studied in the Philippines, and my campus had lily pads, beautiful flowers, ponds and frogs. Kokak reminds me of my home — the wonderful tropical life. It’s a conversation starter as well. Customers ask me what it means, and I can tell the story of the Philippine islands. My shop is more than selling chocolates. It’s an experience, a borrowed memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Your Filipina heritage is an important aspect of your identity. Tell us about how that emerges in your variety of chocolate flavors.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think of kalamansi — it’s a lime in the Philippines and is abundant there. My mom would make me hot kalamansi juice when I was sick. But in the summer, it was served cold, like lemonade. We included that as a popular flavor at Kokak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Carol Gancia\"]“My shop is more than selling chocolates. It’s an experience, a borrowed memory.”[/pullquote]We opened our shop during the pandemic, and we had a lot of time to think. We had about 50 recipes I created from the start, and we rotate that throughout the year. My favorite is our guava truffle — all made from scratch. Coconut pie is another. There’s a place in the southern part of metro Manila where they make buko pies — coconut pies. They’re not sweet, they’re just full of coconut meat. That’s a memory and an inspiration for our truffles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you serve anything besides chocolate?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also have our cacao porridge. Growing up in the Philippines, every Christmas season we make champurrado — it’s a [beverage] mix of chocolate and rice. A long time ago, in the 1500s, there was trade happening between the Philippines and Mexico. Mexico brought chocolates to us. Back then, most [Filipinos] were rice farmers. It’s a testament to the friendship between Mexicans and Filipinos — champurrado. That’s available year round, and we offer dine-in at our shop as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s your connection to the Bay Area, and how is that reflected in your business?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as flavors, we have Earl Grey, which is a very San Francisco afternoon tea I enjoy with the ladies. I don’t always get to do that much these days (laughs). I looked for Earl Grey and infused it with berry and chocolate for the filling. The Earl Grey tea we use is organic, fair trade and local. We also have coffee truffles, and the coffee is local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925998\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13925998\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-800x1200.jpg\" alt='a t-shirt at Kokak reads: \"love is love is love is chocolate is love...\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/kokak_shirt-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Love Is Chocolate Is Love” t-shirt at Kokak. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As much as we can, we keep our ingredients local. I can get tea from the grocery, but we find really premium teas from here. Same with our dairy. You don’t want your truffles to taste faint. Our truffles stay fresh, and the flavors are punchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also identify as an LGBTQ shop and ship all over the country with our Pride-inspired chocolates. One of my favorite things is reading note cards that we write to ship for our customers. One customer wrote, “Dear [Anonymous], I love you just the way you are. From Mom.” It made me teary-eyed. And made me realize I was in the right place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Who are some of your favorite chocolatiers right now in Northern California?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I like chocolates not just for flavor but also meaning. I like to support female chocolatiers, too. The reality is that if you sum up all the chocolate makers, it’s still very male dominated. There are two [local chocolatiers] who are my competition but also my friends: \u003ca href=\"https://www.socolachocolates.com/\">Socola\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadechocolates.com/\">Jade Chocolates\u003c/a>. We meet up every once in a while. We’ve done events and have camaraderie. I love this industry because of that. In the video production business it’s competitive. But in chocolate, we help each other. We’re excited to see each other at the pop-up events. It’s supportive in a weird way. That’s motivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>For someone like me, who doesn’t usually go out of their way for chocolates, what makes Kokak worthwhile?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13923127,arts_13919707,arts_13914042']I’m a small business owner. I never dreamed about earning billions of dollars and growing an empire. I enjoy the human-to-human touch. I want to connect with people. We’re already making less profit than a factory setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I made a tough decision that cut into our profitability [with] our biggest ingredient, which is a rare cacao. It’s the first domestically grown cacao tree [in the world] from several thousand years back. I let that melt slowly in my mouth and imagine what our ancestors were tasting years and years ago. This rare [Nacional] cacao in Ecuador is grown for flavor, not yield. A lot of chocolate growers sell ingredients for much cheaper, but they are from chocolate strains that were grown for volume production. Flavor is less of a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nacional wins over that. The genetics of the chocolate that we use is the same as our ancestors tasted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12904247 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kokak Chocolates (3901 18th St., San Francisco) is open Tues. 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wed. through Sun. 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s a way, Gancia says, to tell others, “I love you just the way you are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">********\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ALAN CHAZARO: When did your appreciation for chocolates first begin?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>CAROL GANCIA: \u003c/b>I grew up on the Philippine islands. I was lucky, being from a middle-class family, to have an uncle who was a sought-after engineer. He got contracts that had him travel abroad, around Western Europe, where they have quality chocolates. He would bring them back home — dark chocolate, mint, even liqueurs. I had a chance to taste those, not realizing my love of chocolate came from him. 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I do it every day with two other chocolatiers. The kind of shop we have is tropically inspired and based on my background. We’re a couple blocks from Castro Street on 18th and Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was growing up, chocolate was in the background; I always had chocolate in my pockets. But I started out as a journalist broadcasting in the Philippines. I got involved in video production and continued that work in the U.S. [after moving here in 2004]. I even worked as a producer for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/checkplease\">Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a>” on KQED. I produced for Jacques Pépin, and that helped me improve my palette. You read the recipe, and plan it out with the executive producer. That’s how I learned informally about the culinary world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was still producing, and after 20 years — about five years ago — I was eager to do something different that I would be scared about. I was too complacent [as a video producer]. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]urian. The King of Fruits. 榴蓮. The heart of my Singaporean Chinese family and the gateway to knowledge of my father’s culture. I grew up with no true understanding of Singapore. For those living in the Bay Area of the ’80s and ’90s, it barely even registered as a country. My father’s vague stories of his Singaporean past always read as being about China in my immature mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he would bring home a durian. A spiky ball that looks like a medieval weapon, with a pungent, pale yellow, fleshy interior. Dad would find a soft spot between those spikes to stab the fruit’s bottom and wedge it open with a knife and rice paddle. The strong rind once fought back, breaking the tip off of his massive chef’s knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was serious work, but Dad is serious about durian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durian may be nature’s most misunderstood fruit. It grows high up in trees from precariously thin stems — a falling durian can literally kill you. Searching for the word “durian” online will dredge up articles on the fruit’s “terrible smell” and videos of people eating under-ripe specimens and gagging on camera for the likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian.jpg\" alt=\"Woman holds up a piece of fresh durian, with the one of the fruit's large seeds on a plate in front of her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author enjoys a piece of Red Prawn durian purchased from the online company Year of Durian. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Admittedly, to the untrained nose, durian smells strange, even rank. But the fruit also has an unexpectedly custardy texture and — with hundreds of varieties — complex flavor profiles akin to wine, coffee and chocolate. For those of us who hail durian as our king of fruits, the smell elicits an undeniable longing — for both the fruit itself and the cultural remembrance it represents. That feeling sticks with you, sits deep within your bones. It stayed with my father even as he crossed an ocean to live in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My father immigrated to San Francisco in the ’70s. While he and his siblings found camaraderie amongst other first- and second-generation Chinese here, they rarely encountered other Singaporeans. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 had only just reversed the racist immigration policies codified by the Asian Exclusion Act. And Singapore had just gone through its own transformation, separating from Malaysia that same year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]“For those of us who hail durian as our king of fruits, the smell elicits an undeniable longing.”[/pullquote]\u003c/span>In his first decades in the States, Dad also never encountered his favorite tropical fruits — jackfruit, rambutan and the infamous durian. He speculates that many Bay Area folks at the time hadn’t even heard of durian. Even if they had, shopkeepers probably wouldn’t have wanted it in their stores because of the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in his doorway wearing protective gloves as he prepares to open a durian.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author’s father prepares to open a durian. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time Dad saw durian after he immigrated was on a road trip to Vancouver, Canada, in the early ’80s. He and his sister Patty spotted them at a market. Elated, they bought one quickly, not noticing that it was previously frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was this sad, unripe durian an indicator of progress?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed it was! My father estimates that he first saw (or maybe smelled) frozen whole durians in San Francisco not long after, in the late ’80s or early ’90s, at a Chinese grocery on Clement Street. Seeing them brought back wistful memories of his own father bringing home durians by the basketful, and how he and his family would “eat it like crazy.” It was a different experience in Singapore, he explains. You would have a durian feast with family, opening several durians at once and pigging out. There were always mangosteens to balance out the durian’s 熱氣 — “yeet hay,” or build-up of internal heat, according to traditional Chinese medicine. Mangosteens are cooling by contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durian is too costly in the U.S. for it to have ever been an everyday occurrence for our family. But Dad would bring one home when he “got a craving,” he tells me. Whenever he did, my brother and I used to run away, hiding with my mom in our parents’ bedroom and leaving dad alone with his bounty. Eventually, we came around — first for a taste and now for handfuls of the delicious fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I love about durian is the tactile feeling of pulling out a seed, the luscious, custardy texture and the complex flavor. Whenever I take a bite, the room goes quiet while my mouth analyzes whether the durian is sweet or bitter, smooth or stringy, fruity or nutty. My fellow durian enthusiasts and I discuss which pieces are our favorites and trade bites — after all, it’s nearly always a social event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925901\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01.jpg\" alt=\"Durian eaters hold up sticky fingers at a durian stall in Singapore.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, her father and his cousin hold up sticky fingers at a durian stall in Singapore. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Newfound Appreciation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My first trip to Singapore in 2007 was a massive eye-opener. I thought my one ethnic identity was Cantonese, which felt ordinary in San Francisco, where Chinese Americans make up 21% of the population. Singapore, on the other hand, is a melting pot of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Eurasian. It’s a tropical island nation filled with exciting foods I’d never even heard of and rich cultures I barely recognized. How could this be part of my own identity?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reality could not be further from how I had envisioned my father’s childhood. Government-subsidized public housing developments almost touching the clouds were nothing like the kampongs he described. I met dozens of family members that I’d never even heard of — great-aunts and uncles, first and second cousins. And instead of the simple choice of “durian or no durian” that I’d experienced in San Francisco, Singaporean durian came in endless, eye-popping varieties — D24, Musang King, XO and other names in Chinese that I couldn’t read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What remained familiar were the family gatherings in the name of our king. On one of my first days there, we convened at a great-auntie’s flat to feast on durian and mangosteen. About a dozen of us across generations sat around in the summer heat with fans blasting. One of my dad’s cousins, Katherine, taught me how to open a mangosteen, which I quickly fell in love with. Each of us ate durian until we had our fill, then rested, satisfied, in the cool breeze of the fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another of my dad’s cousins, Geraldine, brought us to a neighborhood durian stall, where she ordered more whole durians than there were people in our party because “each one has a different taste. You have to try many.” We had leftover durian for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925902\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925902\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie.jpg\" alt=\"A spread of split durian, still in its spiky green rind, spread on top of sheets of newspaper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2007-durian-at-2nd-auntie-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A durian feast at the author’s great-auntie’s flat. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I came back to SF with a newfound appreciation for my Singaporean heritage. This understanding even put my grandmother’s accent into perspective — I had always thought of it as a Chinese accent, when in fact it was Singaporean. I was finally part of the inside joke when my grandmother purchased a durian for our white elephant gift exchange. I now sought out connections to Singaporean culture wherever I went, and a big part of that was trying to eat durian as often as I could.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Durian Renaissance\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, durian is widely available in the Bay these days, much to the delight of Dad and the rest of the family. You’ll find it everywhere from mom-and-pop Asian grocery stores to name-brand shops like H-Mart and even Costco. Tracy Goh, chef-owner of \u003ca href=\"https://damansarasf.com/\">Damansara\u003c/a>, a Malaysian restaurant in San Francisco, likes to buy hers through a specialty online ordering service called \u003ca href=\"https://www.yearofthedurian.com/\">Year of the Durian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compared to when I first arrived 10 years ago, the varieties have expanded beyond Thai Monthong and the occasional Malaysian Musang King,” Goh tells me. “And I am seeing more genuine appreciation for durian outside of the Southeast Asian community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\"]“My love of durian ties me back to my Singaporean culture. It’s a secret language that I use to find my people.”