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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/dudafarms_wide-edb14add9426c7c2b1e2bd9c4d2d3c74f801ab7f-s40.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/dudafarms_wide-edb14add9426c7c2b1e2bd9c4d2d3c74f801ab7f-s40.jpg\" alt=\"American farms like this iceberg lettuce field owned by Duda Farm Fresh Foods outside Salinas, Calif., are facing a dwindling supply of farmworkers from rural Mexico. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American farms like this iceberg lettuce field owned by Duda Farm Fresh Foods outside Salinas, Calif., are facing a dwindling supply of farmworkers from rural Mexico. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://kunc.org/people/kirk-siegler\">Kirk Siegler\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/30/180053057/why-an-immigration-deal-wont-solve-the-farmworker-shortage\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (04/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Salinas Valley in Northern California grows about 80 percent of the country's lettuce, and it takes a lot of people to pick and pack it. In a field owned by \u003ca href=\"http://www.dudafresh.com/\">Duda Farm Fresh Foods\u003c/a>, a dozen \u003cem>lechugueros, \u003c/em>or lettuce pickers, are bent at the waist, cutting heads of iceberg lettuce. They work frantically to stay in front of a line of 12 more packers, who seal them with tape and toss them onto a conveyor belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot more going on here than meets the eye,\" says Sammy Duda, the company's vice president. \"The way the lettuce is trimmed is much more difficult to do if you don't trim it properly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duda hires 1,000 or more field workers every harvest, paying them about $12 an hour. Many don't have papers, but Duda says he has no other choice. Hardly any Americans apply for these jobs, he says, and most who do, don't stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has always been an immigrant job, whether it's, like I say, back from the Dust Bowl group,\" Duda says. \"This is not a new phenomenon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor shortages aren't a new phenomenon, either, in this valley \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/slideshow-steinbecks-salinas-valley/16441/#1\">made famous\u003c/a> by John Steinbeck. But things have gotten worse lately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of the migrant workers who came from rural Mexico are getting too old for this back-breaking work, and their kids don't want to do it at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard, because I've been working in the fields for like 12 years now,\" says 29-year-old Marco Lara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says many of his extended family and friends back in his native Mexican state of Michoacan don't want to cross the border right now. Hiring a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/04/19/150973748/inside-the-hidden-world-of-immigrant-smuggling\">coyote\u003c/a>\" costs a lot more than it once did, and the border is a lot more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61139\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thinningharvester-2ce6738759e05f6f05be97c7fd99d50bc5064990-s3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thinningharvester-2ce6738759e05f6f05be97c7fd99d50bc5064990-s3.jpg\" alt=\"Some people hope that machines like this automated spinach harvester will help farmers deal will less immigrant labor. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61139\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some people hope that machines like this automated spinach harvester will help farmers deal will less immigrant labor. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"There's people that just don't want to risk coming here,\" Lara says. \"I [lost] two friends on the border three years ago.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duda says the proposed immigration overhaul bill might solve some of these problems. For one, it would give thousands of workers a path to legal residency and make it easier for others to enter the U.S. But he says those things are probably just stopgap fixes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It'll help us in the short term. The long term? Remains to be seen,\" Duda says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the late 1990s, there has been a slow but steady decline in the number of rural Mexicans migrating north. Agriculture economist \u003ca href=\"http://agecon.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/j.%20edward-taylor/\">Ed Taylor\u003c/a> at the University of California, Davis, says that decline has little to do with U.S. immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor's research suggests that declining birth rates in rural Mexico, where the economy has also improved in recent years, is the reason why fewer migrants are coming to the U.S. And since farms in Mexico have also expanded to meet the year-round produce demands north of the border, why risk going north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many [American] farmers also have this sense that, if Washington can just get its house in order and pass immigration reform, their problems will be over, and that isn't what our research is showing,\" Taylor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farms here are going to have to learn how to do more with less immigrant labor, Taylor says. That means switching to less labor-intensive crops, or mechanization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Salinas Valley town of Gonzales, Frank Maconachy with the company \u003ca href=\"http://www.ramsayhighlander.com/about/index.htm\">Ramsay Highlander\u003c/a> may have an answer for farmers worried about big labor shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The labor resource is dwindling, so we needed to develop a machine that could mechanically cut ... efficiently, effectively, safely and get the crop to market competitively,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That machine is an automatic spinach harvester. His company custom builds them to suit individual farmers' needs — different blades and equipment to pick celery, for example. But the main point is it reduces the need for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One operator can now harvest 12- to 15,000 pounds of spinach or baby leaf in an hour, where typically a crew of 30 people would be on their hands and knees cutting this with knives and would do half of that volume at best,\" Maconachy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But efficiency comes with a price: $250,000 for one of these machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sammy Duda isn't quite ready to make that kind of investment. Machines can't do everything, he says. \"It's very difficult to duplicate the eyes and the feel of a worker when it comes to maturity and quality of the crop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as he focuses on the current immigration bill and whether it will help him get enough workers to get through these next few years, he knows his business is going to have to change. Technology once radically changed this valley when refrigeration allowed iceberg lettuce to be shipped all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This particular valley was founded on innovation,\" he says. \"There's a lot of bright people that have their radar going, and so as labor issues change, we adapt or we die.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/30/180053057/why-an-immigration-deal-wont-solve-the-farmworker-shortage\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Hiring a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/04/19/150973748/inside-the-hidden-world-of-immigrant-smuggling\">coyote\u003c/a>\" costs a lot more than it once did, and the border is a lot more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_61139\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thinningharvester-2ce6738759e05f6f05be97c7fd99d50bc5064990-s3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thinningharvester-2ce6738759e05f6f05be97c7fd99d50bc5064990-s3.jpg\" alt=\"Some people hope that machines like this automated spinach harvester will help farmers deal will less immigrant labor. Photo: Kirk Siegler/NPR\" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61139\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some people hope that machines like this automated spinach harvester will help farmers deal will less immigrant labor. 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Agriculture economist \u003ca href=\"http://agecon.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/j.%20edward-taylor/\">Ed Taylor\u003c/a> at the University of California, Davis, says that decline has little to do with U.S. immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor's research suggests that declining birth rates in rural Mexico, where the economy has also improved in recent years, is the reason why fewer migrants are coming to the U.S. And since farms in Mexico have also expanded to meet the year-round produce demands north of the border, why risk going north?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many [American] farmers also have this sense that, if Washington can just get its house in order and pass immigration reform, their problems will be over, and that isn't what our research is showing,\" Taylor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farms here are going to have to learn how to do more with less immigrant labor, Taylor says. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60551\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 204px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/fb.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/fb-204x290.jpg\" alt=\"The Third Annual Coffee Ride\" width=\"204\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60551\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Third Annual Coffee Ride\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's officially a yearly caffeinated tradition; my friend Pamela Palma and I led our 3rd Annual Coffee Ride through the streets of San Francisco yesterday. Close to 50 other coffee-loving cyclists met us at 10AM at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/stanzasf\" target=\"_blank\">Stanza Coffee Bar\u003c/a>, our first stop in the Mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone filled up their coffee mugs and fueled up with pastries to jumpstart their 30-mile jaunt around the city. By adding more miles and hill climbs, we had designed a more challenging route for this year's group -- including a scenic mid-ride stop on Twin Peaks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'd be visiting all of the spots on our schedule for the first time, so I was really excited about exploring these latest additions to the city's ever-evolving coffee community. And several folks mentioned that they'd be biking in areas or checking out cafes they hadn't heard of before; it's always a pleasure to introduce our fellow cyclists to new destinations as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride017.