Mark Taylor founded KQED Arts in 2005 and served as Senior Interactive Producer for Arts and Culture through 2014. Taylor was the online arts editor of KQED's daily arts blog for nine years and created the station's first web-original podcasts, Gallery Crawl and The Writers' Block.
Taylor is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose work has been collected by the Library of Congress, Stanford University and the New York Museum of Modern Art, among many others. He teaches Media Studies at the University of San Francisco and is exploring the connection between film and food. Visit Mark Taylor's website at emptypictures.net.
By Mark Taylor
Crispety, Crunchety, Ooey, Gooey, Chewy: My Search for a Better Bay Area Cookie
Buggin' Out at the 2017 SF DocFest
Buggin' Out at the 2017 SF DocFest
American Masters Chefs Flight Presents 'James Beard: America's First Foodie'
American Masters Chefs Flight Presents 'James Beard: America's First Foodie'
It's Not Easy Being Green: Food Activism at the 2017 SF Green Film Festival
It's Not Easy Being Green: Food Activism at the 2017 SF Green Film Festival
Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft Reveals How a French Chef Became an ‘American Master’
Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft Reveals How a French Chef Became an ‘American Master’
Tasting the Immigrant Experience at the 2017 CAAMFest 35
Tasting the Immigrant Experience at the 2017 CAAMFest 35
Food for the Soul at the Mill Valley Film Festival
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"content": "\u003cp>As with any such testimonial, I must first admit: I'm a cookie-holic. I know I have a problem. Put a cookie in front of me and glance away. Turn back to see me, mouth full with a \"what cookie? I didn't see any cookie...\" look on my face. Crunch. Chew. Gulp. Ahh. It was worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, I am not of such an age or genetic disposition that I can eat just anything and still use the normal notches on my favorite belt. Therefore, as with any addict, I must create strict rules regarding my cookie consumption, which are the very same I have applied to this search for a better Bay Area cookie. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the treat in question must be more than just a sugar delivery system. I am thinking here most specifically about Mrs. Fields and others that follow that paradigm (Specialty's, for example). I do not know what Debbi Fields' cookies were like when she opened her first store in 1977 Palo Alto, but after the franchise grew, these cookies became large, gooey and especially sweet. Given the endurance and popularity of the brand, this is the kind of cookie most people imagine when they feel the urge. In my humble opinion, these cookies are too much -- too large and too sugary. Since I am an addict, I have to be careful. I am looking less for sweetness and more for delicacy. Therefore my second criterion is specialness; I want the cookie to be something unique. Given the Bay Area's enduring love affair with food, this isn't hard to find. It is not unusual for our local pastry chefs to turn sugar, butter and flour into bite-sized treats proudly labeled \"local.\" These are the cookies that feed my addiction. These are the cookies featured in this post. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final bit of business must round out this preamble. Even though it took more than a month for me to research and explore various bakeries and pastry shops in the Bay Area, there is no way I could be comprehensive. The more I discovered, the more vast the field became. Cookies are a constellation and I have only been able to discover some of its brighter stars. Please share your recommendations in the comments section below. I have no trouble committing now to gobbling my way through dozens more cookies in search of those special few for part two. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first bites proved elusive. I took a trip to Craftsman and Wolves on Valencia Street in San Francisco, but decided to just keep walking because, really, they specialize in gorgeous little pastries and their cookie selection was slim when I stopped in. I followed this with a peek into CREAM on 16th Street, lured by the slogan \"Cookies Rule Everything Around Me,\" but alas, the cookie selection was similar to the Mrs. Fields model and really, CREAM is about ice cream sandwiches, and some things just had to be left outside the purview of this post. (But if I were to include an ice cream & cookie sandwich, it would most definitely be from Miette!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbor Bakehouse's Passion Fruit Macaroo\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbor Bakehouse's Passion Fruit Macaroon \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neighbor Bakehouse\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNext I visited Greg and Christine Mindel's \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Neighbor Bakehouse\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Dogpatch on Third Street. As with most great food experiences in the city, I knew this place had opened when a long line began forming outside on the regular in 2016. This is just a normal part of city living; anything good is worth waiting for. So I put on my sunscreen and stood in line. But once inside, I was met with a phantasmagoria of delicious baked treats, most of them savory. I bought a loaf of bread and a Ginger Pull-Apart because... Well, the reasons should be obvious. But the cookie selection was minimal. If you are going to Neighbor Bakehouse, you will probably spend the calories on an Apple Hand Pie or Pistachio Blackberry Twice Baked. I soon discovered that the bakery specializes in subtlety. The Oat Pecan Coconut Chocolate cookie was big and broad, crisp on the edges with a soft center, but the flavors were mild. The cookie was a little too subdued for my tastes. However, the Passion Fruit Macaroon was truly unique. It presented as the Platonic version of a macaroon, what the domed and caramelized cookie must look like in the world of ideal forms. The coconut was deprecated in both flavor and texture, leaving an afterglow of passion fruit in the mouth that lasted long after all hints of the cookie had drifted into history. Sigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand.jpg\" alt=\"Firebrand Bakery's Ginger, Lemon Lavender and Oatmeal cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119851\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firebrand Bakery's Ginger, Lemon Lavender and Oatmeal cookies \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Firebrand Artisan Breads\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNext I took a trip to Matt Kreutz's \u003ca href=\"http://www.firebrandbread.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Firebrand Artisan Breads\u003c/a> on Broadway in Oakland, where I encountered one of my favorite Bay Area cookies. Naturally, since this has been Kreutz's specialty since 2008, the breads are amazing. You will probably need to get a loaf to go. But the cookies are pretty special too, reflecting an elevated level of craftsmanship. Each one is an experience, each cookie unique. All are sizable, spanning the palm of my hand. I got one of each flavor, tasted each one immediately and then doled out my precious stash over the next day or so. The Salted Chocolate Chip boasts a generous portion of bittersweet chocolate chips or chunks for its volume, topped by large crystal flakes of sea salt. Put the salt side of the cookie on your tongue to enhance the chocolate jolt. The Oatmeal cookie crumbles in your mouth. It's so delicate that it sort of falls apart and rebuilds itself as a flavor package of warm roasted oats and finely chopped nuts while you chew. Of all the oatmeal cookies I tasted, this was one of the oatiest. The Molasses Ginger cookie was tender and cakey. It looked like the face of Mars, canals made of molasses, brown sugar and butter with a dusting of sugar crystals gleaming on its surface. It's telling that this is a Molasses Ginger rather than a Ginger Molasses because that does indeed reflect the hierarchy of featured flavors. But the standout cookie in the bunch was the Lemon Lavender. It's the one you won't mind loosening the belt for. Have two! Starting with a whisper-perfect lemon yellow hue and a halo of lacy caramelization around the perimeter, the cookie starts with a crispy snap and then delivers a rush of juicy lemon tang in the long finish. It’s fragrantly amazing, like lemon blossoms in spring married with summer’s heady lavender. It's like a cookie version of Shaker Lemon Pie, which is made by slicing whole lemons (rind, pith and fruit) paper thin and baking them in a tender pastry that satisfies every lemon lover’s desire. Yum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bakesale Betty\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSpeaking of Oakland, whenever I have the chance I stand in line at the corner of Telegraph and 51st for \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakesalebetty.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bakesale Betty's\u003c/a> famous fried chicken sandwich with jalapeno slaw. I am always sure to take a pair of the Pecan Shortbreads home for dessert. They are substantial enough to share, perfectly tender with rough-cut pecans folded throughout. I love the way this cookie crumbles in my mouth, delivering toasty pecan chunks and buttery shortbread morsels that make merry between the teeth. Go for the sandwich. Leave with the cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes.jpg\" alt=\"Yvonne's Southern Sweets' Pecan Pralines and Ol' School Butter Pecan Cookie\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119852\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yvonne's Southern Sweets' Pecan Pralines and Ol' School Butter Pecan Cookie \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yvonne's Southern Sweets\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNow that I have mentioned Butter Pecan, I have to go back across the bay and out to Hunter's Point for a butter cookie from the other side of the spectrum. \u003ca href=\"http://www.yvonnessouthernsweets.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Yvonne's Southern Sweets\u003c/a>, located at Third and Shafter, is known for traditional southern fare like sweet potato pie and peach cobbler, but the business started when Yvonne Hines began making pecan pralines and sharing them with friends. This is a traditional confection from the old south, so it's a little too sweet for me. However, I love her \"Ol' School\" Butter Cookies. In contrast to Bakesale Betty’s big butter shortbreads, Yvonne’s bake up crisp and snappy, like a homemade version of those you might find in a Swedish tin. These are sweet, dunk-worthy biscuits that stand up to milk but then melt in the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla.jpg\" alt=\"A selection of cookies from MARLA Bakery\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119884\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of cookies from MARLA Bakery \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MARLA Bakery\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile we are on the subject of traditional recipes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marlabakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MARLA Bakery\u003c/a> on Balboa Street at 37th Avenue yields a selection of petite cookies reminiscent of those grandma, who survived the Great Depression, used to make. MARLA is an acronym for the people who inspired co-founders Amy Brown and Joe Wolf to cook, which explains this quote on the bakery's about page: \"Like history, food does not spring forth from the ether. Food is always informed by what came before and is as much a product of memory as the present.\" This sentiment is beautifully illustrated in MARLA's cookies. They are delicious treats, not too sweet, each with a distinct personality that boasts a clarity of flavor. Every selection has the perfect chewiness, not too cakey, not too crisp. Their Chocolate Chip is all about the cocoa nibs, crunchy little nutlets of tongue tickling delight. It's interesting that the Triple Ginger is named so because, to me it rings true as full-throttle old-fashioned molasses, once again like grandma's. But MARLA’s standout is their Dark Chocolate Chunk, a super black creation packed with a powerful chocolate nose and delivering a beautiful brownie finish, all in one small unassuming cookie just bigger than an Oreo. The best way to describe the taste of the DCC is \"dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAlso on the “dark” spectrum, \u003ca href=\"https://www.miette.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miette\u003c/a> (at various locations, including Hayes Valley and the Ferry Building in SF) has a superb chocolate wafer sold in a pack of ten. Similar in flavor to MARLA's Dark Chocolate Chunk, it's crispier, while remaining surprisingly tender. All three of Miette’s wafer flavors (including ginger and graham cracker) are worthy of an addict’s late night fix. I alternate between them depending on my mood, even though it's dangerous to keep a 10-pack in the house. However, I find these cookies so satisfying, it feels plain gluttonous to eat more than two with a small glass of milk. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee.jpg\" alt=\"Little Bee's Brown Butter Pecan and more\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Bee's Brown Butter Pecan and more \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Little Bee Baking\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBernal Heights' \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlebeebakingsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Bee\u003c/a> specializes in an assortment of diminutive cookies, all silver dollar sized. Some offerings suffer from being unfocussed flavor-wise, though the chocolate chip or oatmeal are both perfectly reasonable entries in their category. However, the Brown Butter Pecan cookie, which is in the shape of a small thumb drop with a whole pecan on top is just darling (that's a dainty yet apt word for the delicate cookie). It smells of cinnamon and has just the right crisp feel on the teeth. Little Bee's Lavender Cornmeal alone was worth the hike up Cortland. (Looks like there may sometimes be a Rosemary version as well.) A crisp, mouthy grit of cornmeal gets you going while the butter and lavender flavors come together for a strong finish. This cookie is special, I should have bought six. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies.jpg\" alt=\"A couple of Anthony's cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"906\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-768x497.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-1180x764.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-960x621.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of Anthony's cookies. \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony's Cookies\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor medium-sized cookies, the kind you would bake for yourself at home, you can always stop by \u003ca href=\"http://anthonyscookies.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony's Cookies\u003c/a> on Valencia at 25th Street in San Francisco. Founded by Anthony Lucas while he was studying accounting at SF State, the business began with Lucas selling cookies out of his car and has blossomed into a permanent location on Valencia Street and a newly opened store in Berkeley. Anthony’s has a whole range of flavors, but my favorite, the one I found most distinctive, was the Cinnamon Spice. It's like a brown sugar version of a snickerdoodle. While most traditional snickerdoodles taste a little metallic to me, Anthony's has a dark rich tone with really solid spicy (hint of clove?) flavor, a crisp edge with a chewy center. Anthony's cookies are really like the ones you would make for yourself, if you knew how to bake and could find the time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane's Cookie for Breakfast in its proper setting \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBack in the land of large cookies, Jane the Bakery on Geary at Steiner in San Francisco features a collection of sizable (think hockey puck) cookies that are more like a meal than dessert. \u003ca href=\"http://www.itsjane.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane the Bakery\u003c/a> is connected to Jane on Fillmore and Jane on Larkin. I understand from Jane's website that their menu is always evolving, so it's not surprising that the cookies I tried are not listed there. I was told that the best cookie at Jane is the Chocolate Chip Toffee, which was sold out. Naturally. So I tried the Crazy Cookie because I liked the name (lacy, crunchy, toffee, marshmallow, corn flakes) and picked up a (not very spicy) Ginger, but the standout was the aptly named \"Cookie for Breakfast.\" This was seriously a meal in cookie form. Buy one, put it in a bowl of milk and you've got oat and nut granola for breakfast. This cookie is dense with chopped nuts and chunks of tropical fruit. Seriously, it really is breakfast in a cookie just as advertised, a concept which might be Jane's specialty, since another cookie of interest there was the Cap'n Crunch Cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese Board's Hazelnut Butter, Double Chocolate and Ginger cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheese Board's Hazelnut Butter, Double Chocolate and Ginger cookies \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Cheese Board Collective\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile on the topic of largeness, Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheese Board Collective\u003c/a> delivers the goods. What started as a cheese shop has since become a worker-owned collective bakery and pizzeria that retains the swirl of the peasant skirt in its casual atmosphere. They feature not so much cookies as cookie slabs. These are weighty affairs that deliver in value and flavor. I picked up a Hazelnut Butter Cookie, a Double Chocolate and a Ginger. The Cheese Board's Butter Cookie is among the finest in the bay, creamy with an overwhelming nuttiness. The Ginger Cookie was super tender, crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. It had a strong molasses nose, but the flavor didn't live up to the promise of the aroma. However, the Double Chocolate made me wonder if I needed a prescription to eat such a thing. It's appropriately heady chocolate rush gave way to substantial, melty chocolate chips that put the bitter in bittersweet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers.jpg\" alt=\"Tartine's Rocher, Chocolate Salted Rye and Mexican Wedding cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119854\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tartine's Rocher, Chocolate Salted Rye and Mexican Wedding cookies \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tartine\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNaturally, one could not discuss Bay Area pastry without a trip to Elizabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson's \u003ca href=\"http://www.tartinebakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tartine\u003c/a> Bakery at the corner of 18th Street and Guerrero in San Francisco. (For an extended selection, visit Tartine Manufactory at Alabama and 18th, cookies become available for lunch and disappear at dinner.) Once at Tartine, I was met with the familiar 30-minute wait, again the badge of excellence for San Francisco's most popular food destinations. I've stood in this line many times before, so I knew what was waiting at the other end would be worth it. However, I have never waited for Tartine's cookies. When I could get a delicious morning bun or lemon tart (two of my favorite things in the whole world), would I be wasting my day if I just walked away with cookies? Once again, this is the calculation a cookie addict must make. It might be blasphemous to say, but sometimes there are things even better than cookies. I decided on an assortment, featuring one Chocolate Chip, a Mexican Wedding cookie (I have yet to find a great Mexican bakery that specializes in cookies, empanadas -- yes, cookies -- no, please help), a Chocolate Salted Rye and a Rocher. That last I chose just because it is so bizarre looking, a Dr Seussian ecru meringue that I felt certain would be a page turner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip.jpg\" alt=\"Tartine's Chocolate Chip cookie\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119855\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tartine's Chocolate Chip cookie \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn't disappointed. I knew I wouldn't be. These fine bakers are in the business of pushing taste more than sugar. They make food experiences and every one of these cookies bathed the mouth with a distinct flavor, each quite unique, different from its shelf-mate and unlike anything found in any other area bakery. The Rocher landed me hard in a pique of nostalgia, reminiscent of the Abba Zabba candy bars of my youth, but without the risk to my dental work. It's like a white nougat, very light and nutty, with a fragile shell and pillowy center. The Chocolate Salted Rye and Mexican Wedding cookies were both superb, but the other real standout was the Chocolate Chip (Aha!), which is a thin, lacy disc the size of an outstretched palm. I bit into it and it shattered in my mouth, delivering a complex combination of deeply roasted nuts and rich, high-end dark chocolate flavor. This cookie is unlike any other chocolate chip I have ever tasted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120023\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"952\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120023\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-160x109.