[/pullquote]\u003c/span>In San Francisco alone, you can now find durian in ice cream from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/gelatoMP/\">Marco Polo\u003c/a>, chocolates from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/socolachocs/\">Socola\u003c/a>, mooncakes from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pineapplekingbakery/\">Pineapple King\u003c/a> and desserts from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mangomedley/\">Mango Medley\u003c/a>. Socola even has a special mailing list for releases of their durian truffles. (Of course, I’m subscribed.) At the same time, a growing number of Singaporean and Malaysian restaurants have opened across the Bay to much fanfare, including Damansara, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dabaosingapore.com/\">Dabao Singapore\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/liondancecafe/\">Lion Dance Cafe\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sataybythebaysf/\">Satay by the Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13923127,arts_13924997,arts_13915312']\u003c/span>The durian renaissance has been fueled in part by the 2004 U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement and the fact that many more Singaporeans have come to this country to study in the past decade. Here in the Bay Area, where Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaequityatlas.org/BayArea-API-diversity\">the fastest growing demographic\u003c/a>, new immigration always leads to a mixing of cultures and exposure to new foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My love of durian ties me back to my Singaporean culture. It’s a secret language that I use to find my people. As Goh puts it, “I used to feel more compelled to give a whole crash course on my ‘complicated’ identity. I no longer feel the need to explain my existence in this country to someone who questions it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, I might just offer you some durian. For me, the fruit is a litmus test for those who hope to understand the Singaporean part of my identity. If I introduce someone to durian and they’re not even willing to try it, they might never understand me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, even my cat loves durian! And whenever I feel the tug of nostalgia, I know I don’t have to go far. If I’m lucky, Dad will call to say that he brought a durian home. He’s just waiting for me and my brother to come over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925903\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925903\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat.jpg\" alt=\"A cat reaches its paw out to snatch a piece of durian from its owner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-cat-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even the cat loves durian. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>urian. The King of Fruits. 榴蓮. The heart of my Singaporean Chinese family and the gateway to knowledge of my father’s culture. I grew up with no true understanding of Singapore. For those living in the Bay Area of the ’80s and ’90s, it barely even registered as a country. My father’s vague stories of his Singaporean past always read as being about China in my immature mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he would bring home a durian. A spiky ball that looks like a medieval weapon, with a pungent, pale yellow, fleshy interior. Dad would find a soft spot between those spikes to stab the fruit’s bottom and wedge it open with a knife and rice paddle. The strong rind once fought back, breaking the tip off of his massive chef’s knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was serious work, but Dad is serious about durian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durian may be nature’s most misunderstood fruit. It grows high up in trees from precariously thin stems — a falling durian can literally kill you. Searching for the word “durian” online will dredge up articles on the fruit’s “terrible smell” and videos of people eating under-ripe specimens and gagging on camera for the likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925895\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925895\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian.jpg\" alt=\"Woman holds up a piece of fresh durian, with the one of the fruit's large seeds on a plate in front of her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2020-thanksgiving-durian-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author enjoys a piece of Red Prawn durian purchased from the online company Year of Durian. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Admittedly, to the untrained nose, durian smells strange, even rank. But the fruit also has an unexpectedly custardy texture and — with hundreds of varieties — complex flavor profiles akin to wine, coffee and chocolate. For those of us who hail durian as our king of fruits, the smell elicits an undeniable longing — for both the fruit itself and the cultural remembrance it represents. That feeling sticks with you, sits deep within your bones. It stayed with my father even as he crossed an ocean to live in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>In his first decades in the States, Dad also never encountered his favorite tropical fruits — jackfruit, rambutan and the infamous durian. He speculates that many Bay Area folks at the time hadn’t even heard of durian. Even if they had, shopkeepers probably wouldn’t have wanted it in their stores because of the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925897\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in his doorway wearing protective gloves as he prepares to open a durian.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/durian-dad-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author’s father prepares to open a durian. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first time Dad saw durian after he immigrated was on a road trip to Vancouver, Canada, in the early ’80s. He and his sister Patty spotted them at a market. Elated, they bought one quickly, not noticing that it was previously frozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was this sad, unripe durian an indicator of progress?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed it was! My father estimates that he first saw (or maybe smelled) frozen whole durians in San Francisco not long after, in the late ’80s or early ’90s, at a Chinese grocery on Clement Street. Seeing them brought back wistful memories of his own father bringing home durians by the basketful, and how he and his family would “eat it like crazy.” It was a different experience in Singapore, he explains. You would have a durian feast with family, opening several durians at once and pigging out. There were always mangosteens to balance out the durian’s 熱氣 — “yeet hay,” or build-up of internal heat, according to traditional Chinese medicine. Mangosteens are cooling by contrast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durian is too costly in the U.S. for it to have ever been an everyday occurrence for our family. But Dad would bring one home when he “got a craving,” he tells me. Whenever he did, my brother and I used to run away, hiding with my mom in our parents’ bedroom and leaving dad alone with his bounty. Eventually, we came around — first for a taste and now for handfuls of the delicious fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I love about durian is the tactile feeling of pulling out a seed, the luscious, custardy texture and the complex flavor. Whenever I take a bite, the room goes quiet while my mouth analyzes whether the durian is sweet or bitter, smooth or stringy, fruity or nutty. My fellow durian enthusiasts and I discuss which pieces are our favorites and trade bites — after all, it’s nearly always a social event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925901\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925901\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01.jpg\" alt=\"Durian eaters hold up sticky fingers at a durian stall in Singapore.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/2009-durian-dad-auntie-geraldine-01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author, her father and his cousin hold up sticky fingers at a durian stall in Singapore. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jennifer Wong)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Newfound Appreciation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>My first trip to Singapore in 2007 was a massive eye-opener. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a steep hillside in San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Park, nestled between the Alemany Apartments, the 280 Freeway and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood, there’s a wine vineyard that doubles as a teaching tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A patch of land adjacent to \u003ca href=\"https://alemanyfarm.org/\">Alemany Farm\u003c/a> is being cultivated by Christopher Renfro and Jannea Tschirch, the co-founders of \u003ca href=\"https://www.280project.com/\">The 280 Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their aim is to use public land to grow crops and introduce people to the world of agriculture, with a specific focus on getting young African-American residents of San Francisco interested in viticulture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a chilly day in the dead of winter, the Rightnowish team got a tour of the farm, the vineyard and the view from the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week we bring you a story that exemplifies a unique way to use public land– as a classroom and potential career pathway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925352\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13925352 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Renfro standing on a hill overlooking San Francisco's Alemany Farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Renfro stands on a hill overlooking San Francisco’s Alemany Farm. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5121346573&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3IvEH4C\">Read the transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Christopher Renfro.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PENDARVIS HARSHAW:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I read that each row [in the vineyard] has a specific name. What are the names of the rows and what are the significance of the names? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>CHRISTOPHER RENFRO\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003cb>:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. So first row is Carver, George Washington Carver. Then the second is the MLK row… Harriet Tubman, and then you have Huey P. So, Huey Newton of the Black Panthers. Each one of these people, I feel like, is a significant figure in Black history and should not be forgotten but each one of them had ties to the land. They all had ties to freedom, especially around the land. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>HARSHAW:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Inspired by these icons, Christopher’s goal with this small vineyard is to empower Black people by showing folks the benefits of being tapped into the land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s less about commercial wine production and more about serving as an educational hub for folks of color– specifically, the young Black children from the neighboring housing complex.These vines are a tool to assist people in reconnecting with the land and learning agricultural skills that can open up doors for employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RENFRO:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think there is a lot of opportunity and if we look at this industry as a whole, we don’t see a lot of Black folks in it. The way I got to this was I worked in restaurants and I wanted to get further in the wine industry. I already have a horticulture background but Napa always seemed so far away. Napa seems so far and it seems so white. And I was just like, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to get there. So when this popped up, I was like, this is my Napa. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>HARSHAW:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What story does this land tell? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RENFRO:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A beautiful glimpse into what I would say is like a nightmare in America. I think that we are battling telling the truth of how harmed African-American people have been from being robbed of their land, from being treated as second class citizens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like, why are young black men going to prison over and over again? Because they don’t have this connection that young white men just are born with this privilege of being like, Oh, we’ll just go camping, I’ll just go outside. I’ll just ride my bike, I’ll just go do these things. When we do it, it feels like we’re demonized.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city needs to give back a lot to people that have been taken from, that have been redlined from, that have been, you know, treated horribly in school systems. Like, why are Black people leaving the city so fast? This place tells that same story. They don’t feel like they have the access or the safety. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>HARSHAW:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So symbolic of second class citizenship.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RENFRO:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I want this place to be a place where people of all different walks of life literally come together and respect each other and love each other and see each other as individuals and as a community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a steep hillside in San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Park, nestled between the Alemany Apartments, the 280 Freeway and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood, there’s a wine vineyard that doubles as a teaching tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A patch of land adjacent to \u003ca href=\"https://alemanyfarm.org/\">Alemany Farm\u003c/a> is being cultivated by Christopher Renfro and Jannea Tschirch, the co-founders of \u003ca href=\"https://www.280project.com/\">The 280 Project\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their aim is to use public land to grow crops and introduce people to the world of agriculture, with a specific focus on getting young African-American residents of San Francisco interested in viticulture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a chilly day in the dead of winter, the Rightnowish team got a tour of the farm, the vineyard and the view from the hillside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week we bring you a story that exemplifies a unique way to use public land– as a classroom and potential career pathway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925352\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13925352 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Renfro standing on a hill overlooking San Francisco's Alemany Farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC04990-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Renfro stands on a hill overlooking San Francisco’s Alemany Farm. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5121346573&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/3IvEH4C\">Read the transcript\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Christopher Renfro.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>PENDARVIS HARSHAW:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I read that each row [in the vineyard] has a specific name. What are the names of the rows and what are the significance of the names? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>CHRISTOPHER RENFRO\u003c/b>\u003c/span>\u003cb>:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Yeah. So first row is Carver, George Washington Carver. Then the second is the MLK row… Harriet Tubman, and then you have Huey P. So, Huey Newton of the Black Panthers. Each one of these people, I feel like, is a significant figure in Black history and should not be forgotten but each one of them had ties to the land. They all had ties to freedom, especially around the land. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>HARSHAW:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Inspired by these icons, Christopher’s goal with this small vineyard is to empower Black people by showing folks the benefits of being tapped into the land.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s less about commercial wine production and more about serving as an educational hub for folks of color– specifically, the young Black children from the neighboring housing complex.These vines are a tool to assist people in reconnecting with the land and learning agricultural skills that can open up doors for employment and entrepreneurial opportunities.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RENFRO:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> I think there is a lot of opportunity and if we look at this industry as a whole, we don’t see a lot of Black folks in it. The way I got to this was I worked in restaurants and I wanted to get further in the wine industry. I already have a horticulture background but Napa always seemed so far away. Napa seems so far and it seems so white. And I was just like, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to get there. So when this popped up, I was like, this is my Napa. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>HARSHAW:\u003c/b> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What story does this land tell? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>RENFRO:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A beautiful glimpse into what I would say is like a nightmare in America. I think that we are battling telling the truth of how harmed African-American people have been from being robbed of their land, from being treated as second class citizens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like, why are young black men going to prison over and over again? Because they don’t have this connection that young white men just are born with this privilege of being like, Oh, we’ll just go camping, I’ll just go outside. I’ll just ride my bike, I’ll just go do these things. When we do it, it feels like we’re demonized.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city needs to give back a lot to people that have been taken from, that have been redlined from, that have been, you know, treated horribly in school systems. Like, why are Black people leaving the city so fast? This place tells that same story. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or the first 18 years of my life, my mom cooked Chinese food every day — a couple of homey stir-fries, a whole steamed fish, a pot of white rice, all served family-style. She rarely even glanced at a recipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time for me to teach myself how to cook, I didn’t ask my mom for help. Instead, like so many young people who came of age in the ‘90s and early 2000s, I turned to the Food Network and the online recipes of the early internet. I bought three Jamie Oliver cookbooks. And by the time I started my own family, I was making coq au vin for fun on the weekends and could cook a mean risotto. What I didn’t really know how to cook at all, however, was Chinese food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem was that I only knew how to cook by following recipes. And up until maybe five or 10 years ago, the number of English-language recipes for Chinese dishes you could find in a cookbook or on the internet still felt extremely limited — at least when it came to homey, everyday recipes written with a younger Chinese American audience in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the experience, too, for sisters Sarah and Kaitlin Leung, co-authors — along with their parents, Bill and Judy — of \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/the-woks-of-life-cookbook-now-available/\">\u003ci>The Woks of Life\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, a new Chinese American cookbook published this past November, based on the Leungs’ popular blog of the same name. Their book tour will arrive in the Bay Area on Saturday, Feb. 11, with the two sisters appearing at events at Omnivore Books in San Francisco and the main branch of the Berkeley Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Woks of Life cookbook shows a bowl of spicy wontons against a red backdrop.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2392\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life-800x997.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life-1020x1271.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life-160x199.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life-768x957.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life-1233x1536.jpg 1233w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/COVER_Woks-of-Life-1644x2048.jpg 1644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cookbook version of the blog was published by Clarkson Potter this past November. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Clarkson Potter/Penguin Random House)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We learned to cook from Rachael Ray and Ina Garten and Giada DeLaurentiis,” Sarah recalls. “But we learned to \u003ci>eat \u003c/i>from our parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many other ABCs (American-born Chinese) and younger first- and second-generation Chinese immigrants, the Leung sisters reached a point in their adult lives when they started to crave the food they’d grown up on, but found it really difficult to learn how to prepare it. There was such a “representation gap,” as Sarah puts it, in terms of what kinds of cuisines were prominently featured in those early days of TV celebrity chefs and the emerging food blogosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sarah Leung\"]“We learned to cook from Rachael Ray and Ina Garten and Giada DeLaurentiis. But we learned to \u003ci>eat \u003c/i>from our parents.”[/pullquote]\u003c/span>As it turns out, though, the Leung sisters were uniquely positioned to do something about it: Bill, their father, had spent years cranking out beef and broccoli at his family’s Chinese American takeout restaurant in the Catskills in New York. Judy, their mom, was born and raised in Shanghai and had deep knowledge about traditional Shanghainese cooking. Meanwhile, the two sisters had grown up in the New Jersey suburbs, eating their parents’ food, but also immersed in America’s own food-obsessed culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in 2013, the Leungs did what so many young people did at that time: They started a food blog. What differentiated \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/\">The Woks of Life\u003c/a> from other blogs was that the intergenerational transfer of knowledge that the Leungs were so eager for was baked right into the concept: The four family members took turns posting recipes, each sharing their own favorites, tapping into their own areas of expertise. In that way, Sarah says, the blog reflected — and continues to reflect — the diversity of the Chinese diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2.jpg\" alt=\"A family photo of a Chinese American family taken during the 1990s. A father, mother and two daughters sit at the dinner table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leungs at dinner time in a family photo taken during the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Woks of Life)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Woks of Life was one of the forerunners of a new generation of food blogs that started around that time — along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.maangchi.com/\">Maangchi\u003c/a> (for Korean food) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920714/just-one-cookbook-japanese-recipe-food-blog-namiko-chen\">Just One Cookbook\u003c/a> (Japanese) — all geared, to a large extent, toward Asian Americans looking to reconnect with the food of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was in that exact target demographic: I wanted to learn how to cook Chinese food like my mom, but she was never in the habit of writing down recipes or giving precise measurements. Then, four or five years ago, I started coming across Woks of Life recipes on the regular. Their recipe for \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/steamed-pork-patty-preserved-vegetables/\">steamed pork patty\u003c/a> was the closest thing I found on the English-language internet to a dish my grandma always made for me when I was a kid. Their \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/taiwanese-beef-noodle-soup-instant-pot/\">Instant Pot Taiwanese beef noodle soup\u003c/a> recipe was such a resounding hit with my entire family, I basically gave up on trying to find an adequate restaurant version here in the Bay. (To show off the richness of regional Chinese cuisine, the blog has expanded far beyond just Shanghainese and Americanized Chinese dishes — and it now features dishes from Taiwan, Malaysia and Macau as well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories like mine are why the Leungs have kept the blog going for all these years. “We’re getting this incredible feedback,” Sarah says. “For us collectively, especially my mom, she feels like we’re doing this as a public service so that these recipes don’t get lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings.jpg\" alt=\"A plate of boiled dumplings drizzled with red chili oil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-800x1009.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-1020x1286.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-160x202.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-768x968.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-1218x1536.jpg 1218w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-1624x2048.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumplings drizzled with the now-famous Woks of Life chili oil. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Woks of Life)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaitlin stresses that The Woks of Life follows a long line of trailblazers — folks like Joyce Chen, Martin Yan and Ming Tsai, who first started to bring Chinese home cooking into the mainstream in the U.S. “We feel proud that we have made a meaningful mark over the past decade, shedding a light that there’s a huge demand for these recipes,” she says. “It’s about representation, yes, but there’s also a huge demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13920714,arts_13910817,arts_13904835']Five years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to find a ton of Chinese recipes in the \u003ci>New York Times \u003c/i>food section, Kaitlin notes. Now you can. She says the clearest example of that shift is the popularity of the Woks of Life recipe for Chinese-style \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-make-chili-oil/\">chili oil\u003c/a>. In 2015, when Kaitlin first posted that recipe, if you Googled “chili oil,” the top search result was a Giada De Laurentiis recipe for Calabrian chili oil. Now, the Woks of Life recipe is the top result. And more than that, she says, the American public’s idea of chili oil has changed to the point that now, for a lot of Americans — maybe even \u003ci>most \u003c/i>Americans — the first thing they think of is something you might use as a dipping sauce for dumplings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These dishes are becoming more part of the American consciousness,” Sarah says. “I think that’s a great thing. There’s a little bit more diversity out there on the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Kaitlin and Sarah Leung will give a presentation on the Woks of Life cookbook — and the blog’s role in cultivating Chinese cooking in America — at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/author-talk-woks-life-centralmr\">main branch of the Berkeley Public Library\u003c/a> (2090 Kittredge St.) on Saturday, Feb. 11, from 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. On the same day, they’ll do a book talk and Q&A session at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/collections/events/products/author-event-sat-feb-11-bill-leung-kaitlin-leung-judy-leung-sarah-leung-the-woks-of-life-recipes-to-know-and-love-from-a-chinese-american-family-3-00-p-m-free-to-attend-the-price-listed-is-for-the-book\">Omnivore Books on Food\u003c/a> (3885 Cesar Chavez St.) starting at 3 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public and will include book signings afterwards.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>As it turns out, though, the Leung sisters were uniquely positioned to do something about it: Bill, their father, had spent years cranking out beef and broccoli at his family’s Chinese American takeout restaurant in the Catskills in New York. Judy, their mom, was born and raised in Shanghai and had deep knowledge about traditional Shanghainese cooking. Meanwhile, the two sisters had grown up in the New Jersey suburbs, eating their parents’ food, but also immersed in America’s own food-obsessed culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in 2013, the Leungs did what so many young people did at that time: They started a food blog. What differentiated \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/\">The Woks of Life\u003c/a> from other blogs was that the intergenerational transfer of knowledge that the Leungs were so eager for was baked right into the concept: The four family members took turns posting recipes, each sharing their own favorites, tapping into their own areas of expertise. In that way, Sarah says, the blog reflected — and continues to reflect — the diversity of the Chinese diaspora.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2.jpg\" alt=\"A family photo of a Chinese American family taken during the 1990s. A father, mother and two daughters sit at the dinner table.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-800x550.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-90sFamilyPhoto2-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Leungs at dinner time in a family photo taken during the 1990s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Woks of Life)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Woks of Life was one of the forerunners of a new generation of food blogs that started around that time — along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.maangchi.com/\">Maangchi\u003c/a> (for Korean food) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13920714/just-one-cookbook-japanese-recipe-food-blog-namiko-chen\">Just One Cookbook\u003c/a> (Japanese) — all geared, to a large extent, toward Asian Americans looking to reconnect with the food of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was in that exact target demographic: I wanted to learn how to cook Chinese food like my mom, but she was never in the habit of writing down recipes or giving precise measurements. Then, four or five years ago, I started coming across Woks of Life recipes on the regular. Their recipe for \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/steamed-pork-patty-preserved-vegetables/\">steamed pork patty\u003c/a> was the closest thing I found on the English-language internet to a dish my grandma always made for me when I was a kid. Their \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/taiwanese-beef-noodle-soup-instant-pot/\">Instant Pot Taiwanese beef noodle soup\u003c/a> recipe was such a resounding hit with my entire family, I basically gave up on trying to find an adequate restaurant version here in the Bay. (To show off the richness of regional Chinese cuisine, the blog has expanded far beyond just Shanghainese and Americanized Chinese dishes — and it now features dishes from Taiwan, Malaysia and Macau as well.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories like mine are why the Leungs have kept the blog going for all these years. “We’re getting this incredible feedback,” Sarah says. “For us collectively, especially my mom, she feels like we’re doing this as a public service so that these recipes don’t get lost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13925006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13925006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings.jpg\" alt=\"A plate of boiled dumplings drizzled with red chili oil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2421\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-800x1009.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-1020x1286.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-160x202.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-768x968.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-1218x1536.jpg 1218w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/TWOL-Dumplings-1624x2048.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dumplings drizzled with the now-famous Woks of Life chili oil. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Woks of Life)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaitlin stresses that The Woks of Life follows a long line of trailblazers — folks like Joyce Chen, Martin Yan and Ming Tsai, who first started to bring Chinese home cooking into the mainstream in the U.S. “We feel proud that we have made a meaningful mark over the past decade, shedding a light that there’s a huge demand for these recipes,” she says. “It’s about representation, yes, but there’s also a huge demand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Five years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to find a ton of Chinese recipes in the \u003ci>New York Times \u003c/i>food section, Kaitlin notes. Now you can. She says the clearest example of that shift is the popularity of the Woks of Life recipe for Chinese-style \u003ca href=\"https://thewoksoflife.com/how-to-make-chili-oil/\">chili oil\u003c/a>. In 2015, when Kaitlin first posted that recipe, if you Googled “chili oil,” the top search result was a Giada De Laurentiis recipe for Calabrian chili oil. Now, the Woks of Life recipe is the top result. And more than that, she says, the American public’s idea of chili oil has changed to the point that now, for a lot of Americans — maybe even \u003ci>most \u003c/i>Americans — the first thing they think of is something you might use as a dipping sauce for dumplings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These dishes are becoming more part of the American consciousness,” Sarah says. “I think that’s a great thing. There’s a little bit more diversity out there on the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In California, land is often the subject of debate. The conversations range from the search for simple recreation to the complexities of land reclamation. This is where multimillion-dollar homes are erected around the corner from shelters occupied by a growing population of people experiencing homelessness. These fertile grounds are where crops are cultivated and redwoods reach skyward, the winds blow sands off of desert dunes, and the great ocean to the west provides a constant breeze. The threat of wildfires and earthquakes are ever present. This land is peaceful, but full of conflict. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking for a good story? Look at the ground. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next six weeks the Rightnowish team will explore some of the tales that this soil holds. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 447px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13924933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"Black Miners Bar sign painted in summer of 2022.\" width=\"447\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Miners Bar sign painted in summer of 2022. \u003ccite>(Dorean Raye)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1152334202&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We start just a few miles northeast of the California state capital, in the city of Folsom. That’s where a public recreation area has been recently renamed \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27866\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Miners Bar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, after years of being called Negro Bar. Historically, the site is known as a place where African American miners were relegated to panning during California’s Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, but it wasn’t \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">just\u003c/i> miners who settled there.\u003cbr>\nThere were also people who worked in industries that supported the miners, and those stories are still being explored.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the summer of 2022, California State Parks unanimously voted to change the name of Negro Bar to Black Miners Bar temporarily, while the department conducts more research into the true history of the area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more on what actually transpired on this piece of land we talk to one of the lead researchers on the project,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://caamuseum.org/content/9-about/2-press/caam_2020hires_pressrelease.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Susan D. 