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride017.jpg\" alt=\"pamela palma\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60978\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-organizer Pamela Palma\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride006.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride006.jpg\" alt=\"stanza coffee logo\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60973\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride016.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride016.jpg\" alt=\"cyclists at stanza\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60977\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride003.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride003.jpg\" alt=\"stanza menu\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60970\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride018.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride018.jpg\" alt=\"marc\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60979\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanza serves up an eclectic selection of coffees from around the world as well as some unique domestic offerings such as Blacksmith Espresso from \u003ca href=\"http://quillscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Quills Coffee\u003c/a> in Louisville, KY. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride004.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride004.jpg\" alt=\"black smith espresso\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60971\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride005.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride005.jpg\" alt=\"stanza coffee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60972\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with their sidewalk seating and tables in the main cafe, they also have a lovely patio out back for their patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride013.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride013.jpg\" alt=\"stanza patio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60976\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11AM, we headed east towards the Bayview / Hunters Point neighborhood. Tucked away on Yosemite Avenue off of 3rd, \u003ca href=\"http://www.troublecoffee.com/content\" target=\"_blank\">Trouble Coffee\u003c/a> now has a second outpost in another remote locale. It radiates the same quaint charm and vintage decor as its Outer Sunset predecessor and most of its popular menu items: thick-sliced buttery toast topped with peanut butter, cinnamon or Nutella and and fresh baby coconuts. Giulietta Carrelli, Trouble's irrepressible owner, was manning her cozy coffee nook solo. She greeted our large, thirsty crowd by solemnly announcing she'd be 'making no lattes' as she'd survived a rough mountain bike crash just the night before. \"Just drip coffees for all of you -- and tons of toast!\" she said with a mischievous grin. But as her shop's motto is, \"We serve guts and honor,\" she graciously prepared one of her delicious lattes upon request. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride045.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride045.jpg\" alt=\"Giulette Carelli, Trouble Coffee's rock star owner\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60980\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride050.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride050.jpg\" alt=\"trouble coffee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60982\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride052.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride052.jpg\" alt=\"trouble coffee sign\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60983\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride049.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride049.jpg\" alt=\"toast\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60981\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride055.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride055.jpg\" alt=\"latte\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60985\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride053.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride053.jpg\" alt=\"cyclists at trouble\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60984\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride056.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride056.jpg\" alt=\"trouble coffee exterior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60986\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energized with Trouble, it was now Twin Peaks time. We wound our way through the various neighborhoods of Crocker Amazon, Balboa Park, Monterey Heights and St. Francis Wood to reach the top. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride060.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride060.jpg\" alt=\"riding to twin peaks\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60987\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride061.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride061.jpg\" alt=\"hamilton\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60988\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride063.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride063.jpg\" alt=\"sutro tower\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60989\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride064.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride064.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride064\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60990\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride067.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride067.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride067\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60991\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking in the gorgeous views of San Francisco from the summit of Twin Peaks, we headed west towards the Pacific Ocean. Situated just above the Sutro Baths and the Cliff House, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cliffhouse.com/home/Cafe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lands End Lookout Cafe\u003c/a> is nestled inside the relatively new visitor center that opened last spring. While the Peerless Coffee they brewed didn't earn glowing reviews from our finicky group, the sandwiches, soups, salads and warm cookies consumed during our lunch stop received plenty of compliments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride074.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride074.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride074\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60992\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride076.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride076.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride076\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60993\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride077.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride077.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride077\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60994\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride078.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride078.jpg\" alt=\"lands end\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60995\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to leave the chilly seaside fog and return to some sunshine, we were luckily welcomed back into the warm weather in the Marina when we arrived at \u003ca href=\"http://www.dynamodonut.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamo Donuts'\u003c/a> cute little kiosk on the eastern edge of Crissy Field. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride085.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride085.jpg\" alt=\"dynamo sign\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60997\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride086.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride086.jpg\" alt=\"dynamo coffee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60998\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, by the time our group showed up, they were all out of donuts. So Pamela and I made an executive decision to skip the last two cafes in North Beach -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.beacon-sf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Beacon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.reveillecoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Reveille\u003c/a> -- and get our sugar fix at Stella's Pastry and Cafe for tiramisu and other Italian delights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride093.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride093.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastry exterior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61000\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride091.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride091.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastry\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60999\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride095.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride095.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastry interior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61001\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride096.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride096.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61002\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride099.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride099.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastries table\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61003\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride101.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride101.jpg\" alt=\"cappuccino\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61004\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride102.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride102.jpg\" alt=\"stella cafe\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61005\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relaxing in North Beach with cappuccino and an assortment of desserts was a fine way to end our long day of caffeinated adventures. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride003.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride003.jpg\" alt=\"stanza menu\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60970\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride018.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride018.jpg\" alt=\"marc\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60979\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanza serves up an eclectic selection of coffees from around the world as well as some unique domestic offerings such as Blacksmith Espresso from \u003ca href=\"http://quillscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Quills Coffee\u003c/a> in Louisville, KY. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride004.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride004.jpg\" alt=\"black smith espresso\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60971\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride005.