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-800x544.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-768x522.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-1020x694.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-1180x802.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-960x653.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-240x163.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-375x255.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/fignewtons-520x354.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My favorite cookie in the Bay Area is Piccino's Fig Newton. They are so delicate that it is almost impossible to get them home in one piece to photograph. Here they are pictured in their natural habitat on the counter of Piccino. \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Piccino Coffee Bar\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFinally, my favorite cookies in the Bay Area are regularly found at \u003ca href=\"http://piccino.com/coffee-bar\" target=\"_blank\">Piccino Coffee Bar\u003c/a>, located on the side of Sher Rogat and Margherita Stewart Sagan's Piccino Pizzeria at Minnesota and 22nd Streets in San Francisco's Dogpatch. Nearly every cookie they make is special, but the highlights are a flourless (and I never eat flourless) Chocolate Spice Cookie that delivers a prickly chili kick atop its bittersweet chocolate body and a 50¢-piece-sized Ginger Cookie worth every penny of it’s $1.25 price. But mostly I hit up Piccino for their signature Fig Newton. It seems no one else in the area makes one, so that's a bonus. This cookie is indeed tender, cakey, golden and flaky outside, ooey, gooey, rich and chewy inside. And we all know what happens when you wrap the inside in the outside! Like Tartine, the cookies at Piccino are distinctive, each with flavors that express the details and refinement of their baker. I love this approach because one or two cookies truly satisfies my addict's cravings and there really is no need or desire to eat more. Good for the belt! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Addendum:\u003c/strong> While I am always up for a Piccino Fig Newton, if you arrive and they have made canelle, all too rare these days, abandon your cookie plans and just get one. Like I said, even for a cookie-holic, there are sometimes things more satisfying than cookies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done.jpg\" alt=\"It was a tough job, but truly someone had to do it.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119856\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/done-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was a tough job, but truly someone had to do it.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As with any such testimonial, I must first admit: I'm a cookie-holic. I know I have a problem. Put a cookie in front of me and glance away. Turn back to see me, mouth full with a \"what cookie? I didn't see any cookie...\" look on my face. Crunch. Chew. Gulp. Ahh. It was worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, I am not of such an age or genetic disposition that I can eat just anything and still use the normal notches on my favorite belt. Therefore, as with any addict, I must create strict rules regarding my cookie consumption, which are the very same I have applied to this search for a better Bay Area cookie. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the treat in question must be more than just a sugar delivery system. I am thinking here most specifically about Mrs. Fields and others that follow that paradigm (Specialty's, for example). I do not know what Debbi Fields' cookies were like when she opened her first store in 1977 Palo Alto, but after the franchise grew, these cookies became large, gooey and especially sweet. Given the endurance and popularity of the brand, this is the kind of cookie most people imagine when they feel the urge. In my humble opinion, these cookies are too much -- too large and too sugary. Since I am an addict, I have to be careful. I am looking less for sweetness and more for delicacy. Therefore my second criterion is specialness; I want the cookie to be something unique. Given the Bay Area's enduring love affair with food, this isn't hard to find. It is not unusual for our local pastry chefs to turn sugar, butter and flour into bite-sized treats proudly labeled \"local.\" These are the cookies that feed my addiction. These are the cookies featured in this post. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final bit of business must round out this preamble. Even though it took more than a month for me to research and explore various bakeries and pastry shops in the Bay Area, there is no way I could be comprehensive. The more I discovered, the more vast the field became. Cookies are a constellation and I have only been able to discover some of its brighter stars. Please share your recommendations in the comments section below. I have no trouble committing now to gobbling my way through dozens more cookies in search of those special few for part two. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My first bites proved elusive. I took a trip to Craftsman and Wolves on Valencia Street in San Francisco, but decided to just keep walking because, really, they specialize in gorgeous little pastries and their cookie selection was slim when I stopped in. I followed this with a peek into CREAM on 16th Street, lured by the slogan \"Cookies Rule Everything Around Me,\" but alas, the cookie selection was similar to the Mrs. Fields model and really, CREAM is about ice cream sandwiches, and some things just had to be left outside the purview of this post. (But if I were to include an ice cream & cookie sandwich, it would most definitely be from Miette!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119850\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor.jpg\" alt=\"Neighbor Bakehouse's Passion Fruit Macaroo\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119850\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/neighbor-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neighbor Bakehouse's Passion Fruit Macaroon \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Neighbor Bakehouse\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNext I visited Greg and Christine Mindel's \u003ca href=\"http://www.neighborsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Neighbor Bakehouse\u003c/a> in San Francisco's Dogpatch on Third Street. As with most great food experiences in the city, I knew this place had opened when a long line began forming outside on the regular in 2016. This is just a normal part of city living; anything good is worth waiting for. So I put on my sunscreen and stood in line. But once inside, I was met with a phantasmagoria of delicious baked treats, most of them savory. I bought a loaf of bread and a Ginger Pull-Apart because... Well, the reasons should be obvious. But the cookie selection was minimal. If you are going to Neighbor Bakehouse, you will probably spend the calories on an Apple Hand Pie or Pistachio Blackberry Twice Baked. I soon discovered that the bakery specializes in subtlety. The Oat Pecan Coconut Chocolate cookie was big and broad, crisp on the edges with a soft center, but the flavors were mild. The cookie was a little too subdued for my tastes. However, the Passion Fruit Macaroon was truly unique. It presented as the Platonic version of a macaroon, what the domed and caramelized cookie must look like in the world of ideal forms. The coconut was deprecated in both flavor and texture, leaving an afterglow of passion fruit in the mouth that lasted long after all hints of the cookie had drifted into history. Sigh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119851\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand.jpg\" alt=\"Firebrand Bakery's Ginger, Lemon Lavender and Oatmeal cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119851\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/firebrand-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firebrand Bakery's Ginger, Lemon Lavender and Oatmeal cookies \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Firebrand Artisan Breads\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNext I took a trip to Matt Kreutz's \u003ca href=\"http://www.firebrandbread.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Firebrand Artisan Breads\u003c/a> on Broadway in Oakland, where I encountered one of my favorite Bay Area cookies. Naturally, since this has been Kreutz's specialty since 2008, the breads are amazing. You will probably need to get a loaf to go. But the cookies are pretty special too, reflecting an elevated level of craftsmanship. Each one is an experience, each cookie unique. All are sizable, spanning the palm of my hand. I got one of each flavor, tasted each one immediately and then doled out my precious stash over the next day or so. The Salted Chocolate Chip boasts a generous portion of bittersweet chocolate chips or chunks for its volume, topped by large crystal flakes of sea salt. Put the salt side of the cookie on your tongue to enhance the chocolate jolt. The Oatmeal cookie crumbles in your mouth. It's so delicate that it sort of falls apart and rebuilds itself as a flavor package of warm roasted oats and finely chopped nuts while you chew. Of all the oatmeal cookies I tasted, this was one of the oatiest. The Molasses Ginger cookie was tender and cakey. It looked like the face of Mars, canals made of molasses, brown sugar and butter with a dusting of sugar crystals gleaming on its surface. It's telling that this is a Molasses Ginger rather than a Ginger Molasses because that does indeed reflect the hierarchy of featured flavors. But the standout cookie in the bunch was the Lemon Lavender. It's the one you won't mind loosening the belt for. Have two! Starting with a whisper-perfect lemon yellow hue and a halo of lacy caramelization around the perimeter, the cookie starts with a crispy snap and then delivers a rush of juicy lemon tang in the long finish. It’s fragrantly amazing, like lemon blossoms in spring married with summer’s heady lavender. It's like a cookie version of Shaker Lemon Pie, which is made by slicing whole lemons (rind, pith and fruit) paper thin and baking them in a tender pastry that satisfies every lemon lover’s desire. Yum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bakesale Betty\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSpeaking of Oakland, whenever I have the chance I stand in line at the corner of Telegraph and 51st for \u003ca href=\"http://www.bakesalebetty.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bakesale Betty's\u003c/a> famous fried chicken sandwich with jalapeno slaw. I am always sure to take a pair of the Pecan Shortbreads home for dessert. They are substantial enough to share, perfectly tender with rough-cut pecans folded throughout. I love the way this cookie crumbles in my mouth, delivering toasty pecan chunks and buttery shortbread morsels that make merry between the teeth. Go for the sandwich. Leave with the cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes.jpg\" alt=\"Yvonne's Southern Sweets' Pecan Pralines and Ol' School Butter Pecan Cookie\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119852\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/yvonnes-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yvonne's Southern Sweets' Pecan Pralines and Ol' School Butter Pecan Cookie \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yvonne's Southern Sweets\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNow that I have mentioned Butter Pecan, I have to go back across the bay and out to Hunter's Point for a butter cookie from the other side of the spectrum. \u003ca href=\"http://www.yvonnessouthernsweets.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Yvonne's Southern Sweets\u003c/a>, located at Third and Shafter, is known for traditional southern fare like sweet potato pie and peach cobbler, but the business started when Yvonne Hines began making pecan pralines and sharing them with friends. This is a traditional confection from the old south, so it's a little too sweet for me. However, I love her \"Ol' School\" Butter Cookies. In contrast to Bakesale Betty’s big butter shortbreads, Yvonne’s bake up crisp and snappy, like a homemade version of those you might find in a Swedish tin. These are sweet, dunk-worthy biscuits that stand up to milk but then melt in the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla.jpg\" alt=\"A selection of cookies from MARLA Bakery\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119884\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/marla-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of cookies from MARLA Bakery \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MARLA Bakery\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile we are on the subject of traditional recipes, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marlabakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">MARLA Bakery\u003c/a> on Balboa Street at 37th Avenue yields a selection of petite cookies reminiscent of those grandma, who survived the Great Depression, used to make. MARLA is an acronym for the people who inspired co-founders Amy Brown and Joe Wolf to cook, which explains this quote on the bakery's about page: \"Like history, food does not spring forth from the ether. Food is always informed by what came before and is as much a product of memory as the present.\" This sentiment is beautifully illustrated in MARLA's cookies. They are delicious treats, not too sweet, each with a distinct personality that boasts a clarity of flavor. Every selection has the perfect chewiness, not too cakey, not too crisp. Their Chocolate Chip is all about the cocoa nibs, crunchy little nutlets of tongue tickling delight. It's interesting that the Triple Ginger is named so because, to me it rings true as full-throttle old-fashioned molasses, once again like grandma's. But MARLA’s standout is their Dark Chocolate Chunk, a super black creation packed with a powerful chocolate nose and delivering a beautiful brownie finish, all in one small unassuming cookie just bigger than an Oreo. The best way to describe the taste of the DCC is \"dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Miette\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAlso on the “dark” spectrum, \u003ca href=\"https://www.miette.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miette\u003c/a> (at various locations, including Hayes Valley and the Ferry Building in SF) has a superb chocolate wafer sold in a pack of ten. Similar in flavor to MARLA's Dark Chocolate Chunk, it's crispier, while remaining surprisingly tender. All three of Miette’s wafer flavors (including ginger and graham cracker) are worthy of an addict’s late night fix. I alternate between them depending on my mood, even though it's dangerous to keep a 10-pack in the house. However, I find these cookies so satisfying, it feels plain gluttonous to eat more than two with a small glass of milk. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee.jpg\" alt=\"Little Bee's Brown Butter Pecan and more\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119885\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/littlebee-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little Bee's Brown Butter Pecan and more \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Little Bee Baking\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBernal Heights' \u003ca href=\"http://www.littlebeebakingsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Little Bee\u003c/a> specializes in an assortment of diminutive cookies, all silver dollar sized. Some offerings suffer from being unfocussed flavor-wise, though the chocolate chip or oatmeal are both perfectly reasonable entries in their category. However, the Brown Butter Pecan cookie, which is in the shape of a small thumb drop with a whole pecan on top is just darling (that's a dainty yet apt word for the delicate cookie). It smells of cinnamon and has just the right crisp feel on the teeth. Little Bee's Lavender Cornmeal alone was worth the hike up Cortland. (Looks like there may sometimes be a Rosemary version as well.) A crisp, mouthy grit of cornmeal gets you going while the butter and lavender flavors come together for a strong finish. This cookie is special, I should have bought six. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119886\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies.jpg\" alt=\"A couple of Anthony's cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"906\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-768x497.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-1180x764.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-960x621.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookies-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of Anthony's cookies. \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony's Cookies\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor medium-sized cookies, the kind you would bake for yourself at home, you can always stop by \u003ca href=\"http://anthonyscookies.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony's Cookies\u003c/a> on Valencia at 25th Street in San Francisco. Founded by Anthony Lucas while he was studying accounting at SF State, the business began with Lucas selling cookies out of his car and has blossomed into a permanent location on Valencia Street and a newly opened store in Berkeley. Anthony’s has a whole range of flavors, but my favorite, the one I found most distinctive, was the Cinnamon Spice. It's like a brown sugar version of a snickerdoodle. While most traditional snickerdoodles taste a little metallic to me, Anthony's has a dark rich tone with really solid spicy (hint of clove?) flavor, a crisp edge with a chewy center. Anthony's cookies are really like the ones you would make for yourself, if you knew how to bake and could find the time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-120021\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cookieforbreakfast-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane's Cookie for Breakfast in its proper setting \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jane\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBack in the land of large cookies, Jane the Bakery on Geary at Steiner in San Francisco features a collection of sizable (think hockey puck) cookies that are more like a meal than dessert. \u003ca href=\"http://www.itsjane.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane the Bakery\u003c/a> is connected to Jane on Fillmore and Jane on Larkin. I understand from Jane's website that their menu is always evolving, so it's not surprising that the cookies I tried are not listed there. I was told that the best cookie at Jane is the Chocolate Chip Toffee, which was sold out. Naturally. So I tried the Crazy Cookie because I liked the name (lacy, crunchy, toffee, marshmallow, corn flakes) and picked up a (not very spicy) Ginger, but the standout was the aptly named \"Cookie for Breakfast.