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We also talk to Michael Harris, a historian and chair of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/people/Friends-of-Negro-Bar-State-Historic-Park/100064839878968/?paipv=0&eav=Afb5Rwklt-QO2INsp5C4bESuCCnMzTvmVZ2568YQDbPh1pUmlu6cDVRk6kFhWHBU54w&_rdr\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friends of Negro Bar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> community group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-800x598.png\" alt=\"People training to handle wildfires with North Bay Jobs with Justice \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-800x598.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-1020x762.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-768x574.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-1536x1147.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-2048x1530.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-1920x1434.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People training to handle wildfires with North Bay Jobs with Justice \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7328567408&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next we go to the scenic county of Sonoma, where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.northbayjobswithjustice.org/trabajadores-de-la-tierra\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Bay Jobs with Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (NBJWJ) and a coalition of organizations are collaborating with immigrant and Indigenous farmworkers, who typically work in the wine fields. As wine harvesting jobs become more precarious in the face of the rampant drought and wildfires, these organizations are providing training to equip workers with climate resilient job skills. Indigenous wisdom isn’t often consulted when addressing our climate crisis, but María Salinas, Crispin López Cruz and Sandra de Leon tell us how they are bringing their ancestral ecological knowledge– such as prescribed burns– to help build a fire resilient landscape in Sonoma. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-800x597.png\" alt=\"Christopher Renfro, co-founder of The 280 Project, standing in front of the vineyard at Alemany Farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-800x597.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-1020x761.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-768x573.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-1536x1146.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-2048x1528.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-1920x1433.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Renfro, co-founder of The 280 Project, standing in front of the vineyard at Alemany Farm. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5121346573&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We then go to a hillside in San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Park, where nestled between the Alemany Housing Projects, the 280 Freeway and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood there’s a wine vineyard being used as a teaching tool. A small patch of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://alemanyfarm.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alemany Farm\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is being cultivated by Christopher Renfro and Jannea Tschirch, the co-founders of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.280project.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 280 Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Their aim is to use public land to grow crops and introduce people to the world of agriculture, with a specific focus on getting young African-American residents of San Francisco interested in viticulture.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924941\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Arieann Harrison, CEO of The Marie Harrison Community Foundation, holds an umbrella in the rain while standing on Third Street in Bayview-Hunters Point. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028-1020x682.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/DSC05028.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arieann Harrison, CEO of The Marie Harrison Community Foundation, holds an umbrella in the rain while standing on Third Street in Bayview-Hunters Point. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC2310204890&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then we spend some time on Third Street in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. That’s where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.canwelive.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arieann Harrison\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, CEO of The Marie Harrison Community Foundation, has her organization headquartered. That same community has been home to her family for multiple generations. It’s also where toxins found in the air, water and soil have impacted a number of her neighbors, friends and family members– including her mother, well-known environmental justice advocate Marie Harrison. Arieann shares about her late mother and how she’s continuing her mother’s activist legacy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-800x582.png\" alt=\"Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band leader, standing not too far from the sacred land of Juristac.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-800x582.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-1020x742.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-768x559.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-1536x1118.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-2048x1490.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-1920x1397.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band leader, standing not too far from the sacred land of Juristac. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1911012959&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later we make our way to Santa Clara County to visit the site of a proposed mining project, which is also the historic home of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. For over 200 years, the Amah Mutsun have not been able to access one of their most sacred sites that they call \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.protectjuristac.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juristac\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For the last seven years, the tribal band has organized support from the local community, religious leaders, conservation groups and nearby city councils to stand in support against the mining project. Currently the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors is reviewing the mining project’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">planned\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> environmental impact report. We hear from tribal chair leader Valentin Lopez about the historical and spiritual significance of Juristac, and the movement to protect the land for the Amah Mutsun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1962288407&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After racking up over 1,000 miles while reporting these stories, for the final episode in this series Marisol and Pen take a minute to sit down and discuss all that they’ve seen– from herds of elk grazing near the 101 south bypass to the prevalence of people walking on freeways. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In California, land is often the subject of debate. The conversations range from the search for simple recreation to the complexities of land reclamation. This is where multimillion-dollar homes are erected around the corner from shelters occupied by a growing population of people experiencing homelessness. These fertile grounds are where crops are cultivated and redwoods reach skyward, the winds blow sands off of desert dunes, and the great ocean to the west provides a constant breeze. The threat of wildfires and earthquakes are ever present. This land is peaceful, but full of conflict. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking for a good story? Look at the ground. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next six weeks the Rightnowish team will explore some of the tales that this soil holds. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 447px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13924933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-800x1067.jpeg\" alt=\"Black Miners Bar sign painted in summer of 2022.\" width=\"447\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-800x1067.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-1020x1360.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-160x213.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/IMG_5087-scaled-e1675986234132.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Miners Bar sign painted in summer of 2022. \u003ccite>(Dorean Raye)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1152334202&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We start just a few miles northeast of the California state capital, in the city of Folsom. That’s where a public recreation area has been recently renamed \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27866\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Miners Bar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, after years of being called Negro Bar. Historically, the site is known as a place where African American miners were relegated to panning during California’s Gold Rush of the mid-1800s, but it wasn’t \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">just\u003c/i> miners who settled there.\u003cbr>\nThere were also people who worked in industries that supported the miners, and those stories are still being explored.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the summer of 2022, California State Parks unanimously voted to change the name of Negro Bar to Black Miners Bar temporarily, while the department conducts more research into the true history of the area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more on what actually transpired on this piece of land we talk to one of the lead researchers on the project,\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://caamuseum.org/content/9-about/2-press/caam_2020hires_pressrelease.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Susan D. Anderson\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, History Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum. We also talk to Michael Harris, a historian and chair of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/people/Friends-of-Negro-Bar-State-Historic-Park/100064839878968/?paipv=0&eav=Afb5Rwklt-QO2INsp5C4bESuCCnMzTvmVZ2568YQDbPh1pUmlu6cDVRk6kFhWHBU54w&_rdr\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friends of Negro Bar\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> community group.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924940\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-800x598.png\" alt=\"People training to handle wildfires with North Bay Jobs with Justice \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-800x598.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-1020x762.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-768x574.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-1536x1147.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-2048x1530.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.12.13-PM-1920x1434.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People training to handle wildfires with North Bay Jobs with Justice \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7328567408&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next we go to the scenic county of Sonoma, where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.northbayjobswithjustice.org/trabajadores-de-la-tierra\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Bay Jobs with Justice\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (NBJWJ) and a coalition of organizations are collaborating with immigrant and Indigenous farmworkers, who typically work in the wine fields. As wine harvesting jobs become more precarious in the face of the rampant drought and wildfires, these organizations are providing training to equip workers with climate resilient job skills. Indigenous wisdom isn’t often consulted when addressing our climate crisis, but María Salinas, Crispin López Cruz and Sandra de Leon tell us how they are bringing their ancestral ecological knowledge– such as prescribed burns– to help build a fire resilient landscape in Sonoma. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924936\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-800x597.png\" alt=\"Christopher Renfro, co-founder of The 280 Project, standing in front of the vineyard at Alemany Farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-800x597.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-1020x761.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-768x573.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-1536x1146.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-2048x1528.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-3.50.40-PM-1920x1433.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Renfro, co-founder of The 280 Project, standing in front of the vineyard at Alemany Farm. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5121346573&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We then go to a hillside in San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Park, where nestled between the Alemany Housing Projects, the 280 Freeway and the Bernal Heights Neighborhood there’s a wine vineyard being used as a teaching tool. 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That’s where \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.canwelive.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arieann Harrison\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, CEO of The Marie Harrison Community Foundation, has her organization headquartered. That same community has been home to her family for multiple generations. It’s also where toxins found in the air, water and soil have impacted a number of her neighbors, friends and family members– including her mother, well-known environmental justice advocate Marie Harrison. Arieann shares about her late mother and how she’s continuing her mother’s activist legacy. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13924944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13924944\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-800x582.png\" alt=\"Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band leader, standing not too far from the sacred land of Juristac.\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-800x582.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-1020x742.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-160x116.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-768x559.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-1536x1118.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-2048x1490.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-09-at-4.19.22-PM-1920x1397.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentin Lopez, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band leader, standing not too far from the sacred land of Juristac. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1911012959&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Later we make our way to Santa Clara County to visit the site of a proposed mining project, which is also the historic home of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. For over 200 years, the Amah Mutsun have not been able to access one of their most sacred sites that they call \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.protectjuristac.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juristac\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For the last seven years, the tribal band has organized support from the local community, religious leaders, conservation groups and nearby city councils to stand in support against the mining project. Currently the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors is reviewing the mining project’s \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">planned\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> environmental impact report. We hear from tribal chair leader Valentin Lopez about the historical and spiritual significance of Juristac, and the movement to protect the land for the Amah Mutsun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC1962288407&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After racking up over 1,000 miles while reporting these stories, for the final episode in this series Marisol and Pen take a minute to sit down and discuss all that they’ve seen– from herds of elk grazing near the 101 south bypass to the prevalence of people walking on freeways. This land tells so many stories, so we figured we’d share a few more with you all. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first time I met Jocelyn Jackson, back in 2015, the chef and food activist Bryant Terry was emceeing an Oakland food event where he introduced the organization that Jackson co-founded — \u003ca href=\"http://peopleskitchencollective.com/\">People’s Kitchen Collective\u003c/a> — as the Bay Area food movement’s “house band.” In other words, the group wasn’t always the headliner, but it often worked behind the scenes whenever there was an event or initiative at the intersection of food, art and social justice. One week Jackson and her collaborators might sling vegan tacos at an \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/luz-calvo-wants-to-decolonize-your-plate-2-1/\">anti-colonialist cookbook event\u003c/a>. Another week you’d find them in West Oakland giving away a \u003ca href=\"http://peopleskitchencollective.com/free-breakfast-program\">free hot breakfast\u003c/a> to anyone who wanted one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say: Jackson has been deeply involved in the Bay Area food world for a long time. Or, as she says about the scene, “There is no stranger in this room. … We know each other. We’ve been there for each other — for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s some poetry to the fact that Jackson is now stepping into one of the Bay Area food movement’s most prominent, unique positions: At the start of this year, she became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/\">Museum of the African Diaspora’s\u003c/a> second ever chef-in-residence — a role that Terry himself essentially created and held for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke to Jackson by phone a couple of weeks into her new gig. Here are five things you can expect from the chef’s tenure at MoAD:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>1. MoAD’s chef-in-residence program will continue to be one of a kind. \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never heard of any other museum having a “chef-in-residence,” that’s because programs like MoAD’s, which focus on the ways that food, art and culture intersect in the Black diaspora, don’t really exist anywhere else — certainly not in such a comprehensive way. Jackson isn’t becoming the museum’s “chef” in the traditional sense of running a restaurant on its premises. Instead, like Terry before her, she’ll run a whole slate of food-related cultural programming all year round (more on the specifics of that programming in a minute).