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride005.jpg\" alt=\"stanza coffee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60972\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with their sidewalk seating and tables in the main cafe, they also have a lovely patio out back for their patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride013.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride013.jpg\" alt=\"stanza patio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60976\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11AM, we headed east towards the Bayview / Hunters Point neighborhood. Tucked away on Yosemite Avenue off of 3rd, \u003ca href=\"http://www.troublecoffee.com/content\" target=\"_blank\">Trouble Coffee\u003c/a> now has a second outpost in another remote locale. It radiates the same quaint charm and vintage decor as its Outer Sunset predecessor and most of its popular menu items: thick-sliced buttery toast topped with peanut butter, cinnamon or Nutella and and fresh baby coconuts. Giulietta Carrelli, Trouble's irrepressible owner, was manning her cozy coffee nook solo. She greeted our large, thirsty crowd by solemnly announcing she'd be 'making no lattes' as she'd survived a rough mountain bike crash just the night before. \"Just drip coffees for all of you -- and tons of toast!\" she said with a mischievous grin. But as her shop's motto is, \"We serve guts and honor,\" she graciously prepared one of her delicious lattes upon request. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride045.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride045.jpg\" alt=\"Giulette Carelli, Trouble Coffee's rock star owner\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60980\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride050.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride050.jpg\" alt=\"trouble coffee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60982\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride052.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride052.jpg\" alt=\"trouble coffee sign\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60983\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride049.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride049.jpg\" alt=\"toast\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60981\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride055.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride055.jpg\" alt=\"latte\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60985\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride053.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride053.jpg\" alt=\"cyclists at trouble\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60984\">\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride056.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride056.jpg\" alt=\"trouble coffee exterior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60986\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energized with Trouble, it was now Twin Peaks time. We wound our way through the various neighborhoods of Crocker Amazon, Balboa Park, Monterey Heights and St. Francis Wood to reach the top. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride060.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride060.jpg\" alt=\"riding to twin peaks\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60987\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride061.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride061.jpg\" alt=\"hamilton\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60988\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride063.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride063.jpg\" alt=\"sutro tower\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60989\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride064.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride064.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride064\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60990\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride067.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride067.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride067\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60991\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After taking in the gorgeous views of San Francisco from the summit of Twin Peaks, we headed west towards the Pacific Ocean. Situated just above the Sutro Baths and the Cliff House, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cliffhouse.com/home/Cafe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lands End Lookout Cafe\u003c/a> is nestled inside the relatively new visitor center that opened last spring. While the Peerless Coffee they brewed didn't earn glowing reviews from our finicky group, the sandwiches, soups, salads and warm cookies consumed during our lunch stop received plenty of compliments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride074.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride074.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride074\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60992\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride076.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride076.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride076\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60993\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride077.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride077.jpg\" alt=\"thirdcoffeeride077\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60994\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride078.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride078.jpg\" alt=\"lands end\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60995\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to leave the chilly seaside fog and return to some sunshine, we were luckily welcomed back into the warm weather in the Marina when we arrived at \u003ca href=\"http://www.dynamodonut.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamo Donuts'\u003c/a> cute little kiosk on the eastern edge of Crissy Field. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride085.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride085.jpg\" alt=\"dynamo sign\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60997\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride086.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride086.jpg\" alt=\"dynamo coffee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60998\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, by the time our group showed up, they were all out of donuts. So Pamela and I made an executive decision to skip the last two cafes in North Beach -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.beacon-sf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Beacon\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.reveillecoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Reveille\u003c/a> -- and get our sugar fix at Stella's Pastry and Cafe for tiramisu and other Italian delights. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride093.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride093.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastry exterior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61000\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride091.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride091.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastry\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60999\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride095.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride095.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastry interior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61001\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride096.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride096.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61002\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride099.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride099.jpg\" alt=\"stella pastries table\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61003\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride101.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride101.jpg\" alt=\"cappuccino\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61004\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride102.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/thirdcoffeeride102.jpg\" alt=\"stella cafe\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61005\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relaxing in North Beach with cappuccino and an assortment of desserts was a fine way to end our long day of caffeinated adventures. We'll be back in the East Bay next spring for ride number four!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can see additional photos from the ride \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/plattyjo/sets/72157633368558164/\" target=\"_blank\">in my Flickr set\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211174558017915922980.0004da9a1b0ec0057e062&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.756601,-122.45018&spn=0.095003,0.205994&z=12&output=embed\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>View \u003ca href=\"https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211174558017915922980.0004da9a1b0ec0057e062&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=37.756601,-122.45018&spn=0.095003,0.205994&z=12&source=embed\">3rd Annual Coffee Ride! \u003c/a> in a larger map\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Bacon's Greasy Grip on the Bay Area Too Sticky to Shake",