\" This was seriously a meal in cookie form. Buy one, put it in a bowl of milk and you've got oat and nut granola for breakfast. This cookie is dense with chopped nuts and chunks of tropical fruit. Seriously, it really is breakfast in a cookie just as advertised, a concept which might be Jane's specialty, since another cookie of interest there was the Cap'n Crunch Cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese Board's Hazelnut Butter, Double Chocolate and Ginger cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"935\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/cheesboard-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheese Board's Hazelnut Butter, Double Chocolate and Ginger cookies \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Cheese Board Collective\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhile on the topic of largeness, Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheese Board Collective\u003c/a> delivers the goods. What started as a cheese shop has since become a worker-owned collective bakery and pizzeria that retains the swirl of the peasant skirt in its casual atmosphere. They feature not so much cookies as cookie slabs. These are weighty affairs that deliver in value and flavor. I picked up a Hazelnut Butter Cookie, a Double Chocolate and a Ginger. The Cheese Board's Butter Cookie is among the finest in the bay, creamy with an overwhelming nuttiness. The Ginger Cookie was super tender, crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. It had a strong molasses nose, but the flavor didn't live up to the promise of the aroma. However, the Double Chocolate made me wonder if I needed a prescription to eat such a thing. It's appropriately heady chocolate rush gave way to substantial, melty chocolate chips that put the bitter in bittersweet. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers.jpg\" alt=\"Tartine's Rocher, Chocolate Salted Rye and Mexican Wedding cookies\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119854\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartineothers-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tartine's Rocher, Chocolate Salted Rye and Mexican Wedding cookies \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tartine\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNaturally, one could not discuss Bay Area pastry without a trip to Elizabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson's \u003ca href=\"http://www.tartinebakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tartine\u003c/a> Bakery at the corner of 18th Street and Guerrero in San Francisco. (For an extended selection, visit Tartine Manufactory at Alabama and 18th, cookies become available for lunch and disappear at dinner.) Once at Tartine, I was met with the familiar 30-minute wait, again the badge of excellence for San Francisco's most popular food destinations. I've stood in this line many times before, so I knew what was waiting at the other end would be worth it. However, I have never waited for Tartine's cookies. When I could get a delicious morning bun or lemon tart (two of my favorite things in the whole world), would I be wasting my day if I just walked away with cookies? Once again, this is the calculation a cookie addict must make. It might be blasphemous to say, but sometimes there are things even better than cookies. I decided on an assortment, featuring one Chocolate Chip, a Mexican Wedding cookie (I have yet to find a great Mexican bakery that specializes in cookies, empanadas -- yes, cookies -- no, please help), a Chocolate Salted Rye and a Rocher. That last I chose just because it is so bizarre looking, a Dr Seussian ecru meringue that I felt certain would be a page turner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip.jpg\" alt=\"Tartine's Chocolate Chip cookie\" width=\"1400\" height=\"931\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119855\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/08/tartine_chocochip-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tartine's Chocolate Chip cookie \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I wasn't disappointed. I knew I wouldn't be. These fine bakers are in the business of pushing taste more than sugar. They make food experiences and every one of these cookies bathed the mouth with a distinct flavor, each quite unique, different from its shelf-mate and unlike anything found in any other area bakery. The Rocher landed me hard in a pique of nostalgia, reminiscent of the Abba Zabba candy bars of my youth, but without the risk to my dental work. It's like a white nougat, very light and nutty, with a fragile shell and pillowy center. The Chocolate Salted Rye and Mexican Wedding cookies were both superb, but the other real standout was the Chocolate Chip (Aha!), which is a thin, lacy disc the size of an outstretched palm. I bit into it and it shattered in my mouth, delivering a complex combination of deeply roasted nuts and rich, high-end dark chocolate flavor. 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They are so delicate that it is almost impossible to get them home in one piece to photograph. Here they are pictured in their natural habitat on the counter of Piccino. \u003ccite>(Mark Taylor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Piccino Coffee Bar\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFinally, my favorite cookies in the Bay Area are regularly found at \u003ca href=\"http://piccino.com/coffee-bar\" target=\"_blank\">Piccino Coffee Bar\u003c/a>, located on the side of Sher Rogat and Margherita Stewart Sagan's Piccino Pizzeria at Minnesota and 22nd Streets in San Francisco's Dogpatch. Nearly every cookie they make is special, but the highlights are a flourless (and I never eat flourless) Chocolate Spice Cookie that delivers a prickly chili kick atop its bittersweet chocolate body and a 50¢-piece-sized Ginger Cookie worth every penny of it’s $1.25 price. But mostly I hit up Piccino for their signature Fig Newton. 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"content": "\u003cp>I don’t generally eat insects, except on the rare occasion when that green worm that lives in the arugula makes its way from the garden to my salad. And then, it is that squishy, uncomfortable mouth feeling that causes shudders and elicits laughter (and closer inspection of their own greens) from friends around the dinner table. Accidental entomophagy — the eating of insects — aside, I wonder why such an easy and abundant source of protein remains stubbornly taboo on the western plate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2013 United Nations report, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\"Edible Insects: Future Prospects for Food and Feed Security,\"\u003c/a> notes that insects are part of the traditional diet for nearly 2 billion people who utilize close to 2000 species as food. The subject of entomophagy has been popping up with greater frequency over the past decade in the U.S. (Well, at least in the Bay Area. I have recently learned not to extrapolate local experience for national reality.) We encounter youngsters daring us to try a “new” delicacy at street fairs or on sunny days in the park. Hmmm, crunchy and a little nutty…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117789\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-240x135.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-375x211.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-520x293.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Cricket Farm crickets on a Susie's Dog in Youngstown, OH\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coinciding with the rise of gluten-free cooking, more packaged products (protein bars, pasta) are being produced with cricket flour. Moving away from the fringe and toward the culinary mainstream more traditional recipes (from Mexico, Thailand, Botswana and beyond) are being passed around for adventurous eaters to try — usually deep-fried — beetles, ants and crickets, among a host of other insects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This persistent chirp will get louder when the SF DocFest (May 31 - June 15, 2017) kicks off its 16th anniversary at the Roxie, Vogue and New Mission theaters. The festival opens with the world premiere of Corbett Redford’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/05/16/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and features films that document huge swaths of real life, from art to activism to the environment and beyond. The festival features two food-related documentaries: \u003cem>Charged\u003c/em>, the miraculous story of chef Eduardo Garcia's recovery from electrocution and \u003cem>The Gateway Bug\u003c/em>, the reason I am contemplating eating insects (again).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Johanna B. Kelly's \u003ca href=\"http://thegatewaybug.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Gateway Bug\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Saturday, June 10, 9:15pm, Vogue Theater; Tuesday, June 13, 9:30pm, Roxie Theater) outlines the efforts of several (most notably young) entrepreneurs to produce and package insect protein in acceptable edible form for humans, its real subject is denial. It has been evident for decades that current farming, ranching and fishing practices that produce large amounts of greenhouse gasses, food stream waste and pollution will not be up to the task of effectively feeding a population projected at over 9 billion by mid-2050. “The conversation about re-examining our assumptions around what food is is something we had to have 45 years ago, and we didn’t. So, now we’ve got to be responsible adults and have the conversation that our parents didn’t have.” So says, Big Cricket Farm founder Kevin Bachhuber, whose story is interwoven with a cast of other millennials attempting to address the need for sustainable calorie production for the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Ovbe1pyaoko\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insects are much more efficient at producing protein than any of the other food sources currently in cultivation. Crickets, for example, require 2 kilograms of feed for every 1 kilogram of body weight. Insects utilize organic side streams, emit far fewer greenhouse gasses and less ammonia than cattle or pigs, and require less land and water. While the figures vary across insect species and depend on metamorphic stage (larva vs. adult) when consumed, insects tend to be highly nutritious with high fat, protein, fiber, vitamin and mineral content. Mealworms contain as much omega-3 and other fatty acids as fish (and substantially more than pigs or cattle).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are challenges to the development of an at-once traditional and novel source of food. Yes, the characters in \u003cem>The Gateway Bug\u003c/em> must first overcome the \"Yuck\" factor, but beyond that lie other, more institutional challenges. Insect nutritional values must be more rigorously documented and contrasted with traditional sources alongside comparisons of the environmental impacts of farming animals versus insects. Meanwhile, clear regulatory frameworks must be produced and standardized to ensure food safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Gateway Bug's\u003c/em> most heartbreaking story follows the above-mentioned Kevin Bachhuber’s Big Cricket Farm in Youngstown, OH. The start-up's young entrepreneurs wager their own futures alongside the revitalizing efforts of a rust belt city, faithfully locating their business in an area where a history of lax regulatory standards once brought the municipality close to self-extinction. What happens to Big Cricket Farm is a demonstration of a generational divide that seems to only get wider with each passing year. Many of \u003cem>The Gateway Bug’s\u003c/em> characters demonstrate fortitude similar to Bachhuber’s, overcoming tests that only clarify their vision and solidify their determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117785\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"649\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117785\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-960x623.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-240x156.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-375x243.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/EduardoandJenToday-520x337.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo and Jen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking of determination, there is probably no more personal portrait of endurance than \u003ca href=\"http://www.chargedfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Charged\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Wednesday, June 7, 7:16pm and Saturday, June 10, 2:45pm, Roxie Theatre). While hiking in the Montana backcountry, chef Eduardo Garcia encountered the corpse of a bear and moved to investigate further, taking 2400 volts of electricity from an unmarked power source. Miraculously, Garcia stumbled through the wilderness, found help and was airlifted to the burn trauma ICU in Salt Lake City, UT. He was joined immediately by his ex-girlfriend, business partner and best friend, Jennifer Jane, who immediately began filming the ordeal, hoping to give Garcia something to concentrate on outside of his pain. The chef lost his hand and forearm, four ribs, part of his skull, and several patches of dead muscle mass from his legs and arm. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Cok4f84lrmE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillip Baribeau's documentary follows Garcia's struggle back to health over the next several years. 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The subject of entomophagy has been popping up with greater frequency over the past decade in the U.S. (Well, at least in the Bay Area. I have recently learned not to extrapolate local experience for national reality.) We encounter youngsters daring us to try a “new” delicacy at street fairs or on sunny days in the park. Hmmm, crunchy and a little nutty…\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117789\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio.jpeg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-240x135.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-375x211.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/zZl10MUS3CzL35HTj6qH_Crickets-on-Hot-Dog-at-Susies-Dogs-in-Youngstown-Ohio-520x293.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Cricket Farm crickets on a Susie's Dog in Youngstown, OH\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coinciding with the rise of gluten-free cooking, more packaged products (protein bars, pasta) are being produced with cricket flour. Moving away from the fringe and toward the culinary mainstream more traditional recipes (from Mexico, Thailand, Botswana and beyond) are being passed around for adventurous eaters to try — usually deep-fried — beetles, ants and crickets, among a host of other insects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This persistent chirp will get louder when the SF DocFest (May 31 - June 15, 2017) kicks off its 16th anniversary at the Roxie, Vogue and New Mission theaters. The festival opens with the world premiere of Corbett Redford’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/05/16/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and features films that document huge swaths of real life, from art to activism to the environment and beyond. The festival features two food-related documentaries: \u003cem>Charged\u003c/em>, the miraculous story of chef Eduardo Garcia's recovery from electrocution and \u003cem>The Gateway Bug\u003c/em>, the reason I am contemplating eating insects (again).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Johanna B. Kelly's \u003ca href=\"http://thegatewaybug.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Gateway Bug\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Saturday, June 10, 9:15pm, Vogue Theater; Tuesday, June 13, 9:30pm, Roxie Theater) outlines the efforts of several (most notably young) entrepreneurs to produce and package insect protein in acceptable edible form for humans, its real subject is denial. It has been evident for decades that current farming, ranching and fishing practices that produce large amounts of greenhouse gasses, food stream waste and pollution will not be up to the task of effectively feeding a population projected at over 9 billion by mid-2050. “The conversation about re-examining our assumptions around what food is is something we had to have 45 years ago, and we didn’t. So, now we’ve got to be responsible adults and have the conversation that our parents didn’t have.” So says, Big Cricket Farm founder Kevin Bachhuber, whose story is interwoven with a cast of other millennials attempting to address the need for sustainable calorie production for the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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While the figures vary across insect species and depend on metamorphic stage (larva vs. adult) when consumed, insects tend to be highly nutritious with high fat, protein, fiber, vitamin and mineral content. Mealworms contain as much omega-3 and other fatty acids as fish (and substantially more than pigs or cattle).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are challenges to the development of an at-once traditional and novel source of food. Yes, the characters in \u003cem>The Gateway Bug\u003c/em> must first overcome the \"Yuck\" factor, but beyond that lie other, more institutional challenges. Insect nutritional values must be more rigorously documented and contrasted with traditional sources alongside comparisons of the environmental impacts of farming animals versus insects. Meanwhile, clear regulatory frameworks must be produced and standardized to ensure food safety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Gateway Bug's\u003c/em> most heartbreaking story follows the above-mentioned Kevin Bachhuber’s Big Cricket Farm in Youngstown, OH. The start-up's young entrepreneurs wager their own futures alongside the revitalizing efforts of a rust belt city, faithfully locating their business in an area where a history of lax regulatory standards once brought the municipality close to self-extinction. What happens to Big Cricket Farm is a demonstration of a generational divide that seems to only get wider with each passing year. 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While hiking in the Montana backcountry, chef Eduardo Garcia encountered the corpse of a bear and moved to investigate further, taking 2400 volts of electricity from an unmarked power source. Miraculously, Garcia stumbled through the wilderness, found help and was airlifted to the burn trauma ICU in Salt Lake City, UT. He was joined immediately by his ex-girlfriend, business partner and best friend, Jennifer Jane, who immediately began filming the ordeal, hoping to give Garcia something to concentrate on outside of his pain. 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"content": "\u003cp>Though most of us are unfamiliar with the man behind the brand, we understand the name James Beard as synonymous with excellence in all things culinary. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards\" target=\"_blank\">annual event named after him\u003c/a> has been honoring America's best chefs, restaurants and food-related media since 1990. The new film \u003cem>James Beard: America's First Foodie\u003c/em> chronicles the life of the man Julia Child referred to as \"the quintessential American cook,\" kicking off a \"Chefs Flight\" of four documentaries profiling Beard, Child, Alice Waters and Jacques Pépin for \u003cem>American Masters\u003c/em>' 31st season Friday, May 19 at 9:00pm on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=24298\" target=\"_blank\">KQED 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/okjaNGs6ViE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Beard was born in Portland, Oregon at the dawn of the 20th century to a mother, Elizabeth, who owned a small hotel and was something of a local sensation, both for her cooking and for her liberated lifestyle. The early education she provided in buying and preparing fresh, local foods in season would become the guiding principle for the food movement her son later catalyzed. By his own account, the young Beard was as unrestrained by convention as his libertine mother, understanding at an early age that he was homosexual. He was expelled from Reed College, where he studied acting, for engaging in (then-illegal) same-sex activity. At 19, Beard headed to Europe to study opera, but ended up exercising his large appetite in the bistros of Paris, whose practices he taught to others when he returned to Oregon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard moved to New York in 1937, surviving lean times by cooking for friends in exchange for his supper. From these gatherings came his first success. He and William Rhode (later the editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.gourmet.