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But it seems like with all the TV shows with gay characters, the political environment in general and changing attitudes of a younger generation, this is becoming less of an issue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like coming out as a chef? Has being an LGBT person affected your career in any particular way? \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWell it’s very rare that I ever have to come out to people. I kinda wear it on my sleeve, but I suppose there is always someone who doesn’t get it. I don’t really bother with those people. They’ll figure it out. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being queer has to affect everything I do because it is who I am. I think once I moved into a place in my career where I was applying for Executive Chef positions, my triple minority status has probably helped me from a diversity stand point. I also suppose it added to Bravo’s interest in me as a contestant on Top Chef. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/green-tea-kit-kat.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43741\" title=\"green tea kit kat \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/green-tea-kit-kat.jpg\" alt=\"green tea kit kat \" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> green tea flavored Kit Kat from Japan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often wish I could be magically transported to the middle of a bustling street market in a far-off land, surrounded by unfamiliar sights, enticing aromas and tempting tastes. When this impulse hits, lacking a plane ticket and a couple of weeks off, I head to Richmond’s Pacific East Mall, where a short voyage plunks me down in the midst of –-no, not a street market, but maybe the next best thing -- an emporium of Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Japanese and Indonesian restaurants and foodstuffs. I lose myself for hours, sampling exotic--to me--dishes and perusing products that have made their own journeys across the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/boba-drinks.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43742\" title=\"boba drinks\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/boba-drinks.jpg\" alt=\"boba drinks\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>mango tea with jellies and taro bubble tea\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good start for a Pacific East Mall outing is a tall cup of \u003cem>boba\u003c/em> (the popular \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea\">bubble tea\u003c/a> beverage that originated in Taiwan) from \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/j-and-s-coffee-and-tea-house-richmond\">J & S Coffee Tea House\u003c/a>, whose menu lists over 100 drinks made with combinations of milk, tea and fruit or other flavors. I have it on very good authority (teenage daughter) that their taro milk tea with tapioca is “the best” and besides tapioca balls, they offer a dozen different colorful jelly bits--including mango, lychee and passion-fruit flavors--to add some chewy confetti to your drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Sheg-kee-bakery.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43743\" title=\"Sheg kee bakery\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Sheg-kee-bakery.jpg\" alt=\"Sheg kee bakery\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>from top left: red bean toast, sesame engagement pastry, date-filled mini-mooncake, taro twist\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next stop is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.shengkee.com/\">Sheng Kee Bakery\u003c/a> with a wide array of traditional Chinese and western-inspired baked goods. I like to try one or two of their buns, rolls, croissants or tall fluffy breads on each visit. Recently, I was drawn to the individually wrapped quarter circles labelled “engagement pastry” in sesame, red bean, pineapple or date flavors. When I asked, the cashier told me these represent a gift given to the family to celebrate an engagement. The sesame pastry provided a friendly, nutty, cookie-like crunch. I have previously taken home their tall taro and red bean breads and date moon cakes. I'm always on the lookout for a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/10/24/trekking-for-taro-in-the-east-bay/\">new taro treat\u003c/a> and was happy to discover their taro twist, filled with lavender, almond paste-infused taro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s time for a real meal, the mall offers many options for casual, well-traveled spots, including: Thai take-out, Vietnamese Pho, a Noodle house, as well as Japanese, Chinese and Korean eateries. One popular Hong Kong-style restaurant, \u003ca href=\"http://asianpearl.yolasite.com/\">Asian Pearl\u003c/a>, is known for their dim sum (no carts wheeled around here–-so you need to order from the menu, but there are some helpful \u003ca href=\"http://asianpearl.yolasite.com/dim-sum-picture.php\">pictures\u003c/a> or you can always glance over at what diners at the next table are having.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/bibimbap1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43948\" title=\"bibimbap\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/bibimbap1.jpg\" alt=\"bibimbap\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>hot stone bibimbap and banchan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my most recent visit, I had dinner at the spacious, wood-paneled \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/koreana-kitchen-ii-richmond\">Koreana Kitchen II\u003c/a> and enjoyed the hot stone \u003cem>bibimbap\u003c/em>, a bowl of rice, topped with mushrooms, spinach, carrots, bean sprouts, seaweed and a choice of protein. The best part was the 10 little dishes of \u003cem>banchan\u003c/em> that accompany all meals, such as kim chi daikon and cabbage, crispy sweet potato, crunchy seaweed, slippery yam noodles, sweet-ish fish cake and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sustained by a full tummy, I am ready to tackle the fascinating wares at the queen of the mall, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/99-ranch-market-richmond-2\">99 Ranch Market\u003c/a>, a one-stop shop for adventurous (or homesick) cooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-at-99-ranch.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43744\" title=\" blue crabs and fish at 99 ranch\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-at-99-ranch.jpg\" alt=\" blue crabs and fish at 99 ranch\" width=\"560\" height=\"520\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ocean of fresh fish and seafood lines the back wall, including tanks of live catfish and mussels and clams in ponds of bubbling water. The produce section is home to hard-to-find fruits and vegetables, such as banana flower buds, gobo, lotus root, wood-ear mushrooms and galangal. One market aisle is devoted to a rainbow of rice, (black, white, brown and red) in large to huge sacks. Another features tangled knots of noodles made out of everything from mung beans to sweet potatoes. The snack aisle displays crunchy treats in unusual flavor combinations, such as green onion cookies, durian mochi and strawberry flavored beef jerky. If you are cooking an Asian dish, 99 Ranch is sure to have whatever ingredients you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/walnut-soup.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43745\" title=\"walnut soup\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/walnut-soup.jpg\" alt=\"walnut soup\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time I availed myself of 99 Ranch’s worldly repertoire, I was planning to make the comforting Walnut Soup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceyoung.com/\">Grace Young\u003c/a>’s first cookbook, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Chinese-Kitchen-Celebration/dp/0684847396\">The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen\u003c/a>. The creamy soup, which according to Young is considered a tonic in Chinese culture, has only 3 ingredients. I could manage the oven-roasted walnuts on my own, but knew I needed some help with the other two. So I asked a cashier where to find the rice flour (non-glutinous, specifies Young) and \u003cem>peen tong\u003c/em>, a kind of brown sugar that comes in chunky bars. The cashier’s face brightened at the mention of \u003cem>peen tong\u003c/em> and she directed me to the appropriate aisles. I picked up a couple of other items that I usually get at 99 Ranch (like huge packages of individual servings of crispy Korean seaweed) and headed back to the same cashier I originally asked for help. She seemed genuinely thrilled that I was going to make something with the golden ingots of sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of sugar, another mall shop that is sure to please any sweet-tooth is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/candy-box-richmond\">Candy Box\u003c/a>. A tiny space, crammed floor to ceiling with sugary and salty imported treats from Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii. Day-glo sour fruit, hot, spicy squid and gummy everything plus a sweet, chatty owner who provides generous samples. On my recent visit, she was putting up a sign in the crowded window featuring her latest shipment of Green Tea Flavored Kit Kat bars from Japan. “These are so popular,” she told me, “they will be sold out in a couple of days.” “Why?” I asked? “Don’t know, they’re from Japan, hard to find and people think green tea is healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/chicken-21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43956\" title=\"gummy chicken feet\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/chicken-21.jpg\" alt=\"gummy chicken feet\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t worry if you missed your chance to shout “gimme a break” in Japanese, or didn’t get enough dim sum at Asian Pearl. You can always take home some gummy chicken feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Be forewarned: finding parking can be a nightmare here, especially on the weekends and many shops only accept cash.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/jTVe\">Pacific East Mall\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n3288 Pierce St.\u003cbr>\nRichmond, CA 94804\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I'm always on the lookout for a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/10/24/trekking-for-taro-in-the-east-bay/\">new taro treat\u003c/a> and was happy to discover their taro twist, filled with lavender, almond paste-infused taro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it’s time for a real meal, the mall offers many options for casual, well-traveled spots, including: Thai take-out, Vietnamese Pho, a Noodle house, as well as Japanese, Chinese and Korean eateries. One popular Hong Kong-style restaurant, \u003ca href=\"http://asianpearl.yolasite.com/\">Asian Pearl\u003c/a>, is known for their dim sum (no carts wheeled around here–-so you need to order from the menu, but there are some helpful \u003ca href=\"http://asianpearl.yolasite.com/dim-sum-picture.php\">pictures\u003c/a> or you can always glance over at what diners at the next table are having.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/bibimbap1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43948\" title=\"bibimbap\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/bibimbap1.jpg\" alt=\"bibimbap\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>hot stone bibimbap and banchan\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my most recent visit, I had dinner at the spacious, wood-paneled \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/koreana-kitchen-ii-richmond\">Koreana Kitchen II\u003c/a> and enjoyed the hot stone \u003cem>bibimbap\u003c/em>, a bowl of rice, topped with mushrooms, spinach, carrots, bean sprouts, seaweed and a choice of protein. The best part was the 10 little dishes of \u003cem>banchan\u003c/em> that accompany all meals, such as kim chi daikon and cabbage, crispy sweet potato, crunchy seaweed, slippery yam noodles, sweet-ish fish cake and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sustained by a full tummy, I am ready to tackle the fascinating wares at the queen of the mall, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/99-ranch-market-richmond-2\">99 Ranch Market\u003c/a>, a one-stop shop for adventurous (or homesick) cooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-at-99-ranch.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43744\" title=\" blue crabs and fish at 99 ranch\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-at-99-ranch.jpg\" alt=\" blue crabs and fish at 99 ranch\" width=\"560\" height=\"520\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ocean of fresh fish and seafood lines the back wall, including tanks of live catfish and mussels and clams in ponds of bubbling water. The produce section is home to hard-to-find fruits and vegetables, such as banana flower buds, gobo, lotus root, wood-ear mushrooms and galangal. One market aisle is devoted to a rainbow of rice, (black, white, brown and red) in large to huge sacks. Another features tangled knots of noodles made out of everything from mung beans to sweet potatoes. The snack aisle displays crunchy treats in unusual flavor combinations, such as green onion cookies, durian mochi and strawberry flavored beef jerky. If you are cooking an Asian dish, 99 Ranch is sure to have whatever ingredients you need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/walnut-soup.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43745\" title=\"walnut soup\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/walnut-soup.jpg\" alt=\"walnut soup\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time I availed myself of 99 Ranch’s worldly repertoire, I was planning to make the comforting Walnut Soup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.graceyoung.com/\">Grace Young\u003c/a>’s first cookbook, \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Wisdom-Chinese-Kitchen-Celebration/dp/0684847396\">The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen\u003c/a>. The creamy soup, which according to Young is considered a tonic in Chinese culture, has only 3 ingredients. I could manage the oven-roasted walnuts on my own, but knew I needed some help with the other two. So I asked a cashier where to find the rice flour (non-glutinous, specifies Young) and \u003cem>peen tong\u003c/em>, a kind of brown sugar that comes in chunky bars. The cashier’s face brightened at the mention of \u003cem>peen tong\u003c/em> and she directed me to the appropriate aisles. I picked up a couple of other items that I usually get at 99 Ranch (like huge packages of individual servings of crispy Korean seaweed) and headed back to the same cashier I originally asked for help. She seemed genuinely thrilled that I was going to make something with the golden ingots of sugar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of sugar, another mall shop that is sure to please any sweet-tooth is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/candy-box-richmond\">Candy Box\u003c/a>. A tiny space, crammed floor to ceiling with sugary and salty imported treats from Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii. Day-glo sour fruit, hot, spicy squid and gummy everything plus a sweet, chatty owner who provides generous samples. On my recent visit, she was putting up a sign in the crowded window featuring her latest shipment of Green Tea Flavored Kit Kat bars from Japan. “These are so popular,” she told me, “they will be sold out in a couple of days.” “Why?” I asked? “Don’t know, they’re from Japan, hard to find and people think green tea is healthy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/chicken-21.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43956\" title=\"gummy chicken feet\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/chicken-21.jpg\" alt=\"gummy chicken feet\" width=\"560\" height=\"406\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t worry if you missed your chance to shout “gimme a break” in Japanese, or didn’t get enough dim sum at Asian Pearl. You can always take home some gummy chicken feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Be forewarned: finding parking can be a nightmare here, especially on the weekends and many shops only accept cash.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Nai-Siew-Saechao-May-Yan-Saechao.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43594\" title=\"Nai Siew Saechao and May Yan Saechao share a laugh talking about the herbs they grow at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Nai-Siew-Saechao-May-Yan-Saechao.jpg\" alt=\"Nai Siew Saechao and May Yan Saechao share a laugh talking about the herbs they grow at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland.\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Nai Siew Saechao (l) and May Yan Saechao (r) share a laugh talking about the herbs they grow at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park in Oakland. Photo: KQED/Don Clyde\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iu_Mien_American\">Mien\u003c/a> people of Laos had to leave in a hurry after the end of the Vietnam War. Like another Southeast Asian minority, the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hmong_people\">Hmong\u003c/a>, the Mien supported the US (specifically, the CIA and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Lao_Army\">Royal Lao Army\u003c/a>). So when the US pulled out of Vietnam and Laos, many Mien made a run for the Thai border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We left everything!” says Nai Siew Saechao, 77, of Oakland. “Cows, horse, pig, chickens. And of course the grain. The rice, corn. You can’t carry it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F108186813\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many Mien, Saecho first ended up in a Thai refugee camp, then moved overseas. Decades later, she’s growing a taste of home in the heart of East Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood, at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.peraltahacienda.org/pages/main.php?pageid=1&pagecategory=1\">Peralta Hacienda Historical Park\u003c/a>. It’s part of a joint program between the park and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lfcd.org/\">Lao Family Community Development\u003c/a>. The idea is to give elderly refugees a place to do what they grew up doing: growing their own food. Westerners called it \"subsistence farming,\" but that doesn't communicate the joy these gardeners cultivate along with their vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farmers grow many things we're all familiar with: pumpkins, corn, squash and so on. But perhaps the most interesting plants come straight from seed sent by family and friends back in Laos and Thailand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tafoo Saechao (it’s a common surname among the Mien) is a counselor for Lao Family, which estimates at least 450-500 Mien seniors in Oakland arrived in the early 1980s: all with little to no English-speaking skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Tafoo, who serves as our interpreter, struggles to name everything the farmers are growing. “Back in Laos, they grow many kinds [of beans].” Laughing as he points to one variety, he says “It’s a funny name but I don’t know how to say it in English. One kind of bean they call chicken crow’s bean.