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner.jpg\" alt=\"Artistically arranged of food whose shape resembles the continent of Africa.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plate of food served by the People’s Kitchen Collective at one of MoAD’s Diaspora Dinners held in 2015. \u003ccite>(Fox Nakai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Museum of the African Diaspora is about reflecting the beauty and wholeness of our people,” Jackson says. “It would be remiss to overlook that food is part of our artistry — it’s part of the way that our people find survival and celebration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not static when you’re doing a chef-in-residence,” she continues. “It’s not just something that you simply attend. It’s something that you do. I love that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>2. Black women will be front and center.\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tagline for Jackson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/justuskitchen/?hl=en\">Instagram page\u003c/a> reads, “healing food experiences for Blk womxn.” Providing those kinds of culturally specific experiences — at group retreats, one-on-one sessions and more — has been the main focus of the chef’s company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.justuskitchen.com/\">Justus Kitchen\u003c/a>. It makes sense, then, that under Jackson’s stewardship, MoAD’s chef-in-residence program would make the experiences of Black women an even bigger priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jocelyn Jackson\"]“It would be remiss to overlook that food is part of our artistry — it’s part of the way that our people find survival and celebration.”[/pullquote]“It is front of mind in every choice,” Jackson says. “Within my own experience, it is essential to make choices from the perspective of Black womanhood in everything I do. When Black women get free, we all get free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson says she isn’t quite ready to announce too many of the specifics in terms of how this focus will play out in terms of MoAD’s actual programming. But, just to cite one example, Jackson plans to continue the chef-in-residence program’s longstanding tradition of hosting “Diaspora Dinners” — big, celebratory meals at the museum, usually featuring a prominent guest chef. And this year the events will highlight two Black women in the food industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson also has a partnership in the works with San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://btwcsc.org/\">Booker T. Washington Community Service Center\u003c/a>, including what she describes as some “beautiful projects” with elders in the community. “Every elder is a library. I don’t want them to pass from this earth without sharing whatever they feel compelled to share with us,” Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests.jpg\" alt=\"Three smiling women dressed in all white sit at a table outdoors, awaiting the start of a meal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-1536x865.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MoAD board member Jill Cowan and friends at the Black Food Summit, held in September of 2022. \u003ccite>(Tinashe Chidarikire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>3. The Black Food Summit will live on.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The capstone of Terry’s seven-year tenure at MoAD was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918267/food-events-fall-2022\">Black Food Summit\u003c/a>, a gathering of amazing Black talent from all over the country, across all sectors of the food world — chefs, cookbook authors, photographers, food stylists and more — who came together for two days of workshops, rejuvenation and mutual support. The event was created to advance \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900311/bryant-terry-four-color-books-imprint-food-media-diversity\">Terry’s vision of creating a pipeline\u003c/a> that would allow Black chefs, writers and artists to land the kinds of prestigious gigs that they’ve been shut out of historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, the summit will live on. As Jackson notes, Terry himself will continue to have an advisory role at the museum, and “it makes all the sense in the world” for her to carry on the tradition that he started. Most likely, the first Black Food Summit under Jackson’s stewardship will happen sometime in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>4. Art and artists will get an even bigger spotlight during Jackson’s tenure. \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13900311,arts_13915489,arts_13900855']MoAD is, of course, a \u003ci>museum\u003c/i> first and foremost, and most visitors come to see the art. In that respect, Jackson makes for an ideal chef-in-residence: She’s a practicing artist herself, known for exploring both food and social justice in her work. A notable recent example: an art installation in which Jackson imagined the “\u003ca href=\"http://www.justuskitchen.com/fixed-price-menu\">fixed price menu\u003c/a>” of a meal that Philando Castile and Jeronimo Yanez — the Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Castile in 2016 — might have shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that piece, part of Ava DuVernay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.leapaction.org/\">Law Enforcement Accountability Project\u003c/a> (LEAP), Jackson says, “I was doing quilting. I was doing writing. I was doing sculpture. I could say in that moment, ‘I’ve been training for decades for this.’ As an attorney, as an environmental educator, as an artist — it’s like I got these credentials on purpose in reverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said for Jackson’s new role as MoAD’s chef-in-residence. If anything, she says, her own art background means she’ll place even more of a focus on collaborating with the artists whose work is being featured at the museum, whether that be in terms of new art installations or conversations in which the artists talk about the food connections in their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923970\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13923970 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate.jpg\" alt=\"An abundant plate of food, including greens, beans and mac and cheese.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner at the Black Food Summit. \u003ccite>(Tinashe Chidarikire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>5. Social justice will be the focus of everything she does at the museum.\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not lost on Jackson that she’s stepping into the role at a political moment when it’s become clear, as she puts it, that the long-term changes many hoped for during the widespread protests against police violence in 2020 haven’t really happened. “There was a boomerang effect, and lasting change has not occurred,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jocelyn Jackson\"]“Artists are first responders. Anyone in this industry of art has that shared responsibility.”[/pullquote]At the same time, Jackson says that her position at MoAD is something of an oasis. “I get to luxuriate in the environment of an organization that’s made by and for Black folks. I get to be calm and peaceful and authentic within that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recognizes that the art world at large isn’t like that. It wasn’t lost on her that the viral incident a couple of weeks ago in which a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/san-francisco-man-sprays-woman-17708160.php\">San Francisco gallery owner sprayed an unhoused woman with a hose\u003c/a> was also a reflection of the art world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can an institution like MoAD play a role in changing that? “How do we present ourselves as warriors for justice? Artists are first responders,” Jackson says, referencing the term \u003ca href=\"https://www.artistasfirstresponder.com/\">coined by Oakland-based artist Ashara Ekundayo\u003c/a>. “Anyone in this industry of art has that shared responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jackson, that mindset has to inform all of her chef-in-residence programming. “There’s nothing that isn’t related to social justice,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Jocelyn Jackson’s first public event as MoAD’s chef-in-residence will be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/chef-in-residence-presents-two-black-cooks-in-the-kitchen-a-celebration-of-bryant-terry-and-welcome-to-jocelyn-jackson\">conversation with Bryant Terry\u003c/a>, her predecessor in the role. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first time I met Jocelyn Jackson, back in 2015, the chef and food activist Bryant Terry was emceeing an Oakland food event where he introduced the organization that Jackson co-founded — \u003ca href=\"http://peopleskitchencollective.com/\">People’s Kitchen Collective\u003c/a> — as the Bay Area food movement’s “house band.” In other words, the group wasn’t always the headliner, but it often worked behind the scenes whenever there was an event or initiative at the intersection of food, art and social justice. One week Jackson and her collaborators might sling vegan tacos at an \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/luz-calvo-wants-to-decolonize-your-plate-2-1/\">anti-colonialist cookbook event\u003c/a>. Another week you’d find them in West Oakland giving away a \u003ca href=\"http://peopleskitchencollective.com/free-breakfast-program\">free hot breakfast\u003c/a> to anyone who wanted one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say: Jackson has been deeply involved in the Bay Area food world for a long time. Or, as she says about the scene, “There is no stranger in this room. … We know each other. We’ve been there for each other — for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there’s some poetry to the fact that Jackson is now stepping into one of the Bay Area food movement’s most prominent, unique positions: At the start of this year, she became the \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/\">Museum of the African Diaspora’s\u003c/a> second ever chef-in-residence — a role that Terry himself essentially created and held for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke to Jackson by phone a couple of weeks into her new gig. Here are five things you can expect from the chef’s tenure at MoAD:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>1. MoAD’s chef-in-residence program will continue to be one of a kind. \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’ve never heard of any other museum having a “chef-in-residence,” that’s because programs like MoAD’s, which focus on the ways that food, art and culture intersect in the Black diaspora, don’t really exist anywhere else — certainly not in such a comprehensive way. Jackson isn’t becoming the museum’s “chef” in the traditional sense of running a restaurant on its premises. Instead, like Terry before her, she’ll run a whole slate of food-related cultural programming all year round (more on the specifics of that programming in a minute).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923965\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner.jpg\" alt=\"Artistically arranged of food whose shape resembles the continent of Africa.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/jocelynjackson_diasporadinner-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plate of food served by the People’s Kitchen Collective at one of MoAD’s Diaspora Dinners held in 2015. \u003ccite>(Fox Nakai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Museum of the African Diaspora is about reflecting the beauty and wholeness of our people,” Jackson says. “It would be remiss to overlook that food is part of our artistry — it’s part of the way that our people find survival and celebration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not static when you’re doing a chef-in-residence,” she continues. “It’s not just something that you simply attend. It’s something that you do. I love that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>2. Black women will be front and center.\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tagline for Jackson’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/justuskitchen/?hl=en\">Instagram page\u003c/a> reads, “healing food experiences for Blk womxn.” Providing those kinds of culturally specific experiences — at group retreats, one-on-one sessions and more — has been the main focus of the chef’s company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.justuskitchen.com/\">Justus Kitchen\u003c/a>. It makes sense, then, that under Jackson’s stewardship, MoAD’s chef-in-residence program would make the experiences of Black women an even bigger priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It is front of mind in every choice,” Jackson says. “Within my own experience, it is essential to make choices from the perspective of Black womanhood in everything I do. When Black women get free, we all get free.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson says she isn’t quite ready to announce too many of the specifics in terms of how this focus will play out in terms of MoAD’s actual programming. But, just to cite one example, Jackson plans to continue the chef-in-residence program’s longstanding tradition of hosting “Diaspora Dinners” — big, celebratory meals at the museum, usually featuring a prominent guest chef. And this year the events will highlight two Black women in the food industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson also has a partnership in the works with San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://btwcsc.org/\">Booker T. Washington Community Service Center\u003c/a>, including what she describes as some “beautiful projects” with elders in the community. “Every elder is a library. I don’t want them to pass from this earth without sharing whatever they feel compelled to share with us,” Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923968\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13923968\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests.jpg\" alt=\"Three smiling women dressed in all white sit at a table outdoors, awaiting the start of a meal.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_guests-1536x865.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MoAD board member Jill Cowan and friends at the Black Food Summit, held in September of 2022. \u003ccite>(Tinashe Chidarikire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>3. The Black Food Summit will live on.\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The capstone of Terry’s seven-year tenure at MoAD was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13918267/food-events-fall-2022\">Black Food Summit\u003c/a>, a gathering of amazing Black talent from all over the country, across all sectors of the food world — chefs, cookbook authors, photographers, food stylists and more — who came together for two days of workshops, rejuvenation and mutual support. The event was created to advance \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900311/bryant-terry-four-color-books-imprint-food-media-diversity\">Terry’s vision of creating a pipeline\u003c/a> that would allow Black chefs, writers and artists to land the kinds of prestigious gigs that they’ve been shut out of historically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, the summit will live on. As Jackson notes, Terry himself will continue to have an advisory role at the museum, and “it makes all the sense in the world” for her to carry on the tradition that he started. Most likely, the first Black Food Summit under Jackson’s stewardship will happen sometime in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>4. Art and artists will get an even bigger spotlight during Jackson’s tenure. \u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>MoAD is, of course, a \u003ci>museum\u003c/i> first and foremost, and most visitors come to see the art. In that respect, Jackson makes for an ideal chef-in-residence: She’s a practicing artist herself, known for exploring both food and social justice in her work. A notable recent example: an art installation in which Jackson imagined the “\u003ca href=\"http://www.justuskitchen.com/fixed-price-menu\">fixed price menu\u003c/a>” of a meal that Philando Castile and Jeronimo Yanez — the Minnesota police officer who shot and killed Castile in 2016 — might have shared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that piece, part of Ava DuVernay’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.leapaction.org/\">Law Enforcement Accountability Project\u003c/a> (LEAP), Jackson says, “I was doing quilting. I was doing writing. I was doing sculpture. I could say in that moment, ‘I’ve been training for decades for this.’ As an attorney, as an environmental educator, as an artist — it’s like I got these credentials on purpose in reverse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same could be said for Jackson’s new role as MoAD’s chef-in-residence. If anything, she says, her own art background means she’ll place even more of a focus on collaborating with the artists whose work is being featured at the museum, whether that be in terms of new art installations or conversations in which the artists talk about the food connections in their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923970\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13923970 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate.jpg\" alt=\"An abundant plate of food, including greens, beans and mac and cheese.