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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979465\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979465\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Illustration: two men devour fried chicken and waffles inside a restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-1.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-1-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fried chicken at Keith’s Chicken N Waffles is extraordinarily crunchy and flavorful. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>The Midnight Diners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thiendog/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Thien Pham\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sparse, vaguely industrial stretch of Daly City, tucked among a cluster of auto body shops, a tiny storefront sells some of the best fried chicken in the Bay Area — dollar for dollar, almost certainly the best you can get your hands on at 10 o’clock on a Wednesday night, which is when we were inducted into the cult of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/keithschickennwaffles/?hl=en\">Keith’s Chicken N Waffles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith’s came onto our radar a few months ago, when it \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DEk_2lDzRty/?hl=en\">extended its hours\u003c/a> to midnight four nights a week. But for the longest time afterward, we couldn’t find any online evidence of anyone ever actually eating there late at night: No one picked up the phone the dozen or so times I called, and the one time we showed up, hungry, on a Friday night, the place was closed. No sign on the door or anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we were thrilled to confirm firsthand that you \u003ci>can\u003c/i> score a plate of top-notch chicken and waffles in Daly City until midnight — or at least 11:30 p.m., when the shop puts in its last call for orders. (The hours are a little wonky, though, so if you’re trekking from the other side of the Bay, you should double-check the \u003ca href=\"https://keithschickennwaffles.com/menu\">restaurant website\u003c/a> to make sure they are in fact open and accepting orders before heading out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shop itself looks like your standard corner soul food joint — a bit cramped and well-worn, with black and white checkerboard-tile flooring and a jaunty, muscle-bound cartoon rooster painted on the facade. A few framed paintings of Bob Marley and Tupac hang on the walls, and a hand-written sign next to the counter reads: “Don’t stare. After you order please sit your ass down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13979468\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13979468\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Exterior of a chicken and waffles restaurant lit up at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-2.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-2-160x160.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-2-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/keiths-2-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith’s is now open late — until midnight — Wednesday through Saturday. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You will have to wait a little while, at least. One of the restaurant’s hallmarks is that the cooks fry every batch of chicken to order; there are no heat lamps to speak of. The chicken comes out burn-your-tongue hot, with a thin, well-bronzed, shatteringly crisp sheath. This was the crunchiest fried chicken I’ve eaten in recent memory, and some of the most flavorful too. I don’t know what they put in their seasoning mix, but every piece is seasoned extraordinarily well down to the last nook, cranny and crevice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the shop’s quirks is that the chicken pieces come in a range of sizes — we received a big, ample thigh, a slightly smaller one, and a rather diminutive drumstick. It didn’t bother us. If anything, the nonuniformity underscored Keith’s Chicken N Waffles’ status as a homegrown, made-from-scratch operation, not some cookie-cutter McNugget factory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you happen to be more of a chicken tender connoisseur, Keith’s still has you covered. The tenders here are plump, moist and uncommonly large — and, again, seasoned so aggressively well that you can enjoy them straight-up. (Though I did like the orange-gold, Carolina-style, honey-based barbecue sauce that the shop provided.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One remarkable thing about Keith’s is how reasonable the prices are. Combo meals — all named after rappers (the DMX, the Rick Ross and so on) — start at around $12 and come with waffles, sides, soda, the whole nine yards, and there’s always a bargain-priced daily special too (say, three wings and a waffle for $10). The upshot is you wind up paying cheaper-than-fast-food prices — I’m looking at you, Popeyes and Raising Cane’s — for fresher, more generous portions of chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the soul food side dishes (soupy, well-spiced collard greens, proper Southern-style mac and cheese, and more) were all better than solid, and we decided to save the saucy party wings and promising-looking fried chicken sandwich for our next visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13978355,arts_13956683,arts_13969092']Of course at Keith’s Chicken N Waffles, the chicken is only half the story. In much of the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/food/1337630/chicken\">fried chicken and waffles\u003c/a> is strictly a brunch-time treat, so it’s a rare pleasure to be able to score a good waffle late at night. And the waffles at Keith’s are very good, and available in a variety of flavors and sizes. We liked the standard Belgian waffle best: light, yeasty and super-buttery, with crisp edges, topped with a huge dollop of even more soft butter. It’s tasty enough that you don’t even really need to add syrup — though it’s hard to resist when the restaurant offers serve-yourself syrup, dispensed out of a gigantic coffee urn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone with a sweet tooth should also try the mini waffle trio, which comes with a pint-sized version of the standard waffle, plus a richly chocolatey (and surprisingly not-too-sweet) red velvet waffle and a waffle topped with candied yams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the union of the chicken and the waffles — of savory and sweet — is, of course, what has long made breakfast for dinner (or breakfast for a midnight snack) one of life’s most deeply pleasurable indulgences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That alone makes Keith’s well worth a visit. It might not be the most vibey or bustling of the late-night food destinations we’ve frequented — when we visited, it seemed to be doing all takeout business past 9 p.m., as hungry teens and twentysomethings pulled up to pick up buckets of chicken and waffles before heading out into the night. But who needs vibe when the cooking is this good? The air hung thick with the smell of sweet syrup and hot fryer oil. A match, honestly, made in heaven.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://keithschickennwaffles.com/\">\u003ci>Keith’s Chicken N Waffles\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Wednesday through Saturday 11 a.m.