\u003cem> Jae gai dop\u003c/em>. They have many names. And many kinds: long ones, short ones, medium ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Yen-Fong-w-Top-Kway.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43595\" title=\"Yen Fong with Top Kway\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Yen-Fong-w-Top-Kway.jpg\" alt=\"Yen Fong with Top Kway\" width=\"400\" height=\"713\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yen Fong with Top Kway. Photo: Nina Egert\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ve seen \u003cem>Top Kway\u003c/em> in Asian markets. Break these long, skinny beans into manageable pieces and you can do anything you’d do with a shorter green bean, like fry them up in oil with hot peppers and/or spices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a similar fashion, many traditional herbs work well in any recipe that calls for a mix of herbs like mint and cilantro, whether stir-fried or stewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/herbs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43593\" title=\"herbs\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/herbs.jpg\" alt=\"herbs\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Nai Siew holding herbs. Photo: KQED/Don Clyde\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, some of the herbs grown at Peralta Hacienda have specific medicinal qualities you’ll want to know about before you throw them in your pot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dyear Zwang\u003c/em>, for instance, is often cooked with chicken, and served to post-partum women to help stop bleeding and rebuild their iron reserves. \u003cem>Zyeah Awh Myeeah\u003c/em>, also cooked with chicken, encourages lactation. Just so you know...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After May Yan Saechao arrived in Alabama (a pit stop on the way to Oakland), she sent a cassette tape to friends in Thailand, asking for some \u003cem>Dyear Zwang\u003c/em> to grow here in the U.S. Unclear on the concept, her friends sent her the plants, which did not arrive in good shape. She managed to salvage a few seeds and sent those back. Finally, a package arrived bearing enough seeds for her to establish a local crop for Mien women here in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/hand-herbs.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43592\" title=\"Lai Buah, or wild blue mustard greens.\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/hand-herbs.jpg\" alt=\"Lai Buah, or wild blue mustard greens.\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Lai Buah, or wild blue mustard greens. Photo: KQED/Don Clyde\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foo Sina, 76, is particularly fond of his \u003cem>Lai Buah\u003c/em>, or wild blue mustard greens. He likes to saute them with garlic, salt, dried red pepper, and soy sauce. You'd think the fresh appeal of farm to table would carry naturally through the generations, but Sina complains his grandchildren are not carrying on the tradition. Instead, they're happy to eat traditional foods that somebody else pulls out of the ground and prepares in the kitchen. “They lazy! They didn’t do anything. Only eat, go to the store, buy there. Very easy spend the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re inclined to be “lazy” and let somebody else do the cooking, you can find Mien dishes at \u003ca href=\"http://champagarden.com/\">Champa Gardens\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/vientian-caf%C3%A9-oakland-2\">Vientan Café\u003c/a>, both in Oakland. You'll notice them described as \"Asian fusion\" and \"Vietnamese, Thai,\" but those in the know say there's somebody Mien in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recipe: Mey Yan's Num (Pumpkin Blossoms)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pick 2 quarts worth of pumpkin blossoms. Remove stems and strings. Heat up vegetable oil in a frying pan, toss in blossoms and sprinkle with salt. Cook until tender. Serve!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/daymaru.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/daymaru.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese sweet\" title=\"Japanese sweet\" width=\"560\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43504\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Kyoto springtime sweet\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m up to my wrists in \u003cem>nukadoko\u003c/em>—a squishy, yeasty mulch of rice bran, miso, salted water, seaweed and red peppers—in a class on pickling vegetables at one of Kyoto’s premier pickle purveyors, the 95-year old \u003ca href=\"http://www.kawakatu.com/\">Kawakatu\u003c/a> company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructor, Mr. Akazawa, a master of the art of preserving more than a hundred veggies from eggplant to giant radish, explains that only a few decades ago, Japanese housewives routinely prepared their own pickles, but with women’s recent migration to the workplace, more people are purchasing this daily staple of Japanese cuisine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is actually explaining this all in Japanese, but luckily I have the gracious interpreting services of Tomoko Yoshihara, one of the \u003ca href=\"http://kyotofreeguide.sakura.ne.jp/\">Kyoto Free Guides\u003c/a> -- a generous group of volunteers who enjoy practicing their English by kindly taking tourists to visit gardens, temples or tearooms -- (Tomoko did say I was the first to ask for pickle making). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While my husband is here teaching at a local university for two weeks, I’ve decided that besides admiring the traditional wooden houses which line Kyoto’s charming narrow lanes, I want to appreciate the legendary food of this ancient city, known as “the historical and cultural heart of Japan,” not only by sampling its specialties, but by learning how to make a few of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/pickle-Collage-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/pickle-Collage-2.jpg\" alt=\"pickle making class\" title=\"pickle making class\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43155\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pickle making class and homework=lunch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After salting the daikon, cabbage, eggplant and cucumber, I bury them in my tub of rice bran mush, as directed by Mr. Akazawa. He tells me that once I take my container home, I should keep it covered, mix up the \u003cem>nukadoko\u003c/em> everyday and specifies how long to wait before each veggie will be properly pickled. The problem, I realize, is that the tub weighs over 10 pounds and there is no way I can lug it around on the bus all day. Tomoko and I have another class scheduled for the afternoon in \u003cem>wagashi\u003c/em> (sweet) making. No problem, says Mr. Akazawa, Kawakatu will be happy to deliver the tub of pickles to my door tomorrow morning -- and they do. Like so much in Kyoto, from white-gloved drivers in immaculate taxis with lace covered headrests to super helpful subway station agents, exceptional service is part of the cultural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/yuba-soup1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/yuba-soup1.jpg\" alt=\"yuba soup\" title=\"yuba soup\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43497\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Soba soup topped with yuba\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Kyoto’s climate makes it an ideal vegetable growing center and home to carrots and radishes only cultivated in this region, its pickles are particularly prized -- an item that Japanese visitors from other parts of the country often bring back as souvenirs. I taste a host other Kyoto specialties in coming days, including \u003cem>yuba\u003c/em>, paper-thin, dried, soybean milk skin and a rainbow of exquisitely shaped sweets made with rice flour mochi. It’s springtime, so the sweets, reflecting the Japanese reverence for nature, take the form of flowers, young green leaves and cherry blossoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/wagashi-making-class1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/wagashi-making-class1.jpg\" alt=\"wagashi making class\" title=\"wagashi making class\" width=\"560\" height=\"469\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43499\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sweets and tea\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kanshundo.co.jp/museum/make/annai_e.htm\">\u003cem>wagashi\u003c/em> making class\u003c/a>, we learn how to encase a marble of red bean paste with pearly white mochi to make a smooth globe (it’s harder than it looks). Pressing the ball with a spiral form leaves a circular imprint that we accent with a tiny pink petal. Tomoko tells me this represents a fallen cherry blossom in a pool of water. We sample our sweets the traditional way: with a bowl of matcha green tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/nishiki-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/nishiki-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Nishiki Market\" title=\"Nishiki Market\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43157\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Nishiki Market wares: from tofu to turban shells\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best place to see and savor Kyoto’s locally produced, fabulous foodstuffs is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kyoto-nishiki.or.jp/english/\">Nishiki Market\u003c/a>, a long covered hall whose sides are lined with fish sellers, pickle peddlers, dried fruit dealers, and tofu vendors, many offering free samples. I tour the market on another day with Kyoto Free Guide, Ririko Yoneda, who has thoughtfully prepared a mini-dictionary so she can answer my inevitable “What’s that?” with the appropriate “conger eel” or “turban-shell.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-pop1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-pop1.jpg\" alt=\"Fish paste pop\" title=\"Fish paste pop\" width=\"400\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43501\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Fish paste pop\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We stop for a snack of flavored fish paste on a stick. My sweet potato pop is yummy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Okonomiyaki-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Okonomiyaki-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Okonomiyaki \" title=\"Okonomiyaki \" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43158\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>DIY lunch: okonomiyaki\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow still feeling hungry, we head to a restaurant where we mix and then cook our lunch of \u003cem>okonomiyaki\u003c/em> on a hot grill. It’s a thick pancake made of cabbage, egg, ginger, green onions, flour and your choice of meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After lunch, Ririko and I take the old-fashioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.kyopro.kufs.ac.jp/dp/dp01.nsf/b7eb328e75d9627a49256feb00103b33/79fc17e94504d9b94925748f002b74c2!OpenDocument\">Randem tram\u003c/a> to a little \u003ca href=\"http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://home2.netpalace.jp/oisii-soba_daisuki/&ei=2ripT9LjB-mpiALpoKnSAg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhome2.netpalace.jp/oisii%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Dimvns\">soba shop\u003c/a> run by Mr. Umehara, who provides a lesson in making these popular buckwheat noodles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/soba-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/soba-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"soba making\" title=\"soba making\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43160\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Making buckwheat soba noodles with help from Mr. Umehara\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Ririko is a fine interpreter, the young soba chef and I find that words are not really necessary, as I attempt to copy his movements mixing, kneading and rolling out the stiff dough. He charmingly resorts to drawing in the flour to explain that my circle needs to become a square and then a long rectangle. Not surprisingly, the rolling requires a lot of muscle. The hardest part is cutting the noodles into uniform skinny strips with a huge, heavy knife, an art that I gather takes months or years to master. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After my labors, Ririko and I enjoy a plate of cold cooked soba noodles that we dip into a tangy sauce enlivened with wasabi and green onions. Then Mr. Umehara brings over a pitcher of milky water. Ririko explains that this is \u003cem>yu\u003c/em>, the cooking liquid from the soba noodles. We pour a generous amount into our dipping sauce bowls and the resulting soup is the perfect capper to our afternoon soba snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/daimaru-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/daimaru-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Daimaru Collage\" title=\"Daimaru Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43162\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> Daimaru Market's delicacies and tiny taste of seaweed salads\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another day, I venture out on my own to the food floor of \u003ca href=\"http://daimaru.web.transer.com/bb_url_ej.php?ctw_=sT,eCR-JE,bF,hT,uaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kYWltYXJ1LmNvLmpwL2ZvcmVpZ24va3lvdG8v,oaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kYWltYXJ1LmNvLmpwL2ZvcmVpZ24va3lvdG8=,f20120508133138-0,cVVRGLTg=,\">Daimaru department store\u003c/a>, where the selection is overwhelming: dozens of gorgeous salads, pastries, fried vegetables, again with plenty of tastes. The lovely thing about lunching in this living food museum is that a foreign visitor doesn’t need to struggle with a menu—just point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Emi-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Emi-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Emi Cooking class\" title=\"Emi Cooking class\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43164\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Cooking class: fish, fu, yuba and plum wine with Emi\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For my last food adventure, I’ve lined up a \u003ca href=\"www.kyotouzuki.com\">cooking class\u003c/a> given by Emi Hirayama in her home kitchen. She usually teaches 3-4 students at a time, but the other couple scheduled to attend got sick so I have the delightful Emi all to myself. In 3 hours we make and eat 5 different dishes that highlight spring flavors, such as prawn and sugar snap salad with white miso dressing and grilled sea bream. Emi has prepared ingredients in a dozen little bowls spread across her kitchen table and puts me to work grating a Japanese yam that becomes a sticky jelly, deboning fish and chopping \u003cem>sansho\u003c/em> pepper leaves. This accomplished cook also introduces me to 3 kinds of miso, mugwort and black sesame flavored \u003cem>fu\u003c/em> (wheat gluten) and explains why the sea bream is considered a lucky fish (its name in Japanese is a pun on the word for “celebrate”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Emi’s English is very good, as she maneuvers around her cozy kitchen pulling out a multitude of dishes to hold the many elements of the meal, she endearingly murmurs to herself in Japanese (as I know I do in English, trying to keep my place in a complicated recipe). She emphasizes presentation, so we make “little mountains” of the peas and prawns. We end the meal with tiny glasses of plum wine that she has—of course—made herself and clink our glasses with a toast: \u003cem>Kanpai!\u003c/em> And so I toast Emi, Tomoko, Ririko and Kyoto for the gift of these culinary adventures— \u003cem>Kanpai!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/noodle-love.