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Gourmet\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>) started a catering business called Hors D'Oeuvre, Inc, which provided the recipes for his first cookbook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Doeuvre-Canapes-Library-American-Cooking/dp/076240664X\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Hors d'oeuvre and Canapes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, published in 1940. He followed that success with \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Cook-outdoors-James-Beard/dp/B0007E2IPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493846521&sr=1-1&keywords=cook+it+outdoors+james+beard\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Cook It Outdoors\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"believed to be the first serious book on outdoor cooking,\" according to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/24/nyregion/james-beard-authority-on-food-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> obituary\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117055\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-1020x1299.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"815\" class=\"size-large wp-image-117055\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-1020x1299.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-160x204.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-800x1019.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-768x978.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-1180x1503.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-960x1223.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-240x306.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-375x478.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-520x662.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef James Beard at Reed College \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reed College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1946, Beard hosted \u003cem>I Love to Eat\u003c/em> for two seasons on NBC, introducing cooking to TV. He founded The James Beard Cooking School in 1955, teaching people around the country how to cook for the next thirty years. The school eventually settled in Seaside, Oregon, where he taught each summer using the same fresh ingredients his mother prepared in his youth, and in the kitchen of his Greenwich Village brownstone in Manhattan, which also became a popular hangout for the rich and famous. Beard's good friend Julia Child lobbied for the preservation of his Manhattan home shortly after he died in 1985 and, through the efforts of Peter Krump, a former student, and a cadre of well-connected friends, the James Beard Foundation was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/james-beard-americas-first-foodie-film/8432/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>America's First Foodie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> traces Beard's influence through the many chefs that surrounded him and came after, including Julia Child, Alice Waters, Jeremiah Tower and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/04/12/jacques-ppin-the-art-of-craft-reveals-how-a-french-chef-became-an-american-master/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a>, but what remains a mystery is the spirit that animated so many to come together to preserve his legacy. Several close friends affirm Beard's charms, but the man himself is unfortunately not on hand to glamour the viewer. How does one capture the \"life of the party\" when the party has been over for decades?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117056\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--1020x1169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"733\" class=\"size-large wp-image-117056\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--1020x1169.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--160x183.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--800x917.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--768x880.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--1180x1353.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--960x1101.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--240x275.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--375x430.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--520x596.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chefs Julia Child, James Beard and Edna Lewis \u003ccite>(Dan Wynn/Courtesy of the Wynn family and the James Beard Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are testimonials to Beard's innovation, intelligence and wit. We hear that he was a master raconteur, loved a juicy piece of gossip, and was something of a scoundrel, skipping out on countless restaurant checks and flashing some of his guests and neighbors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard scandalized his peers by endorsing everything from Planters Peanuts to Adolph's Meat Tenderizer to raise money for his cooking school, a move he later regretted, referring to himself as a \"gastronomic whore.\" We see a few saucy quotes from his books and learn of his participation in the design of The Four Seasons, an influential New York eatery that combined Beard's twin loves of theater and food. Interesting tidbit: the restaurant was among the first to change its menu seasonally, hence the name. Nevertheless, there are some awkward moments regarding Beard's personal life that darken the otherwise rosy portrait of the man who helped launch the farm to table movement, not the least of which is the low opinion many of his close friends held of his (apparently) life-long companion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is a bit like a soufflé that fails to rise. All the right ingredients are present and seemingly in the correct proportions: celebrity chef testimonials, a few Beard recipes prepared by Jacques Pépin and Naomi Pomery, archival images of Beard's youth and early education, early TV appearances by the man himself, and glitzy footage of James Beard Awards bestowed. But something is missing; perhaps it is just the impossibility of knowing the true power of a celebrity's charm without the man present to demonstrate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-800x963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"963\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-800x963.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-160x193.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-768x924.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-1020x1227.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-1180x1420.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-960x1155.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-240x289.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-375x451.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-520x626.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef James Beard \u003ccite>(Dan Wynn/Courtesy of the Wynn family and the James Beard Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no denying Beard's outsized personality and seemingly unquenchable lust for life. We learn how his innovations continue to proliferate within the food community today, though the film is unable to effectively convey the ineffable quality that made James Beard so beloved among his peers, inspiring a group of dedicated influencers to create a monument to his memory that became \"the Academy Awards of the food world.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man whose face adorns the ultimate culinary seal of approval loved people, according to Julia Child, \"loved his work, loved gossip, loved to eat, [and] loved a good time.\" Seems like those are the very qualities necessary -- other than the food itself -- for a good meal, and the ones that cannot be prescribed in a cookbook. And maybe that's the secret to James Beard, he contained that extra something special that made a good dinner party great. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Though most of us are unfamiliar with the man behind the brand, we understand the name James Beard as synonymous with excellence in all things culinary. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/awards\" target=\"_blank\">annual event named after him\u003c/a> has been honoring America's best chefs, restaurants and food-related media since 1990. The new film \u003cem>James Beard: America's First Foodie\u003c/em> chronicles the life of the man Julia Child referred to as \"the quintessential American cook,\" kicking off a \"Chefs Flight\" of four documentaries profiling Beard, Child, Alice Waters and Jacques Pépin for \u003cem>American Masters\u003c/em>' 31st season Friday, May 19 at 9:00pm on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=24298\" target=\"_blank\">KQED 9\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/okjaNGs6ViE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/okjaNGs6ViE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>James Beard was born in Portland, Oregon at the dawn of the 20th century to a mother, Elizabeth, who owned a small hotel and was something of a local sensation, both for her cooking and for her liberated lifestyle. The early education she provided in buying and preparing fresh, local foods in season would become the guiding principle for the food movement her son later catalyzed. By his own account, the young Beard was as unrestrained by convention as his libertine mother, understanding at an early age that he was homosexual. He was expelled from Reed College, where he studied acting, for engaging in (then-illegal) same-sex activity. At 19, Beard headed to Europe to study opera, but ended up exercising his large appetite in the bistros of Paris, whose practices he taught to others when he returned to Oregon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard moved to New York in 1937, surviving lean times by cooking for friends in exchange for his supper. From these gatherings came his first success. He and William Rhode (later the editor of \u003ca href=\"http://www.gourmet.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Gourmet\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>) started a catering business called Hors D'Oeuvre, Inc, which provided the recipes for his first cookbook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Doeuvre-Canapes-Library-American-Cooking/dp/076240664X\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Hors d'oeuvre and Canapes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, published in 1940. He followed that success with \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Cook-outdoors-James-Beard/dp/B0007E2IPO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493846521&sr=1-1&keywords=cook+it+outdoors+james+beard\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Cook It Outdoors\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \"believed to be the first serious book on outdoor cooking,\" according to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/24/nyregion/james-beard-authority-on-food-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> obituary\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117055\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-1020x1299.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"815\" class=\"size-large wp-image-117055\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-1020x1299.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-160x204.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-800x1019.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-768x978.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-1180x1503.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-960x1223.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-240x306.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-375x478.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/BeardJames-on-the-radio-at-reed-520x662.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef James Beard at Reed College \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Reed College)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1946, Beard hosted \u003cem>I Love to Eat\u003c/em> for two seasons on NBC, introducing cooking to TV. He founded The James Beard Cooking School in 1955, teaching people around the country how to cook for the next thirty years. The school eventually settled in Seaside, Oregon, where he taught each summer using the same fresh ingredients his mother prepared in his youth, and in the kitchen of his Greenwich Village brownstone in Manhattan, which also became a popular hangout for the rich and famous. Beard's good friend Julia Child lobbied for the preservation of his Manhattan home shortly after he died in 1985 and, through the efforts of Peter Krump, a former student, and a cadre of well-connected friends, the James Beard Foundation was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/james-beard-americas-first-foodie-film/8432/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>America's First Foodie\u003c/em>\u003c/a> traces Beard's influence through the many chefs that surrounded him and came after, including Julia Child, Alice Waters, Jeremiah Tower and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/04/12/jacques-ppin-the-art-of-craft-reveals-how-a-french-chef-became-an-american-master/\" target=\"_blank\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a>, but what remains a mystery is the spirit that animated so many to come together to preserve his legacy. Several close friends affirm Beard's charms, but the man himself is unfortunately not on hand to glamour the viewer. How does one capture the \"life of the party\" when the party has been over for decades?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117056\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--1020x1169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"733\" class=\"size-large wp-image-117056\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--1020x1169.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--160x183.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--800x917.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--768x880.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--1180x1353.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--960x1101.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--240x275.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--375x430.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/James-Beard-Julia-Child-Edna-Lewis-photo-Dan-Wynn--520x596.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chefs Julia Child, James Beard and Edna Lewis \u003ccite>(Dan Wynn/Courtesy of the Wynn family and the James Beard Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are testimonials to Beard's innovation, intelligence and wit. We hear that he was a master raconteur, loved a juicy piece of gossip, and was something of a scoundrel, skipping out on countless restaurant checks and flashing some of his guests and neighbors. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard scandalized his peers by endorsing everything from Planters Peanuts to Adolph's Meat Tenderizer to raise money for his cooking school, a move he later regretted, referring to himself as a \"gastronomic whore.\" We see a few saucy quotes from his books and learn of his participation in the design of The Four Seasons, an influential New York eatery that combined Beard's twin loves of theater and food. Interesting tidbit: the restaurant was among the first to change its menu seasonally, hence the name. Nevertheless, there are some awkward moments regarding Beard's personal life that darken the otherwise rosy portrait of the man who helped launch the farm to table movement, not the least of which is the low opinion many of his close friends held of his (apparently) life-long companion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film is a bit like a soufflé that fails to rise. All the right ingredients are present and seemingly in the correct proportions: celebrity chef testimonials, a few Beard recipes prepared by Jacques Pépin and Naomi Pomery, archival images of Beard's youth and early education, early TV appearances by the man himself, and glitzy footage of James Beard Awards bestowed. But something is missing; perhaps it is just the impossibility of knowing the true power of a celebrity's charm without the man present to demonstrate. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_117057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-800x963.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"963\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117057\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-800x963.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-160x193.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-768x924.jpeg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-1020x1227.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-1180x1420.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-960x1155.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-240x289.jpeg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-375x451.jpeg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/05/jb-with-mustache-young056-520x626.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef James Beard \u003ccite>(Dan Wynn/Courtesy of the Wynn family and the James Beard Foundation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no denying Beard's outsized personality and seemingly unquenchable lust for life. We learn how his innovations continue to proliferate within the food community today, though the film is unable to effectively convey the ineffable quality that made James Beard so beloved among his peers, inspiring a group of dedicated influencers to create a monument to his memory that became \"the Academy Awards of the food world.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man whose face adorns the ultimate culinary seal of approval loved people, according to Julia Child, \"loved his work, loved gossip, loved to eat, [and] loved a good time.\" Seems like those are the very qualities necessary -- other than the food itself -- for a good meal, and the ones that cannot be prescribed in a cookbook. And maybe that's the secret to James Beard, he contained that extra something special that made a good dinner party great. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "It's Not Easy Being Green: Food Activism at the 2017 SF Green Film Festival",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three films at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenfilmfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> 2017 San Francisco Green Film Festival\u003c/a> (April 20-26) highlight, perhaps unintentionally, how hard it is to do the right thing. Or maybe they demonstrate how easy it is, but how often the right thing is ignored in favor of the expedient. This dilemma is familiar to anyone paying attention, vexing arguments that range across the landscape of human activity. Yes, it might be true that a particular practice is harmful in the long run, but the short-term benefits (usually jobs, economics) trump all other concerns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I mean is best expressed in the story of Dick Goin, a man whose decades-long fight to remove two dams and return Chinook salmon to their ancestral spawning grounds in Washington's Elwha River is poetically profiled in Jennifer Galvin & Sachi Cunningham's \u003ca href=\"http://www.thememoryoffish.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Memory of Fish\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Saturday, April 22, 3pm, Roxie Cinema).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Goin, The Memory of Fish\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116825\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Goin, The Memory of Fish\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goin's relationship with the river began when he was just a kid. His family suffered the ravages of the infamous Dust Bowl, sold what little they had and headed west from southwestern Iowa. They arrived on the banks of the Elwha \"poor as rats,\" surviving starvation because of the river's rich natural resources, most particularly the hefty salmon that thrived there. Goin spent his whole life on the river, which was dammed early in the 20th century to produce hydro-electricity, fueling mills that produced everything from tires to canned fish. At 18, Goin went to work at Rayonier Incorporated, servicing the machines powered by the dams he despised for 41 1/2 years. He recounts witnessing juvenile salmonids hit the pollution generated by Rayonier and going belly up and wonders at his inaction. \"Should I have then said, 'Hell, I won't work here anymore?'