–midnight, Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m. and Mondays and Tuesdays 11 a.m.–8 p.m. at 270 San Pedro Rd. in Daly City. It’s within walking distance of the Colma BART station.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man in a black chef's coat and chef's hat smiles for a portrait.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-768x1076.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-1462x2048.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Bolling was just starting to make a name for himself at his Oakland soul food restaurant, Dimond Kitchen, when he died tragically on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelaija Bolling)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carl Bolling, the chef-owner of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimond_kitchen_us_catering/\">Dimond Kitchen\u003c/a>, a popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/soul-food\">soul food\u003c/a> restaurant, died on May 30 after a tragic motorcycle accident. He was 47 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Bolling had wanted nothing more than to share his cooking with the world, and it seemed like he was finally living out his dream: The chef’s late-night sidewalk pop-ups in downtown Oakland were the stuff of legend, and for the past year, he’d set up shop inside MacArthur Boulevard’s Two Star Market convenience store six days a week. In recent months, the bustling takeout spot, known as Dimond Kitchen, had earned a reputation as one of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972834/convenience-store-soul-food-oakland-dimond-kitchen-late-night\">best soul food restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Bolling’s family says it will be up to them to carry on the chef’s legacy. His daughter, Kelaija Bolling, says she and Bolling’s girlfriend, Mone Godfrey, plan to reopen Dimond Kitchen in the same location later this month. The idea is to continue serving all of Bolling’s original recipes — his decadently juicy smothered pork chops, succulent fried chicken wings, and tender and potent collard greens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing I always remember my dad saying was, ‘One day I might not be there,’” Kelaija says, recalling the times she used to help out at the shop. “‘So make sure you try all the food. Make sure you write down the recipes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a convenience store. The banner above reads, \"Dimond Kitchen: Food for the Soul. Grand Opening.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1375\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year, Bolling’s food business was embedded inside the Two Star Market convenience store in Oakland’s Dimond District. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bolling, who was born and raised in Oakland, is survived by 11 children, ranging in age from seven months to 28 years old. Kelaija, 25, is a college student at Cal State East Bay. She and two of her siblings were waiting to meet Bolling at the restaurant at around 6 p.m. on May 30 when someone ran into the store saying their dad had been in a motorcycle accident just down the street, near the 2101 Club bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family initially feared it was a hit-and-run, but Kelaija says Oakland police told them both drivers were at fault. An ambulance rushed Bolling to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. He died just a few hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kelaija, Bolling was a family-oriented man, regularly hosting game nights and organizing family trips to Disney World and Great America. More than anything, she remembers his lifelong passion for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978611\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo.jpg\" alt=\"A family in matching outfits (white shirts and faded jeans) poses for a group portrait.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Bolling (second from the left in the front row) and his children pose for a family portrait. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelaija Bolling)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During the holidays — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter — people always came to eat my dad’s cooking,” Kelaija says. “He didn’t play about his cooking. Everybody loved his food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Bolling decided to give running his own food business a shot. Kelaija says it all started when he tried a plate of hot links from a street festival vendor. “My dad was a real foodie person, like Gordon Ramsay,” Kelaija says. If he ate something he didn’t think was up to snuff, he’d call it like it was — and after tasting those mediocre hot links, Bolling started thinking he could do better himself. In 2018, he started doing late-night pop-ups in downtown Oakland as a side hustle, selling mostly barbecue at first before expanding the menu to include other soul food dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food.jpg\" alt=\"Takeout containers loaded with soul food — smothered pork shops, green beans, fried chicken — on the hood of a car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spread of Dimond Kitchen’s decadent soul food dishes. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelaija, who would often help out with these informal sidewalk pop-ups, recalls they’d often sell food until as late as 3 or 4 a.m., after the bars and clubs let out. Bolling touted himself as the Bay Area’s only late-night soul food chef, and parlayed his pop-up success into a thriving catering business and, in the spring of 2024, the launch of his first brick-and-mortar spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turned out, I profiled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972834/convenience-store-soul-food-oakland-dimond-kitchen-late-night\">late-night scene at Dimond Kitchen\u003c/a> only two months before Bolling’s death but never had a chance to have a proper conversation with the chef. I remember the first time I visited the restaurant, Bolling had apologized that there was a long wait — and threw in an extra side of (incredibly delicious) candied yams to make up for it. Before that, I’d watched him chat with an older gentleman who kept asking for a plate, promising he’d have the money to pay for it in the morning. “I’m good for it,” the man kept saying. “You’re killing me,” Bolling responded drily. But he hooked the guy up in the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978609\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"A chef ladling food into a tray inside a restaurant kitchen.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-kitchen.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-kitchen-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-kitchen-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-kitchen-1536x1055.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bolling’s lifelong passion was food. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelaija Bolling)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Kelaija, that kind of generosity was her father’s hallmark. One of her favorite memories took place just a few weeks before his death. The two of them had just finished up service for the night when Bolling told her they were going to pack up all their leftover food so they could pass it out to unhoused folks on International Boulevard. “He would do that regularly,” she says. “That’s why a lot of people loved my dad and why they had so much respect for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13972834']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>And that’s the spirit of hospitality that Kelaija says she and Bolling’s girlfriend now hope they’ll be able to help carry on. Bolling’s family has started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-continue-our-fathers-food-legacy?attribution_id=sl:7fc1ce25-7e6e-46fa-b75d-f4a41d8148f9&utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=sms\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> to raise money to keep Dimond Kitchen going — and eventually, she hopes, to launch a food truck or larger sit-down restaurant bearing her father’s name. While the takeout counter inside Two Star Market is currently closed, Kelaija says she’s hoping to reopen it sometime in the next couple of weeks. She’s already started picking up some catering gigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like [my father] would want us to continue it because that’s what his passion was — to expand the business even further,” Kelaija says. “Because he was still in the process of getting his name out there.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man in a black chef's coat and chef's hat smiles for a portrait.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-768x1076.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/carl-bolling-portrait-1462x2048.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Bolling was just starting to make a name for himself at his Oakland soul food restaurant, Dimond Kitchen, when he died tragically on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelaija Bolling)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carl Bolling, the chef-owner of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimond_kitchen_us_catering/\">Dimond Kitchen\u003c/a>, a popular \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/soul-food\">soul food\u003c/a> restaurant, died on May 30 after a tragic motorcycle accident. He was 47 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, Bolling had wanted nothing more than to share his cooking with the world, and it seemed like he was finally living out his dream: The chef’s late-night sidewalk pop-ups in downtown Oakland were the stuff of legend, and for the past year, he’d set up shop inside MacArthur Boulevard’s Two Star Market convenience store six days a week. In recent months, the bustling takeout spot, known as Dimond Kitchen, had earned a reputation as one of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972834/convenience-store-soul-food-oakland-dimond-kitchen-late-night\">best soul food restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Bolling’s family says it will be up to them to carry on the chef’s legacy. His daughter, Kelaija Bolling, says she and Bolling’s girlfriend, Mone Godfrey, plan to reopen Dimond Kitchen in the same location later this month. The idea is to continue serving all of Bolling’s original recipes — his decadently juicy smothered pork chops, succulent fried chicken wings, and tender and potent collard greens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing I always remember my dad saying was, ‘One day I might not be there,’” Kelaija says, recalling the times she used to help out at the shop. “‘So make sure you try all the food. Make sure you write down the recipes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978614\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978614\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen.jpg\" alt='Exterior of a convenience store. The banner above reads, \"Dimond Kitchen: Food for the Soul. Grand Opening.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1375\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-768x528.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-1536x1056.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the past year, Bolling’s food business was embedded inside the Two Star Market convenience store in Oakland’s Dimond District. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bolling, who was born and raised in Oakland, is survived by 11 children, ranging in age from seven months to 28 years old. Kelaija, 25, is a college student at Cal State East Bay. She and two of her siblings were waiting to meet Bolling at the restaurant at around 6 p.m. on May 30 when someone ran into the store saying their dad had been in a motorcycle accident just down the street, near the 2101 Club bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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More than anything, she remembers his lifelong passion for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978611\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo.jpg\" alt=\"A family in matching outfits (white shirts and faded jeans) poses for a group portrait.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/bolling-family-photo-1638x2048.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Bolling (second from the left in the front row) and his children pose for a family portrait. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kelaija Bolling)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“During the holidays — Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter — people always came to eat my dad’s cooking,” Kelaija says. “He didn’t play about his cooking. Everybody loved his food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Bolling decided to give running his own food business a shot. Kelaija says it all started when he tried a plate of hot links from a street festival vendor. “My dad was a real foodie person, like Gordon Ramsay,” Kelaija says. If he ate something he didn’t think was up to snuff, he’d call it like it was — and after tasting those mediocre hot links, Bolling started thinking he could do better himself. In 2018, he started doing late-night pop-ups in downtown Oakland as a side hustle, selling mostly barbecue at first before expanding the menu to include other soul food dishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13978610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13978610\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food.jpg\" alt=\"Takeout containers loaded with soul food — smothered pork shops, green beans, fried chicken — on the hood of a car.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/07/dimond-kitchen-food-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A spread of Dimond Kitchen’s decadent soul food dishes. \u003ccite>(Luke Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kelaija, who would often help out with these informal sidewalk pop-ups, recalls they’d often sell food until as late as 3 or 4 a.m., after the bars and clubs let out. Bolling touted himself as the Bay Area’s only late-night soul food chef, and parlayed his pop-up success into a thriving catering business and, in the spring of 2024, the launch of his first brick-and-mortar spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it turned out, I profiled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972834/convenience-store-soul-food-oakland-dimond-kitchen-late-night\">late-night scene at Dimond Kitchen\u003c/a> only two months before Bolling’s death but never had a chance to have a proper conversation with the chef. I remember the first time I visited the restaurant, Bolling had apologized that there was a long wait — and threw in an extra side of (incredibly delicious) candied yams to make up for it. Before that, I’d watched him chat with an older gentleman who kept asking for a plate, promising he’d have the money to pay for it in the morning. “I’m good for it,” the man kept saying. “You’re killing me,” Bolling responded drily. 