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/noodle-love.jpg\" alt=\"noodle love\" title=\"noodle love\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43165\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A bowl of Kyoto noodle love\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Tomoko and I have another class scheduled for the afternoon in \u003cem>wagashi\u003c/em> (sweet) making. No problem, says Mr. Akazawa, Kawakatu will be happy to deliver the tub of pickles to my door tomorrow morning -- and they do. Like so much in Kyoto, from white-gloved drivers in immaculate taxis with lace covered headrests to super helpful subway station agents, exceptional service is part of the cultural landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/yuba-soup1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/yuba-soup1.jpg\" alt=\"yuba soup\" title=\"yuba soup\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43497\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Soba soup topped with yuba\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Kyoto’s climate makes it an ideal vegetable growing center and home to carrots and radishes only cultivated in this region, its pickles are particularly prized -- an item that Japanese visitors from other parts of the country often bring back as souvenirs. I taste a host other Kyoto specialties in coming days, including \u003cem>yuba\u003c/em>, paper-thin, dried, soybean milk skin and a rainbow of exquisitely shaped sweets made with rice flour mochi. It’s springtime, so the sweets, reflecting the Japanese reverence for nature, take the form of flowers, young green leaves and cherry blossoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/wagashi-making-class1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/wagashi-making-class1.jpg\" alt=\"wagashi making class\" title=\"wagashi making class\" width=\"560\" height=\"469\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43499\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sweets and tea\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kanshundo.co.jp/museum/make/annai_e.htm\">\u003cem>wagashi\u003c/em> making class\u003c/a>, we learn how to encase a marble of red bean paste with pearly white mochi to make a smooth globe (it’s harder than it looks). Pressing the ball with a spiral form leaves a circular imprint that we accent with a tiny pink petal. Tomoko tells me this represents a fallen cherry blossom in a pool of water. We sample our sweets the traditional way: with a bowl of matcha green tea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/nishiki-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/nishiki-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Nishiki Market\" title=\"Nishiki Market\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43157\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Nishiki Market wares: from tofu to turban shells\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best place to see and savor Kyoto’s locally produced, fabulous foodstuffs is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kyoto-nishiki.or.jp/english/\">Nishiki Market\u003c/a>, a long covered hall whose sides are lined with fish sellers, pickle peddlers, dried fruit dealers, and tofu vendors, many offering free samples. I tour the market on another day with Kyoto Free Guide, Ririko Yoneda, who has thoughtfully prepared a mini-dictionary so she can answer my inevitable “What’s that?” with the appropriate “conger eel” or “turban-shell.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-pop1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/fish-pop1.jpg\" alt=\"Fish paste pop\" title=\"Fish paste pop\" width=\"400\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43501\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Fish paste pop\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We stop for a snack of flavored fish paste on a stick. My sweet potato pop is yummy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Okonomiyaki-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Okonomiyaki-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Okonomiyaki \" title=\"Okonomiyaki \" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43158\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>DIY lunch: okonomiyaki\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow still feeling hungry, we head to a restaurant where we mix and then cook our lunch of \u003cem>okonomiyaki\u003c/em> on a hot grill. It’s a thick pancake made of cabbage, egg, ginger, green onions, flour and your choice of meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After lunch, Ririko and I take the old-fashioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.kyopro.kufs.ac.jp/dp/dp01.nsf/b7eb328e75d9627a49256feb00103b33/79fc17e94504d9b94925748f002b74c2!OpenDocument\">Randem tram\u003c/a> to a little \u003ca href=\"http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://home2.netpalace.jp/oisii-soba_daisuki/&ei=2ripT9LjB-mpiALpoKnSAg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhome2.netpalace.jp/oisii%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26prmd%3Dimvns\">soba shop\u003c/a> run by Mr. Umehara, who provides a lesson in making these popular buckwheat noodles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/soba-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/soba-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"soba making\" title=\"soba making\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43160\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Making buckwheat soba noodles with help from Mr. Umehara\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Ririko is a fine interpreter, the young soba chef and I find that words are not really necessary, as I attempt to copy his movements mixing, kneading and rolling out the stiff dough. He charmingly resorts to drawing in the flour to explain that my circle needs to become a square and then a long rectangle. Not surprisingly, the rolling requires a lot of muscle. The hardest part is cutting the noodles into uniform skinny strips with a huge, heavy knife, an art that I gather takes months or years to master. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After my labors, Ririko and I enjoy a plate of cold cooked soba noodles that we dip into a tangy sauce enlivened with wasabi and green onions. Then Mr. Umehara brings over a pitcher of milky water. Ririko explains that this is \u003cem>yu\u003c/em>, the cooking liquid from the soba noodles. We pour a generous amount into our dipping sauce bowls and the resulting soup is the perfect capper to our afternoon soba snack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/daimaru-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/daimaru-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Daimaru Collage\" title=\"Daimaru Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43162\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem> Daimaru Market's delicacies and tiny taste of seaweed salads\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another day, I venture out on my own to the food floor of \u003ca href=\"http://daimaru.web.transer.com/bb_url_ej.php?ctw_=sT,eCR-JE,bF,hT,uaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kYWltYXJ1LmNvLmpwL2ZvcmVpZ24va3lvdG8v,oaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kYWltYXJ1LmNvLmpwL2ZvcmVpZ24va3lvdG8=,f20120508133138-0,cVVRGLTg=,\">Daimaru department store\u003c/a>, where the selection is overwhelming: dozens of gorgeous salads, pastries, fried vegetables, again with plenty of tastes. The lovely thing about lunching in this living food museum is that a foreign visitor doesn’t need to struggle with a menu—just point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Emi-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/Emi-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"Emi Cooking class\" title=\"Emi Cooking class\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43164\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Cooking class: fish, fu, yuba and plum wine with Emi\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For my last food adventure, I’ve lined up a \u003ca href=\"www.kyotouzuki.com\">cooking class\u003c/a> given by Emi Hirayama in her home kitchen. She usually teaches 3-4 students at a time, but the other couple scheduled to attend got sick so I have the delightful Emi all to myself. In 3 hours we make and eat 5 different dishes that highlight spring flavors, such as prawn and sugar snap salad with white miso dressing and grilled sea bream. Emi has prepared ingredients in a dozen little bowls spread across her kitchen table and puts me to work grating a Japanese yam that becomes a sticky jelly, deboning fish and chopping \u003cem>sansho\u003c/em> pepper leaves. This accomplished cook also introduces me to 3 kinds of miso, mugwort and black sesame flavored \u003cem>fu\u003c/em> (wheat gluten) and explains why the sea bream is considered a lucky fish (its name in Japanese is a pun on the word for “celebrate”). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Emi’s English is very good, as she maneuvers around her cozy kitchen pulling out a multitude of dishes to hold the many elements of the meal, she endearingly murmurs to herself in Japanese (as I know I do in English, trying to keep my place in a complicated recipe). She emphasizes presentation, so we make “little mountains” of the peas and prawns. We end the meal with tiny glasses of plum wine that she has—of course—made herself and clink our glasses with a toast: \u003cem>Kanpai!\u003c/em> And so I toast Emi, Tomoko, Ririko and Kyoto for the gift of these culinary adventures— \u003cem>Kanpai!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman560.jpg\" alt=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" title=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41807\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s, when the CIA retreated from their “\u003ca title=\"Secret War Laos\" href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html\">Secret War\u003c/a>” in Laos. Today the Central Valley is a hub for Hmong refugees. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices with them -- and their recipes. At \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">a traditional Hmong ceremony\u003c/a> in the small town of Winton, a few dozen family members gathered to honor a young, pregnant Hmong woman -- Leena Yang. The ceremony was to ensure the healthy birth of the baby and a safe delivery for the mother. \"It's like a healing, prevention and protection together. The shaman welcomes the baby soul to the world,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\">Changvang Her\u003c/a>, a Hmong translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar560.jpg\" alt=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" title=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41813\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A traditional Hmong altar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First the shaman, May Yang, and her husband prepare an altar with offerings of eggs, uncooked rice, paper money and incense. The eggs, the shaman explains through an interpreter, are toys for the shaman spirits to play with. The rice is for the spirits to eat if they get hungry. Family members then spread a plastic sheet across the living floor, and carefully laid a slaughtered pig on the sheet. The pig had a rope wrapped around its belly that led to another rope, wrapped around the belly of a pregnant woman. For the next two hours the shaman chanted while she swayed back and forth and played ceremonial bells. The chants, she later explained, are prayers to the spirit world, offering the slaughtered pig as a sacrifice in exchange for a healthy birth. Throughout the ceremony, the shaman's husband burns pieces of the paper money as offerings to help the shaman pass through different spiritual levels, or realms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells560.jpg\" alt=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\" title=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn babys spirit.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41816\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony the men in the family took the pig to the garage to prepare it for the feast, while the women cooked in the kitchen and in a makeshift kitchen in the backyard. The first dish they began to prepare was the \"pork and cabbage,\" a pork and rice noodle dish wrapped in steamed cabbage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" title=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41773\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" title=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41774\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" title=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41776\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" title=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41777\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" title=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41778\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" title=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41779\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dish was prepared only for the mother-to-be: a freshly killed chicken. The chicken, cut in half, represents the separation of the mother and baby’s spirits and is part of the ceremony. The Hmong believe that mother and daughter are joined in one life, and soon before birth you must split them into two lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" title=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41780\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" title=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41781\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" title=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41782\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" title=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41783\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" title=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41784\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" title=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41785\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final, and most complicated dish was the trout, which was mostly prepared in the yard while the shaman performed the ceremony in the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" title=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41789\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" title=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41790\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41792\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" title=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41793\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" title=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41794\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women of the family -- who did the vast majority of the cooking -- proudly pose with the pregnant lady-of-honor in front of the feast they prepared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-women-photo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-women-photo560.jpg\" alt=\"Hmong women pose in front of the feast.\" title=\"Hmong women pose in front of the feast.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41823\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the men sit down to eat, while most of the women eat in the kitchen or the backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/men-eating.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/men-eating560.jpg\" alt=\"Men sit down to eat.\" title=\"After the ceremony, the men in the family sit down to enjoy the feast.\" width=\"560\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41826\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the feast, the mother-in-law warmly thanks the shaman and her husband. As they head to the front door, the shaman is gifted a bag filled with dozens of steamed pork and cabbage rolls to take home to her own family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visit KQED's State of Health blog to read about how \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">Hmong shamans in Merced are being trained in the basics of western medicine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201205041630/d\">Traditional Hmong Healers Learning to Partner With Valley Doctors\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205041630d.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201205041630d.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"excerpt": "Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices -- and their recipes. At traditional Hmong healing ceremony in rural Merced, family members feasted on pork and cabbage rolls, fresh fish, and more.",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-woman560.jpg\" alt=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" title=\"A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41807\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A Hmong shaman blesses a young pregnant woman in rural Merced.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hmong refugees have been resettling in California’s Central Valley since the late 1970s, when the CIA retreated from their “\u003ca title=\"Secret War Laos\" href=\"https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art7.html\">Secret War\u003c/a>” in Laos. Today the Central Valley is a hub for Hmong refugees. Most arrived with few personal belongings, but they did carry their cultural practices with them -- and their recipes. At \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/20/teaching-hmong-shamans-western-medicine/\">a traditional Hmong ceremony\u003c/a> in the small town of Winton, a few dozen family members gathered to honor a young, pregnant Hmong woman -- Leena Yang. The ceremony was to ensure the healthy birth of the baby and a safe delivery for the mother. \"It's like a healing, prevention and protection together. The shaman welcomes the baby soul to the world,\" said \u003ca title=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/ourxperience/2012/01/24/the-trauma-of-escape-a-hmong-mans-journey-to-the-u-s/\">Changvang Her\u003c/a>, a Hmong translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/altar560.jpg\" alt=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" title=\"A traditional Hmong altar.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41813\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>A traditional Hmong altar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First the shaman, May Yang, and her husband prepare an altar with offerings of eggs, uncooked rice, paper money and incense. The eggs, the shaman explains through an interpreter, are toys for the shaman spirits to play with. The rice is for the spirits to eat if they get hungry. Family members then spread a plastic sheet across the living floor, and carefully laid a slaughtered pig on the sheet. The pig had a rope wrapped around its belly that led to another rope, wrapped around the belly of a pregnant woman. For the next two hours the shaman chanted while she swayed back and forth and played ceremonial bells. The chants, she later explained, are prayers to the spirit world, offering the slaughtered pig as a sacrifice in exchange for a healthy birth. Throughout the ceremony, the shaman's husband burns pieces of the paper money as offerings to help the shaman pass through different spiritual levels, or realms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/hmong-shaman-bells560.jpg\" alt=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\" title=\"May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn babys spirit.\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41816\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>May Yang, the shaman, rattles ceremonial bells to help the unborn baby's spirit.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ceremony the men in the family took the pig to the garage to prepare it for the feast, while the women cooked in the kitchen and in a makeshift kitchen in the backyard. The first dish they began to prepare was the \"pork and cabbage,\" a pork and rice noodle dish wrapped in steamed cabbage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" title=\"Yep, that's the pig.