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"content": "\u003cp>Vegetarians, avert your eyes... Bacon has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump%20the%20shark\">jumping the shark\u003c/a> since the early \u003ca href=\"http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/cook02.html\">18\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century\u003c/a>, when Ebenezer Cook complained about the New World's \"homely fair.\" Even then, it would seem, Americans had a predilection for \"Fat, from Bacon fry'd, Or with\u003cem> Molossus\u003c/em> dulcify'd.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bacon-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bacon-new.jpg\" alt=\"Why won't bacon die? Because it tastes so good. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why won't bacon die? Because it tastes so good. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, pundits keep declaring bacon is boring, and therefore, dead. Over. \u003cem>Done\u003c/em>, already. But bacon’s greasy grip on the American consciousness lives on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As food writer Jason Sheehan of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattleweekly.com/voracious/2011/01/bacon_we_have_a_problem_an_inf.php\">Seattle Weekly\u003c/a> put it,\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Bacon has not merely jumped the shark. Bacon has taken all the sharks, stuffed them with cupcakes, ice cream, sausage, lipstick, alarm clocks and mayonnaise, wrapped them in bacon, deep-fried them, then jumped that. Using a ramp made of bacon.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a time when people are cultivating their own yoghurt and milling their own flour, it’s a wonder everybody isn’t making their own bacon, the way Pati Palmer does in Cupertino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started a couple of years ago. Driving her two teenagers around one morning, Palmer heard a KQED Forum segment on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201012081000\">Do-It-Yourself projects\u003c/a>, and the guest \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Hedonia\">Sean Timberlake\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.punkdomestics.com/\">Punk Domestics\u003c/a> piqued her curiosity. Not long after, she was poking around on the group’s web site. “And I just decided ‘I gotta do \u003ca href=\"http://www.punkdomestics.com/category/tags/bacon?page=1\">bacon\u003c/a>.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off she went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dittmers.com/\">Dittmer's Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus\u003c/a> in Los Altos for five pounds of pork belly. The family ate what they could, and froze the rest. Although, really, that shouldn’t have been necessary. Palmer guffaws. “A 14 year-old son? Come on! Bacon doesn’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Tasty as it is, Palmer’s not looking to start a new career in bacon. In case you’re thinking about it, bacon is not one of the approved foods under the new \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1616\">California Homemade Food Act\u003c/a>. But...we’re getting ahead of ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/therawmaterials-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/therawmaterials-new.jpg\" alt=\"The raw material. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The raw material, in this case, at Olivier's Butchery in San Francisco. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First, you should try making bacon, and that involves buying pork belly. \u003ca href=\"http://www.biritemarket.com/\">Bi-Rite\u003c/a> butcher Zane Clark says some people do pause looking at a full pork belly. Especially if they don’t have ravenous teenagers living at home. Zane suggests sharing the love -- and the saturated fat -- with others. “You could have a bacon party with it,” he suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or...if you want to get all competitive about it, you could invite your DIY-inclined friends over for a piggy throw-down. “A bacon swap,” Clark says, “Which would be kind of cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says he’s seen no perceptible bump in pork belly sales specifically \u003cstrong>for\u003c/strong> bacon-making. Other Bay Area butchers report bacon stampedes, typically set off by a compelling food blog post, or TV show, or dare I suggest it, public radio segment. Once you’ve got the belly in your hot little hands, the next question is dry rub or brine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ian-Marks-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ian-Marks-new.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Marks is chef/owner of The Beast and The Hare in San Francisco's Mission District. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Marks is chef/owner of The Beast and The Hare in San Francisco's Mission District. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ian Marks of \u003ca href=\"http://www.beastandthehare.com/\">The Beast and the Hare\u003c/a> in San Francisco brines. Downstairs in the restaurant’s basement, buckets of pork belly sit in brining solution for a week before he pulls them out, commenting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s basically a pickled piece of meat.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marks is coy about the actual recipe. Still, it's fair to say his recipe works. He moves four slabs of bacon a week. The rest he sells to \u003ca href=\"http://www.drewesbros.com/\">Drewes Brothers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://guerrameats.com/default.aspx\">Guerra's Deli & Meats\u003c/a>. In truth, much depends on your personal palate. The ingredients are about as basic as can be: “White sugar, brown sugar, molasses, honey, salt, and a little saltpeter.” That said, he must be doing something right to stand out in a crowded marketplace. San Francisco magazine last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/taste-test-the-bacon-bar\">declared his bacon the best in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/brinedandreadytogo-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/brinedandreadytogo-new.jpg\" alt=\"Out of the bucket and ready for the smoker. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of the bucket and ready for the smoker. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From there, it’s on to the smoker, strewn liberally with apple wood chips. To meet the exigencies of the weekend brunch rush, he typically finishes cooking the bacon in the oven. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Vegetarians, avert your eyes... Bacon has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jump%20the%20shark\">jumping the shark\u003c/a> since the early \u003ca href=\"http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/cook02.html\">18\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> century\u003c/a>, when Ebenezer Cook complained about the New World's \"homely fair.\" Even then, it would seem, Americans had a predilection for \"Fat, from Bacon fry'd, Or with\u003cem> Molossus\u003c/em> dulcify'd.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bacon-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bacon-new.jpg\" alt=\"Why won't bacon die? Because it tastes so good. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why won't bacon die? Because it tastes so good. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yes, pundits keep declaring bacon is boring, and therefore, dead. Over. \u003cem>Done\u003c/em>, already. But bacon’s greasy grip on the American consciousness lives on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As food writer Jason Sheehan of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattleweekly.com/voracious/2011/01/bacon_we_have_a_problem_an_inf.php\">Seattle Weekly\u003c/a> put it,\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Bacon has not merely jumped the shark. Bacon has taken all the sharks, stuffed them with cupcakes, ice cream, sausage, lipstick, alarm clocks and mayonnaise, wrapped them in bacon, deep-fried them, then jumped that. Using a ramp made of bacon.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In a time when people are cultivating their own yoghurt and milling their own flour, it’s a wonder everybody isn’t making their own bacon, the way Pati Palmer does in Cupertino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started a couple of years ago. Driving her two teenagers around one morning, Palmer heard a KQED Forum segment on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201012081000\">Do-It-Yourself projects\u003c/a>, and the guest \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Hedonia\">Sean Timberlake\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"http://www.punkdomestics.com/\">Punk Domestics\u003c/a> piqued her curiosity. Not long after, she was poking around on the group’s web site. “And I just decided ‘I gotta do \u003ca href=\"http://www.punkdomestics.com/category/tags/bacon?page=1\">bacon\u003c/a>.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Off she went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.dittmers.com/\">Dittmer's Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus\u003c/a> in Los Altos for five pounds of pork belly. The family ate what they could, and froze the rest. Although, really, that shouldn’t have been necessary. Palmer guffaws. “A 14 year-old son? Come on! Bacon doesn’t last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Tasty as it is, Palmer’s not looking to start a new career in bacon. In case you’re thinking about it, bacon is not one of the approved foods under the new \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1616\">California Homemade Food Act\u003c/a>. But...we’re getting ahead of ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/therawmaterials-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/therawmaterials-new.jpg\" alt=\"The raw material. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The raw material, in this case, at Olivier's Butchery in San Francisco. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First, you should try making bacon, and that involves buying pork belly. \u003ca href=\"http://www.biritemarket.com/\">Bi-Rite\u003c/a> butcher Zane Clark says some people do pause looking at a full pork belly. Especially if they don’t have ravenous teenagers living at home. Zane suggests sharing the love -- and the saturated fat -- with others. “You could have a bacon party with it,” he suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or...if you want to get all competitive about it, you could invite your DIY-inclined friends over for a piggy throw-down. “A bacon swap,” Clark says, “Which would be kind of cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark says he’s seen no perceptible bump in pork belly sales specifically \u003cstrong>for\u003c/strong> bacon-making. Other Bay Area butchers report bacon stampedes, typically set off by a compelling food blog post, or TV show, or dare I suggest it, public radio segment. 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Downstairs in the restaurant’s basement, buckets of pork belly sit in brining solution for a week before he pulls them out, commenting:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It’s basically a pickled piece of meat.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marks is coy about the actual recipe. Still, it's fair to say his recipe works. He moves four slabs of bacon a week. The rest he sells to \u003ca href=\"http://www.drewesbros.com/\">Drewes Brothers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://guerrameats.com/default.aspx\">Guerra's Deli & Meats\u003c/a>. In truth, much depends on your personal palate. The ingredients are about as basic as can be: “White sugar, brown sugar, molasses, honey, salt, and a little saltpeter.” That said, he must be doing something right to stand out in a crowded marketplace. San Francisco magazine last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/taste-test-the-bacon-bar\">declared his bacon the best in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/brinedandreadytogo-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-60866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/brinedandreadytogo-new.jpg\" alt=\"Out of the bucket and ready for the smoker. Photo: Rachael Myrow\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out of the bucket and ready for the smoker. Photo: Rachael Myrow\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From there, it’s on to the smoker, strewn liberally with apple wood chips. To meet the exigencies of the weekend brunch rush, he typically finishes cooking the bacon in the oven. After that, there’s yet another aesthetic decision to make - thin slices? Or thick? Marks slices \u003cem>super\u003c/em> thick -- just eight to ten slices a pound. \"Otherwise, the molasses will start burning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks are finicky about choosing locally-raised pork, but some of the best heritage breeds come from parts elsewhere. Marks gets his pork from \u003ca href=\"http://www.colemannatural.com/\">Coleman Farms\u003c/a> in Colorado: raised on pasture; no hormones or antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely prefer a red pig, a Duroc pig, over a Berkshire pig,” Marks says. Why? He likes the nuttiness of the Duroc, and the sweetness of the meat. He makes his own charcuterie, too, and that’s also Duroc. That said, there’s something else. “I find Berkshire to be a little more barnyard-y smelling -- and because I’ve noticed it, now I notice it every time.” There are a variety of heritage breeds to choose from, and heritage crossbreeds, too. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60359\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Freeman_Caitlin1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Freeman_Caitlin1000.jpg\" alt=\"Caitlin Freeman. Photo: Charles Villyard\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caitlin Freeman. Photo: Charles Villyard\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andy Warhol as Jell-O, Jeff Koons as a gilded white hot chocolate, and Cindy Sherman as a pink ice cream float dusted with glitter are just a few of the edible art concepts cooked up by Caitlin Freeman, an artist who creates confections and fancy snacks based on special exhibitions at SFMOMA. Her new book, \"Modern Art Desserts,\" details recipes and stories from her self-made dream job: responding to art through food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Art-Desserts-Recipes-Confections/dp/1607743906\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Free_Modern-Art-Desserts600.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Art Desserts by Caitlin Freeman\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60357\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman co-owned Miette pastry shops before opening the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/\">Blue Bottle Coffee\u003c/a> bar at SFMOMA’s rooftop garden with her husband \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/07/30/bay-area-coffee-roasters-food-wine-this-week/\">James\u003c/a>. From Miette, she brought along artist and pastry chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.leahrosenberg.com\">Leah Rosenberg\u003c/a>, and assistant Tess Wilson. The team’s desserts are innovative, creative and sometimes controversial. A cookie plate inspired by Richard Serra’s massive steel sculptures is likely the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/2013/04/setting-the-serra-story-straight/\">first dessert to have ever received a cease and desist letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Thiebaud-Pink-Cake600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Thiebaud-Pink-Cake600-190x190.jpg\" title=\"Thiebaud Pink Cake\" alt=\"Thiebaud Pink Cake. 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Textile artist Ruth Laskey’s two-color weavings became conceptual sodas where flavors were assigned to each color, creating combinations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Laskey-Lemon-Soda-with-Bay-Ice-Cubes-51159600\">lemon soda with bay ice cubes\u003c/a>, and bubblegum soda (made from Dubble Bubble gum concentrate) with violet ice cubes. Freeman was interested in the overlap between colors and flavors, a concept that went through some trial and error when she focused on Andy Warhol’s self portrait in green, blue, red, and yellow. She tried to make a Bloody Mary gelée and explains, “I didn’t want to use food coloring but I figured we could use blue curacao. We made Campbell’s tomato soup Jell-O, celery, horseradish and Worcester Jell-O, and it was revolting. It shouldn’t be a surprise, but that was the one recipe that didn’t really work out.” Her aversion to food coloring had to be overcome for her Mondrian cake, a chocolate ganache grid with primary-colored cake blocks, but she’s not the only one who is wary of unnatural-looking cake dye. She says, “People easily gobble up the yellow and red, but often they’ll leave the blue square on the plate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/winogrand-cake1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/winogrand-cake1000.jpg\" alt=\"Dessert is based on Garry Winogrand's "Kerrville, Texas" (1977). 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We’ll have two images laser-cut as cake toppers that will be dancing on the cake.” The desserts are often conceptual, and sometimes literal, like the Jasper Johns-inspired grilled cheese that looks like his piece, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/05/29/Style/Images/KENNCOTT002_1338319201.jpg\">Bread\u003c/a>. As Freeman describes the project, “The piece is a lead panel with a piece of bread on it, so we made a grilled cheese and served it on a to-scale board painted to look like lead. It was a giant, oversized board people would have to carry back to their table.” She likes that her creations can help make the art more accessible, and says that when she walks into a gallery of California painters, “especially Diebenkorn and Thiebaud,” she often wants to take the paintings home, and says: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Making desserts is my way of owning something, of really pretending that I’m stealing it, and making it my own.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[vimeo 63069294] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Art-Desserts-Recipes-Confections/dp/1607743906\">Modern Art Desserts\u003c/a>\" was released this month by Ten Speed Press. Freeman’s Mondrian cakes will soon be available for purchase online (available for delivery, packed in dry ice). 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The team’s desserts are innovative, creative and sometimes controversial. A cookie plate inspired by Richard Serra’s massive steel sculptures is likely the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bluebottlecoffee.com/2013/04/setting-the-serra-story-straight/\">first dessert to have ever received a cease and desist letter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Thiebaud-Pink-Cake600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Thiebaud-Pink-Cake600-190x190.jpg\" title=\"Thiebaud Pink Cake\" alt=\"Thiebaud Pink Cake. 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We’ll have two images laser-cut as cake toppers that will be dancing on the cake.” The desserts are often conceptual, and sometimes literal, like the Jasper Johns-inspired grilled cheese that looks like his piece, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/05/29/Style/Images/KENNCOTT002_1338319201.jpg\">Bread\u003c/a>. As Freeman describes the project, “The piece is a lead panel with a piece of bread on it, so we made a grilled cheese and served it on a to-scale board painted to look like lead. It was a giant, oversized board people would have to carry back to their table.” She likes that her creations can help make the art more accessible, and says that when she walks into a gallery of California painters, “especially Diebenkorn and Thiebaud,” she often wants to take the paintings home, and says: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Making desserts is my way of owning something, of really pretending that I’m stealing it, and making it my own.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/177493377/cooked-a-natural-history-of-transformation\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/cooked-bookcover-191x290.jpg\" alt=\"Cooked - A Natural History of Transformation. by Michael Pollan\" width=\"191\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60467\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by NPR Staff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/04/21/177501735/fire-water-air-earth-michael-pollan-gets-elemental-in-cooked\">NPR Books - Author Interviews\u003c/a> (4/21/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/04/21/177501735/fire-water-air-earth-michael-pollan-gets-elemental-in-cooked\">Weekend Edition Sunday\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2013/04/20130421_wesun_09.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his systematic scrutiny of the modern American food chain, Michael Pollan has explored everything from the evolution of edible plants to the industrial agricultural complex. In his newest book, he charts territory closer to home — or rather, \u003cem>at\u003c/em> home, in his kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation\u003c/em> surveys how the four classical elements — fire, water, air and earth — transform plants and animals into food. Pollan joins NPR's Rachel Martin to discuss the merits of slow home cooking and his adventures in fermentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/michael-pollan.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/michael-pollan-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Pollan is the author of five books, including The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Photo: Fran Collin/Penguin Press\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60468\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Pollan is the author of five books, including \u003cem>The Botany of Desire,\u003c/em> \u003cem>The Omnivore's Dilemma\u003c/em> and \u003cem>In Defense of Food\u003c/em>. A longtime contributing writer to \u003cem>The New York Times Magazine\u003c/em>, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003cbr>Photo: Fran Collin/Penguin Press\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the central transformations in cooking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I discovered that there are four central transformations that all cooking can be divided into. One is fire, the most elemental; the other is water, cooking in pots; then you've got air, which is baking, and other ways we aerate our food — very significant; and then there's earth, and earth is really fermentation, because it's cooking without the use of heat and strictly with microbes, many of which come from the earth. And I basically apprenticed myself to a master in each of those transformations.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how cooking left the kitchen\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We kind of assume that women went back to work and there was no time to make a family meal. But it isn't that simple and it's a lot more interesting. The corporations were knocking on that door for almost 100 years. And after World War II, when they had invented all these technologies for processing food and making it shelf stable and simulating real foods with fake foods, they really pushed. And they found their opportunity with the feminist revolution beginning in the '70s. There was this really uncomfortable conversation taking place at kitchen tables all across America. Men and women were trying to renegotiate the division of labor in the household. And then the food industry recognized they had an opportunity. And they said 'Don't worry about it, we've got you covered. We'll do the cooking.' And KFC even took out a billboard with a big bucket of fried chicken and the slogan, 'Women's Liberation.