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The Sacramento-based vegan chef \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/botanicalchef/?hl=en\">Nina Curtis\u003c/a> will contribute spicy grilled plant-based sausages and peppers to the plate, and for dessert, \u003ca href=\"https://poundbizness.com/\">Pound Bizness\u003c/a> bakers Nicole and Reggie Borders will serve lemon and 7 Up pound cakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who’s ever organized a big cookout knows that putting together a cohesive meal requires a certain setting aside of egos. After all, Royster says, “A lot of people think that their mac and cheese is the best.” But while all of the participating chefs wanted to put their best foot forward, they also understood that Juneteenth — which celebrates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States — was about more than just making the food taste good. 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There will be wine tastings, Spades and dominoes tournaments, and facepainting for kids. The Golden State Valkyries will set up a half-court basketball court for anyone who wants to shoot some hoops. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972837\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972837\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in glasses devouring chicken wings, collard greens, mac and cheese, and other soul food dishes.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sold inside the Two Star Market convenience store in Oakland, Dimond Kitchen’s soul food is so good, you want devour it right away — even if there aren’t any tables or chairs. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>The Midnight Diners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thiendog/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Thien Pham\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located across the street from a weed dispensary in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Dimond District, the Two Star Market looks like any other corner convenience store in the Bay — bright fluorescent lights, fridges stacked with beer and wine coolers, and shelves upon shelves of chips and candy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, except for this: The store also features a fully equipped kitchen that serves some of the tastiest soul food in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dimond Kitchen,” the grand opening banner outside reads. “Food for the Soul.” The restaurant-inside-a-corner-store markets itself as the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimond_kitchen_us_catering/\">only late-night soul food spot\u003c/a>, which seems \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969092/late-night-soul-food-gumbo-san-leandro-nellas-place\">mostly true\u003c/a> — even if it was \u003ci>more\u003c/i> apt a few years ago when the business used to set up on the sidewalk, on Broadway or Telegraph, selling ribs and meatloaf plates to the bar crowd until as late as 2 a.m. These days, the convenience store iteration of Dimond Kitchen is open until midnight on weekends, and that still feels like a miracle — to be able to snag a piping-hot plate of pork chops, greens, and mac and cheese during your late-night liquor store run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My abiding love of restaurants embedded inside \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/hidden-in-plain-sight-norma-meat-amp-deli-1/\">liquor stores\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13950577/halal-king-yemeni-restaurant-gas-station-richmond\">gas station convenience stores\u003c/a> is well-documented at this point, including a long obsession with \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayexpress.com/borinquen-soul-dishes-out-puerto-rican-grandma-food-inside-an-oakland-convenience-store-2-1/\">Borinquen Soul\u003c/a>, which sold the most delicious Puerto Rican pernil and arroz con gandules I’d ever eaten out of this very same slightly janky corner store kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I love most, I think, is the joy of discovery — of stumbling on unexpected deliciousness in an unusually casual or inappropriate setting. “What?” we said to the woman working the counter at 10 o’clock on a recent Friday night. “You serve \u003ci>oxtails\u003c/i> on the weekend?” Even before we’d ordered our food, we were making plans to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Dimond Kitchen, you should be prepared for the food to take a little while, especially if you order anything beyond the spread of entrees and side dishes already laid out in warming trays on the steam table. The chicken wings are fried to order. So are the pork chops, before they get smothered in gravy. And the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13900855/garlic-noodles-sf-bay-area-iconic-foods-thanh-long-smellys\">garlic noodles\u003c/a> are tossed fresh in a hot pan — again, all to order. With just one or two cooks cranking plates out of that tiny, bootstrapped convenience store kitchen, it’s no wonder we waited a solid 40 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13972838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13972838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/Dimondkitchen2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland-style picnic. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How much you enjoy that wait might depend on how you feel about the late-night corner store vibe, which has its own brand of joyously chaotic Town energy. A white guy in a hoodie tried to sweet-talk the staff into letting him buy a (nonexistent) “two-meat, one-side” combo plate. (“It’s twice the meat, half the sorrow,” he quipped, nonsensically.) A young woman with long braids slapped a couple of dollar bills onto the counter after the chef gave her a few extra tubs of housemade hot sauce, shrugging him off when he said she didn’t have to pay. Every once in a while, someone would burst into the store cussing jovially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chef, you can smell that shit up the street!” one of them shouted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most everyone seemed like they were a regular. Which makes sense because once our food arrived, each takeout carton steaming-hot and filled almost to overflowing, we stopped thinking about anything else except how astoundingly delicious it all was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13972197,arts_13969092,arts_13966030']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>The special of the day was smothered pork chops — juicy, bone-in specimens drowned generously in a savory brown gravy that was pitch perfect, neither too thick nor too thin. The kind of gravy that makes you want to eat a boatload of white rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another excellent vehicle for rice (or noodles) was the garlic shrimp. Vaguely Alfredo-like in its creamy richness, the sauce was slightly spicy, a little bit sweet, and thoroughly addicting. Meanwhile, the fried chicken wings — arguably the staple of the menu — were plump and full-sized (with the tips attached), impeccably seasoned and succulent as all get-out. These were as delicious plain as they were with a drizzle of Crystal or the restaurant’s sweet, housemade hot sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What really made the meal, however, was the abundance of side dishes, which we found to be even tastier than the mains. There were sweet, syrupy yams and gloriously golden-crusted jalapeño mac and cheese. There was dirty rice that \u003ci>actually\u003c/i> tasted dirty, in the best way, with a livery depth of flavor we couldn’t get enough of. Best of all, there were soft collard greens soaked in a pool of potlikker so tasty and potent, I would happily drink a whole bowl of it on its own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all comes out smelling so intoxicatingly good, you want to devour it right away — which is a slight problem, because the corner-store setting means there aren’t any tables or seats to speak of. But on a clear evening, when the night air isn’t too chilly, you can do what we did and set up a very Oakland-style picnic: Lay your bounty on the hood of your car, right there in the convenience store parking lot. Roll up your sleeves. And dig in.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dimond_kitchen_us_catering/\">\u003ci>Dimond Kitchen\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Tuesday through Thursday, 2–10 p.m., and Friday through Sunday 1 p.m.–midnight inside Two Star Market at 2020 MacArthur Blvd. in Oakland — though it’s best to call ahead to confirm their hours.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And so she couldn’t stop thinking: \u003ci>Why hadn’t anybody told her about Edna Lewis before\u003c/i>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman is the host and executive producer of \u003ci>Finding Edna Lewis\u003c/i>, a new documentary about the chef’s life that \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/show/finding-edna-lewis/\">premiered on PBS\u003c/a> this week. The film is her attempt to address that oversight, bringing Lewis’ story to a larger mainstream audience — including food lovers here in the Bay Area. Toward that end, Freeman will host a screening and celebration of Lewis’ life — complete with snacks inspired by her recipes — at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/museum-of-the-african-diaspora\">Museum of the African Diaspora\u003c/a> (MoAD) on March 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Uof7u2qag\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis, of course, \u003ci>did \u003c/i>become a tremendously famous chef by the time she died in 2006. She has been hailed as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/edna-lewis-the-mother-of-soul-food-180982117/\">mother of soul food\u003c/a>” and the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2006/02/18/5222253/the-life-and-legacy-of-southern-cook-edna-lewis\">first lady of Southern cooking\u003c/a>.” For many home cooks, her recipes for biscuits, dinner rolls and pan-fried chicken are canon. She even has her own \u003ca href=\"https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_2014.2032.1\">postage stamp\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Freeman’s view, Miss Lewis — as everyone called her — is still strangely under-recognized. Many food enthusiasts only have a broad notion of her as a famous Southern chef, if they’ve even heard of her at all. “When I think about the culinary pantheon, unfortunately to most of America, Edna Lewis is not on that monument,” Freeman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, during a podcast interview two years ago, Freeman wondered aloud, “Where is the documentary on Edna Lewis’ life? Where is the sort of HBO prestige series that Julia Child has?” As it turns out, documentary filmmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.fieldstudiofilms.com/about\">Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren\u003c/a> heard the interview and reached out to Freeman to collaborate on exactly that — what eventually became \u003ci>Finding Edna Lewis\u003c/i>, which aired last year as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.vpm.org/finding-edna-lewis\">six-part web series\u003c/a> through Virginia Public Media. 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The San Leandro soul food spot also serves some of the Bay Area’s tastiest gumbo. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/the-midnight-diners\">\u003ci>The Midnight Diners\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thiendog/?hl=en\">\u003ci>Thien Pham\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking into \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nellasplace1/\">Nella’s Place\u003c/a>, a soul food restaurant on a quiet corner in San Leandro, feels like stepping into the living room of a particularly stylish auntie. The color scheme is all silver and white: bedazzled vases, three-ring chandeliers, curtains and tablecloths. Some of it is brand new with the tags still on, like you’re at a furniture showroom. The speakers play a steady stream of smooth R&B slow jams from the 1970s — deep cuts from the likes of Rose Royce and The Stylistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All in all, the place has a quiet, down-home, distinctly grown-up kind of elegance. Oh, and also: There’s a pot of gumbo simmering on the stove, and you swear it smells better than anything you’ve smelled before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We had driven down to Nella’s — which until recently went by “Sistas Soul Food Kafe” — late on a Friday night expressly because we were in the mood for soul food. The restaurant is open until 10 p.m. and does its last call at 9:30 (we made it just in time) — so it’s pushing up against the border of what might rightfully be categorized as a late-night food spot. Then again, with so many Bay Area soul food spots turning their lights out by 8 o’clock, the ability to get a hold of a plate of smothered turkey wings after 9 felt downright miraculous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the night of our visit, there was a steady stream of takeout customers all the way up until closing time. Almost all of them were older Black men, in their 60s or 70s, stopping in by themselves to pick up a late dinner — in my experience, a sure sign that the food was going to be a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13969099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13969099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: Exterior of a restaurant at night. The sign reads, "Nella's Place" in ornate lettering.