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41773\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" title=\"The men in the family cut up the pig in garage in preparation for the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41774\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" title=\"Meanwhile in the kitchen, the women carefully steam leaves of cabbage.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41776\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" title=\"The pork meat is mixed with cilantro, green onions and thin rice noodles.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41777\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" title=\"The women then wrap the steamed cabbage around the meat.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41778\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/cabbage-7-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" title=\"The cabbage rolls are steamed, then served\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41779\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One dish was prepared only for the mother-to-be: a freshly killed chicken. The chicken, cut in half, represents the separation of the mother and baby’s spirits and is part of the ceremony. The Hmong believe that mother and daughter are joined in one life, and soon before birth you must split them into two lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" title=\"The mother-in-law plucks the chicken in her backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41780\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" title=\"She then rinses the last of the feathers off the chicken.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41781\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" title=\"The shaman's husband carefully places the chicken in the doorway.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41782\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" title=\"He adds a paper cut out of two people on the chicken, representing mother and child.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41783\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" title=\"The shaman’s husband cuts the chicken – and the paper dolls – in half. This symbolizes the separation of the mother and child’s souls.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41784\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/chicken-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" title=\"The mother-in-law takes the other half of the chicken to her daughter-in-law, who eats it before the feast.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41785\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final, and most complicated dish was the trout, which was mostly prepared in the yard while the shaman performed the ceremony in the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" title=\"Family members prepare the fish in the backyard.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41789\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" title=\"A young woman carefully cuts off a fish’s head.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41790\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Garlic cloves are baked, peeled, then mashed up with a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41791\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" title=\"Grilled chili peppers are also mashed in a mortar and pestle.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41792\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" title=\"After baking the women painstakingly take out tiny fish needles from the dish.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-41793\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/fish-6-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. Then it's baked and ready to serve.\" title=\"The fish is then mixed with garlic, eggs and chili peppers. 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The Kapoors are taking this traditional Southern Indian staple and giving it a modern twist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dosas are thin, crepe-like delicacies made from a rice and lentil batter, making them naturally gluten-free. The dosa crepes are then filled with a variety of ingredients. That’s where the fun comes in for Akash, who created the menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/Paisano-Dosa1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/Paisano-Dosa560.jpg\" alt=\"Paisano Dosa\" title=\"Paisano Dosa\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41905\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Paisano Dosa\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have two dosa menus which include The Dosa Republic’s own innovative creations, like the Paisano, filled with prosciutto, figs and burrata, along with the more traditional ones, like the Bombay, with potatoes, green onions and chili. Many dishes can also be made vegan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/Kale-Vada-Sambar560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/Kale-Vada-Sambar560.jpg\" alt=\"Kale Vada Sambar\" title=\"Kale Vada Sambar\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41909\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Kale Vada Sambar\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the more notable appetizers include the Kale Vada Sambar, a deliciously fried lentil and kale dumpling served with their lentil and seasonal veggie stew. Many dishes come with the stew or a Sri Lankan Curry to dip. Others are served with a variety of chutneys like young coconut, tomato, and strawberry habenero mint. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steak-tartare.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41415\" title='steak \"tartare\"' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/steak-tartare.jpg\" alt='steak \"tartare\"' width=\"560\" height=\"417\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>All photos courtesy S+S Gastro Grub\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempted to pass up that plate of lurid, crimson steak tartare topped by a blob of saffron egg yolk? Not so fast. If it came from the kitchen of Simone Fung and Sebastian Mendieta—collectively known as \u003ca href=\"http://www.ssgastrogrub.com/\">S+S Gastro Grub\u003c/a>—this may very well be dessert. The Oakland catering couple loves to concoct dishes that trick the eye, but treat the palate and the “tartare” in question is actually chopped compressed watermelon crowned with a golden orb of mango juice and mint shards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/Simone-and-Sebastian.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41416\" title=\"Simone and Sebastian\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/Simone-and-Sebastian.jpg\" alt=\"Simone and Sebastian\" width=\"400\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S + S have been thrilling diners at local pop-ups, underground dinners, fundraising events and private parties with sublime creations that employ the techniques of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_gastronomy\">molecular gastronomy\u003c/a>, spherification and sous vide cookery since 2007. For years, the couple indulged their mutual passion for edible inventiveness by throwing large parties in their live-work artist loft. Finally, their enthusiastic friends convinced them to start a business and they acquired a shiny black catering van in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the moment, however, both have day jobs: Fung is office manager for a San Jose semi-conductor company, while Mendieta works as logistics coordinator for a heavy construction firm. So their food-transforming forays are reserved for evenings, weekends and holidays. But their popularity is spreading as quickly as the uni sauce under their perfectly seared scallops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/scallops_uni_sauce.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41417\" title=\"scallops_uni_sauce\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/scallops_uni_sauce.jpg\" alt=\"scallops_uni_sauce\" width=\"560\" height=\"444\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>pan seared jumbo day boat scallops with uni sauce and nori potatoes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The duo has cooked at fundraisers for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sffoodbank.org/\">San Francisco Food Bank\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oldskoolcafe.org/\">Old Skool Café\u003c/a>, been part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.food-social.org/\">Food Social\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.behindthecart.com/\">Behind the Cart\u003c/a>, done a Japanese themed pop-up dinner at (where else?) a Mexican restaurant, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cosechacafe.com/#!\">Cosecha\u003c/a>, as well as catered birthday celebrations, showers, and outdoor park festivities. With their multi-cultural backgrounds—she grew up in Hong Kong and he in a tiny town in Nicaragua—and extensive global street food research in travels from Malaysia to Jamaica, they resist getting stuck in a narrowly defined cultural corner. Their edible creations traverse the map and sometimes fuse elements from their two food heritages—as in marinated, sous vide, duck-tongue tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41445\" title='\"tuna belly\"' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/tuna-belly1.jpg\" alt='\"tuna belly\"' width=\"560\" height=\"457\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>something is fishy here (or not)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fung says with a twinkle, \"We like to trick people's eyes and minds. Sometimes we serve dishes without telling guests what they're eating. They think they know but then they're surprised when what they taste doesn't match what they were expecting.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A good example is their \"tuna belly\" which is actually made from compressed watermelon that has been chilled until it is pliable, then seared with a combination of fish sauce, honey and lime juice. It's savory, no wait it's sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/mojito_dessert1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41447\" title=\"mojito_dessert\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/mojito_dessert1.jpg\" alt=\"mojito_dessert\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mojito mix-up\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S+S’s home “test kitchen” is stocked with the latest gadgets and materials necessary to perform this culinary legerdemain. Sous vide cooking slowly transforms an egg into a silky custard by a carefully controlled 50 minutes at the magic mark of 63 degrees. Spherification shapes liquids into caviar-like balls that can resemble something else; for example, carrot juice balls sprinkled on a salad convince diners they'll be crunching on tobiko. A recently devised molecular mojito dessert combines lime sorbet, mint foam, rum spheres, and a sprinkle of pop rocks to deliver a roller coaster ride of taste and textures. Inspired by farmers' markets and committed to sourcing ingredients from a 150-mile radius, S+S Gastro Grub supports local food purveyors and artisans such as Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://thelocalbutchershop.com/\">The Local Butcher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/crispy_pork_belly-63-degree-egg.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41420\" title=\"crispy_pork_belly, 63 degree egg\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/crispy_pork_belly-63-degree-egg.jpg\" alt=\"crispy_pork_belly, 63 degree egg\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>63-degree egg, pork belly, creamy grits, jus, kimchee puree\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fung and Mendieta aim for modern interpretations of classic comfort food: think gumbo potpie, with okra and crawfish, mac and cheese with cold smoked pasta with a surprise hickory kick at the end. Another popular party starter is their mobile pig roaster--a charcoal-fired Dutch oven on wheels--in which they can roast a succulent whole pig or lamb at a catering venue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/foie_croque.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41421\" title=\"foie_croque\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/foie_croque.jpg\" alt=\"foie_croque\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is not dessert\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their motto, “oaktown flava. napa roots,” pays homage to their favorite local eateries: Commis, Plum, and Camino, plus inspiration gleaned from Napa Valley’s Ad Hoc and The French Laundry. The duo’s dream is to expand their catering business and set up a cooking school for troubled Oakland youth. Meanwhile, watch out: that cream puff that looks like it’s filled with coffee ice cream and drizzled with chocolate syrup is actually a savory cheese puff injected with foie gras mousse topped by rivulets of maple balsamic sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next event: Friday April 20, 5-8pm, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindenbeer.com/\">Linden Street Brewery\u003c/a>, S+S will offer their pickled quail eggs, bone-in pork chop buns, edamame and black bean sliders and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ssgastrogrub.com/\">S+S Gastro Grub\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(510) 969-9434\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/ssgastrogrub\">ssgastrogrub\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter:\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/ssgastrogrub\">@ssgastrogrub\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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With their multi-cultural backgrounds—she grew up in Hong Kong and he in a tiny town in Nicaragua—and extensive global street food research in travels from Malaysia to Jamaica, they resist getting stuck in a narrowly defined cultural corner. Their edible creations traverse the map and sometimes fuse elements from their two food heritages—as in marinated, sous vide, duck-tongue tacos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41445\" title='\"tuna belly\"' src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/tuna-belly1.jpg\" alt='\"tuna belly\"' width=\"560\" height=\"457\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>something is fishy here (or not)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Fung says with a twinkle, \"We like to trick people's eyes and minds. Sometimes we serve dishes without telling guests what they're eating. They think they know but then they're surprised when what they taste doesn't match what they were expecting.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A good example is their \"tuna belly\" which is actually made from compressed watermelon that has been chilled until it is pliable, then seared with a combination of fish sauce, honey and lime juice. It's savory, no wait it's sweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/mojito_dessert1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41447\" title=\"mojito_dessert\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/mojito_dessert1.jpg\" alt=\"mojito_dessert\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mojito mix-up\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S+S’s home “test kitchen” is stocked with the latest gadgets and materials necessary to perform this culinary legerdemain. Sous vide cooking slowly transforms an egg into a silky custard by a carefully controlled 50 minutes at the magic mark of 63 degrees. Spherification shapes liquids into caviar-like balls that can resemble something else; for example, carrot juice balls sprinkled on a salad convince diners they'll be crunching on tobiko. A recently devised molecular mojito dessert combines lime sorbet, mint foam, rum spheres, and a sprinkle of pop rocks to deliver a roller coaster ride of taste and textures. Inspired by farmers' markets and committed to sourcing ingredients from a 150-mile radius, S+S Gastro Grub supports local food purveyors and artisans such as Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://thelocalbutchershop.com/\">The Local Butcher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/crispy_pork_belly-63-degree-egg.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41420\" title=\"crispy_pork_belly, 63 degree egg\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/crispy_pork_belly-63-degree-egg.jpg\" alt=\"crispy_pork_belly, 63 degree egg\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>63-degree egg, pork belly, creamy grits, jus, kimchee puree\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fung and Mendieta aim for modern interpretations of classic comfort food: think gumbo potpie, with okra and crawfish, mac and cheese with cold smoked pasta with a surprise hickory kick at the end. Another popular party starter is their mobile pig roaster--a charcoal-fired Dutch oven on wheels--in which they can roast a succulent whole pig or lamb at a catering venue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/foie_croque.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41421\" title=\"foie_croque\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/foie_croque.jpg\" alt=\"foie_croque\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is not dessert\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their motto, “oaktown flava. napa roots,” pays homage to their favorite local eateries: Commis, Plum, and Camino, plus inspiration gleaned from Napa Valley’s Ad Hoc and The French Laundry. The duo’s dream is to expand their catering business and set up a cooking school for troubled Oakland youth. Meanwhile, watch out: that cream puff that looks like it’s filled with coffee ice cream and drizzled with chocolate syrup is actually a savory cheese puff injected with foie gras mousse topped by rivulets of maple balsamic sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next event: Friday April 20, 5-8pm, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindenbeer.com/\">Linden Street Brewery\u003c/a>, S+S will offer their pickled quail eggs, bone-in pork chop buns, edamame and black bean sliders and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ssgastrogrub.com/\">S+S Gastro Grub\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n(510) 969-9434\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/ssgastrogrub\">ssgastrogrub\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter:\u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/ssgastrogrub\">@ssgastrogrub\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/orange-custard-single.