\" How would he have put food on the table for his young family? He says, \"You accept the necessities of life...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/5GwGlEX0ktw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The combination of the dams, which inhibited spawning, the canneries that chopped and packaged the fish and other companies that spewed pollution resulted in a huge decline of the Chinook population. Goin's own fishing records track reductions in the size and quantity of the fish. Once Goin retired, and most of the factories previously powered by the dams went out of business, he began to lobby for the restoration of the river. Of course there was resistance. No one had ever undertaken such a \u003ca href=\"http://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/elwha/\" target=\"_blank\">massive dam removal project\u003c/a>. What would happen to the river if it was returned to its former state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This timeline brings up a troubling question. Did Goin advocate for the river's restoration when his livelihood depended on the power generated by its two dams? This is the complicated heart of the conservation question, the sticky point located at the center of enlightenment, convenience and self interest. Why is it so difficult to do the right thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers.jpg\" alt=\"Sunburst Farm apple pickers; Evolution of Organic\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1013\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116826\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunburst Farm apple pickers; Evolution of Organic\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival's opening night film, Mark Kitchell's \u003ca href=\"http://evolutionoforganic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Evolution of Organic\u003c/a> (Thursday, April 20, 7:30pm, Castro Theatre) provides a partial answer. There were indeed people devoted to a principle that was a little more enlightened than it was self-interested. In reaction to the industrial farming practices of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a small band of \"hippies\" sought natural food alternatives for themselves, their families and their communities. However, making a living as an organic farmer was exceedingly difficult in an era when the term was at best obscure and at worst denigrated. This core group of true believers persisted because growing healthy food and responsibly stewarding the land was the right thing to do. They adopted farming practices and innovated food distribution operations out of necessity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images of this early movement are endearingly hilarious, looking how you would expect coastal Californians looked in the early 1970s. One image, the one I would have liked to use to promote this post, is of a group of naked, long-haired men and women crouched together on a patch of land, boobs and penises dangling freely, arms draped over one another as the afternoon sun kisses their honey-colored skin. One can only imagine the night ahead after a day's work digging in the dirt! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/Mh_9ojGcYoE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film -- in four acts -- tracks the rise of the \"organic\" movement, which has come to mean so much (and sometimes so little) in today's supermarket. Inspired by Rachel Carson's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Silent Spring\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an influential tome documenting the detrimental effects of pesticides, and the arrival of English master gardener \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Chadwick\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Chadwick\u003c/a> at the University of California, Santa Cruz, early organic farmers had to resist prevalent farming practices and rediscover a history of seemingly lost knowledge. (Funny that. A few decades of industrial farming could somehow wipe away millennia of practice. How easily we humans forget.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples.jpg\" alt=\"Evolution of Organic\" width=\"1400\" height=\"930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116827\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-768x510.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evolution of Organic \u003ccite>(Annie Marks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Starting with the beginnings of the movement, when the desire for clean food meant either growing it or distributing it yourself, the film documents the rise of organic practice, illuminating an era when producers shared knowledge on the tailgates of their pick-up trucks. As with all things, organic farming grew because there was a demand. The cash register really is capitalism's ballot box. After a couple of decades in obscurity, the baby lettuce (AKA \"spring mix\") craze of the early 1990s put organic on the map. A couple well-publicized pesticide health scares later, large supermarket chains began to feel the demand. Increased value brought larger producers, many switching their commercial practices to organic. The film's final act locates the current seeds of the movement's future, perhaps even as a redress to atmospheric carbon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interesting point that quickly rushed by was the impending retirement of the organic \"elders.\" This made me wonder about the fate of all the organic farmland this group of pioneers has cleared and converted. Is it in the process of sub-division, turning into vineyards or remote homes for California's coastal elite?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, the question arises: what is the right action? Is it favorably aligned with the self interests of those who struggled in obscurity for decades before finding themselves at the vanguard of a food movement that generated a great deal of health and wealth? \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala.jpg\" alt=\"Dusty Crary visits his father's grave; Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dusty Crary visits his father's grave; Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman \u003ccite>(Beth AAla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If Susan Froemke and John Hoffman's Discovery Channel documentary \u003ca href=\"http://rancherfarmerfisherman.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Wednesday, April 26, 6pm, Castro Theatre) is any indication, the answer would be ... complicated. Ultimately, the documentary's characters fight a good fight, protecting land from oil drilling, adopting till-free farming practices and creating fishing quotas to responsibly steward the delicate resources of a fishery. But what motivates these people to ultimately do the right thing? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/evg6U1mo3kg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the Montana ranchers, the large tracts of property their families have inhabited for generations became threatened by proposed drilling on nearby federal lands. They fought not only to shut this activity down, but worked with conservation groups to permanently secure adjacent areas and limit the uses for their own properties for generations. Their self interest conserves the landscape for their descendants, while also protecting over a million acres from development. It's a net good, with direct benefits for a select few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the cadre of Louisiana commercial fishermen featured in the film created fishing quotas for themselves, but only after the stocks of red snapper from which they made their living very nearly collapsed. Finally, after years of warning, they came together to cooperatively save the fishery on which their lives depended. Why did this action take so long? What is it about the human species that makes this kind of enlightened action so elusive? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suppose there is no answer to this question, only a willingness to continue asking that is the hallmark of the San Francisco Green Film Festival. The festival runs April 20-26, 2017. For tickets and information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenfilmfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">greenfilmfest.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Three films at the\u003ca href=\"http://www.greenfilmfest.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> 2017 San Francisco Green Film Festival\u003c/a> (April 20-26) highlight, perhaps unintentionally, how hard it is to do the right thing. Or maybe they demonstrate how easy it is, but how often the right thing is ignored in favor of the expedient. This dilemma is familiar to anyone paying attention, vexing arguments that range across the landscape of human activity. Yes, it might be true that a particular practice is harmful in the long run, but the short-term benefits (usually jobs, economics) trump all other concerns. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I mean is best expressed in the story of Dick Goin, a man whose decades-long fight to remove two dams and return Chinook salmon to their ancestral spawning grounds in Washington's Elwha River is poetically profiled in Jennifer Galvin & Sachi Cunningham's \u003ca href=\"http://www.thememoryoffish.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Memory of Fish\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Saturday, April 22, 3pm, Roxie Cinema).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Goin, The Memory of Fish\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116825\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/The-Memory-of-Fish-3-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Goin, The Memory of Fish\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Goin's relationship with the river began when he was just a kid. His family suffered the ravages of the infamous Dust Bowl, sold what little they had and headed west from southwestern Iowa. They arrived on the banks of the Elwha \"poor as rats,\" surviving starvation because of the river's rich natural resources, most particularly the hefty salmon that thrived there. Goin spent his whole life on the river, which was dammed early in the 20th century to produce hydro-electricity, fueling mills that produced everything from tires to canned fish. At 18, Goin went to work at Rayonier Incorporated, servicing the machines powered by the dams he despised for 41 1/2 years. He recounts witnessing juvenile salmonids hit the pollution generated by Rayonier and going belly up and wonders at his inaction. \"Should I have then said, 'Hell, I won't work here anymore?'\" How would he have put food on the table for his young family? He says, \"You accept the necessities of life...\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/5GwGlEX0ktw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/5GwGlEX0ktw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The combination of the dams, which inhibited spawning, the canneries that chopped and packaged the fish and other companies that spewed pollution resulted in a huge decline of the Chinook population. Goin's own fishing records track reductions in the size and quantity of the fish. Once Goin retired, and most of the factories previously powered by the dams went out of business, he began to lobby for the restoration of the river. Of course there was resistance. No one had ever undertaken such a \u003ca href=\"http://projects.seattletimes.com/2016/elwha/\" target=\"_blank\">massive dam removal project\u003c/a>. What would happen to the river if it was returned to its former state?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This timeline brings up a troubling question. Did Goin advocate for the river's restoration when his livelihood depended on the power generated by its two dams? This is the complicated heart of the conservation question, the sticky point located at the center of enlightenment, convenience and self interest. Why is it so difficult to do the right thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116826\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers.jpg\" alt=\"Sunburst Farm apple pickers; Evolution of Organic\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1013\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116826\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-375x271.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2257_Sunburst-Farm_Apple-pickers-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunburst Farm apple pickers; Evolution of Organic\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The festival's opening night film, Mark Kitchell's \u003ca href=\"http://evolutionoforganic.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Evolution of Organic\u003c/a> (Thursday, April 20, 7:30pm, Castro Theatre) provides a partial answer. There were indeed people devoted to a principle that was a little more enlightened than it was self-interested. In reaction to the industrial farming practices of the late 1960s and early 1970s, a small band of \"hippies\" sought natural food alternatives for themselves, their families and their communities. However, making a living as an organic farmer was exceedingly difficult in an era when the term was at best obscure and at worst denigrated. This core group of true believers persisted because growing healthy food and responsibly stewarding the land was the right thing to do. They adopted farming practices and innovated food distribution operations out of necessity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Images of this early movement are endearingly hilarious, looking how you would expect coastal Californians looked in the early 1970s. One image, the one I would have liked to use to promote this post, is of a group of naked, long-haired men and women crouched together on a patch of land, boobs and penises dangling freely, arms draped over one another as the afternoon sun kisses their honey-colored skin. One can only imagine the night ahead after a day's work digging in the dirt! \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Mh_9ojGcYoE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Mh_9ojGcYoE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The film -- in four acts -- tracks the rise of the \"organic\" movement, which has come to mean so much (and sometimes so little) in today's supermarket. Inspired by Rachel Carson's \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Silent Spring\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an influential tome documenting the detrimental effects of pesticides, and the arrival of English master gardener \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Chadwick\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Chadwick\u003c/a> at the University of California, Santa Cruz, early organic farmers had to resist prevalent farming practices and rediscover a history of seemingly lost knowledge. (Funny that. A few decades of industrial farming could somehow wipe away millennia of practice. How easily we humans forget.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples.jpg\" alt=\"Evolution of Organic\" width=\"1400\" height=\"930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116827\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-800x531.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-768x510.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-960x638.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-240x159.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-375x249.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/FOT_2098_RMarks-PVF-Annie-Marks-Apples-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evolution of Organic \u003ccite>(Annie Marks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Starting with the beginnings of the movement, when the desire for clean food meant either growing it or distributing it yourself, the film documents the rise of organic practice, illuminating an era when producers shared knowledge on the tailgates of their pick-up trucks. As with all things, organic farming grew because there was a demand. The cash register really is capitalism's ballot box. After a couple of decades in obscurity, the baby lettuce (AKA \"spring mix\") craze of the early 1990s put organic on the map. A couple well-publicized pesticide health scares later, large supermarket chains began to feel the demand. Increased value brought larger producers, many switching their commercial practices to organic. The film's final act locates the current seeds of the movement's future, perhaps even as a redress to atmospheric carbon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interesting point that quickly rushed by was the impending retirement of the organic \"elders.\" This made me wonder about the fate of all the organic farmland this group of pioneers has cleared and converted. Is it in the process of sub-division, turning into vineyards or remote homes for California's coastal elite?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, the question arises: what is the right action? Is it favorably aligned with the self interests of those who struggled in obscurity for decades before finding themselves at the vanguard of a food movement that generated a great deal of health and wealth? \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala.jpg\" alt=\"Dusty Crary visits his father's grave; Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116828\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6_Rancher-Dusty-Crary-visiting-fathers-grave_Beth-Aala-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dusty Crary visits his father's grave; Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman \u003ccite>(Beth AAla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If Susan Froemke and John Hoffman's Discovery Channel documentary \u003ca href=\"http://rancherfarmerfisherman.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (Wednesday, April 26, 6pm, Castro Theatre) is any indication, the answer would be ... complicated. Ultimately, the documentary's characters fight a good fight, protecting land from oil drilling, adopting till-free farming practices and creating fishing quotas to responsibly steward the delicate resources of a fishery. But what motivates these people to ultimately do the right thing? \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/evg6U1mo3kg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/evg6U1mo3kg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In the case of the Montana ranchers, the large tracts of property their families have inhabited for generations became threatened by proposed drilling on nearby federal lands. They fought not only to shut this activity down, but worked with conservation groups to permanently secure adjacent areas and limit the uses for their own properties for generations. Their self interest conserves the landscape for their descendants, while also protecting over a million acres from development. It's a net good, with direct benefits for a select few. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the cadre of Louisiana commercial fishermen featured in the film created fishing quotas for themselves, but only after the stocks of red snapper from which they made their living very nearly collapsed. Finally, after years of warning, they came together to cooperatively save the fishery on which their lives depended. Why did this action take so long? What is it about the human species that makes this kind of enlightened action so elusive? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There are only two things wrong with Peter L. Stein's \u003cem>American Masters\u003c/em> documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/jacques-pepin-art-craft-film/8435/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which premieres at San Francisco's Castro Theatre on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 and will premiere nationally on PBS stations Friday, May 26, at 9pm. First, it's not long enough; Pépin is such a charming character that -- especially in film digest form -- he leaves us wanting more. The film fizzes, pops and then is gone, like the delicate bubbles in a fine champagne. Second, this \"American\" master's French accent is still pretty thick, even after all these years. Though that is partially the point. In a political climate that puzzlingly discounts the contributions of immigrants, Pépin's adventure is a buoyant illustration of the catalytic grit, wit and innovation one newcomer can bring to an America still dreaming. Stein says, \"It's sometimes really nice to remember that people come to these shores, do good in the world and build something that actually changes culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needle scratch. Rewind. Whenever we revisit the lives of celebrity chefs whose revolution eventually stocked our grocery store shelves with foods we now take for granted, we must first imagine the landscape BEFORE they arrived. We have to visit the U.S. supermarket with a young Jacques Pépin to discover with horror the only mushrooms on offer come in a can. The industrial practices that fed the troops in WWII have been weaponized to feed the masses and to make \"daily household drudgery\" (like cooking) a thing of the past. Everything is convenient, pre-sliced and pre-packaged. This idea is repeated in several recent documentaries, but given my own proximity to Rainbow Grocery and Whole Foods market, I still find it hard to grasp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin (left), his brother Roland, his mother Jeannette, his younger brother Bichon, and aunts and uncles in front of the family restaurant, Chez Pépin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-768x539.