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/blackfoodsummit_plate-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner at the Black Food Summit. \u003ccite>(Tinashe Chidarikire)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>5. Social justice will be the focus of everything she does at the museum.\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It’s not lost on Jackson that she’s stepping into the role at a political moment when it’s become clear, as she puts it, that the long-term changes many hoped for during the widespread protests against police violence in 2020 haven’t really happened. “There was a boomerang effect, and lasting change has not occurred,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the same time, Jackson says that her position at MoAD is something of an oasis. “I get to luxuriate in the environment of an organization that’s made by and for Black folks. I get to be calm and peaceful and authentic within that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recognizes that the art world at large isn’t like that. It wasn’t lost on her that the viral incident a couple of weeks ago in which a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/san-francisco-man-sprays-woman-17708160.php\">San Francisco gallery owner sprayed an unhoused woman with a hose\u003c/a> was also a reflection of the art world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how can an institution like MoAD play a role in changing that? “How do we present ourselves as warriors for justice? Artists are first responders,” Jackson says, referencing the term \u003ca href=\"https://www.artistasfirstresponder.com/\">coined by Oakland-based artist Ashara Ekundayo\u003c/a>. “Anyone in this industry of art has that shared responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jackson, that mindset has to inform all of her chef-in-residence programming. “There’s nothing that isn’t related to social justice,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou don’t notice it unless you’re actively looking: The two-story grey-blue building on Fillmore with tasteful gold trim, just steps away from Haight Street. Today, it’s just another well appointed, two-apartment home. But a century ago, it was the most in-demand abortion clinic in San Francisco: a clean and sterile place run by a defiant woman who was unapologetic about her profession, and unafraid of the authorities who came after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name was Inez Burns. And for almost three decades, she helped tens of thousands of women take charge of their own bodies and their own futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez knew a little something about seizing control of her own destiny. She was born in September 1886 inside a rear tenement apartment in SoMa — then San Francisco’s gangland. Her father was an alcoholic cigar salesman who died at 39. Her mother was a cold, neglectful woman who fought with her fists and took Inez out of school after sixth grade so the child could work alongside her four siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13908327']Inez’s formative years made her tough, but never brittle. The natural beauty dedicated her spare time to self-improvement with an eye on clawing her way out of poverty. Inez taught herself to read well, hiding books away from her mother who considered them a waste of time. Inez learned how to walk and talk like a lady. And when she secured herself a job at the Palace Hotel at age 17, she learned to flirt like a lady as well. Inez worked as a manicurist at the hotel’s barber shop, polishing the nails of the most well-to-do men in San Francisco. She was so charming and such a good listener, her customers were prone to lavishing her with extra cash and expensive gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Inez’s most adoring customers was a doctor named Eugene West who began an affair with her when she was 18. A year later, he offered Inez a job at his clinic, paying her twice what she made at the barbershop. West also covered her rent at Elmer House, a women’s rooming establishment at 324 Bush St. Within three months of starting at West’s clinic, Inez became a medical assistant and began aiding her lover in performing illegal abortions. Inez was a quick study and soon noticed that West sometimes performed sloppy work and didn’t always show his patients the care that Inez felt they were due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she got pregnant by another suitor named G.W. Merritt, Inez left West’s clinic, stealing a set of medical instruments as she went. Soon after, tragedy struck with the 1906 earthquake — an event that left Inez with only the dress on her back, the hat on her head and the surgical instruments she had taken from West. It wasn’t long before she needed to put them to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While residing alongside 40,000 other earthquake refugees in Golden Gate Park, Inez encountered seven women who were all desperate for help. One was unmarried, and six were unsure how they’d feed another mouth under the dire circumstances. Inez successfully performed abortions on each of them in the park, carefully sterilizing her instruments before and after each procedure. Though Inez offered her services for free, all women insisted on compensating her in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five weeks of residing in the park, Merritt persuaded Inez to move to Pittsburgh with him to start a new life there. Inez agreed but languished on the East Coast, working for a pittance in a pickle factory. Despite Merritt’s relationship with a younger woman there, Inez bore him two children, George and Bobby. When Bobby was two, Inez managed to save enough money to escape back to San Francisco, forced by Merritt to leave George behind. The boy would return to Inez’s care only when he turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, Inez quickly embraced her inner spirit of independence and went to work performing abortions at clinics around the city, all owned by men. Within months she had enough money to start her own facility — one that she operated out of a series of homes in the city, including two in the Excelsior. Unlike many of the other abortion centers in the city at the time, Inez never advertised her services. She didn’t need to. Word quickly spread around the city about Inez’s impeccably clean clinic — one in which women felt safe, cared for and out of the clutches of exploitative male practitioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A two-floor home with garage underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fillmore Street building where Inez Burns once operated her abortion clinic.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was in 1921 that Inez moved her clinic to 327 Fillmore Street, an eight-bedroom home with three bathrooms. She painstakingly designed the waiting room there to resemble a high-end tea room, with polished floors, Tiffany lamps and sumptuous rugs. Smoking was not permitted and talking was discouraged unless between nurses and patients. Inez installed an outdoor concrete incinerator for medical waste and a secret staircase that led to a back alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13912974']Assisting her at the clinic was a discreet team of nurses and a utility man named Joe Hoff — a former bellboy Inez had befriended at the Palace Hotel. Hoff also assisted Inez in scaring off mobsters who sporadically attempted to extort her. Inez’s business was widely considered to be the worst-kept secret in San Francisco, but making weekly payoffs to SFPD officers and politicians kept her doors open. Inez also kept a list of trustworthy physicians on call who could assist her with procedures that resulted in complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s services came at a price. Officially, abortions performed by her within the first eight weeks of pregnancy cost $50 (about $880 in today’s money). After that, services went up to $80 (about $1400 now). Despite this, many patients found Inez willing to perform procedures for whatever amount of money they had on hand. For truly dire cases, she charged nothing at all. In one case, she handed a patient with six children an envelope of money and advised her to leave her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Inez was making more money than she knew what to do with. With most procedures taking just 15-20 minutes, she quickly amassed a fortune. She built a home at 274 Guerrero St. — an address that delighted Inez because 274 happened to be the California penal code that outlawed abortion. Inez also purchased properties around the city (including one on Waller Street that doubled as a recovery center) and in La Honda and San Mateo County. She used five different aliases to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story rectangular home with four identical windows on the top floors and a five curved windows protruding from the building on the lower level. Large neat hedges grow in front of the home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1020x921.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-768x693.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1536x1387.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1920x1733.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guerrero Street home that Inez Burns kept until 1973. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inez enjoyed living lavishly, with a lively social life and fierce shopping habit. She bought a limo and hired a driver, doted on her two Pomeranians and kept regular appointments with astrologers. She underwent three plastic surgery operations: One to remove two ribs, another to remove the bones in her pinky toes and finally a facelift in her later years. Still, Inez had so much cash, she took to sewing money into drapes, burying it in lockboxes and hiding it in secret panels around her properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Inez’s business grew, so did complications in her love life. She married William Brown in 1915, after having a son (also named William) with him. After Brown died in 1921, Inez married Charlie Granelli, with whom she had a daughter, Alice. In 1927, while Granelli was out of the country on business, Inez fell in love with an assemblyman named Joe Burns. By then, because Inez was already an infamous figure in the city, the love triangle made for salacious headlines. Inez was granted a divorce from Granelli in May 1928 and went on to marry Burns in 1932. The couple stayed together for the rest of their lives, though the relationship was frequently an open one in which fiery disagreements were not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nez’s legal troubles started in 1936, when her financial situation finally came under scrutiny by the authorities. Still, she proved to be a slippery woman to pin down. She had so many informants scattered around the city, she got tipped off and was able to clear her properties before every raid. On one occasion, Inez was so indignant when police arrived that she kicked an inspector in the shins. Efforts to hold her legally accountable after one successful 1938 raid were thwarted by the fact that former patients steadfastly refused to assist investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 1939, Inez was finally indicted for tax evasion by a grand jury, for the years 1935 and 1936. She pleaded guilty and was fined $10,000, plus an undisclosed additional sum to settle the case. At the time, Judge Harold Louderback noted: “Never in my history on the federal bench has so little information been given the court. For some reason, there seems to be a great reluctance to tell what Mrs. Burns’ business was.” (Her business cards described her only as a “Designer.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13828983']It was after the war that Inez’s old methods of keeping authorities at bay started to become ineffective. The SFPD had undergone major personnel changes to eradicate widespread corruption. And in 1944, a new district attorney arrived and went to war with the seedier aspects of San Francisco life. Edmund “Pat” Brown (future governor of California and father to Governor Jerry Brown) prosecuted bookies and madams in the Tenderloin. He took licenses away from the rowdiest bars, and he set his sights on Inez to make an example out of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown joined forces with Police Inspector Frank Ahern to go after Inez. Ahern proved impossible to pay off, though Inez tried heartily to do so. Despite Brown and Ahern amassing enormous files of evidence against Inez, a 1945 grand jury refused to indict her. Her luck ran out at the end of that year, however, when a judge announced that Inez and her faithful staff would be tried for felony conspiracy to commit abortion and practicing medicine without a license. It was the beginning of the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and Ahern had hundreds of thousands of dollars they had confiscated from Inez’s home and clinic. They had notebooks containing the names of thousands of patients and what each of them had paid. They had case history charts and receipts for medical supplies. They even found two women willing to speak about services they’d received from Inez. Part-time clinic employees Madeline Rand, Virginia Westrup and Kathryn Bartram agreed to testify against Inez and other employees in exchange for having the charges against them dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923668\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/GettyImages-1201272584-800x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with neat brown hair and a balding man bend down to assist a woman who has fainted and is on the floor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1024\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madeline Rand (left), prosecution witness at the Inez Burns trial in San Francisco, and Inspector Edward Penaat assist Kathryn Bartram, surprise prosecution witness who collapsed during a recess in the trial. Bartram allegedly witnessed abortions at 327 Fillmore Street when she was employed there as an anesthetist from 1934-1936. \u003ccite>(Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the mountain of evidence, it took three trials for Brown to get a conviction against Inez and her employees. During the first trial, nine male and five female jurors found themselves deadlocked after days of deliberation. The second trial ended similarly with eight women and four men failing to agree on a verdict. Brown wasn’t about to back down, and in September 1946, a third trial resulted in guilty verdicts for Inez and four of her employees. Bail was successfully secured for the appeals portion of the trial, but after the court of appeals denied Inez and her cohorts a new trial and California’s Supreme Court refused to hear the case, Inez and her friends were sent to prison. Each served 29 months and were released in November 1950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]nez’s legal woes were far from over. In 1951, she was fined $10,000 and sentenced to a year and a day in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion (for the year 1944). Inez was released after nine months but was caught performing abortions shortly afterwards and sent straight back to prison. She was aged 66 at the time and served another 25 months. During that sentence, she was forced to testify before a San Francisco grand jury. Authorities were trying to convict figures suspected of receiving bribes from Inez. During her testimony, Inez gave nothing up, denying ever paying anyone off and seemingly relishing being back in the spotlight. After her time on the stand, she told waiting reporters, “My, I’ve had a wonderful time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13902628']Inez was released from her final prison sentence in January of 1956. When more tax evasion charges emerged two months later, she had nothing left to offer the government. All of her properties, except for her Guerrero Street home, had already been seized by the IRS. Her son Bobby and his wife had frittered away half a million dollars Inez had left with them for safekeeping. She was broke. By that time also, Inez was so ravaged by arthritis, she could no longer perform abortions, though many women continued to seek out her services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout all of her legal troubles, Burns remained dedicated to his wife. The two remained in their Guerrero Street house until 1973 — the same year that Roe v. Wade finally gave all American women the right to choose. At that time, both in their eighties, Inez and Burns moved to a convalescent home in Moss Beach. Inez died three years later at the age of 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s commitment to the safekeeping of women’s bodily autonomy was perhaps best summed up by Burns. “Inez is an artist,” her husband told reporters during one of her trials. “That’s her trade and she won’t quit it. She’s doing a service to the public. Saving people from shame and disgrace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To learn about other Rebel Girls from Bay Area History, visit the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/rebelgirls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebel Girls homepage\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A book celebrating women from the Rebel Girls series, \u003ca href=\"https://citylights.com/politics-current-events-history/unsung-heroines35-women-who-changed/\">‘Unsung Heroines: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,’\u003c/a> is available now from City Lights.