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/orange-custard-single.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Custard. Photos by Rebecca Joseph, courtesy of 12 Tribes Kosher Foods.\" title=\"Orange Custard. Photos by Rebecca Joseph, courtesy of 12 Tribes Kosher Foods.\" width=\"391\" height=\"336\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41385\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Orange Custard. Photo by Rebecca Joseph\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Passover! What are you cooking? Passover, even more than Thanksgiving, is a home and family holiday. Of course, there are restaurants doing Seder-inspired meals; in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://delfinasf.com/restaurant/passover-at-delfina\">Passover at Delfina\u003c/a> brings their Edible Seder Plate, Stoll Family Matzoh Balls, and other Italian-Jewish specialties, all much anticipated by regulars. This year, they'll be serving matzoh made by their former sous-chef, Brad Joffe, who now runs Beauty's Bagels in Oakland, source of the excellent weekend bagels at Wise Sons. (And by the way, pastrami lovers, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/02/24/on-the-plate-with-wise-sons-jewish-deli/\">Wise Sons\u003c/a> is closed for Passover; they'll re-open on Sunday, April 15.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fireflyrestaurant.com/Passover.html\">Firefly\u003c/a> has a delish-sounding brisket and root-vegetable tsimmes on this week's menu, along with a spring vegetable plate with matzoh kugel and yellowfoot-mushroom sauce. (And for those who don't mind a little trayf, don't worry, they've still got the shrimp-and-scallop dumplings on the menu.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many of us, Passover is a time to slow down, reconnect with family and friends over dinners at home, and pay attention to what we're eating. Jewish dietary laws forbid the eating of grains during the 8-day holiday, especially anything yeasted or naturally leavened. So, no bread, no bagels, no pasta, no rice, just matzoh, a flat cracker that must be mixed and baked in less than 18 minutes, to prevent any natural rising of the dough from occurring. So, much kvetching can be heard this week from toast-lovers like myself, and, for those with a sweet tooth, a whole lot of dependance on ground nuts and matzoh meal in lieu of flour, plus whisked egg whites for fluffiness. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Rebecca Joseph, rabbi and owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/12-Tribes-Food/172613516095330\"> 12 Tribes Food\u003c/a>, a kosher catering and prepared-meals business, looks at the holiday's restrictions with abundance in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"What I suggest to people who say that they dread the holiday because they can't eat bread is to think of this as a time to celebrate freedom from habitual food choices or ways of eating that may be less than optimally healthful. Also, when we focus on all the things we \u003cem>can\u003c/em> eat, especially early spring produce, then Passover meals can be really delicious and seasonal.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Joseph describes her Orange Custard recipe, below, as \"a very easy dessert (no separating eggs or weird ingredients involved) that's a great break from nuts and matzoh meal. It's also \u003cem>parve\u003c/em> (containing neither meat nor dairy), so it's good for people who are lactose intolerant, gluten-free and/or have nut sensitivities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those of you, like myself, who have had egg-separating mishaps and fallen-spongecake disasters, this recipe couldn't be simpler. Only three very basic ingredients, no whisking, no folding. A splash of orange-flower water would probably add a lovely perfumey touch. With the money you're not spending on coconut macaroons in a can, get really fresh, gold-yolked eggs from happy, pasture-raised chickens. Joseph dresses her custard up with lightly toasted coconut shards, but you can also get crazy and let your guests dive into David Lebovitz's toffee-licious \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2008/01/chocolatecovere/\">Chocolate-Covered Caramelized Matzoh Crunch\u003c/a> as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/orange-custard-multiple.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/orange-custard-multiple.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Custard. Photos by Rebecca Joseph, courtesy of 12 Tribes Kosher Foods.\" title=\"Orange Custard. Photos by Rebecca Joseph, courtesy of 12 Tribes Kosher Foods.\" width=\"352\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41384\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Orange Custard. 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Upon eating “the most delicious sushi of his life,” Gelb knew that “this man would be the subject of the film.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/3-e1333350588569.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/3-e1333350588569.jpg\" alt=\"nigiri\" title=\"nigiri\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41110\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the documentary has many mouth-watering close-ups of delectable nigiri waiting to be eaten, the most alluring aspect of the film is Jiro’s philosophy on the meaning of human existence. His sushi is the artful manifestation of the wisdom he's attained over the course of a long, fruitful and arduous life, and he hopes everyone finds their own personal obsession: \"Once you decide on your occupation, you must immerse yourself in your work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s a \u003cem>shokunin\u003c/em>, or a master of his profession, to the highest degree. With his bald head and wizened visage, he's like a fastidious monk who adheres to a strict daily routine. Jiro boards the subway from the same spot every morning and rarely takes a day off. He watches each customer very closely as they dine in front of him, with an intense yet inscrutable expression, to observe their reaction to his handiwork. They only serve sushi; no appetizers, no sake, reservations are required at least a month in advance and the menu is decided by Jiro on a daily basis. And Jiro is so all-consumed by his creativity that he even dreams of sushi ideas at night -- hence the title of the film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Jiro is revered as a living national treasure by the Japanese, his perfectionism leaves him never completely satisfied with results. He always feels that his next dish can be a little better and so he continues to try and find ways to improve his cuisine. He’s passed on this relentless drive to his two sons, Yoshikazu (who works with him at Sukiyabashi Jiro, his small, 10-seat restaurant that’s located in the Ginza subway station) and Takashi (who runs a second location in the Roppongi Hills neighborhood.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoshikazu plans to assume the leadership role at the restaurant someday, which may be in the near future although his 87-year-old father shows no signs of slowing down. The pressure he feels to uphold his father’s rigorous standards is quite evident, but he hopes to sustain Jiro’s legacy despite the difficulty in maintaining such a high level of artistry. Yoshikazu is fortunate that he’s directly taken on the role of working with an inner circle of valued suppliers at the Tsukiji fish market -- and the restaurant’s rice dealer -- who share the same devotion to high quality as they do. These relationships ensure he’ll continue to get the best tuna, eel, wild shrimp and other seafood that’s available. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/4-e1333351655236.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/04/4-e1333351655236.jpg\" alt=\"tuna\" title=\"tuna\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41118\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Image courtesy of Magnolia Pictures\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film also touches briefly on the history and burgeoning popularity of sushi, sustainability issues and the complexity of family life -- particularly father-and-son relationships. Jiro’s father’s disappearance from his life at an early age forced him to acquire his hardcore work ethic at the tender age of 7. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/1baserri560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/1baserri560.jpg\" alt=\"Marcia Barinaga with Baserri\" title=\"Marcia Barinaga with Baserri\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40023\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Marcia Barinaga with her Basque-style sheep's milk cheese, Baserri.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a steep hill above Marshall, CA a gorgeous rolling sheep ranch sits on 800 acres of land. Its owner Marcia \u003ca href=\"http://barinagaranch.com/\">Barinaga\u003c/a>, a third-generation American Basque, bought it with her husband when she decided to “take a break” from her career as a science journalist and retire on the land they had grown to love since purchasing a shore house in Marshall in 1993. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2ewes560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2ewes560.jpg\" alt=\"Ewes on the ranch\" title=\"Ewes on the ranch\" width=\"560\" height=\"547\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40026\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pregnant ewes resting at Barinaga Ranch. Photo: Liza Shaw\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Barinaga’s original intention was to retire, she is not a woman who sits still easily. The compact, well-spoken cheesemaker with a doctorate in molecular biology was not sure what she wanted to do with the land. But her Basque roots run deep and slowly the idea of making sheep’s milk cheese took hold of her. “When we bought the ranch I had never even touched a sheep and there were no buildings here,” she laughs. But Barinaga is a quick learner and within a few years she had traveled to Basque country to learn shepherding and cheesemaking from her distant relatives; built a milking parlor and a small creamery; and by 2008 began producing two types of distinctly Basque cheeses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent tour of Barinaga Ranch and creamery, Marcia was asked by a visitor, \"What kind of cheese did they have in your father's Idaho sheep camp?\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She laughed and responded, \"Big blocks of orange American cheese. They never thought to make cheese with their sheep's milk!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga’s grandparents arrived from \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markina-Xemein\">Markina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.chinci.com/travel/pax/e/3130017/Angiozar/ES/Spain/0/\">Angoziar\u003c/a> in the Basque country to Mountain Home, Idaho in the early 1900s. Her father grew up on a ranch with 5,000 sheep where the main products were lamb and wool. At that time cheesemaking from a herd of ranch sheep was unheard of in Idaho though it was a common practice in the Basque country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga’s father eventually left the ranch to become a mechanical engineer in upstate New York where Marcia was raised. “He was unique because he worked for General Electric and he spoke fluent Basque,” she explained. “My father traveled on business to Bilbao for his entire working life, and business trips to Europe in the 1960s lasted at least a month. He got to know all of his Basque family,” unlike his siblings that still worked on the Idaho ranch and were only able to travel to the Basque country once in their lifetime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/sheep-collateral560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/sheep-collateral560.jpg\" alt=\"Baserri label\" title=\"Baserri label\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40028\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Barinaga shows the label for her Baserri cheese.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga herself traveled to the Basque country for the first time at age 12, and has since returned five times. “My family there doesn’t speak English, and I don't speak Basque, so we communicate in Spanish--which they speak well, and I speak poorly,\" she says. \"There's a limit to the degree we know each other, but there's love and a great affection.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was these shepherding cousins that Barinaga turned to when she decided to try her hand at cheesemaking. Shepherding is synonymous with cheesemaking in the Basque country--it would be unheard of to have sheep there and not make cheese from their milk. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she contacted a cousin to ask for advice on how to begin her new career path, Barinaga says, “He wrote me this email in Spanish, saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I am so happy you have chosen the life of the baserri. It is not a wealthy life, but it is a rich life.’\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Baserri, in Basque, means both “farmhouse” and can refer to the 'farming life.' Barinaga named her first cheese, a pressed, raw-milk cheese “Baserri.” It’s made in the same manner that \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanalcheese.com/cheeses/Idiazabal\">Idiazabal\u003c/a>, the traditional Basque cheese that has its own \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominaci%C3%B3n_de_Origen\">DOC\u003c/a> (Denomination de Origen, like a wine appellation) is made on both sides of the Pyrenees. On the French side, it's called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossau-Iraty\">Ossau-Iraty\u003c/a>. A newer addition to the Barinaga cheese lineup is the “Txiki,” (meaning “small”) a miniature version of the Baserri. Both cheeses have a pleasantly nutty taste, a firm texture, and lend themselves well to being eaten on their own in triangles with an accompaniment of figs or chutney, or to being melted into a decadent sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/8baserri-txiki560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/8baserri-txiki560.jpg\" alt=\"Both Barinaga Cheeses\" title=\"Both Barinaga Cheeses\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40030\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Both of Barinaga's sheep's milk cheeses.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga also learned aspects of cheesemaking on the French side of the Pyrenees from Luxi and Arno Oxandabarats who taught renowned Vermont cheesemakers Cindy and David Major the tricks to making their acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://www.vermontshepherd.com/\">Vermont Shepherd Cheese\u003c/a>. Also in Vermont, Barinaga did an internship of sorts at \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwellguide.org/listing/detail/25743\">Hope Farm Sheep Cheese\u003c/a>. “I went for a week to learn how to milk sheep,” she explains, “and I learned so much there. So many of my key ideas came from the wonderful generosity and creativity of Harvey and Barb Levin,” she attributes. Among them, a one-of-a-kind cheese press that Harvey Levin designed for her, slanted at a slight angle to provide optimum pressure on the rounds of curds, so that the whey drains evenly from the forms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’m trying to use my PhD in as many ways as I can before I die,” she says of her scientific approach to making cheese.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/6cheese-press400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/6cheese-press400.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese Press\" title=\"Cheese Press\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40037\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The scientifically-designed cheese press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/3creamery-container560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/3creamery-container560.jpg\" alt=\"The Creamery\" title=\"The Creamery\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40033\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Barinaga Ranch's Creamery\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/4creamery-inside560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/4creamery-inside560.jpg\" alt=\"Creamery interior\" title=\"Creamery interior\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40034\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The creamery's interior\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/5drying-rags560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/5drying-rags560.jpg\" alt=\"Window Rags\" title=\"Window Rags\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40035\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Everything is squeaky clean in the creamery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga Ranch’s creamery is made of several shipping containers, a cool modern use of space. It’s clear that Barinaga has great love and respect for her animals. All of the sheep featured on the marketing collateral are actually from her flock. She recognizes and has given many of the 86 ewes names and ensures they are humanely slaughtered once their lambing days are over. Locally made sausage is available for purchase when you tour Barinaga Ranch and you can expect to see Barinaga Ranch charceuterie on a few select San Francisco restaurant menus in the coming year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/9sausages560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/9sausages560.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh Sausage\" title=\"Fresh Sausage\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40036\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Freshly-made Barinaga Ranch sausage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ll never send my ewes off to a slaughterhouse to be made into dog food,” she avers. “They have served me faithfully and they deserve better than that.