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Nellasplace-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant is located on a quiet corner in San Leandro. \u003ccite>(Thien Pham)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It certainly didn’t disappoint. Start with the restaurant’s signature gumbo, which even in its smaller “lunch”-size portion came in an enormous bowl filled to the brim with andouille sausage, chicken slow-simmered long enough that even the bones had nearly disintegrated, and a big, generous pile of crab legs. And the broth! It was dark and smoky, savory and briny like the sea. I don’t want to say it was the best gumbo I’ve ever eaten in the Bay, but it’s hard for me to recall a better version. We licked the bowl clean even though we knew it meant we’d never finish all the other food we’d ordered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what a spread it was. There were pork chops smothered in a thick, savory gravy, the meat still tender and juicy after being batter-fried — on the saltier side, but delicious over white rice. (The owner also brought over a sample of her turkey chops — the breast sliced into thick “chops” and prepared the same way — and we liked those even better.) There was a sublimely oozy version of mac and cheese, made with the big, extra-wide elbows and spiked with jalapeños. There was even crisp stir-fried cabbage — a refreshing vegetable addition to an otherwise heavy meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13968142,arts_13953702,arts_13952384']\u003c/span>\u003c/span>Of course we had to try the fried fish too, and the basa was top-tier, light and crisp without a hint of extra grease. It went especially well with Nella’s potato salad, which had been blended until it was smooth and airy-light, almost like whipped potatoes, with that bright, classic Southern flavor profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, we didn’t really have room for dessert, but it was hard to resist the charms of the banana pudding cake, which was phenomenal — moist and not too sweet, and studded with soft Nilla Wafers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were properly stuffed, then, with a big clamshell container of leftovers under each arm, when we stumbled out into the night, the smell of gumbo and pork gravy on our breaths. We listened to the voices of the old men busting each other’s chops inside the Black barbershop next door and made plans to come back soon — even if it was just for a slice of cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://nellasplace.com/\">\u003ci>Nella’s Place\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> is open Wednesday through Sunday 5 –10 p.m. at 571 Bancroft Ave. in San Leandro. Last call for food orders is at 9:30.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Long before Netflix released \u003ci>High on the Hog\u003c/i>, its award-winning food docu-series based on Dr. Jessica B. Harris’ book of the same name, Harris herself was already a living legend. Food historian, author of a dozen classic cookbooks and unofficial poet laureate of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/strongblacklead/status/1400544874047307776?lang=en\">yams\u003c/a>, okra and black-eyed peas, Harris literally wrote the book on how diasporic African foodways shaped America. When the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture was planning its new cafeteria a few years back, Harris was the one the museum tapped to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/dining/african-american-museum-sweet-home-cafe.html\">help conceptualize the menu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956501\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956501\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of an African American woman in glasses seated inside an elegant restaurant.\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DrHarris-headshot-1366x2048.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jessica B. 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The talk will be the highlight of a blowout dinner featuring dishes from Harris’s cookbooks — all cooked under the supervision of MoAD chef-in-residence \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923936/moad-new-chef-in-residence-jocelyn-jackson-peoples-kitchen-collective\">Jocelyn Jackson\u003c/a>, who calls Harris “an incredible icon” to the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Harris, one of the main reasons she decided to write \u003ci>High on the Hog\u003c/i> in the first place was because in her cookbooks, “the headnotes for the recipes kept getting longer and longer, which indicated that there was more to be said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has seen a late-career revival after producers Fabienne Toback and Karis Jagger optioned the \u003ci>High on the Hog\u003c/i> for Netflix\u003ci>, \u003c/i>introducing her work to a new generation. Like the book that inspired it, the show (which recently released a second season) takes viewers on a journey from the open-air markets of Benin, in West Africa, to the rice fields of South Carolina, the barbecue pits of Texas and beyond. It’s a culinary history that’s intertwined with the suffering that enslaved Africans faced — but also their resilience and ingenuity in maintaining their connection to Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13923936,arts_13930013']The menu for MoAD’s Diaspora Dinner will also reflect that journey. While Jackson is keeping most of it a secret, she says one dish she plans to serve is acaraje, a Brazilian black-eyed pea fritter that’s usually stuffed with smoked shellfish and fried in palm oil. As Harris notes, it’s a dish that traces its roots back to southwestern Nigeria, where they eat a white bean fritter called akara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bean has changed, but the oil remains red palm oil,” Harris explains. “There’s a lot of history in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Harris’s vision of the future of food and community for the African diaspora is refreshingly hopeful. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The menu for MoAD’s Diaspora Dinner will also reflect that journey. While Jackson is keeping most of it a secret, she says one dish she plans to serve is acaraje, a Brazilian black-eyed pea fritter that’s usually stuffed with smoked shellfish and fried in palm oil. As Harris notes, it’s a dish that traces its roots back to southwestern Nigeria, where they eat a white bean fritter called akara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bean has changed, but the oil remains red palm oil,” Harris explains. “There’s a lot of history in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Harris’s vision of the future of food and community for the African diaspora is refreshingly hopeful. She sees young, Black fine-dining chefs using their training to find new ways to connect to their cultures, and she says, “Change is the most wonderful thing about food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956503\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD.jpg\" alt=\"Fried plantains topped with pumpkin seeds.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/2023-6-7_Diaspora-Dinner-38_Tinashe-Chidarikire-courtesy-of-MoAD-1536x960.