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin (left), his brother Roland, his mother Jeannette, his younger brother Bichon, and aunts and uncles in front of the family restaurant, Chez Pépin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pépin was no slouch when he arrived in the U.S. in the late 1950s. The film uses re-enactment, family photos and archival footage to cover the chef's early life. His first kitchen experience was in one of the family restaurants his mother opened after the Second World War, which the teenage Pépin parlayed into apprenticeships at some of the finest establishments in Paris. When he was drafted into the French navy, Pépin's work ethic and creativity eventually garnered him the position as personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-1020x1403.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin as a young apprentice in front of his mother’s restaurant, Chez Pépin.\" width=\"640\" height=\"880\" class=\"size-large wp-image-116731\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-1020x1403.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-160x220.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-800x1100.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-768x1056.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-1180x1623.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-960x1320.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-240x330.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-375x516.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-520x715.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin as a young apprentice in front of his mother’s restaurant, Chez Pépin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin (left) with his brothers Bichon and Roland, 1957.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116729\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin (left) with his brothers Bichon and Roland, 1957. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once his military service was over, Pépin headed to New York, landing a job at Le Pavillon, referred to in the film as the \"best restaurant in the U.S.\" at the time. This was probably where the Kennedys came to appreciate his talents, so much so that, after winning the 1960 presidential election, they asked him to serve as White House chef. Another needle scratch. Pépin turned down the job! He chose instead to become Director of Research in the test kitchen for Howard Johnson's, the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. at the time. This move is key to the current celebration of Pépin as a distinctively American master. After serving in the world's great temples of haute cuisine, he decided to learn about mass production, creating recipes for Beef Bourguignon that could be produced in 500 gallon vats and putting the French back in French Fries. A decade later, Pépin left that post to strike out on his own, opening a very popular lunch spot in mid-town Manhattan, La Potagerie, which only served soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1754px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pepin and his best friend, Jean-Claude Szurdak, in an early magazine photo shoot. \" width=\"1754\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116748\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude.jpg 1754w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-800x582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-768x559.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-1180x858.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-960x698.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-375x273.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1754px) 100vw, 1754px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pepin and his best friend, Jean-Claude Szurdak, in an early magazine photo shoot. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 611px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin and Pierre Franey at the Howard Johnsons test kitchen, 1970s.\" width=\"611\" height=\"535\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW.jpg 611w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-240x210.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-375x328.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-520x455.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin and Pierre Franey at the Howard Johnsons test kitchen, 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Pierre Franey Estate)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the necessity arose for Pépin to reinvent himself once more. He wrote a cookbook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Technique-Illustrated-Fundamental-Techniques-Cooking/dp/067179020X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491927105&sr=1-2&keywords=la+technique+jacques+pepin\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>La Technique\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that taught Americans much-needed, from what he had observed, basic techniques for food preparation. He followed the success of that first book with another, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Methode-Illustrated-Fundamental-Techniques-Hardcover/dp/B011WAFZH4/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491927237&sr=1-3&keywords=la+methode+jacques+pepin\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>La Methode\u003c/em>\u003c/a>; the two books were essentially about empowering the home cook. They were revolutionary at the time, demonstrating food basics through step-by-step photographic layouts. Pépin then hit the road, touring extensively to promote the work, which was the only option in an age before cable networks devoted exclusively to food. Exploiting his suave good looks, his natural charm and humor, not to mention that sexy accent, Pépin became the Tom Jones of cooking. Women flocked to his public appearances and swooned. This was the 1970s and the U.S. was pretty hot for all things French. Anthony Bourdain summarizes this idea with the quote that opens the film, \"Before you have sex with another human being, you should be capable of preparing them an omelet to Jacques Pépin's standards the next morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-800x1150.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin in his garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-800x1150.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-160x230.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-768x1104.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-960x1380.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-240x345.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-375x539.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-520x748.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin in his garden. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So of course TV came calling, most particularly KQED, which produced -- with the very same Peter L. Stein at the helm -- Pépin's first successful cooking series for public TV. While he is extremely accomplished, Pépin makes cooking look easy, without -- paradoxically -- pulling focus from the centrality of work. His amazingly expressive hands communicate volumes -- mastery, wit, joy -- with every small gesture. His emphasis on technique is about developing know-how in your hands, which is communicated through the grace of his own movements. The chef's knife is a baton; the paring knife is a pen. Pépin creates art and music with food, orchestrating the meal as a communion between friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1408px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin teaching a cooking class in the 1970s.\" width=\"1408\" height=\"1483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116747\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW.jpg 1408w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-160x169.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-800x843.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-768x809.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-1020x1074.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-1180x1243.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-960x1011.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-240x253.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-375x395.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-520x548.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin teaching a cooking class in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pépin remained philosophically consistent on TV. With empowerment as his central goal, he utilized each half-hour segment to prepare a dish from start to finish, revealing how cooking is essentially technique and practice. He cemented this idea with another series wherein he taught his daughter Claudine to cook on the small screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine.jpg\" alt=\" Jacques Pépin and his daughter Claudine in his television series (L to R): Today's Gourmet, Jacques Pépin 's Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine, and Chez Pépin.\" width=\"900\" height=\"223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-160x40.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-800x198.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-768x190.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-240x59.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-375x93.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-520x129.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin and his daughter Claudine in his television series (L to R): Today's Gourmet, Jacques Pépin 's Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine, and Chez Pépin. \u003ccite>(screenshots from Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>The Art of Craft\u003c/em> is more than just one man's success story. Ultimately, it communicates, with the same breezy charm as its subject, the effect one person can have on a whole culture. This is the crucial idea that seems missing from today's America. We are a stew waiting for that distinctive ingredient that makes everything pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pépin, along with a handful of other chefs like him, changed the way Americans perceived food. At one point, Pépin, nearing his 80th birthday, contemplates a wall filled with framed pictures of close friends and people who have been influential in his life. I realized then that his true accomplishment was not becoming a celebrity chef, writing cookbooks or teaching cooking techniques on TV, though they were the tools of his trade. His mission has always been to demonstrate the art of nurturing and the craft of building and fortifying community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 953px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW.jpg\" alt=\" Jacques Pépin nearing his 80th birthday, contemplates a wall filled with framed pictures of close friends and people who have been influential in his life.\" width=\"953\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116752\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW.jpg 953w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-768x427.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-375x209.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-520x289.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin nearing his 80th birthday, contemplates a wall filled with framed pictures of close friends and people who have been influential in his life. \u003ccite>(screenshot from Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This timely tribute to one immigrant's journey in the U.S. reminds us that change is as likely to arrive on our shores as it is to be home grown, given the right conditions. Everything worth having is worth working for and, as Pépin demonstrates, there are tried and true techniques that, with practice, will help us to master the art of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin (R), director Peter L. Stein (L), director of photography Vicente Franco, and sound engineer Jose Araujo, during the filming of Pépin’s American Masters documentary, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin (R), director Peter L. Stein (L), director of photography Vicente Franco, and sound engineer Jose Araujo, during the filming of Pépin’s American Masters documentary, 2016. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Huang )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>https://player.vimeo.com/video/211423771\u003cbr>\nDocumentary maker Peter L. Stein describes some of the special on- and off-screen challenges of bringing Jacques Pépin's story to the screen for PBS's American Masters, and recalls his longtime collaboration with Jacques as producer of many of his early public television series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch a clip from the documentary in which Jacques' wife Gloria shares the story of how she met Jacques.\u003cbr>\nhttps://youtu.be/j0LazvHsuUE\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There are only two things wrong with Peter L. Stein's \u003cem>American Masters\u003c/em> documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/jacques-pepin-art-craft-film/8435/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which premieres at San Francisco's Castro Theatre on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 and will premiere nationally on PBS stations Friday, May 26, at 9pm. First, it's not long enough; Pépin is such a charming character that -- especially in film digest form -- he leaves us wanting more. The film fizzes, pops and then is gone, like the delicate bubbles in a fine champagne. Second, this \"American\" master's French accent is still pretty thick, even after all these years. Though that is partially the point. In a political climate that puzzlingly discounts the contributions of immigrants, Pépin's adventure is a buoyant illustration of the catalytic grit, wit and innovation one newcomer can bring to an America still dreaming. Stein says, \"It's sometimes really nice to remember that people come to these shores, do good in the world and build something that actually changes culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needle scratch. Rewind. Whenever we revisit the lives of celebrity chefs whose revolution eventually stocked our grocery store shelves with foods we now take for granted, we must first imagine the landscape BEFORE they arrived. We have to visit the U.S. supermarket with a young Jacques Pépin to discover with horror the only mushrooms on offer come in a can. The industrial practices that fed the troops in WWII have been weaponized to feed the masses and to make \"daily household drudgery\" (like cooking) a thing of the past. Everything is convenient, pre-sliced and pre-packaged. This idea is repeated in several recent documentaries, but given my own proximity to Rainbow Grocery and Whole Foods market, I still find it hard to grasp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116730\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin (left), his brother Roland, his mother Jeannette, his younger brother Bichon, and aunts and uncles in front of the family restaurant, Chez Pépin.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1347\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116730\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-800x561.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-768x539.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-1020x716.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-960x674.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-240x168.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-375x263.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2100-Pepin-family-in-front-of-restaurant-1940s-1920-520x365.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin (left), his brother Roland, his mother Jeannette, his younger brother Bichon, and aunts and uncles in front of the family restaurant, Chez Pépin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pépin was no slouch when he arrived in the U.S. in the late 1950s. The film uses re-enactment, family photos and archival footage to cover the chef's early life. His first kitchen experience was in one of the family restaurants his mother opened after the Second World War, which the teenage Pépin parlayed into apprenticeships at some of the finest establishments in Paris. When he was drafted into the French navy, Pépin's work ethic and creativity eventually garnered him the position as personal chef to three French heads of state, including Charles de Gaulle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-1020x1403.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin as a young apprentice in front of his mother’s restaurant, Chez Pépin.\" width=\"640\" height=\"880\" class=\"size-large wp-image-116731\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-1020x1403.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-160x220.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-800x1100.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-768x1056.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-1180x1623.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-960x1320.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-240x330.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-375x516.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JeunePepin_hires-tiff-ret02-1920-520x715.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin as a young apprentice in front of his mother’s restaurant, Chez Pépin. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin (left) with his brothers Bichon and Roland, 1957.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1365\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116729\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-1180x839.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-960x683.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1022-Pepin-brothers-1957-Navy-1920-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin (left) with his brothers Bichon and Roland, 1957. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once his military service was over, Pépin headed to New York, landing a job at Le Pavillon, referred to in the film as the \"best restaurant in the U.S.\" at the time. This was probably where the Kennedys came to appreciate his talents, so much so that, after winning the 1960 presidential election, they asked him to serve as White House chef. Another needle scratch. Pépin turned down the job! He chose instead to become Director of Research in the test kitchen for Howard Johnson's, the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. at the time. This move is key to the current celebration of Pépin as a distinctively American master. After serving in the world's great temples of haute cuisine, he decided to learn about mass production, creating recipes for Beef Bourguignon that could be produced in 500 gallon vats and putting the French back in French Fries. A decade later, Pépin left that post to strike out on his own, opening a very popular lunch spot in mid-town Manhattan, La Potagerie, which only served soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1754px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pepin and his best friend, Jean-Claude Szurdak, in an early magazine photo shoot. \" width=\"1754\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116748\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude.jpg 1754w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-800x582.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-768x559.