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Barinaga Ranch cheeses are made from April through early October when the ewes are in their prime milking season, though Saturday tours of the ranch and the creamery are available year-round. On a tour, which can accommodate up to 15 people, visitors can meet the ewes, view a milking session, and perhaps even pet a lamb. \u003ca href=\"http://barinagaranch.com/app/tours\">Tours\u003c/a> are $20 per person, and include a tasting of both Barinaga Ranch cheeses. Should a visitor choose to purchase a wheel of cheese, the price of the tour will be deducted from the price of the cheese. The cheese is available to the consumer once it has aged at least 60 days. From June through December, the 'young' cheese is available, aged 2-3 months. From October through March or April, Barinaga's 'extra-aged' cheese is available, aged 6-9 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for her future plans? Barinaga says, “I would like to rest a little more...but a sheep dairy is certainly not a retirement occupation!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/10group-tour560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/10group-tour560.jpg\" alt=\"Tour Group\" title=\"Tour Group\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40040\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>SF chefs, sommeliers, wine importers, and cheesemongers at a tour of Barinaga Ranch.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://barinagaranch.com/\">Barinaga Ranch\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAddress: \u003ca href=\"http://g.co/maps/3x5hj\">Map\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n9059 Marshall Petaluma Road, Marshall, CA 94940\u003cbr>\nPhone: 415-663-8638\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Barinaga-Ranch/214103988646213?ref=ts&sk=wall\">Barinaga Ranch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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At that time cheesemaking from a herd of ranch sheep was unheard of in Idaho though it was a common practice in the Basque country. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga’s father eventually left the ranch to become a mechanical engineer in upstate New York where Marcia was raised. “He was unique because he worked for General Electric and he spoke fluent Basque,” she explained. “My father traveled on business to Bilbao for his entire working life, and business trips to Europe in the 1960s lasted at least a month. He got to know all of his Basque family,” unlike his siblings that still worked on the Idaho ranch and were only able to travel to the Basque country once in their lifetime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/sheep-collateral560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/sheep-collateral560.jpg\" alt=\"Baserri label\" title=\"Baserri label\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40028\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Barinaga shows the label for her Baserri cheese.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga herself traveled to the Basque country for the first time at age 12, and has since returned five times. “My family there doesn’t speak English, and I don't speak Basque, so we communicate in Spanish--which they speak well, and I speak poorly,\" she says. \"There's a limit to the degree we know each other, but there's love and a great affection.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was these shepherding cousins that Barinaga turned to when she decided to try her hand at cheesemaking. Shepherding is synonymous with cheesemaking in the Basque country--it would be unheard of to have sheep there and not make cheese from their milk. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she contacted a cousin to ask for advice on how to begin her new career path, Barinaga says, “He wrote me this email in Spanish, saying:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘I am so happy you have chosen the life of the baserri. It is not a wealthy life, but it is a rich life.’\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Baserri, in Basque, means both “farmhouse” and can refer to the 'farming life.' Barinaga named her first cheese, a pressed, raw-milk cheese “Baserri.” It’s made in the same manner that \u003ca href=\"http://www.artisanalcheese.com/cheeses/Idiazabal\">Idiazabal\u003c/a>, the traditional Basque cheese that has its own \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominaci%C3%B3n_de_Origen\">DOC\u003c/a> (Denomination de Origen, like a wine appellation) is made on both sides of the Pyrenees. On the French side, it's called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossau-Iraty\">Ossau-Iraty\u003c/a>. A newer addition to the Barinaga cheese lineup is the “Txiki,” (meaning “small”) a miniature version of the Baserri. Both cheeses have a pleasantly nutty taste, a firm texture, and lend themselves well to being eaten on their own in triangles with an accompaniment of figs or chutney, or to being melted into a decadent sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/8baserri-txiki560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/8baserri-txiki560.jpg\" alt=\"Both Barinaga Cheeses\" title=\"Both Barinaga Cheeses\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40030\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Both of Barinaga's sheep's milk cheeses.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga also learned aspects of cheesemaking on the French side of the Pyrenees from Luxi and Arno Oxandabarats who taught renowned Vermont cheesemakers Cindy and David Major the tricks to making their acclaimed \u003ca href=\"http://www.vermontshepherd.com/\">Vermont Shepherd Cheese\u003c/a>. Also in Vermont, Barinaga did an internship of sorts at \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwellguide.org/listing/detail/25743\">Hope Farm Sheep Cheese\u003c/a>. “I went for a week to learn how to milk sheep,” she explains, “and I learned so much there. So many of my key ideas came from the wonderful generosity and creativity of Harvey and Barb Levin,” she attributes. Among them, a one-of-a-kind cheese press that Harvey Levin designed for her, slanted at a slight angle to provide optimum pressure on the rounds of curds, so that the whey drains evenly from the forms. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’m trying to use my PhD in as many ways as I can before I die,” she says of her scientific approach to making cheese.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/6cheese-press400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/6cheese-press400.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese Press\" title=\"Cheese Press\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40037\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The scientifically-designed cheese press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/3creamery-container560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/3creamery-container560.jpg\" alt=\"The Creamery\" title=\"The Creamery\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40033\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Barinaga Ranch's Creamery\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/4creamery-inside560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/4creamery-inside560.jpg\" alt=\"Creamery interior\" title=\"Creamery interior\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40034\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The creamery's interior\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/5drying-rags560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/5drying-rags560.jpg\" alt=\"Window Rags\" title=\"Window Rags\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40035\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Everything is squeaky clean in the creamery.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barinaga Ranch’s creamery is made of several shipping containers, a cool modern use of space. It’s clear that Barinaga has great love and respect for her animals. All of the sheep featured on the marketing collateral are actually from her flock. She recognizes and has given many of the 86 ewes names and ensures they are humanely slaughtered once their lambing days are over. Locally made sausage is available for purchase when you tour Barinaga Ranch and you can expect to see Barinaga Ranch charceuterie on a few select San Francisco restaurant menus in the coming year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/9sausages560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/9sausages560.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh Sausage\" title=\"Fresh Sausage\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40036\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Freshly-made Barinaga Ranch sausage.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I’ll never send my ewes off to a slaughterhouse to be made into dog food,” she avers. “They have served me faithfully and they deserve better than that.”\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Barinaga Ranch cheeses are made from April through early October when the ewes are in their prime milking season, though Saturday tours of the ranch and the creamery are available year-round. On a tour, which can accommodate up to 15 people, visitors can meet the ewes, view a milking session, and perhaps even pet a lamb. \u003ca href=\"http://barinagaranch.com/app/tours\">Tours\u003c/a> are $20 per person, and include a tasting of both Barinaga Ranch cheeses. Should a visitor choose to purchase a wheel of cheese, the price of the tour will be deducted from the price of the cheese. The cheese is available to the consumer once it has aged at least 60 days. From June through December, the 'young' cheese is available, aged 2-3 months. From October through March or April, Barinaga's 'extra-aged' cheese is available, aged 6-9 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for her future plans? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_39445\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/ravkoa300.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Ravi Kapur and his son, Makoa. Photo: LLYC\" title=\"Chef Ravi Kapur and his son, Makoa. Photo: LLYC\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39445\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cem>Chef Ravi Kapur and his son, Makoa. Photo: LLYC\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/05/06/food-secrets-of-prospects-chef-ravi-kapur/\">Ravi Kapur\u003c/a>, formerly of \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/\">Boulevard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect\u003c/a>, brings his homegrown version of \u003cem>ohana\u003c/em> (Hawaiian for 'family') to a pop-up restaurant he is calling \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/liholihoyachtclub\">Liholiho Yacht Club\u003c/a>. The pop-up is happening at \u003ca href=\"http://citizensbandsf.com/\">Citizen's Band\u003c/a> in San Francisco for a total of four Monday nights. I attended the second dinner and there are two more scheduled with a possibility for additional ones in the future. The menu pulls from dishes that Kapur created with his friends in mind: the idea being to bring people together, eat family style, and enjoy each others company—without having to be an 'over-the-top-foodie experience.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Hawaii, everyone seems to cook. It's a function of survival. Cooking isn't intimidating.” Kapur brings the easiness of his native Oahu to his menu, with dishes like tender \u003ca href=\"http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2010/2/11/Hawaii_style_pulehu_steak_recipe\">pulehu\u003c/a> beef tongue and smoked tako (octopus) easily shared between friends. Discussing the idea behind the pop-up, Kapur says, “I'm cooking with flavors I grew up with and not having to fit my inspiration into a fine-dining context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the food intentionally steers away from being 'fine dining,' the decade that Kapur spent as chef de cuisine at Boulevard and then executive chef at Prospect is evident in the dishes' execution: they look simple, but each of them has multiple ingredients that have been lovingly prepared for days before the pop-up: kimchi to accompany the main courses fermenting in the kitchen, three kinds of radishes pickling before being sliced onto appetizers, sugar caramelizing for the short-rib glaze.\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2LLYCmenu-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2LLYCmenu-new-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LLYC menu\" title=\"LLYC menu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39574\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2LLYCmenu-new.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">Liholiho Yacht Club’s menu\u003c/a> is fixed price, with no substitutions, set at $65 per person which includes tax and tip. The price tag might seem hefty, but considering that both the appetizer and the entrée courses include five dishes per person, there are two desserts, and all of the ingredients are high quality, your full belly will thank you after you 'grind'(Hawaiian slang for 'eats').\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting down at a cozy table at Citizen's Band, the first noticeable feature is the relaxed atmosphere. Even the servers have warm Hawaiian smiles and \u003ca href=\"http://www.myspace.com/maunaloa88\">Mauna Loa\u003c/a> music plays through the speakers. Tables are filled with groups of friends \"talking story.\"\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbayareabites%2Fsets%2F72157629490438603%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbayareabites%2Fsets%2F72157629490438603%2F&set_id=72157629490438603&jump_to=\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cembed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbayareabites%2Fsets%2F72157629490438603%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fbayareabites%2Fsets%2F72157629490438603%2F&set_id=72157629490438603&jump_to=\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"When I was just on Maui, I was talking story, I mean 'hanging out' (he quickly corrects himself for my Californian ears) with my Uncle George,\" Kapur said. \"He was telling me about how when he was younger, and racing \u003ca href=\"http://www.hobiecat.com/sailing/\">Hobie Cats\u003c/a>, he and his friends would throw parties to pay for their supplies. They would go down to the beach and throw a party--fire up the grill, ice down the beer, and get a band to play,\" reminisces Kapur. \"They would charge a modest price--the intention was to make enough money to allow them to do what they loved. They realized they needed a name for their 'organization' and he lived on Liholiho street so decided to name it Liholiho Yacht Club. I loved the name \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the idea: to throw a party to allow you to keep doing what you love.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About the future of the pop-up, Kapur says there is \"no grand plan, no long term goal,\" though he expresses admiration for Citizen's Band owner Chris Beerman for \"taking care of his neighborhood first,\" and says one day he hopes to be able to do the same in the neighborhood he's lived in for 15 years: the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/12diners_560.jpg\" alt=\"Ravi Kapur hanging with a table of diners at LLYC\" title=\"Ravi Kapur hanging with a table of diners at LLYC\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39427\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ravi Kapur hanging with a table of diners at LLYC.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d recommend dining at Liholiho with a few friends. Portions are adjusted for smaller parties, but there’s something so inviting about the platters of Asian-influenced Hawaiian soul food. The Korean-style fried quail with a red Fresno chile barbecue sauce is especially noteworthy. The idea of digging into platefuls of soy-date glazed shortribs, fermented-miso sauced Brussels sprouts, and thin, tenderly-grilled beef tongue is even more appealing when you’re with a few friends, washing it all down with several communal bottles of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo_Brewery\">Sapporo\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.asahibeer.com/\">Asahi\u003c/a> beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dishes for each course arrived all together, the five dishes took up most of the room on the table. The appetizer course dishes consisted of: small bites of potatoes in a white-miso vinaigrette, finished with steelhead roe and crispy potato skins; cold roasted sunchokes with large, dried nori flakes on a stripe of seaweed \"ranch\"; spicy clams in a red Thai curry sauce peppered with crispy strips of pig ears and larger chunks of the ear meat floating in the broth; and pungent house-smoked tako, cut nicely by spicy pickled radishes, sesame oil, and plenty of sesame seeds to give the dish a nice crunch that offsets the soft tako.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't eat a late lunch before dining at Liholiho Yacht Club, you'll want to save plenty of room for the deep-fried half-quail and the sweetly salty pork ribs. The vegetable sides accompanying the dishes have a fermented tang to them, and everything is self-served over a bed of sticky shiitake rice that's been steamed in a lotus leaf, Chinese-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The food I'm cooking is very personal and influenced strongly by my childhood,” says Kapur on a Sunday afternoon as he brines pig ears that will eventually get thin-sliced and deep-fried to accompany a steaming bowl of clams during the appetizer course. “There's a lot of nostalgia on the menu. Eating smoked tako is one of my earliest food memories. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malasada\">Malasadas\u003c/a>...they're everywhere. The ones I looked forward to the most were at the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punahou_School\">Punahou School\u003c/a> carnival... that's the school Obama went to!”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/18donuts-2_560.jpg\" alt=\"Liholiho Yacht Club: Malasadas, cinnamon sugar. Photo: Ella Lawrence\" title=\"Liholiho Yacht Club: Malasadas, cinnamon sugar. Photo: Ella Lawrence\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39435\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Liholiho Yacht Club: Malasadas, cinnamon sugar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/liholihoyachtclub\">Liholiho Yacht Club\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMake your reservation here, at \u003ca href=\"http://citizensbandsf.com/\">Citizen's Band\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n1198 Folsom Street (at 8th)\u003cbr>\nMondays March 5 and March 12, 5:30-10pm.