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dish of fried plantains from last year’s Diaspora Dinner. \u003ccite>(Tinashe Chidarikire, courtesy of MoAD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even as she acknowledges the way that a city like San Francisco has seen a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952984/reparations-commentary\">tremendous exodus\u003c/a> of its Black population, Harris urges us to take an even broader view: “Yes, it’s displacement — but it is such a slim displacement in proportion to the ultimate displacement, which was the one from the African continent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will find ways to come together,” she says. “The communing of sitting at or around a table is cardinal to our existence — I think that is not going to be diminished. It may evolve, but it’s there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>MoAD’s annual \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/event/diaspora-dinner-2024\">\u003ci>Diaspora Dinner\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci> will take place at the museum (685 Mission St., San Francisco) and the adjacent St. Regis Hotel on Saturday, May 4, from 6–9 p.m. General admission tickets are sold out at this time, but a handful of VIP tickets, which include a private meet-and-greet, are still available.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Chef Fernay McPherson has been serving her take on Southern comfort foods, like crispy rosemary fried chicken and apparently the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/an-ode-to-minnie-bell-s-gooey-mac-and-cheese-16012173.php\">best mac and cheese\u003c/a>, at her stall at The Public Market Food Hall in Emeryville since 2018. But she has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11800814/a-black-chefs-dream-of-returning-to-the-fillmore\">dreamed\u003c/a> of running a restaurant in her hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My quest was to find a space in San Francisco and preferably in the Fillmore,” McPherson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She grew up in that neighborhood, once known as the “Harlem of the West,” which used to be full of Black-owned businesses. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825401/how-urban-renewal-decimated-the-fillmore-district-and-took-jazz-with-it\">urban renewal\u003c/a> efforts from the 1950s through the 1970s forced tens of thousands of families to leave, and most businesses shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>WATCH KQED’s 1999 documentary on the history of Fillmore:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h2meDtdm8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few have remained, and in recent years, a citywide effort — the Dream Keeper Initiative — is trying to revitalize the area and help bring back Black-owned businesses, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954111/longtime-fillmore-resident-hopes-to-restore-commerce-with-black-led-marketplace\">In The Black\u003c/a>, a shared retail space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-weight: 400\">\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13900855,arts_13916044,arts_13874853']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>The program helped make it possible for McPherson to realize her dream. On Friday, she’ll welcome the public to dine at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement — a stand-alone brick-and-mortar version of the East Bay stall, featuring a similar menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be able to educate people who may not know what was here before,” says McPherson, wearing a blue-gray apron and a graphic T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of Whitney Houston, from inside the 40-seat establishment in the heart of the Fillmore District. “Share those stories that my dad, my aunt share with me about how rich this was and be able to represent the culture and look forward to seeing more of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, food is personal, and the restaurant pays homage to her family history. One wall is decorated with a large mural of a photo of Fillmore Street in its heyday in the 1960s. Another wall has two large-scale photographs of her biggest inspirations — her grandma Lillie Bell and her great-aunt Minnie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A fresh batch of fried chicken is pulled out of the deep fryer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulling a fresh batch of rosemary fried chicken out of the fryer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I picked these photos because I wanted a photo of them in their youth, like my aunt has on her cap and gown. She was graduating high school. My grandmother was about 21 and it was a professional portrait,” she says. “I just think they look so beautiful, and when I look up at these pictures, it just gives me all the strength that I need to get through my day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPherson talked more about how important the past has been toward shaping her present with KQED’s Adhiti Bandlamudi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: Tell me more about your grandma and great aunt. How did their story manifest when it came to creating a menu and thinking about what experience you wanted to give at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fernay McPherson:\u003c/b> While I may add a little twist to it, everything that I cook is food that I grew up eating. Before my family left Texas in the 1960s, my grandma made the chicken and pound cake for their journey into San Francisco. So we have that pound cake that she made — but [with] the addition of the caramel. I make it the same way that she taught me to make it. It was one of the cakes that everyone in the family wanted for their birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have fried chicken, which is the highlight of what we do, [and] the addition of the rosemary, is very San Francisco with so many rosemary bushes here. So those two married together — the flavors that migrated during the Great Migration with the fried chicken and then the freshness of the rosemary in the city, where I was born and raised. It’s like a perfect blend of Chef Fernay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It almost seems like your approach to soul food is tradition with a little twist.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly! It’s tradition with a little twist. But the twists are not so much that it doesn’t display a homestyle comfort meal. That was so important for me, for people to eat the food and feel the comfort of home. In Emeryville, people would come and say, “Well, I’m from the South, so I’ll let you know how it tastes.” And I’m like, “Okay, that’s cool.” I know how it tastes [too], you know? But they would always come back and say, “That was so good, that really reminds me of home.” That is definitely the experience that I want people to get. Not too much of a twist, but the perfect twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956187\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A chef picks fresh rosemary leaves.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McPherson prepares rosemary alongside Mundo Pérez at her new Fillmore restaurant. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>You’ve been operating out of Emeryville since 2018, and now you’re getting ready to open up in San Francisco. You’ve wanted this for so long. What’s going through your mind right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surreal experience. [To] be in the Fillmore, the community where I was born and raised, but also in a neighborhood that was rich in African-American culture, ownership, businesses, jazz clubs, just means so much, because I want to be able to represent a bygone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am third generation. My aunt and dad talk about the history of the neighborhood. Then, I have my own history. So it’s three layers to what that history used to be. And by the time I was a teenager and walking around these streets, it was minimal Black businesses; whereas now, it’s almost nonexistent. So being a part of that revitalization is important, so that we can learn about the culture and know what used to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are any of your relatives, like Aunt Minnie, coming to the restaurant’s grand opening? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a private grand opening party on Thursday, when my Aunt Minnie will see her face on this wall for the first time. My parents, they’re still in the neighborhood. My aunt lives with them, so they’ll all be here. My brothers will be here. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>\u003c/span>The program helped make it possible for McPherson to realize her dream. On Friday, she’ll welcome the public to dine at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement — a stand-alone brick-and-mortar version of the East Bay stall, featuring a similar menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to be able to educate people who may not know what was here before,” says McPherson, wearing a blue-gray apron and a graphic T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of Whitney Houston, from inside the 40-seat establishment in the heart of the Fillmore District. “Share those stories that my dad, my aunt share with me about how rich this was and be able to represent the culture and look forward to seeing more of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For her, food is personal, and the restaurant pays homage to her family history. One wall is decorated with a large mural of a photo of Fillmore Street in its heyday in the 1960s. Another wall has two large-scale photographs of her biggest inspirations — her grandma Lillie Bell and her great-aunt Minnie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956186\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956186\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A fresh batch of fried chicken is pulled out of the deep fryer.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240416-MINNIESSOULFOOD-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulling a fresh batch of rosemary fried chicken out of the fryer. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I picked these photos because I wanted a photo of them in their youth, like my aunt has on her cap and gown. She was graduating high school. My grandmother was about 21 and it was a professional portrait,” she says. “I just think they look so beautiful, and when I look up at these pictures, it just gives me all the strength that I need to get through my day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPherson talked more about how important the past has been toward shaping her present with KQED’s Adhiti Bandlamudi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Adhiti Bandlamudi: Tell me more about your grandma and great aunt. How did their story manifest when it came to creating a menu and thinking about what experience you wanted to give at Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Fernay McPherson:\u003c/b> While I may add a little twist to it, everything that I cook is food that I grew up eating. Before my family left Texas in the 1960s, my grandma made the chicken and pound cake for their journey into San Francisco. So we have that pound cake that she made — but [with] the addition of the caramel. I make it the same way that she taught me to make it. It was one of the cakes that everyone in the family wanted for their birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have fried chicken, which is the highlight of what we do, [and] the addition of the rosemary, is very San Francisco with so many rosemary bushes here. So those two married together — the flavors that migrated during the Great Migration with the fried chicken and then the freshness of the rosemary in the city, where I was born and raised. It’s like a perfect blend of Chef Fernay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>It almost seems like your approach to soul food is tradition with a little twist.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly! It’s tradition with a little twist. But the twists are not so much that it doesn’t display a homestyle comfort meal. That was so important for me, for people to eat the food and feel the comfort of home. In Emeryville, people would come and say, “Well, I’m from the South, so I’ll let you know how it tastes.” And I’m like, “Okay, that’s cool.” I know how it tastes [too], you know? But they would always come back and say, “That was so good, that really reminds me of home.” That is definitely the experience that I want people to get. 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You’ve wanted this for so long. What’s going through your mind right now?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a surreal experience. [To] be in the Fillmore, the community where I was born and raised, but also in a neighborhood that was rich in African-American culture, ownership, businesses, jazz clubs, just means so much, because I want to be able to represent a bygone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am third generation. My aunt and dad talk about the history of the neighborhood. Then, I have my own history. So it’s three layers to what that history used to be. And by the time I was a teenager and walking around these streets, it was minimal Black businesses; whereas now, it’s almost nonexistent. 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[Her business is] a reflection of her life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1='https://youtu.be/YKboUhMQwC4,Watch: Exploring the First Women-Led Food Hall in the Country' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/TiffanyCarter.Cecilia.jpg' heroURL='https://youtu.be/YKboUhMQwC4']At this year’s Holiday Market, Carter will serve her signature plates of West Coast-influenced soul food—such as California-style crispy tacos (Creole-seasoned ground beef served on a fried corn tortilla with red beans as a side), chicken and andouille sausage gumbo (made from her Alabama family’s recipe, with the option of blackened Bay lobster), and the Bonfire wrap (a choice of jerk chicken, crispy shrimp or crispy avocado with Baja sauce, pico de gallo, jalapeños, Jack cheese and mixed greens rolled into a flour tortilla).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Market will welcome an array of holiday craft vendors, as well as Fluid Cooperative Cafe—a trans-owned and staffed coffee and pastry business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our organization is just a bridge for systemically undervalued and under resourced communities to reach their full power,” Magat says. “It’s a big risk to [start a new business in San Francisco]. It really is a journey. We’re in communication with them since day one. That’s how the world should work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" 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>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>La Cocina’s Holiday Market takes place on Saturday, Dec. 10, from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. at the Municipal Marketplace in San Francisco. 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