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">Y\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ou don’t notice it unless you’re actively looking: The two-story grey-blue building on Fillmore with tasteful gold trim, just steps away from Haight Street. Today, it’s just another well appointed, two-apartment home. But a century ago, it was the most in-demand abortion clinic in San Francisco: a clean and sterile place run by a defiant woman who was unapologetic about her profession, and unafraid of the authorities who came after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her name was Inez Burns. And for almost three decades, she helped tens of thousands of women take charge of their own bodies and their own futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez knew a little something about seizing control of her own destiny. She was born in September 1886 inside a rear tenement apartment in SoMa — then San Francisco’s gangland. Her father was an alcoholic cigar salesman who died at 39. Her mother was a cold, neglectful woman who fought with her fists and took Inez out of school after sixth grade so the child could work alongside her four siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Inez’s formative years made her tough, but never brittle. The natural beauty dedicated her spare time to self-improvement with an eye on clawing her way out of poverty. Inez taught herself to read well, hiding books away from her mother who considered them a waste of time. Inez learned how to walk and talk like a lady. And when she secured herself a job at the Palace Hotel at age 17, she learned to flirt like a lady as well. Inez worked as a manicurist at the hotel’s barber shop, polishing the nails of the most well-to-do men in San Francisco. She was so charming and such a good listener, her customers were prone to lavishing her with extra cash and expensive gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Inez’s most adoring customers was a doctor named Eugene West who began an affair with her when she was 18. A year later, he offered Inez a job at his clinic, paying her twice what she made at the barbershop. West also covered her rent at Elmer House, a women’s rooming establishment at 324 Bush St. Within three months of starting at West’s clinic, Inez became a medical assistant and began aiding her lover in performing illegal abortions. Inez was a quick study and soon noticed that West sometimes performed sloppy work and didn’t always show his patients the care that Inez felt they were due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After she got pregnant by another suitor named G.W. Merritt, Inez left West’s clinic, stealing a set of medical instruments as she went. Soon after, tragedy struck with the 1906 earthquake — an event that left Inez with only the dress on her back, the hat on her head and the surgical instruments she had taken from West. It wasn’t long before she needed to put them to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While residing alongside 40,000 other earthquake refugees in Golden Gate Park, Inez encountered seven women who were all desperate for help. One was unmarried, and six were unsure how they’d feed another mouth under the dire circumstances. Inez successfully performed abortions on each of them in the park, carefully sterilizing her instruments before and after each procedure. Though Inez offered her services for free, all women insisted on compensating her in some way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five weeks of residing in the park, Merritt persuaded Inez to move to Pittsburgh with him to start a new life there. Inez agreed but languished on the East Coast, working for a pittance in a pickle factory. Despite Merritt’s relationship with a younger woman there, Inez bore him two children, George and Bobby. When Bobby was two, Inez managed to save enough money to escape back to San Francisco, forced by Merritt to leave George behind. The boy would return to Inez’s care only when he turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in San Francisco, Inez quickly embraced her inner spirit of independence and went to work performing abortions at clinics around the city, all owned by men. Within months she had enough money to start her own facility — one that she operated out of a series of homes in the city, including two in the Excelsior. Unlike many of the other abortion centers in the city at the time, Inez never advertised her services. She didn’t need to. Word quickly spread around the city about Inez’s impeccably clean clinic — one in which women felt safe, cared for and out of the clutches of exploitative male practitioners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"A two-floor home with garage underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/20230112_143737-scaled-e1673569766549.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fillmore Street building where Inez Burns once operated her abortion clinic.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>t was in 1921 that Inez moved her clinic to 327 Fillmore Street, an eight-bedroom home with three bathrooms. She painstakingly designed the waiting room there to resemble a high-end tea room, with polished floors, Tiffany lamps and sumptuous rugs. Smoking was not permitted and talking was discouraged unless between nurses and patients. Inez installed an outdoor concrete incinerator for medical waste and a secret staircase that led to a back alley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Assisting her at the clinic was a discreet team of nurses and a utility man named Joe Hoff — a former bellboy Inez had befriended at the Palace Hotel. Hoff also assisted Inez in scaring off mobsters who sporadically attempted to extort her. Inez’s business was widely considered to be the worst-kept secret in San Francisco, but making weekly payoffs to SFPD officers and politicians kept her doors open. Inez also kept a list of trustworthy physicians on call who could assist her with procedures that resulted in complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inez’s services came at a price. Officially, abortions performed by her within the first eight weeks of pregnancy cost $50 (about $880 in today’s money). After that, services went up to $80 (about $1400 now). Despite this, many patients found Inez willing to perform procedures for whatever amount of money they had on hand. For truly dire cases, she charged nothing at all. In one case, she handed a patient with six children an envelope of money and advised her to leave her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Inez was making more money than she knew what to do with. With most procedures taking just 15-20 minutes, she quickly amassed a fortune. She built a home at 274 Guerrero St. — an address that delighted Inez because 274 happened to be the California penal code that outlawed abortion. Inez also purchased properties around the city (including one on Waller Street that doubled as a recovery center) and in La Honda and San Mateo County. She used five different aliases to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923671\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg\" alt=\"A two-story rectangular home with four identical windows on the top floors and a five curved windows protruding from the building on the lower level. Large neat hedges grow in front of the home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-800x722.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1020x921.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-160x144.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-768x693.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1536x1387.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero-1920x1733.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Inez-Home-Guerrero.jpg 1964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guerrero Street home that Inez Burns kept until 1973. \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Inez enjoyed living lavishly, with a lively social life and fierce shopping habit. She bought a limo and hired a driver, doted on her two Pomeranians and kept regular appointments with astrologers. She underwent three plastic surgery operations: One to remove two ribs, another to remove the bones in her pinky toes and finally a facelift in her later years. Still, Inez had so much cash, she took to sewing money into drapes, burying it in lockboxes and hiding it in secret panels around her properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Inez’s business grew, so did complications in her love life. She married William Brown in 1915, after having a son (also named William) with him. After Brown died in 1921, Inez married Charlie Granelli, with whom she had a daughter, Alice. In 1927, while Granelli was out of the country on business, Inez fell in love with an assemblyman named Joe Burns. By then, because Inez was already an infamous figure in the city, the love triangle made for salacious headlines. Inez was granted a divorce from Granelli in May 1928 and went on to marry Burns in 1932. The couple stayed together for the rest of their lives, though the relationship was frequently an open one in which fiery disagreements were not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>nez’s legal troubles started in 1936, when her financial situation finally came under scrutiny by the authorities. Still, she proved to be a slippery woman to pin down. She had so many informants scattered around the city, she got tipped off and was able to clear her properties before every raid. On one occasion, Inez was so indignant when police arrived that she kicked an inspector in the shins. Efforts to hold her legally accountable after one successful 1938 raid were thwarted by the fact that former patients steadfastly refused to assist investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 1939, Inez was finally indicted for tax evasion by a grand jury, for the years 1935 and 1936. She pleaded guilty and was fined $10,000, plus an undisclosed additional sum to settle the case. At the time, Judge Harold Louderback noted: “Never in my history on the federal bench has so little information been given the court. For some reason, there seems to be a great reluctance to tell what Mrs. Burns’ business was.” (Her business cards described her only as a “Designer.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On Friday morning, I got word that my favorite San Francisco photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daveschubertsf/\">Dave Schubert\u003c/a> had died suddenly. The long-time Mission District resident was discovered on Thursday, Jan. 5 by concerned friends at the 26th Street home Schubert lived in for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert’s work had been a minor obsession of mine ever since 2005, when I first saw one of his photographs at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936275/111-minna-30th-anniversary-show-review-jeremy-fish-alec-huxley-sam-flores-interview\">111 Minna\u003c/a> show. The photo in question — a chaotic 16th Street brawl involving seven people and a bicycle — has hung in my home ever since. It offers a perfect snapshot of Mission District nightlife as I knew it back then: a grimy, hedonistic community of bartenders, graffiti writers, skaters, punks and bike messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png\" alt=\"A cluster of seven people push and pull each other in a street fight. A woman lies on the ground underneath it all, a bicycle laying on the ground in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-160x245.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-768x1177.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Schubert captured this fight outside Delirium on 16th Street in 2003. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards was a large part of why I fell in love with San Francisco in the first place. And Schubert documented all of it. Back then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, it felt like there were no consequences for any amount of ill-advised behavior. If there \u003ci>was\u003c/i> trouble? Well, the story you told the next day was just that much better. In the 18 years since I first found Schubert’s work, no one has captured that chaos better than he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert and I lived only a few blocks from each other in the Mission, so back in September 2022, I invited him out to lunch to talk about his work. He met me in the back of Old Jerusalem on Mission Street. In person, Schubert was sweet, polite, humble, and just a little wild-eyed. He told me right off the bat that he’d hit his head a lot over the years and showed me \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDyx_BsECr/\">photos of him swollen and bleeding\u003c/a> to prove it. “Bloody head shots,” he called them. He had a whole collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png\" alt=\"A young man with blood on his forehead and cheek, with a large lump forming on the side of his face, looks blankly at the camera. \" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-1020x1248.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-160x196.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-768x940.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM.png 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Schubert’s self-portraits, this one documenting the aftermath of a bicycle accident. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Schubert was also incredibly smart; a scholar about the history of photography and an easy conversationalist. We talked for longer than I expected that day about a wide array of topics. We talked about Schubert’s earliest photography inspirations: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richardson_(photographer)\">Bob Richardson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon\">Richard Avedon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank\">Robert Frank\u003c/a>. We talked about the history of the Mission. We talked about dead friends, in particular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0ZVR9u0DI/\">his best friend Dash Snow\u003c/a>, who Schubert memorialized with \u003ca href=\"https://panopticonpress.bigcartel.com/product/dash-i-miss-you-ap-edition\">a fanzine of photos\u003c/a> after Snow’s death in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert moved to the city in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sfai\">San Francisco Art Institute\u003c/a>. Once he arrived, Schubert immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene. Back on the East Coast, he’d been a prolific skate videographer, primarily in Washington, D.C. On that September day, we talked about his more recent work for \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/gx1000-shop\">GX1000\u003c/a>, his friend’s skate company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png\" alt=\"A man wearing blue jeans, flannel shirt and a chicken head mask perches on top of a graffitied bathroom stall, money falling from his hands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-768x918.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best of all, we talked about the trouble he’d found himself in while taking photos of strangers doing illegal things — a habit Schubert had that reflected his audacious approach to his craft. He told me of one incident when a group of sex workers attacked him for taking a photo of them smoking crack in the Tenderloin. Mid-attack, Schubert told me, one of them began biting his finger. Hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had just watched a nature film with sharks that week though,” Schubert casually told me. “And it said if you’re attacked by a reef shark, don’t pull your hand out of its mouth because your flesh will tear. Instead, hit it in the throat so it will release you. So that’s what I did. That’s how I got the prostitute off my finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Schubert, these kinds of stories weren’t unusual. They were simply how he lived his life: on the edge, always adjacent to trouble, illuminating the darkest sides of city living with his camera, so that the rest of the world might see it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png\" alt=\"A man stands casually wearing black clothing and an San Francisco 49ers baseball cap, while a woman casually tags a Muni bus in San Francisco. The bus doors are still open.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1020x659.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-768x496.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1536x993.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day acts of vandalism in SF, as captured by Dave Schubert. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had a drive and passion for his work that is hard to find these days,” says Lindsay Mape, who first befriended Schubert in 1995. “I was studying painting at SFAI and he would sneak in with me and use the dark rooms all day long to print his film, while I painted in the studios downstairs. Then we would leave and go hang in the Mission or the TL all night, finding trouble, hanging with friends, laughing and chilling with my dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t have a nasty bone in his body,” she remembers. “Genuinely the sweetest soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Lang of the San Francisco gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFgYPMS43k/\">Electric Works\u003c/a>, who first befriended Schubert in 1999, has similar memories of the photographer. “Even in his darkest times, he never had any anger,” Lang says. “He was an unstoppable force of positivity. He was very generous. He was interested in sharing everything that he had. He would have 17-year-old skaters email him saying they liked his work and he would just send them [a print]. He was not looking for fame or fortune ever. He just wanted enough money to live and make his books and that was pretty much it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like street photographers are born noticers,” Lang continues. “They notice all the things that we see but don’t find remarkable, and then they synthesize it. Dave was a really great noticer and synthesizer of the coral reef around him. He knew everything about it. He could see it all and he would make a photo of it and turn normalcy into poetry in 1/60 of a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-768x491.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM.png 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Stevie Williams (skateboarder) poses between friends at Pulaski Park in Washington, D.C., 1993. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in for Schubert over the weekend as news of his untimely death spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/steveespopowers/\">Steve Powers wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>: “I don’t know a better photographer that shot both skateboarding and graffiti as well as Dave did, but, as he would say about bragging, ‘Don’t tell it, show it’ … Dave Schubert didn’t take pictures, he took the time to love and to show the love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-chaos-he-memorialized-rip-san-francisco-photography-legend-dave-schubert/\">Evan Pricco of \u003cem>Juxtapoz\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>: “It feels as if an era of San Francisco has passed with the news of the death of photographer, Dave Schubert. Many of my earliest memories of art, of underground culture, of life being fucking lived, was through the lens and eye of Dave Schubert. He was telling me the story of my home city without me even being conscious of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Noah Lang and friends have set up a fundraising campaign to save and preserve Dave Schubert’s photographic archive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/dave-schuberts-photographic-legacy?qid=93785caa04562f1ed1bf1235d03c5de5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details can be found on their GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>An exhibit of Schubert’s photography will be on display at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://etaletc.com/\">Et Al. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On Friday morning, I got word that my favorite San Francisco photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/daveschubertsf/\">Dave Schubert\u003c/a> had died suddenly. The long-time Mission District resident was discovered on Thursday, Jan. 5 by concerned friends at the 26th Street home Schubert lived in for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert’s work had been a minor obsession of mine ever since 2005, when I first saw one of his photographs at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936275/111-minna-30th-anniversary-show-review-jeremy-fish-alec-huxley-sam-flores-interview\">111 Minna\u003c/a> show. The photo in question — a chaotic 16th Street brawl involving seven people and a bicycle — has hung in my home ever since. It offers a perfect snapshot of Mission District nightlife as I knew it back then: a grimy, hedonistic community of bartenders, graffiti writers, skaters, punks and bike messengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png\" alt=\"A cluster of seven people push and pull each other in a street fight. A woman lies on the ground underneath it all, a bicycle laying on the ground in front of her.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1226\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-800x1226.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-160x245.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM-768x1177.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.57.33-AM.png 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Schubert captured this fight outside Delirium on 16th Street in 2003. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This underworld of smart-ass scrappers, non-stop taggers and street-fighting drunkards was a large part of why I fell in love with San Francisco in the first place. And Schubert documented all of it. Back then, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, it felt like there were no consequences for any amount of ill-advised behavior. If there \u003ci>was\u003c/i> trouble? Well, the story you told the next day was just that much better. In the 18 years since I first found Schubert’s work, no one has captured that chaos better than he did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert and I lived only a few blocks from each other in the Mission, so back in September 2022, I invited him out to lunch to talk about his work. He met me in the back of Old Jerusalem on Mission Street. In person, Schubert was sweet, polite, humble, and just a little wild-eyed. He told me right off the bat that he’d hit his head a lot over the years and showed me \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDyx_BsECr/\">photos of him swollen and bleeding\u003c/a> to prove it. “Bloody head shots,” he called them. He had a whole collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923473\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png\" alt=\"A young man with blood on his forehead and cheek, with a large lump forming on the side of his face, looks blankly at the camera. \" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-800x979.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-1020x1248.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-160x196.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM-768x940.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.17.47-AM.png 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Schubert’s self-portraits, this one documenting the aftermath of a bicycle accident. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Schubert was also incredibly smart; a scholar about the history of photography and an easy conversationalist. We talked for longer than I expected that day about a wide array of topics. We talked about Schubert’s earliest photography inspirations: \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richardson_(photographer)\">Bob Richardson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon\">Richard Avedon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank\">Robert Frank\u003c/a>. We talked about the history of the Mission. We talked about dead friends, in particular \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf0ZVR9u0DI/\">his best friend Dash Snow\u003c/a>, who Schubert memorialized with \u003ca href=\"https://panopticonpress.bigcartel.com/product/dash-i-miss-you-ap-edition\">a fanzine of photos\u003c/a> after Snow’s death in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schubert moved to the city in 1995 after being awarded a scholarship to study photography at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/sfai\">San Francisco Art Institute\u003c/a>. Once he arrived, Schubert immersed himself in the Bay’s thriving skateboarding and graffiti scene. Back on the East Coast, he’d been a prolific skate videographer, primarily in Washington, D.C. On that September day, we talked about his more recent work for \u003ca href=\"https://www.skatedeluxe.com/en/gx1000-shop\">GX1000\u003c/a>, his friend’s skate company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png\" alt=\"A man wearing blue jeans, flannel shirt and a chicken head mask perches on top of a graffitied bathroom stall, money falling from his hands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"956\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-800x956.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-160x191.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM-768x918.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-4.10.30-PM.png 1014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at The Cock, a New York City gay bar. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best of all, we talked about the trouble he’d found himself in while taking photos of strangers doing illegal things — a habit Schubert had that reflected his audacious approach to his craft. He told me of one incident when a group of sex workers attacked him for taking a photo of them smoking crack in the Tenderloin. Mid-attack, Schubert told me, one of them began biting his finger. Hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had just watched a nature film with sharks that week though,” Schubert casually told me. “And it said if you’re attacked by a reef shark, don’t pull your hand out of its mouth because your flesh will tear. Instead, hit it in the throat so it will release you. So that’s what I did. That’s how I got the prostitute off my finger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talking to Schubert, these kinds of stories weren’t unusual. They were simply how he lived his life: on the edge, always adjacent to trouble, illuminating the darkest sides of city living with his camera, so that the rest of the world might see it too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923404\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png\" alt=\"A man stands casually wearing black clothing and an San Francisco 49ers baseball cap, while a woman casually tags a Muni bus in San Francisco. The bus doors are still open.\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-800x517.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1020x659.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-160x103.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-768x496.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM-1536x993.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-06-at-11.55.41-AM.png 1550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Every day acts of vandalism in SF, as captured by Dave Schubert. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He had a drive and passion for his work that is hard to find these days,” says Lindsay Mape, who first befriended Schubert in 1995. “I was studying painting at SFAI and he would sneak in with me and use the dark rooms all day long to print his film, while I painted in the studios downstairs. Then we would leave and go hang in the Mission or the TL all night, finding trouble, hanging with friends, laughing and chilling with my dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t have a nasty bone in his body,” she remembers. “Genuinely the sweetest soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Lang of the San Francisco gallery \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CnFgYPMS43k/\">Electric Works\u003c/a>, who first befriended Schubert in 1999, has similar memories of the photographer. “Even in his darkest times, he never had any anger,” Lang says. “He was an unstoppable force of positivity. He was very generous. He was interested in sharing everything that he had. He would have 17-year-old skaters email him saying they liked his work and he would just send them [a print]. He was not looking for fame or fortune ever. He just wanted enough money to live and make his books and that was pretty much it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like street photographers are born noticers,” Lang continues. “They notice all the things that we see but don’t find remarkable, and then they synthesize it. Dave was a really great noticer and synthesizer of the coral reef around him. He knew everything about it. He could see it all and he would make a photo of it and turn normalcy into poetry in 1/60 of a second.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13923472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13923472\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-800x512.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1020x653.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-160x102.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-768x491.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM-1536x983.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.08.00-AM.png 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A very young Stevie Williams (skateboarder) poses between friends at Pulaski Park in Washington, D.C., 1993. \u003ccite>(Dave Schubert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tributes poured in for Schubert over the weekend as news of his untimely death spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/steveespopowers/\">Steve Powers wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>: “I don’t know a better photographer that shot both skateboarding and graffiti as well as Dave did, but, as he would say about bragging, ‘Don’t tell it, show it’ … Dave Schubert didn’t take pictures, he took the time to love and to show the love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-chaos-he-memorialized-rip-san-francisco-photography-legend-dave-schubert/\">Evan Pricco of \u003cem>Juxtapoz\u003c/em> wrote\u003c/a>: “It feels as if an era of San Francisco has passed with the news of the death of photographer, Dave Schubert. Many of my earliest memories of art, of underground culture, of life being fucking lived, was through the lens and eye of Dave Schubert. He was telling me the story of my home city without me even being conscious of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Noah Lang and friends have set up a fundraising campaign to save and preserve Dave Schubert’s photographic archive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/dave-schuberts-photographic-legacy?qid=93785caa04562f1ed1bf1235d03c5de5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details can be found on their GoFundMe page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you’ve undoubtedly seen some unexpected entertainment on BART in your time. Dancers, magicians, those dudes that hang upside down from poles, drunk people. What you’ve probably \u003cem>never\u003c/em> seen is a car packed to the gills with punks there to see a two-band show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what happened Friday night when noisy San Francisco outfits \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/falseflagsf/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">False Flag\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/surpriseprivilege/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surprise Privilege\u003c/a> managed to organize a show on a blue line BART train. Having boarded at the 16th St. Mission station at 7pm, the bands rode to Dublin Pleasanton as more than 100 fans squeezed in along the way — and then, on the way back to the city, started playing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unbridled chaos ensued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CnGrbg6D2JR/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Round of applause for the human mic stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone the next day, band members said they were surprised at the turnout for what started as “kind of a half-joke” that “we all egged each other on to do,” according to False Flag’s bassist, Pretty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t expecting that many people to show up,” she added. “We didn’t even know if we were gonna be able to play because the train was so packed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BART.PunkShow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"712\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13923451\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BART.PunkShow.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/BART.PunkShow-160x190.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show required a fair bit of pre-planning. On Instagram, the bands outlined a timetable of BART stops for attendees; directed them to the rear cars, away from commuters; and reminded everyone to pay their fare, stay civil and pick up after themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not our intention to wreck the place or cause any kind of damage — this is meant to be fun,” they wrote. “Be respectful of each other and don’t let anyone get hurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things went awry six stations in, when the train was stalled at Fruitvale due to an obstructed door. “And BART police got on,” said Pretty, “and were just like, ‘Are you serious right now?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@loserlees/video/7185796606355279150\" data-video-id=\"7185796606355279150\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@loserlees\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@loserlees?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@loserlees\u003c/a> PUNK SHOW ON BART!¡ \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"fypシ\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp%E3%82%B7?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#fypシ\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"punk\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/punk?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#punk\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bayarea\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bayarea?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#bayarea\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"sanfrancisco\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/sanfrancisco?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#sanfrancisco\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"diy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/diy?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#DIY\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - Lees\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7185796625409887022?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">♬ original sound – Lees\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As shown at the end of the above clip, the show was shut down, the cars were evacuated, and at least one reveler was escorted out of the station by authorities while crowds on the platform chanted, “Let him go! Let him go!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cody, bassist for Surprise Privilege, said the bands still managed to play six songs each, powered by a portable battery — and noted that every band member paid their BART fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13865042']“All we want to do is raise as much money as possible for BART,” he said. “It’s all just a big publicity campaign to show the world how fine our state-of-the-art public transportation system is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865042/free-speech-tone-oliver-and-barts-proposed-ban-on-busking\">rejected a 2019 proposal to ban busking on its trains\u003c/a>, did not respond to a request for comment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main reaction from the public I’ve seen is people talking about how it must have smelled really bad on the train,” said False Flag guitarist Strong. (“Which it did,” Cody added.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it lasted, though, the on-train show looked like a damn good time, crowd surfing and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CnIRhGhSMjf/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those who regret missing a historic slice of what’s known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13899154/sunami-review-san-jose-drain-gulch-show\">REAL BAY SHIT\u003c/a>,” and hope for a sequel, the bands’ Instagram post afterward summed it up: “we’re never doing that again lol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How was \u003cem>your\u003c/em> Friday night?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\n",
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