\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/Liholihoclub\">@Liholihoclub\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_39445\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/ravkoa300.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Ravi Kapur and his son, Makoa. Photo: LLYC\" title=\"Chef Ravi Kapur and his son, Makoa. Photo: LLYC\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39445\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cem>Chef Ravi Kapur and his son, Makoa. Photo: LLYC\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/05/06/food-secrets-of-prospects-chef-ravi-kapur/\">Ravi Kapur\u003c/a>, formerly of \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/\">Boulevard\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect\u003c/a>, brings his homegrown version of \u003cem>ohana\u003c/em> (Hawaiian for 'family') to a pop-up restaurant he is calling \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/liholihoyachtclub\">Liholiho Yacht Club\u003c/a>. The pop-up is happening at \u003ca href=\"http://citizensbandsf.com/\">Citizen's Band\u003c/a> in San Francisco for a total of four Monday nights. I attended the second dinner and there are two more scheduled with a possibility for additional ones in the future. The menu pulls from dishes that Kapur created with his friends in mind: the idea being to bring people together, eat family style, and enjoy each others company—without having to be an 'over-the-top-foodie experience.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Hawaii, everyone seems to cook. It's a function of survival. Cooking isn't intimidating.” Kapur brings the easiness of his native Oahu to his menu, with dishes like tender \u003ca href=\"http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/blogs/hawaii_today/2010/2/11/Hawaii_style_pulehu_steak_recipe\">pulehu\u003c/a> beef tongue and smoked tako (octopus) easily shared between friends. Discussing the idea behind the pop-up, Kapur says, “I'm cooking with flavors I grew up with and not having to fit my inspiration into a fine-dining context.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the food intentionally steers away from being 'fine dining,' the decade that Kapur spent as chef de cuisine at Boulevard and then executive chef at Prospect is evident in the dishes' execution: they look simple, but each of them has multiple ingredients that have been lovingly prepared for days before the pop-up: kimchi to accompany the main courses fermenting in the kitchen, three kinds of radishes pickling before being sliced onto appetizers, sugar caramelizing for the short-rib glaze.\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2LLYCmenu-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2LLYCmenu-new-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"LLYC menu\" title=\"LLYC menu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39574\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/03/2LLYCmenu-new.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">Liholiho Yacht Club’s menu\u003c/a> is fixed price, with no substitutions, set at $65 per person which includes tax and tip. The price tag might seem hefty, but considering that both the appetizer and the entrée courses include five dishes per person, there are two desserts, and all of the ingredients are high quality, your full belly will thank you after you 'grind'(Hawaiian slang for 'eats').\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting down at a cozy table at Citizen's Band, the first noticeable feature is the relaxed atmosphere. Even the servers have warm Hawaiian smiles and \u003ca href=\"http://www.myspace.com/maunaloa88\">Mauna Loa\u003c/a> music plays through the speakers. Tables are filled with groups of friends \"talking story.\"\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They would go down to the beach and throw a party--fire up the grill, ice down the beer, and get a band to play,\" reminisces Kapur. \"They would charge a modest price--the intention was to make enough money to allow them to do what they loved. They realized they needed a name for their 'organization' and he lived on Liholiho street so decided to name it Liholiho Yacht Club. I loved the name \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the idea: to throw a party to allow you to keep doing what you love.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About the future of the pop-up, Kapur says there is \"no grand plan, no long term goal,\" though he expresses admiration for Citizen's Band owner Chris Beerman for \"taking care of his neighborhood first,\" and says one day he hopes to be able to do the same in the neighborhood he's lived in for 15 years: the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/12diners_560.jpg\" alt=\"Ravi Kapur hanging with a table of diners at LLYC\" title=\"Ravi Kapur hanging with a table of diners at LLYC\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39427\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ravi Kapur hanging with a table of diners at LLYC.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d recommend dining at Liholiho with a few friends. Portions are adjusted for smaller parties, but there’s something so inviting about the platters of Asian-influenced Hawaiian soul food. The Korean-style fried quail with a red Fresno chile barbecue sauce is especially noteworthy. The idea of digging into platefuls of soy-date glazed shortribs, fermented-miso sauced Brussels sprouts, and thin, tenderly-grilled beef tongue is even more appealing when you’re with a few friends, washing it all down with several communal bottles of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo_Brewery\">Sapporo\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.asahibeer.com/\">Asahi\u003c/a> beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dishes for each course arrived all together, the five dishes took up most of the room on the table. The appetizer course dishes consisted of: small bites of potatoes in a white-miso vinaigrette, finished with steelhead roe and crispy potato skins; cold roasted sunchokes with large, dried nori flakes on a stripe of seaweed \"ranch\"; spicy clams in a red Thai curry sauce peppered with crispy strips of pig ears and larger chunks of the ear meat floating in the broth; and pungent house-smoked tako, cut nicely by spicy pickled radishes, sesame oil, and plenty of sesame seeds to give the dish a nice crunch that offsets the soft tako.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't eat a late lunch before dining at Liholiho Yacht Club, you'll want to save plenty of room for the deep-fried half-quail and the sweetly salty pork ribs. The vegetable sides accompanying the dishes have a fermented tang to them, and everything is self-served over a bed of sticky shiitake rice that's been steamed in a lotus leaf, Chinese-style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The food I'm cooking is very personal and influenced strongly by my childhood,” says Kapur on a Sunday afternoon as he brines pig ears that will eventually get thin-sliced and deep-fried to accompany a steaming bowl of clams during the appetizer course. “There's a lot of nostalgia on the menu. Eating smoked tako is one of my earliest food memories. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malasada\">Malasadas\u003c/a>...they're everywhere. The ones I looked forward to the most were at the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punahou_School\">Punahou School\u003c/a> carnival... that's the school Obama went to!”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/18donuts-2_560.jpg\" alt=\"Liholiho Yacht Club: Malasadas, cinnamon sugar. Photo: Ella Lawrence\" title=\"Liholiho Yacht Club: Malasadas, cinnamon sugar. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Video filmed and Edited by Kim Aronson\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cultural misunderstandings always grab my attention—especially when food is involved. So I was hooked the moment I read this recent headline:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/norway-authorities-take-away-indian-couple-s-kids-say-feeding-with-hands-wrong-167660\">Norway authorities take away Indian couple's kids, say feeding with hands wrong\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the details of this ongoing story have yet to be fully revealed, it spotlights cultural stereotypes often associated with dining etiquette. While North Americans and Northern Europeans deem that transferring edibles to the mouth with a metal-pronged stick is somehow more refined than using the utensils we were born with, members of the many cultures who have been eating with their hands for thousands of years beg to differ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Tajik-Kurutob-by-Zlerman-wikimedia-commons.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Tajik-Kurutob-by-Zlerman-wikimedia-commons.jpg\" alt=\"Tajik Kurutob - by Zlerman - wikimedia commons\" title=\"Tajik Kurutob - by Zlerman - wikimedia commons\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39183\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Tajik Kurutob-photo courtesy Zlerman-Wikimedia Commons\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Africans, Arabs and Indians (to name only a few) describe in rhapsodic terms the advantages of eating with their fingers: the sensuous connection to the food, the feeling of sharing and community, practicality (in that it’s easier to pluck that last bit of meat off the bones) avoiding waste, even a lingering aroma on the fingers to sustain the memory of a marvelous meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading scores of impassioned comments that the above mentioned article garnered, I felt compelled to conduct my own interviews to get a first-hand perspective on this cultural divide, followed by a hands-on lesson (see video clip below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Vijitha-spicesnaroma.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Vijitha-spicesnaroma.jpg\" alt=\"Vijitha - spicesnaroma\" title=\"Vijitha - spicesnaroma\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39180\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>photos courtesy of Vijitha Shyam of Indian food blog \u003ca href=\"http://spicesnaroma.blogspot.com/\">Spices and Aroma\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://culinarysmart.wordpress.com/about/\">Vinita Chopra Jacinto\u003c/a> grew up in Northern India and is now a chef instructor at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. She feels strongly that Indian food tastes best when eaten with one’s fingers. She tells me that Indians eat with their hands because they believe that food is, “more than just protein, carbs and fat it nourishes the mind, intellect and spirit. Eating should be sensual and mindful, employing all the senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. Using your hands gives you a tactile connection with your food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacinto clarifies some regional differences, “In the North, where breads are commonly consumed, you tear a piece of bread and wrap it around your food. While, in the South, rice is combined with curries, and each mouthful offers a unique blend of flavors. Traditionally in Southern India, plates are made of disposable, recyclable, banana leaves. Using a knife and fork on a banana leaf would shred your plate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significantly, all cultures that shun silverware maintain a set of rules for eating with the hands. Before the meal, the hands must be washed, wiped or even rubbed with sand, as desert Arabs do. But the foremost rule is that only the right hand is employed for eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The left hand is never used for that,” Jacinto says, “It is considered unclean.” In principle, at least, this is because the left hand is saved for bodily cleaning. Another taboo Jacinto cautions against is \u003cem>jutha\u003c/em>, or double dipping your bread into a communal dish of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The secret to gracefully eating with your fingers,” Jacinto advises, “is to use your thumb. For example, a small amount of rice is formed into a little pile on your plate, blended with one or more bits of curried lentils, vegetables, meat or fish, and then picked up with a twist of the wrist, held onto by the fingers and maneuvered right up to your mouth. But don’t put your fingers into your mouth.” she instructs, “Just use your thumb to push the food inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fharzana Elankumaran, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://iheartcurry.com/\">I Heart Curry\u003c/a>, where she teaches Indian cooking classes, also grew up eating with her hands in Bangladesh. “I appreciate this way of eating because you have more control over your food,“ she says. “For example, if you’re eating fish or chicken, you don’t have to worry about cutting with a knife around the bones. When you use your fingers, you can get every last bit of meat and so waste less. It’s an expression of the great respect we have for the food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her Indian cooking classes, Elankumaran encourages students to eat with their hands, but finds that it may be a challenge for first-timers. “ Sometimes my students tell me their hands get tired, because they are using a whole new set of muscles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/rassam.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39140\" title=\"rassam sharif\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/rassam.jpg\" alt=\"rassam sharif\" width=\"560\" height=\"501\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yemeni dish at Oasis Market and Restaurant\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a shopping trip to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/oasis-food-market-oakland\">Oasis Market and Restaurant\u003c/a>, I spy manager Rassam Sharif eating his lunch by hand. It’s a Yemeni specialty, \u003cem>fahsa\u003c/em> (cooked boneless beef topped with whipped fenugreek, with a salsa-like sauce). Sharif kindly demonstrates his technique: he tears off a bit of tandoori bread, dips it into the meat and salsa, and brings it to his mouth with 3 fingers. Sharif prefers eating by hand because, he says, “You have more connection to your food. With a spoon, it’s just like shoveling something into your mouth to get full. In Islam, we are taught that the Prophet said to eat from your own side of the dish, slowly, with the right hand, just until you are not hungry. It makes you take your time and be mindful of what you’re eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enough talk, I decide, it’s time for me to get some hands-on tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, my request for cross-cultural dining instruction interests Mostafa Raiss El Fenni, owner of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.saharaimport.com/\">Sahara Home Décor\u003c/a>. He invites me to stay for lunch and we sit on intricately carved and painted chairs amid his stunning collection of Moroccan carpets, ottomans, embroidered textiles, brass lanterns, conical clay pots and delicate tea glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/mostafa-and-hand.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39141\" title=\"mostafa and hand\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/mostafa-and-hand.jpg\" alt=\"mostafa and hand\" width=\"560\" height=\"334\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mostafa Raiss El Fenni -- Moroccan food\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raiss El Fenni, a former Cal student and chemist, whose shop promotes the works of artists from his homeland, tells me, “Eating with your hands is about sharing,” and as the youngest in a family of 12 children, he got a lot of practice doing that. There is an intimacy formed when you all eat from the same dish dipping in small pieces of bread, he explains. “ And if you find a piece of meat close to you that’s especially good, you can share it with your neighbor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does each person take the piece of meat and bread onto their own plate?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have individual plates. We are a very collective society. But if we invite guests over who are not familiar with this way of eating, we show them how it’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch my lesson in eating with the hands, Moroccan style:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the college dorm, it was a bit of culture shock for Raiss El Fenni that each student ate his own sandwich. “I couldn’t get used to eating by myself. So, I just waited with my food until they were done, and then said, “Hey, want to share? Eventually they got the idea and would offer to share some of their sandwiches with me too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raiss-El-Fenni also hosts Moroccan parties in colorful Berber tents set up outside his shop. Parties range from mint tea and pastries to an all-out catered feast with live music and belly dancers. And of course, he will encourage your guests to eat with their hands for the true Moroccan experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Tanjia-collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39136\" title=\"Tanjia \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Tanjia-collage.jpg\" alt=\"Tanjia\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Tanjia Moroccan Restaurant\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After my tasty lesson, I invite my husband out for a Moroccan meal and tell him I’ll show him how to eat with his hands, so we head over to \u003ca href=\"http://tanjiaoakland.com/\">Tanjia\u003c/a>, an Oakland Moroccan restaurant we haven’t yet tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We enter the lovely blue and red interior with low couches that let you sit close to your dining companion. But I am disappointed to see the tables set with forks and knives. When I tell the server we hoped to eat in Moroccan fashion, she gladly takes away the silverware and returns with a pot of water and washes our hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first course is an assortment of delicately spiced salads: carrots, eggplant, cucumbers, tomato and bell pepper. Easy to scoop up with chunks of home baked bread. But with the arrival of the lamb and eggplant and chicken with honey and prunes, which are so meltingly tender you can tell they have cooked slowly for hours, my husband chickens-out of the hands-on approach and, to keep him company, I ask for two forks. It’s not so easy to change a lifetimes's eating habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Jamal Zahid recently took over the restaurant from his brother, Said who started Tanjia in 2000. It has always been a “silverware optional restaurant” but seeing the reaction of a younger generation of customers not used to the traditional Moroccan way of dining sans utensils, Zahid decided-- as an act of hospitality to his guests-- to set the table with forks and knives, a reversal of his brother’s default setting. Personally, Zahid favors eating with the hands as a way to feel connected to the food and savor the meal slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/ethiopian-dish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39137\" title=\"ethiopian dish - Cafe Colucci\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/ethiopian-dish.