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-1020x742.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-1180x858.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-960x698.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-240x175.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-375x273.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/1068_Pepin011_Kitchen_JeanClaude-520x378.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1754px) 100vw, 1754px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pepin and his best friend, Jean-Claude Szurdak, in an early magazine photo shoot. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116750\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 611px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin and Pierre Franey at the Howard Johnsons test kitchen, 1970s.\" width=\"611\" height=\"535\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW.jpg 611w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-160x140.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-240x210.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-375x328.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2170-JP-and-Franey-at-Hojo-commissary-NEW-520x455.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin and Pierre Franey at the Howard Johnsons test kitchen, 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Pierre Franey Estate)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, the necessity arose for Pépin to reinvent himself once more. He wrote a cookbook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Technique-Illustrated-Fundamental-Techniques-Cooking/dp/067179020X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491927105&sr=1-2&keywords=la+technique+jacques+pepin\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>La Technique\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that taught Americans much-needed, from what he had observed, basic techniques for food preparation. He followed the success of that first book with another, \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Methode-Illustrated-Fundamental-Techniques-Hardcover/dp/B011WAFZH4/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491927237&sr=1-3&keywords=la+methode+jacques+pepin\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>La Methode\u003c/em>\u003c/a>; the two books were essentially about empowering the home cook. They were revolutionary at the time, demonstrating food basics through step-by-step photographic layouts. Pépin then hit the road, touring extensively to promote the work, which was the only option in an age before cable networks devoted exclusively to food. Exploiting his suave good looks, his natural charm and humor, not to mention that sexy accent, Pépin became the Tom Jones of cooking. Women flocked to his public appearances and swooned. This was the 1970s and the U.S. was pretty hot for all things French. Anthony Bourdain summarizes this idea with the quote that opens the film, \"Before you have sex with another human being, you should be capable of preparing them an omelet to Jacques Pépin's standards the next morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-800x1150.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin in his garden.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1150\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116744\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-800x1150.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-160x230.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-768x1104.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-960x1380.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-240x345.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-375x539.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden-520x748.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-garden.jpg 969w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin in his garden. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So of course TV came calling, most particularly KQED, which produced -- with the very same Peter L. Stein at the helm -- Pépin's first successful cooking series for public TV. While he is extremely accomplished, Pépin makes cooking look easy, without -- paradoxically -- pulling focus from the centrality of work. His amazingly expressive hands communicate volumes -- mastery, wit, joy -- with every small gesture. His emphasis on technique is about developing know-how in your hands, which is communicated through the grace of his own movements. The chef's knife is a baton; the paring knife is a pen. Pépin creates art and music with food, orchestrating the meal as a communion between friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1408px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin teaching a cooking class in the 1970s.\" width=\"1408\" height=\"1483\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116747\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW.jpg 1408w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-160x169.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-800x843.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-768x809.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-1020x1074.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-1180x1243.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-960x1011.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-240x253.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-375x395.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2054-JP-cooking-demo-holding-mic-NEW-520x548.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1408px) 100vw, 1408px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin teaching a cooking class in the 1970s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jacques Pépin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pépin remained philosophically consistent on TV. With empowerment as his central goal, he utilized each half-hour segment to prepare a dish from start to finish, revealing how cooking is essentially technique and practice. He cemented this idea with another series wherein he taught his daughter Claudine to cook on the small screen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine.jpg\" alt=\" Jacques Pépin and his daughter Claudine in his television series (L to R): Today's Gourmet, Jacques Pépin 's Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine, and Chez Pépin.\" width=\"900\" height=\"223\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-160x40.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-800x198.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-768x190.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-240x59.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-375x93.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/jp-claudine-520x129.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin and his daughter Claudine in his television series (L to R): Today's Gourmet, Jacques Pépin 's Kitchen: Cooking with Claudine, and Chez Pépin. \u003ccite>(screenshots from Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But \u003cem>The Art of Craft\u003c/em> is more than just one man's success story. Ultimately, it communicates, with the same breezy charm as its subject, the effect one person can have on a whole culture. This is the crucial idea that seems missing from today's America. We are a stew waiting for that distinctive ingredient that makes everything pop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pépin, along with a handful of other chefs like him, changed the way Americans perceived food. At one point, Pépin, nearing his 80th birthday, contemplates a wall filled with framed pictures of close friends and people who have been influential in his life. I realized then that his true accomplishment was not becoming a celebrity chef, writing cookbooks or teaching cooking techniques on TV, though they were the tools of his trade. His mission has always been to demonstrate the art of nurturing and the craft of building and fortifying community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 953px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW.jpg\" alt=\" Jacques Pépin nearing his 80th birthday, contemplates a wall filled with framed pictures of close friends and people who have been influential in his life.\" width=\"953\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116752\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW.jpg 953w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-160x89.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-800x445.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-768x427.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-240x133.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-375x209.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/Screen-shot-2017-04-12-at-2.49-NEW-520x289.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin nearing his 80th birthday, contemplates a wall filled with framed pictures of close friends and people who have been influential in his life. \u003ccite>(screenshot from Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This timely tribute to one immigrant's journey in the U.S. reminds us that change is as likely to arrive on our shores as it is to be home grown, given the right conditions. Everything worth having is worth working for and, as Pépin demonstrates, there are tried and true techniques that, with practice, will help us to master the art of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Pépin (R), director Peter L. Stein (L), director of photography Vicente Franco, and sound engineer Jose Araujo, during the filming of Pépin’s American Masters documentary, 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116732\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-768x513.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-1180x788.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-960x641.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/JP-with-book-DSC_7094-1920-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Pépin (R), director Peter L. Stein (L), director of photography Vicente Franco, and sound engineer Jose Araujo, during the filming of Pépin’s American Masters documentary, 2016. \u003ccite>(Jennifer Huang )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>https://player.vimeo.com/video/211423771\u003cbr>\nDocumentary maker Peter L. Stein describes some of the special on- and off-screen challenges of bringing Jacques Pépin's story to the screen for PBS's American Masters, and recalls his longtime collaboration with Jacques as producer of many of his early public television series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>My earliest memory of my maternal grandmother is in a kitchen that I can just barely picture. It's far too large and blurry at the walls, which are dim and milky white. The table in front of me comes into focus, along with my grandmother's hands. She is making tortillas, flattening balls of dough with a rolling pin and then quickly transferring a disc of flour and lard from hand to hand before depositing it on a hot plancha. The finished tortilla lands in front of me. My little hands bring it to my mouth as the memory fades. Before disappearing, this brief image has communicated volumes about who I am and where I come from. It is my family's immigrant experience encapsulated in a single tortilla, passed from my grandmother's hands, which repeated these gestures countless times over the decades, preparing the staple that nourished her ten children and, when we were lucky, their children as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As 88-year-old Eva Hashiguchi prepares the many dishes that populate her annual Japanese New Year party, I couldn't help but flash on the above image of my own grandmother. These rituals are about more than just the acquisition and combination of ingredients, they are a complicated dance that involves the whole body in the offering. In Matthew Hashiguchi's film, \u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>, which takes its name from the centerpiece dish of Eva's annual family celebration, this meal is the site of more than just cooking and eating. Matthew and his extended family have been sustained by their matriarch's relentless positivity, but also shaped by a defining trauma without which their family may never have come into existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Roy Choi\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Roy Choi \u003ccite>(Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodlucksoupfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is one of just a few food-related films screening at this year's 35th annual \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFest\u003c/a>, put on by the Center for Asian American Media, which runs March 9-19, 2017 and features 113 films from around the globe at various Bay Area locations. As usual, the festival is kicked off by the \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/section/caamfeast/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFeast\u003c/a>, a celebration of Asian American culinary achievement on March 4, 2017. Each year, the Feast acknowledges the contributions of a trio of chefs and food organizations. This year, alongside the Asian Chefs Association and People's Kitchen Collective, the feast honors chef Roy Choi, whose Kogi fleet of L.A.-based Korean taco trucks is credited with kicking off the current food truck phenomenon. Choi's signature Korean BBQ taco is a quintessentially Los Angeles invention, famously representing the city's diversity through taste and giving voice to a certain part of the immigration experience. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast annually celebrates the centrality of cuisine to culture and identity. This year's food-related selections elaborate the complicated issues surrounding the immigrant experience, taking on added relevance in the current political climate. The kitchen is so often the site where individual flair meets family tradition. Flavors melt but remain distinct. Immigrants may arrive and assimilate other aspects of their original cultures, but taste persists. Food defines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/azE0SSHFcmI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/good-luck-soup/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 18) begins with a startling admission; the filmmaker remembers yelling \"I don't want to be Japanese\" at his Japanese-American father. As a mixed-race kid growing up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, Hashiguchi felt intense pressure to assimilate. He and his siblings recount the constant requests for definition their looks, their culture and their name inspired. His family belonged to a tight-knit enclave of American citizens of Japanese descent that formed shortly after World War II, when they were released from the infamous internment camps. It is this trauma that worries Eva's progeny. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Good Luck Soup\" width=\"640\" height=\"953\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-800x1191.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-768x1143.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-960x1429.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-375x558.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-520x774.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Good Luck Soup\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva is an American citizen, born in Florin, CA to Japanese immigrants. She and her family lost their fruit farm and were interned by the United States government shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She spent her teenage years in the camps, where she also met her future husband. While Eva freely shares her experiences from that period, she lived her life determined not to let this deep betrayal limit or define her. If anything, the internment clarified many aspects of the American experience for Eva and redoubled her commitment to celebrate her Japanese heritage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva's three children married non-Japanese men and women. Today, her grandchildren struggle with their heritage and wonder what will happen when 88-year-old Eva no longer prepares that annual bowl of good luck soup. The film is a heartfelt and personal exploration of what it means to be American, using the preparation of an annual meal to reveal the complicated issues of immigration, race, heritage and assimilation, while exploring the lasting impact of a great injustice the U.S. government committed against a group of its own citizens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Sunday Dinner\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Sunday Dinner\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/sunday-dinner/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Sunday Dinner\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a short included in the program \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/events/eat-chinatown/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Eat Chinatown\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 11) provides an interesting contrast. The film is a loving portrait of a patriarch's prep for his weekly family sit-down. While he cooks Sunday dinner, Kwok Wai Chan briefly describes his escape from Mao's China and professes his admiration for the United States, a land where his hard work has been rewarded -- a place where he has felt free. The film calls into question much of the current rhetoric about immigration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAAMFeast honoree, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RidingShotgunLA\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Choi's\u003c/a> immigrant experience is best expressed in the flavor of his food. Both Choi's parents are from Korea, his mother from the north, his father from the south. His family arrived in California when Choi was two years old. Their entrepreneurial adventure included selling jars of his mother's homemade kimchee out of the trunk of the family car. Choi describes her as having \"flavor in her fingertips,\" a quality he obviously inherited. The family ran several businesses, including a Korean restaurant in Anaheim, CA, which launched and failed during a formative period for Choi. Later, his parents would make their fortune in the jewelry business and move into an upscale suburb in Orange County. Choi's misspent youth, which included some famous addictions -- to drugs, milkshakes, and gambling -- and time spent as a low-rider in Norwalk, is well documented in his memoir/cookbook \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/L-Son-Life-City/dp/0062202634\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He runs a fleet of food trucks and has opened several restaurants across Los Angeles, but his main accomplishment seems to be synthesizing the flavors of his Korean roots with the Mexican street foods of his youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovation is powerfully connected to diversity, which cannot be separated from the global circulation of influences and populations. The CAAMFeast is an annual reminder of how the food we eat expresses where we come from while providing fuel for the way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast is Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the San Francisco War Memorial Green Room in San Francisco. The 35th annual CAAMFest is March 9-19, 2017 at various Bay Area locations. For \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">tickets and information\u003c/a> visit caamfest.com. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>My earliest memory of my maternal grandmother is in a kitchen that I can just barely picture. It's far too large and blurry at the walls, which are dim and milky white. The table in front of me comes into focus, along with my grandmother's hands. She is making tortillas, flattening balls of dough with a rolling pin and then quickly transferring a disc of flour and lard from hand to hand before depositing it on a hot plancha. The finished tortilla lands in front of me. My little hands bring it to my mouth as the memory fades. Before disappearing, this brief image has communicated volumes about who I am and where I come from. It is my family's immigrant experience encapsulated in a single tortilla, passed from my grandmother's hands, which repeated these gestures countless times over the decades, preparing the staple that nourished her ten children and, when we were lucky, their children as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As 88-year-old Eva Hashiguchi prepares the many dishes that populate her annual Japanese New Year party, I couldn't help but flash on the above image of my own grandmother. These rituals are about more than just the acquisition and combination of ingredients, they are a complicated dance that involves the whole body in the offering. In Matthew Hashiguchi's film, \u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>, which takes its name from the centerpiece dish of Eva's annual family celebration, this meal is the site of more than just cooking and eating. Matthew and his extended family have been sustained by their matriarch's relentless positivity, but also shaped by a defining trauma without which their family may never have come into existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Roy Choi\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Roy Choi \u003ccite>(Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodlucksoupfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is one of just a few food-related films screening at this year's 35th annual \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFest\u003c/a>, put on by the Center for Asian American Media, which runs March 9-19, 2017 and features 113 films from around the globe at various Bay Area locations. As usual, the festival is kicked off by the \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/section/caamfeast/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFeast\u003c/a>, a celebration of Asian American culinary achievement on March 4, 2017. Each year, the Feast acknowledges the contributions of a trio of chefs and food organizations. This year, alongside the Asian Chefs Association and People's Kitchen Collective, the feast honors chef Roy Choi, whose Kogi fleet of L.A.-based Korean taco trucks is credited with kicking off the current food truck phenomenon. Choi's signature Korean BBQ taco is a quintessentially Los Angeles invention, famously representing the city's diversity through taste and giving voice to a certain part of the immigration experience. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast annually celebrates the centrality of cuisine to culture and identity. This year's food-related selections elaborate the complicated issues surrounding the immigrant experience, taking on added relevance in the current political climate. The kitchen is so often the site where individual flair meets family tradition. Flavors melt but remain distinct. Immigrants may arrive and assimilate other aspects of their original cultures, but taste persists. Food defines.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/azE0SSHFcmI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/azE0SSHFcmI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/good-luck-soup/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 18) begins with a startling admission; the filmmaker remembers yelling \"I don't want to be Japanese\" at his Japanese-American father. As a mixed-race kid growing up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, Hashiguchi felt intense pressure to assimilate. He and his siblings recount the constant requests for definition their looks, their culture and their name inspired. His family belonged to a tight-knit enclave of American citizens of Japanese descent that formed shortly after World War II, when they were released from the infamous internment camps. It is this trauma that worries Eva's progeny. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Good Luck Soup\" width=\"640\" height=\"953\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-800x1191.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-768x1143.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-960x1429.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-375x558.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-520x774.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Good Luck Soup\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva is an American citizen, born in Florin, CA to Japanese immigrants. She and her family lost their fruit farm and were interned by the United States government shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She spent her teenage years in the camps, where she also met her future husband. While Eva freely shares her experiences from that period, she lived her life determined not to let this deep betrayal limit or define her. If anything, the internment clarified many aspects of the American experience for Eva and redoubled her commitment to celebrate her Japanese heritage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva's three children married non-Japanese men and women. Today, her grandchildren struggle with their heritage and wonder what will happen when 88-year-old Eva no longer prepares that annual bowl of good luck soup. The film is a heartfelt and personal exploration of what it means to be American, using the preparation of an annual meal to reveal the complicated issues of immigration, race, heritage and assimilation, while exploring the lasting impact of a great injustice the U.S. government committed against a group of its own citizens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Sunday Dinner\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Sunday Dinner\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/sunday-dinner/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Sunday Dinner\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a short included in the program \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/events/eat-chinatown/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Eat Chinatown\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 11) provides an interesting contrast. The film is a loving portrait of a patriarch's prep for his weekly family sit-down. While he cooks Sunday dinner, Kwok Wai Chan briefly describes his escape from Mao's China and professes his admiration for the United States, a land where his hard work has been rewarded -- a place where he has felt free. The film calls into question much of the current rhetoric about immigration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAAMFeast honoree, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RidingShotgunLA\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Choi's\u003c/a> immigrant experience is best expressed in the flavor of his food. Both Choi's parents are from Korea, his mother from the north, his father from the south. His family arrived in California when Choi was two years old. Their entrepreneurial adventure included selling jars of his mother's homemade kimchee out of the trunk of the family car. Choi describes her as having \"flavor in her fingertips,\" a quality he obviously inherited. The family ran several businesses, including a Korean restaurant in Anaheim, CA, which launched and failed during a formative period for Choi. Later, his parents would make their fortune in the jewelry business and move into an upscale suburb in Orange County. Choi's misspent youth, which included some famous addictions -- to drugs, milkshakes, and gambling -- and time spent as a low-rider in Norwalk, is well documented in his memoir/cookbook \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/L-Son-Life-City/dp/0062202634\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He runs a fleet of food trucks and has opened several restaurants across Los Angeles, but his main accomplishment seems to be synthesizing the flavors of his Korean roots with the Mexican street foods of his youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovation is powerfully connected to diversity, which cannot be separated from the global circulation of influences and populations. The CAAMFeast is an annual reminder of how the food we eat expresses where we come from while providing fuel for the way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mvff.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mill Valley Film Festival\u003c/a> inhabits a rare “goldilocks” zone within the cinematic universe, with the smart good fortune of arriving as summer turns to fall and Hollywood gears up for Oscar gold. The festival manages to snag more than its fair share of prestigious premieres weeks or months before they become available to the rest of us, attracting the attention of A-list stars willing to spend a couple of days being feted in tony, upscale Marin. (Twenty-sixteen is no different; the festival guest list includes Amy Adams, Nicole Kidman, Gael Garcia Bernal, Aaron Eckhart, Julie Dash and Ewan McGregor among dozens of glittering others.) Most likely, part of the fest's draw is the food and wine on tap in a region famous for -- well -- food and wine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a fitting pairing, this year’s festival features a small selection of films detailing the exploits of international celebrity chefs and restaurateurs. Anyone who has viewed even a small number of food documentaries knows that the genre has developed a very strong sensual style of its own. One doesn’t just take a camera into a kitchen and uncover magic in the making. Food preparation doesn’t often look that appetizing. There is an art to the lighting and presentation of the process that has been refined since the mid-1960s. Now we find ourselves in an age where the glories of food are regularly celebrated in dazzling cinematic style. All three of the films featured in Mill Valley’s culinary sidebar present their subjects in sumptuous detail. They are gorgeous and absorbing, illuminating activities and slices of history, while expanding ideas about what constitutes nourishment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Lydia Tenaglia’s \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/181403743\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the very personal struggles of a legendary celebrity chef are delicately exposed. The film is almost like a therapy session, a journey into the subconscious motivations of a complicated man, beginning with lush reenactments of childhood trauma. Tower, the son of wealthy Brits, spent much of his life traveling the world first class -- with his family and without them. Apparently, the boy was left to his own devices in luxury liner cabins and four star hotel rooms from a very early age. He even lived for a time alone in a hotel suite until his parents realized that neither had enrolled him in school. While these adventures included (often inappropriate) sexual encounters, they also locate Tower’s love of food inside the kitchens of the world's most exclusive establishments. The young Tower seems to have eaten his feelings and later on would express his affection for friends through a kind of regurgitation (that sounds awful, I know) in the kitchen. He recreated from memory the dishes of his childhood in an attempt to conjure those early feelings of comfort for himself and his guests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent. \u003ccite>(Morgan Fallon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tower is, and apparently always has been, a capital-R Romantic; an overwhelming sense of melancholy hangs over the film. He seems to have been born out of time, carrying deep inside a longing for a lost aesthetic age. Most BAB readers will know the outline of the chef’s history. Having graduated from Harvard (his interest was in underwater architecture), Tower’s family promptly cut him loose financially. In search of a job, he ended up at Berkeley's Chez Panisse in 1972. At the time, it was a struggling hangout for Alice Waters and her crew, described by one character in the film as a “hippie, drug-ridden explosion in a playpen.” Gorgeous old film footage captures a sense of wild abandon and innocence at the famed restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tower brought his ideas about food from a lifetime of travel to Chez Panisse and within a few years helped put it on the map. This being Berkeley in the 1970s, the endeavor is described as something of an orgy — sex, drugs, love, food, creation, companionship, drama and more sex. The relationship between Waters and Tower included enough heat to create a legend, spark a food movement, and unfortunately ended in a very public feud. (Saint Alice is silent -- at least within the confines of this film -- on the subject.) Tower continued his rise and became the celebrity chef of San Francisco in the 1980s, opening the world-class Stars as a hangout for famous characters high and low. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at some point, Tower dropped out of sight and went into seclusion. Once ubiquitous, synonymous with the California cuisine he helped to create, the enigmatic chef moved on. \u003cem>The Last Magnificent\u003c/em> attempts to solve the man’s mystery, but only generates more. Tower is more than once described as having a “locked room inside.” The film cracks open that door just a little, but every explanation seems too simplistic. How can we really know the unknown forces that drive those who change the world? \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112513\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella.jpg\" alt=\"Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella-400x320.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella-768x614.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/ella-960x768.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table \u003ccite>(Jack Robinson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Equally sumptuous is Leslie Iwerks' \u003cem>Ella Brennan: Commanding the Table\u003c/em>, a loving portrait of the doyenne of New Orleans cooking. It is interesting to view this film next to the one about Jeremiah Tower because it illuminates the importance of healthy collaboration between a smart, creative restaurateur and the chefs who create the menu. Where the partnership between Waters and Tower became complicated by unknown and still unexplained tensions, Ella Brennan’s success is based on her ability to unlock culinary creativity within the magnetic personalities she has ushered into the spotlight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brennan was pushed into the career she would spend the rest of her life pursuing by her eldest brother. One of six siblings in a very tight clan, Ella became involved in what became the family business in her teens, when the Brennans decided to take over a famous New Orleans nightspot. The Irish clan soon found themselves in direct competition with the city’s famous French restaurants and struggled to define themselves. They decided to put their signature on breakfast, added alcohol and ushered in a new era of creativity for a previously ignored meal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film gorgeously moves through the family’s early years in the business, opening and establishing one amazing restaurant after another in New Orleans. Ella’s philosophy is summed up in her younger sister’s statement, “[Running a restaurant] is like show business. You do two shows a day. At five o’clock you brush your teeth, put your lipstick on, have a scotch and do the whole thing again.” Ella Brennan lead her family through multiple incarnations and eventually ended up reviving Commander’s Palace, where she would introduce chefs Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagasse and Jamie Shannon to the world. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/181401441\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar to Jeremiah Tower, no detail of the food experience takes precedence for Brennan. Both characters are driven and exacting. Brennan’s success can be attributed to her personable application of hospitality, which she developed early, and to her ability to spot talented chefs, encouraging each to express his own unique vision in the kitchen. Food is entertainment to be sure, but for Brennan sharing a table, even with hundreds of people a night, is powerfully connected to home and family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo.jpg\" alt=\"Massimo Bottura, Theater of Life\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/massimo-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Massimo Bottura, Theater of Life\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Finally, the third film in the Mill Valley Film Festival's food trilogy is Peter Svatek's \u003cem>Theater of Life\u003c/em>, which documents chef Massimo Bottura's innovative program to eliminate food waste at Expo Milano 2015, a world's fair held in Milan, Italy. Inspired by the expo's theme, \"Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,\" Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana was named world’s best restaurant in 2016, converted an abandoned theater into a soup kitchen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renowned chefs from around the world turned each day’s spoils — food headed for the trash bin (most particularly day-old bread) — into gourmet meals for the homeless. Through the effort we come to know the issues faced by the beneficiaries of these amazing dishes. The cast of characters is large, including international food stars, a parish priest, poor and disabled Italians and African refugees, who all meet at the tables of Bottura's Reffetorio. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/174869482\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two documentaries in this series present lovingly crafted histories of characters who have had a tremendous impact on how we eat and — most importantly — how we think about food. \u003cem>Theater of Life\u003c/em> provides an important way forward with a philosophy for managing our precious resources and channeling thought and talent into the feeding of a greater portion of the population. Why should fine dining be limited to the elites when so much food is going to waste? Why is healthy food a luxury? Why are the lessons Tower, Brennan and countless others have taught us about the nature of food still only understood by a precious few? \u003cem>Theater of Life\u003c/em> shows how the consumption of good food actually does more than feed the body; it opens the mind and nourishes the soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mill Valley Film Festival runs October 6-16, 2016 at various Marin County locations. For tickets and information visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.mvff.com/\" target=\"_blank\">mvff.com\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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While these adventures included (often inappropriate) sexual encounters, they also locate Tower’s love of food inside the kitchens of the world's most exclusive establishments. The young Tower seems to have eaten his feelings and later on would express his affection for friends through a kind of regurgitation (that sounds awful, I know) in the kitchen. He recreated from memory the dishes of his childhood in an attempt to conjure those early feelings of comfort for himself and his guests. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT.jpg\" alt=\"Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112512\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/10/JT-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent. \u003ccite>(Morgan Fallon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tower is, and apparently always has been, a capital-R Romantic; an overwhelming sense of melancholy hangs over the film. He seems to have been born out of time, carrying deep inside a longing for a lost aesthetic age. Most BAB readers will know the outline of the chef’s history. Having graduated from Harvard (his interest was in underwater architecture), Tower’s family promptly cut him loose financially. In search of a job, he ended up at Berkeley's Chez Panisse in 1972. At the time, it was a struggling hangout for Alice Waters and her crew, described by one character in the film as a “hippie, drug-ridden explosion in a playpen.” Gorgeous old film footage captures a sense of wild abandon and innocence at the famed restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tower brought his ideas about food from a lifetime of travel to Chez Panisse and within a few years helped put it on the map. This being Berkeley in the 1970s, the endeavor is described as something of an orgy — sex, drugs, love, food, creation, companionship, drama and more sex. The relationship between Waters and Tower included enough heat to create a legend, spark a food movement, and unfortunately ended in a very public feud. (Saint Alice is silent -- at least within the confines of this film -- on the subject.) Tower continued his rise and became the celebrity chef of San Francisco in the 1980s, opening the world-class Stars as a hangout for famous characters high and low. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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