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian dish - Cafe Colucci\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ethiopian platter and injera - Cafe Colucci\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafecolucci.com/\">Café Colucci Ethiopian restaurant\u003c/a>, by contrast, forks are nowhere in sight. Injera, the spongy, slightly sour, crepe-like bread made from the teff grain, functions as tablecloth, plate and utensil and the food is served family style, atop a large injera circle. “Eating is almost a sacred ritual,” says owner Fetlework Tefferi, whose award-winning restaurant just celebrated its 20th year. Besides the rules of hand washing and right hand only, she adds another from her native Ethiopia, “Once the tray of food is laid on the table, no one rises until all are done and the tray removed. We chew slowly, with closed mouths and a calm dignity. The food is sacred. It’s not polite to rush through your meal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, eating with the hand is more than just a mechanism to get sustenance into the mouth. “On certain occasions,” explains Tefferi, “we feed each other by hand, it’s called \u003cem>goorsha\u003c/em> and it’s a loving act, an endearment. You might feed a child who is not eating enough or a guest you are entertaining. But if I were to make a bite for a man, “she chuckles,” I need to make sure it’s a big, well-packed roll of injera. I guess it’s a macho thing.” She adds, “We usually don’t eat alone. If you are in a restaurant in Ethiopia, for example, and the people at the next table get served first, they will probably ask you to join them or at least take a few bites with them. That kind of sharing is what holds us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Fetlework-collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39138\" title=\"Fetlework Tefferi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Fetlework-collage.jpg\" alt=\"Fetlework Tefferi\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tefferi demonstrates how to tear off a small square from the rolls of injera in the basket. She describes the technique as “wrap and roll.” You lay your piece of injera over some food and use all your fingers to gather up the filling and twist it into a little packed pouch, which you may dip into several different dishes on the tray. Our platter today has collard greens seasoned with black cumin, cabbage with carrots, potatoes with ginger, garlic and turmeric, lentils in red \u003cem>berbere\u003c/em> sauce, yellow split peas in turmeric sauce, Ethiopian cheese and kitfo, a highly seasoned raw meat dish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/close-up-bite.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39139\" title=\"close-up injera\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/close-up-bite.jpg\" alt=\"close-up injera\" width=\"400\" height=\"377\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children are taught to make a bite of food that’s just big enough to fit in their mouth all at once, without stuffing their cheeks and to eat only with their right hands.” Tefferi remembers her mother training her left-handed brother by having him sit with his left hand behind his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the restaurant, we get 97% American diners. If they ask for silverware, I tell them it will be $10 extra,” teases Tefferi, with a twinkle in her eye, “ I just want them to try eating with their hands.” This gracious cultural ambassador wants to encourage more people to appreciate the 3000-year old cuisine of her homeland. “We need to revisit the way people used to eat; how much they cared and believed that whatever they put into their mouths was sacred,” says Tefferi. “The aroma is important too. Even after you wash up at the end of the meal, the scent of the food remains on your hand. Later, you might hold up your hand to someone else and say “Smell my hand, see how good the food was!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(It was and I did.)\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \"Eating with a fork and knife is like making love through an interpreter”\u003cbr>\n -- attributed variously to Prime Minister Nehru and the Shah of Iran\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Related links:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/08/146583049/skip-the-spoon-babies-may-eat-better-when-they-feed-themselves?ft=1&f=1053\">A recent study\u003c/a> says babies may eat better when they feed themselves with their fingers\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Chad Ward’s pointed history of the fork on \u003ca href=\"http://leitesculinaria.com/1157/writings-the-uncommon-origins-of-the-common-fork.html\">Leite’s Culinaria\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/index.html\">History of Eating Utensils\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Africans, Arabs and Indians (to name only a few) describe in rhapsodic terms the advantages of eating with their fingers: the sensuous connection to the food, the feeling of sharing and community, practicality (in that it’s easier to pluck that last bit of meat off the bones) avoiding waste, even a lingering aroma on the fingers to sustain the memory of a marvelous meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After reading scores of impassioned comments that the above mentioned article garnered, I felt compelled to conduct my own interviews to get a first-hand perspective on this cultural divide, followed by a hands-on lesson (see video clip below.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Vijitha-spicesnaroma.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Vijitha-spicesnaroma.jpg\" alt=\"Vijitha - spicesnaroma\" title=\"Vijitha - spicesnaroma\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39180\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>photos courtesy of Vijitha Shyam of Indian food blog \u003ca href=\"http://spicesnaroma.blogspot.com/\">Spices and Aroma\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://culinarysmart.wordpress.com/about/\">Vinita Chopra Jacinto\u003c/a> grew up in Northern India and is now a chef instructor at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. She feels strongly that Indian food tastes best when eaten with one’s fingers. She tells me that Indians eat with their hands because they believe that food is, “more than just protein, carbs and fat it nourishes the mind, intellect and spirit. Eating should be sensual and mindful, employing all the senses: sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. Using your hands gives you a tactile connection with your food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacinto clarifies some regional differences, “In the North, where breads are commonly consumed, you tear a piece of bread and wrap it around your food. While, in the South, rice is combined with curries, and each mouthful offers a unique blend of flavors. Traditionally in Southern India, plates are made of disposable, recyclable, banana leaves. Using a knife and fork on a banana leaf would shred your plate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significantly, all cultures that shun silverware maintain a set of rules for eating with the hands. Before the meal, the hands must be washed, wiped or even rubbed with sand, as desert Arabs do. But the foremost rule is that only the right hand is employed for eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The left hand is never used for that,” Jacinto says, “It is considered unclean.” In principle, at least, this is because the left hand is saved for bodily cleaning. Another taboo Jacinto cautions against is \u003cem>jutha\u003c/em>, or double dipping your bread into a communal dish of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The secret to gracefully eating with your fingers,” Jacinto advises, “is to use your thumb. For example, a small amount of rice is formed into a little pile on your plate, blended with one or more bits of curried lentils, vegetables, meat or fish, and then picked up with a twist of the wrist, held onto by the fingers and maneuvered right up to your mouth. But don’t put your fingers into your mouth.” she instructs, “Just use your thumb to push the food inside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fharzana Elankumaran, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://iheartcurry.com/\">I Heart Curry\u003c/a>, where she teaches Indian cooking classes, also grew up eating with her hands in Bangladesh. “I appreciate this way of eating because you have more control over your food,“ she says. “For example, if you’re eating fish or chicken, you don’t have to worry about cutting with a knife around the bones. When you use your fingers, you can get every last bit of meat and so waste less. It’s an expression of the great respect we have for the food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her Indian cooking classes, Elankumaran encourages students to eat with their hands, but finds that it may be a challenge for first-timers. “ Sometimes my students tell me their hands get tired, because they are using a whole new set of muscles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/rassam.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39140\" title=\"rassam sharif\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/rassam.jpg\" alt=\"rassam sharif\" width=\"560\" height=\"501\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Yemeni dish at Oasis Market and Restaurant\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a shopping trip to Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/oasis-food-market-oakland\">Oasis Market and Restaurant\u003c/a>, I spy manager Rassam Sharif eating his lunch by hand. It’s a Yemeni specialty, \u003cem>fahsa\u003c/em> (cooked boneless beef topped with whipped fenugreek, with a salsa-like sauce). Sharif kindly demonstrates his technique: he tears off a bit of tandoori bread, dips it into the meat and salsa, and brings it to his mouth with 3 fingers. Sharif prefers eating by hand because, he says, “You have more connection to your food. With a spoon, it’s just like shoveling something into your mouth to get full. In Islam, we are taught that the Prophet said to eat from your own side of the dish, slowly, with the right hand, just until you are not hungry. It makes you take your time and be mindful of what you’re eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enough talk, I decide, it’s time for me to get some hands-on tutoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, my request for cross-cultural dining instruction interests Mostafa Raiss El Fenni, owner of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.saharaimport.com/\">Sahara Home Décor\u003c/a>. He invites me to stay for lunch and we sit on intricately carved and painted chairs amid his stunning collection of Moroccan carpets, ottomans, embroidered textiles, brass lanterns, conical clay pots and delicate tea glasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/mostafa-and-hand.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39141\" title=\"mostafa and hand\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/mostafa-and-hand.jpg\" alt=\"mostafa and hand\" width=\"560\" height=\"334\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mostafa Raiss El Fenni -- Moroccan food\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raiss El Fenni, a former Cal student and chemist, whose shop promotes the works of artists from his homeland, tells me, “Eating with your hands is about sharing,” and as the youngest in a family of 12 children, he got a lot of practice doing that. There is an intimacy formed when you all eat from the same dish dipping in small pieces of bread, he explains. “ And if you find a piece of meat close to you that’s especially good, you can share it with your neighbor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does each person take the piece of meat and bread onto their own plate?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have individual plates. We are a very collective society. But if we invite guests over who are not familiar with this way of eating, we show them how it’s done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch my lesson in eating with the hands, Moroccan style:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the college dorm, it was a bit of culture shock for Raiss El Fenni that each student ate his own sandwich. “I couldn’t get used to eating by myself. So, I just waited with my food until they were done, and then said, “Hey, want to share? Eventually they got the idea and would offer to share some of their sandwiches with me too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raiss-El-Fenni also hosts Moroccan parties in colorful Berber tents set up outside his shop. Parties range from mint tea and pastries to an all-out catered feast with live music and belly dancers. And of course, he will encourage your guests to eat with their hands for the true Moroccan experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Tanjia-collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39136\" title=\"Tanjia \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Tanjia-collage.jpg\" alt=\"Tanjia\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Tanjia Moroccan Restaurant\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After my tasty lesson, I invite my husband out for a Moroccan meal and tell him I’ll show him how to eat with his hands, so we head over to \u003ca href=\"http://tanjiaoakland.com/\">Tanjia\u003c/a>, an Oakland Moroccan restaurant we haven’t yet tried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We enter the lovely blue and red interior with low couches that let you sit close to your dining companion. But I am disappointed to see the tables set with forks and knives. When I tell the server we hoped to eat in Moroccan fashion, she gladly takes away the silverware and returns with a pot of water and washes our hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first course is an assortment of delicately spiced salads: carrots, eggplant, cucumbers, tomato and bell pepper. Easy to scoop up with chunks of home baked bread. But with the arrival of the lamb and eggplant and chicken with honey and prunes, which are so meltingly tender you can tell they have cooked slowly for hours, my husband chickens-out of the hands-on approach and, to keep him company, I ask for two forks. It’s not so easy to change a lifetimes's eating habits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Jamal Zahid recently took over the restaurant from his brother, Said who started Tanjia in 2000. It has always been a “silverware optional restaurant” but seeing the reaction of a younger generation of customers not used to the traditional Moroccan way of dining sans utensils, Zahid decided-- as an act of hospitality to his guests-- to set the table with forks and knives, a reversal of his brother’s default setting. Personally, Zahid favors eating with the hands as a way to feel connected to the food and savor the meal slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/ethiopian-dish.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-39137\" title=\"ethiopian dish - Cafe Colucci\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/ethiopian-dish.jpg\" alt=\"ethiopian dish - Cafe Colucci\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ethiopian platter and injera - Cafe Colucci\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafecolucci.com/\">Café Colucci Ethiopian restaurant\u003c/a>, by contrast, forks are nowhere in sight. Injera, the spongy, slightly sour, crepe-like bread made from the teff grain, functions as tablecloth, plate and utensil and the food is served family style, atop a large injera circle. “Eating is almost a sacred ritual,” says owner Fetlework Tefferi, whose award-winning restaurant just celebrated its 20th year. Besides the rules of hand washing and right hand only, she adds another from her native Ethiopia, “Once the tray of food is laid on the table, no one rises until all are done and the tray removed. We chew slowly, with closed mouths and a calm dignity. The food is sacred. It’s not polite to rush through your meal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, eating with the hand is more than just a mechanism to get sustenance into the mouth. “On certain occasions,” explains Tefferi, “we feed each other by hand, it’s called \u003cem>goorsha\u003c/em> and it’s a loving act, an endearment. You might feed a child who is not eating enough or a guest you are entertaining. But if I were to make a bite for a man, “she chuckles,” I need to make sure it’s a big, well-packed roll of injera. I guess it’s a macho thing.” She adds, “We usually don’t eat alone. If you are in a restaurant in Ethiopia, for example, and the people at the next table get served first, they will probably ask you to join them or at least take a few bites with them. That kind of sharing is what holds us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Fetlework-collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39138\" title=\"Fetlework Tefferi\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/02/Fetlework-collage.jpg\" alt=\"Fetlework Tefferi\" width=\"560\" height=\"350\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tefferi demonstrates how to tear off a small square from the rolls of injera in the basket. She describes the technique as “wrap and roll.” You lay your piece of injera over some food and use all your fingers to gather up the filling and twist it into a little packed pouch, which you may dip into several different dishes on the tray. 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