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I really think we need to go back and finish that difficult conversation. And I've had it, you know, with my wife, over who does what in the house, and bring men back into the kitchen. And children, which I think is really, really important ... I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the fallacy of convenience\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Some of the foods that hold themselves out to you as supremely convenient, like those microwaveable single-portion entrees in the supermarket? I did an experiment with those. We had what we called 'Microwave Night,' where we all got to buy one of those, you know, fast-food-in-a-frozen-bag things that they now have in the supermarket. And guess what? It took 40 minutes to get that meal on the table. Because the microwave is individualistic. You can only microwave one person's entrée at a time. And you're not sharing. And there's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share, it's where we learn to argue without offending. 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Who would've thought that kimchi and sauerkraut would be trendy? [Fermentation] is essentially rot that we're kind of guiding. We can't totally control it, but we can guide it. And this, I found, was the most fascinating work I did. I mean, here you cut up a cabbage, and you salt it, and you just, you know, bruise it with your hands and you put it in a crock. And then it automatically cooks. There are already just the right bacteria living on the leaves of those cabbages, that they will, without any heat, transform that food into something more flavorful, more nutritious, more beautiful in every way.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On an unexpected 'transformation'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I definitely spend more time cooking. I just make time for it. You know, we live in a very mediated life right now. We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes. And it's a democratic pleasure — all of us can do it ... 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I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the fallacy of convenience\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Some of the foods that hold themselves out to you as supremely convenient, like those microwaveable single-portion entrees in the supermarket? I did an experiment with those. We had what we called 'Microwave Night,' where we all got to buy one of those, you know, fast-food-in-a-frozen-bag things that they now have in the supermarket. And guess what? It took 40 minutes to get that meal on the table. Because the microwave is individualistic. You can only microwave one person's entrée at a time. And you're not sharing. And there's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share, it's where we learn to argue without offending. 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Who would've thought that kimchi and sauerkraut would be trendy? [Fermentation] is essentially rot that we're kind of guiding. We can't totally control it, but we can guide it. And this, I found, was the most fascinating work I did. I mean, here you cut up a cabbage, and you salt it, and you just, you know, bruise it with your hands and you put it in a crock. And then it automatically cooks. There are already just the right bacteria living on the leaves of those cabbages, that they will, without any heat, transform that food into something more flavorful, more nutritious, more beautiful in every way.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On an unexpected 'transformation'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I definitely spend more time cooking. I just make time for it. You know, we live in a very mediated life right now. We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes. And it's a democratic pleasure — all of us can do it ... 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"content": "\u003cp>How are you getting dirty for Earth Day? This year, the official commemoration falls on Monday, April 22nd, but \u003ca href=\"http://earthdaysf.org/earth-day.html\">San Francisco\u003c/a> (and other places around the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaearthday.org/\">Bay Area\u003c/a>) are holding celebrations this weekend, all focusing on greener, healthier living. It's a great opportunity to think about growing some of your own food, whether you've got a sprawling backyard, an underutilized front yard, access to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgro.org\">community garden\u003c/a> down the block, or even just a handful of pots or planter boxes on the back stairs. What does it take to turn your urban thumbs a little greener? No matter how much (or how little) space you've got, we've put together some easy-to-follow steps to get you digging deep this spring. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Kale-Broccoli-Artichoke-Blue-Flowers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Kale-Broccoli-Artichoke-Blue-Flowers-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Kale, Broccoli, Artichoke, Blue Flowers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kale, Broccoli, Artichoke, Blue Flowers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assess Your Space\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHow much growing space can you find? How much direct sun (and wind) will you have? San Francisco, in particular, is rife with micro-climates; growing a garden in the Outer Sunset is a very different proposition from planting in the Mission. You can grow lettuces, herbs, and hardy greens, like kale and collards, almost anywhere, but warmth-loving, sunshine-demanding plants like tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers need a reliable 6 to 8 hours of direct sunshine to ripen flavorfully. Making fruit (and seed-filled, fleshy vegetables like tomatoes and peppers count as fruit) takes a lot of effort on the plant's part, demanding a much higher level of nutrients and food (in the form of sugars produced by photosynthesis) than those needed by leafy greens. So, if your yard is a shady one, don't break your heart by planting lots of tomatoes that won't ripen. Stick with cool-loving plants like lettuce, chard, and Asian greens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/lettuce600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/lettuce600.jpg\" alt=\"Lettuces like cool weather.\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lettuces like cool weather.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't Skimp on the Immediate Gratification\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStarting from seed is the cheapest way to get a garden going. But it's also the slowest, and depending on how slug/snail/bird-mobbed your beds are, it can also be the most dangerous, as just-sprouted tender seedlings are the most vulnerable to pest attacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need to see some evidence to stay interested, buy some well-established seedlings instead. And fun (and tasty) as tomatoes and potatoes can be, they also take months to produce. So remember to plant some quick-to-harvest treats, like lettuce, spinach, mizuna, Asian greens, arugula and radishes, which go soil-to-table in less than 6 weeks. Beets, too, can be harvested young, when they're extra-sweet and tender. Sugar-snap peas also grow like Jack's beanstalk (give them a trellis to crawl up and cling to) and are wildly productive. Plus, they make a great sweet snack right off the plant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pea-Vines-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pea-Vines-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Peas Vines\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pea Vines\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know Your Soil\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUrban soils, even in residential neighborhoods, can have less-than-pristine histories. That's why container gardening--or building raised beds and filling them with fresh soil and compost--is usually preferable for edible plantings, rather than digging straight into your backyard topsoil, especially if you're planting root crops like beets, turnips, carrots, radishes, potatoes. Raised beds or containers can also help discourage critters (like gophers) from digging in from below, while opper strips around the edges can keep snails and slugs at bay. Building your own beds also means you can arrange the height to suit your flexibility; if crouching and bending close to the ground is difficult, plant in barrels or build tall, crate-like beds at a more comfortable level. Sunset magazine's website offers great step-by-step instructions for\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.sunset.com/garden/perfect-raised-bed-00400000039550/\">building your own redwood or cedar raised beds\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get Some Good Books\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn invaluable resource--and one that no city grower should be without--is Pam Peirce's \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570616175/kqedorg-20\">Golden Gate Gardening\u003c/a>, now in its 3rd edition. Peirce has been talking to gardeners all across the city for decades, getting their feedback on what grows best where. Her book is straightforward and readable for gardeners at all levels, and explains micro-climates, fog belts, wind patterns, and how to lay out your garden to make the most of both sun and shade, as well as listing all the best varieties of vegetables, flowers, fruits, and herbs for growing around the Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0376039205/kqedorg-20\">New Western Garden Book\u003c/a>; (9th edition) is another must-have for gardeners throughout the West, especially in California. I can't think of a gardener I know who doesn't have a dusty, dirt-smeared copy of Sunset's gardening bible in her shed or garage--and often a newer, more pristine copy among the inspirational gardening books inside. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're limited to what you can fit in pots on your back steps, pick up a copy of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789320274/kqedorg-20\">A Little Piece of Earth: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces\u003c/a>, local author \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/mariafinn/\">Maria Finn\u003c/a>'s book about container gardening. Finn knows firsthand about growing edibles without a backyard--she lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, and does all her gardening in pots on her upper deck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feed Your Soil\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore you plant a single seed, you've got to get your soil right. Yes, this can seem boring; you can spend a whole afternoon hauling bags of compost or smelly chicken manure, double-digging or spreading mulch, and not have as much a sprig in the ground to show for it. But putting in your plants should be the very last step in building your garden. Skip or skimp on this step, and you'll be fighting bug infestations, weak growth, and nutrient and mineral deficiencies in your plants the whole rest of the growing season. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-kale600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-kale600-216x290.jpg\" title=\"Long, Woody Stems on Kale\" alt=\"Long, Woody Stems on Kale\" width=\"216\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60384\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-lettuce600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-lettuce600-216x290.jpg\" title=\"Bolted lettuce\" alt=\"Bolted lettuce\" width=\"216\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do Some Spring Cleaning\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMake room for spring! Pull out any bug-infested or mildewed plants that you planted last fall or winter. Quick tip-offs that your plants have bolted and are ready for composting: Thick, bare, woody stems; heavy infestations of aphids (check undersides of leaves); normally low plants, like lettuce, shooting up and producing long, skinny flower stems; an abundance of yellow flowers on broccoli and other brassica-family plants; anything that looks leggy, overgrown, and just plain tired. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolted plants are concentrating their efforts on reproduction, meaning their leaves will be bitter and less flavorful. Pull 'em out, compost them to feed the earth (anything extremely buggy should be discarded, as home compost probably won't get hot enough to destroy insects and their eggs), and be sure to beef up your beds with fresh compost and/or organic fertilizer before planting fresh seedlings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Strawberry-Plants.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Strawberry-Plants-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry Plants\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60378\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strawberry Plants\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rotate Your Beds\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDon't plant seedlings from the same plant families in the same place year after year. Every plant family attracts a similar family of predators and disease-causing microbes to it. If you plant your potatoes where you put your tomatoes, you'll be encouraging the same pests in the soil, since both potatoes and tomatoes are in the Solanum family. Think of it as changing your plants' passwords every season. Strawberries, in particular, should be rotated around the garden frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Bees-Like-Blue-Flowers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Bees-Like-Blue-Flowers-290x217.jpg\" title=\"Bees Like Blue Flowers; Lavender\" alt=\"Bees Like Blue Flowers; Lavender\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60381\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Lavender-Flowers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Lavender-Flowers-290x217.jpg\" title=\"Lavender Flowers\" alt=\"Lavender Flowers\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60373\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feed Your Pollinators\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou know what makes a lot of your seed-bearing edible plants productive? Pollinators! That includes not just honeybees but all kinds of native bees, wasps, and other insects that crawl from flower to flower seeking nectar and, along the way, spreading pollen to make the reproductive fruiting magic happen. Planting compatible, \u003ca href=\"http://themelissagarden.com/plants.html\">pollinator-pleasing plants\u003c/a> alongside your edibles will definitely make a difference in how many zucchini, cucumbers, apricots or apples you'll get. And they're pretty, too! Bees are particularly fond of blue and purple flowers, so be sure to include borage (whose dainty star-shaped edible flowers are adorable on cupcakes), bachelor's buttons (cornflowers), and lavender. Other easy-to-grown pollinator buffets include cosmos, calendula, African blue basil, butterfly bush, coreopsis, dusty miller, sweet allysum, lamb's ear, scabiosa (pincushion flower), rosemary, and sage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Borage-Nasturiums-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Borage-Nasturiums-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Borage and Nasturiums\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borage and Nasturiums\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Buy Local\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHead up to Novato, where the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marin.edu/IVC/organic-farm.html\">Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden\u003c/a>, an educational farm that's part of the College of Marin, will be holding a 2-day \u003ca href=\"http://conservationcorpsnorthbay.org/f/sites/default/files/pdf/Plant%20Sale%204%2020%2013.pdf\">Spring Plant Sale\u003c/a>, complete with farm tours, live music, sales of plants, seedlings, and produce grown on the farm, bouquet making, and tastings, from 10am-3pm on Sat, April 20 and Sun, April 21. Buying seedlings from a farm often means getting more creative choices and more variety--a great way to try out some healthy new veggies. Purple carrots? Easter-egg radishes? Tokyo turnips? Rainbow chard? Golden raspberries? Why not? And consider investing in some perennials, too, like artichoke or rhubarb crowns, which can be productive for decades once established. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How are you getting dirty for Earth Day? This year, the official commemoration falls on Monday, April 22nd, but \u003ca href=\"http://earthdaysf.org/earth-day.html\">San Francisco\u003c/a> (and other places around the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareaearthday.org/\">Bay Area\u003c/a>) are holding celebrations this weekend, all focusing on greener, healthier living. It's a great opportunity to think about growing some of your own food, whether you've got a sprawling backyard, an underutilized front yard, access to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgro.org\">community garden\u003c/a> down the block, or even just a handful of pots or planter boxes on the back stairs. What does it take to turn your urban thumbs a little greener? No matter how much (or how little) space you've got, we've put together some easy-to-follow steps to get you digging deep this spring. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Kale-Broccoli-Artichoke-Blue-Flowers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Kale-Broccoli-Artichoke-Blue-Flowers-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Kale, Broccoli, Artichoke, Blue Flowers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60383\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kale, Broccoli, Artichoke, Blue Flowers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Assess Your Space\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHow much growing space can you find? How much direct sun (and wind) will you have? San Francisco, in particular, is rife with micro-climates; growing a garden in the Outer Sunset is a very different proposition from planting in the Mission. You can grow lettuces, herbs, and hardy greens, like kale and collards, almost anywhere, but warmth-loving, sunshine-demanding plants like tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers need a reliable 6 to 8 hours of direct sunshine to ripen flavorfully. Making fruit (and seed-filled, fleshy vegetables like tomatoes and peppers count as fruit) takes a lot of effort on the plant's part, demanding a much higher level of nutrients and food (in the form of sugars produced by photosynthesis) than those needed by leafy greens. So, if your yard is a shady one, don't break your heart by planting lots of tomatoes that won't ripen. Stick with cool-loving plants like lettuce, chard, and Asian greens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60386\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/lettuce600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/lettuce600.jpg\" alt=\"Lettuces like cool weather.\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lettuces like cool weather.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't Skimp on the Immediate Gratification\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nStarting from seed is the cheapest way to get a garden going. But it's also the slowest, and depending on how slug/snail/bird-mobbed your beds are, it can also be the most dangerous, as just-sprouted tender seedlings are the most vulnerable to pest attacks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you need to see some evidence to stay interested, buy some well-established seedlings instead. And fun (and tasty) as tomatoes and potatoes can be, they also take months to produce. So remember to plant some quick-to-harvest treats, like lettuce, spinach, mizuna, Asian greens, arugula and radishes, which go soil-to-table in less than 6 weeks. Beets, too, can be harvested young, when they're extra-sweet and tender. Sugar-snap peas also grow like Jack's beanstalk (give them a trellis to crawl up and cling to) and are wildly productive. Plus, they make a great sweet snack right off the plant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60375\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pea-Vines-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pea-Vines-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Peas Vines\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pea Vines\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know Your Soil\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nUrban soils, even in residential neighborhoods, can have less-than-pristine histories. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get Some Good Books\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAn invaluable resource--and one that no city grower should be without--is Pam Peirce's \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570616175/kqedorg-20\">Golden Gate Gardening\u003c/a>, now in its 3rd edition. Peirce has been talking to gardeners all across the city for decades, getting their feedback on what grows best where. Her book is straightforward and readable for gardeners at all levels, and explains micro-climates, fog belts, wind patterns, and how to lay out your garden to make the most of both sun and shade, as well as listing all the best varieties of vegetables, flowers, fruits, and herbs for growing around the Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0376039205/kqedorg-20\">New Western Garden Book\u003c/a>; (9th edition) is another must-have for gardeners throughout the West, especially in California. I can't think of a gardener I know who doesn't have a dusty, dirt-smeared copy of Sunset's gardening bible in her shed or garage--and often a newer, more pristine copy among the inspirational gardening books inside. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're limited to what you can fit in pots on your back steps, pick up a copy of \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789320274/kqedorg-20\">A Little Piece of Earth: How to Grow Your Own Food in Small Spaces\u003c/a>, local author \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/mariafinn/\">Maria Finn\u003c/a>'s book about container gardening. Finn knows firsthand about growing edibles without a backyard--she lives on a houseboat in Sausalito, and does all her gardening in pots on her upper deck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feed Your Soil\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBefore you plant a single seed, you've got to get your soil right. Yes, this can seem boring; you can spend a whole afternoon hauling bags of compost or smelly chicken manure, double-digging or spreading mulch, and not have as much a sprig in the ground to show for it. But putting in your plants should be the very last step in building your garden. Skip or skimp on this step, and you'll be fighting bug infestations, weak growth, and nutrient and mineral deficiencies in your plants the whole rest of the growing season. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-kale600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-kale600-216x290.jpg\" title=\"Long, Woody Stems on Kale\" alt=\"Long, Woody Stems on Kale\" width=\"216\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60384\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-lettuce600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bolted-lettuce600-216x290.jpg\" title=\"Bolted lettuce\" alt=\"Bolted lettuce\" width=\"216\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do Some Spring Cleaning\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMake room for spring! Pull out any bug-infested or mildewed plants that you planted last fall or winter. Quick tip-offs that your plants have bolted and are ready for composting: Thick, bare, woody stems; heavy infestations of aphids (check undersides of leaves); normally low plants, like lettuce, shooting up and producing long, skinny flower stems; an abundance of yellow flowers on broccoli and other brassica-family plants; anything that looks leggy, overgrown, and just plain tired. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolted plants are concentrating their efforts on reproduction, meaning their leaves will be bitter and less flavorful. Pull 'em out, compost them to feed the earth (anything extremely buggy should be discarded, as home compost probably won't get hot enough to destroy insects and their eggs), and be sure to beef up your beds with fresh compost and/or organic fertilizer before planting fresh seedlings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Strawberry-Plants.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Strawberry-Plants-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry Plants\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60378\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strawberry Plants\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rotate Your Beds\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDon't plant seedlings from the same plant families in the same place year after year. Every plant family attracts a similar family of predators and disease-causing microbes to it. If you plant your potatoes where you put your tomatoes, you'll be encouraging the same pests in the soil, since both potatoes and tomatoes are in the Solanum family. Think of it as changing your plants' passwords every season. Strawberries, in particular, should be rotated around the garden frequently. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Bees-Like-Blue-Flowers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Bees-Like-Blue-Flowers-290x217.jpg\" title=\"Bees Like Blue Flowers; Lavender\" alt=\"Bees Like Blue Flowers; Lavender\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60381\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Lavender-Flowers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Lavender-Flowers-290x217.jpg\" title=\"Lavender Flowers\" alt=\"Lavender Flowers\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60373\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feed Your Pollinators\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou know what makes a lot of your seed-bearing edible plants productive? Pollinators! That includes not just honeybees but all kinds of native bees, wasps, and other insects that crawl from flower to flower seeking nectar and, along the way, spreading pollen to make the reproductive fruiting magic happen. Planting compatible, \u003ca href=\"http://themelissagarden.com/plants.html\">pollinator-pleasing plants\u003c/a> alongside your edibles will definitely make a difference in how many zucchini, cucumbers, apricots or apples you'll get. And they're pretty, too! Bees are particularly fond of blue and purple flowers, so be sure to include borage (whose dainty star-shaped edible flowers are adorable on cupcakes), bachelor's buttons (cornflowers), and lavender. Other easy-to-grown pollinator buffets include cosmos, calendula, African blue basil, butterfly bush, coreopsis, dusty miller, sweet allysum, lamb's ear, scabiosa (pincushion flower), rosemary, and sage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Borage-Nasturiums-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Borage-Nasturiums-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Borage and Nasturiums\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borage and Nasturiums\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Buy Local\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHead up to Novato, where the \u003ca href=\"http://www.marin.edu/IVC/organic-farm.html\">Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden\u003c/a>, an educational farm that's part of the College of Marin, will be holding a 2-day \u003ca href=\"http://conservationcorpsnorthbay.org/f/sites/default/files/pdf/Plant%20Sale%204%2020%2013.pdf\">Spring Plant Sale\u003c/a>, complete with farm tours, live music, sales of plants, seedlings, and produce grown on the farm, bouquet making, and tastings, from 10am-3pm on Sat, April 20 and Sun, April 21. Buying seedlings from a farm often means getting more creative choices and more variety--a great way to try out some healthy new veggies. Purple carrots? Easter-egg radishes? Tokyo turnips? Rainbow chard? Golden raspberries? Why not? And consider investing in some perennials, too, like artichoke or rhubarb crowns, which can be productive for decades once established. Go colorful and get ready for a delicious spring and summer dining in the garden. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-1.jpg\" alt=\"Many Bay Area home brewers are trying their hands at growing their own hops. Photo credit: Tilde Herrera\" width=\"1000\" height=\"684\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60077\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many Bay Area home brewers are trying their hands at growing their own hops.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a sunny day last week, Sam Gilbert dug a hole in the backyard of \u003ca href=\"http://www.brewlabsf.com/\" title=\"BrewLab SF\" target=\"_blank\">BrewLab SF\u003c/a>'s headquarters, into which he placed a hops rhizome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next several months, the rhizome, which looks like a stick with roots poking out of it, will grow vines that will produce a vital component of Gilbert's home-brewed beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Every brewer to some extent dreams of making a beer with their own hops,\" Gilbert says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Gilbert, co-founder of the home brewers' collective, joins other dedicated home brewers throughout the Bay Area who have taken their craft to another level by growing their own hops. As home brewing soars in popularity, so does the allure of raising hops, a climbing vine that is inexpensive and easy to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-13.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-13.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Gilbert holds a Centennial hops rhizome that will be planted in his backyard in San Francisco's southern Mission District. His home serves as the headquarters for BrewLab SF. Photo credit: Tilde Herrera\" width=\"1000\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60084\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Gilbert holds a Centennial hops rhizome to be planted in his backyard in San Francisco's southern Mission District. His home serves as the headquarters for BrewLab SF.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It comes down to passion,\" says Ian Dunbar-Hall, who is part of a home brewing group called \u003ca href=\"http://euphemiaales.com/index.php/brewery/\" title=\"Euphemia Ales\" target=\"_blank\">Euphemia Ales\u003c/a> in San Francisco. \"One way to extend that passion is to grow your own ingredients. While we don't have the ability to necessarily grow our grain, we can grow our own hops.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanfranciscobrewcraft.com/default.asp\" title=\"San Francisco Brewcraft\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Brewcraft\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.oakbarrel.com/\" title=\"Oak Barrel Winecraft\" target=\"_blank\">Oak Barrel Winecraft\u003c/a> in Berkeley report normal sales of rhizomes this year, while \u003ca href=\"http://morebeer.com/\" title=\"MoreBeer\">MoreBeer\u003c/a> in Concord has seen companywide rhizome pre-sales increase about 25 percent compared to last year, says store manager Dave Wonder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been our biggest year by far,\" Wonder says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a few members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareamashers.org/\" title=\"Bay Area Mashers\">Bay Area Mashers\u003c/a> home brew club are finally trying their hand at growing hops this year, says president Justin Unverricht.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I have seen a large increase in people wanting to grow their own hops,\" he says. \"More people are aware of how to do it and there is now a fairly large wealth of information for people who are interested. If you have the space, it's a fun distraction.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Growing your own hops ensures peak freshness compared to the hops home brewers can buy commercially, Gilbert says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone kind of prizes having the freshest hops possible in their beer,\" Gilbert says. \"There is no better way to control that than for it to be your own hops.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-5.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Gilbert plants a Centennial hops rhizome between cilantro and rosemary plants, which will also be used in home-brewed beer.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60087\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Gilbert plants a Centennial hops rhizome between cilantro and rosemary plants, which will also be used in home-brewed beer.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chad Gallagher of Berkeley began growing hops because he wanted to be involved in another aspect of the beer-making process. He started four years ago at a time when hops were very expensive because of a hops shortage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you can find hops rhizomes at home brew stores in the spring for $4-$5, but with hops being a hot commodity, growing your own ensures a steady supply. It can also be difficult to buy fresh hops to make a wet hops beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some varieties that are in such demand that many home brew shops and hop distributors ration them out to a few ounces to home brewers at a time,\" Unverricht says. \"Large breweries often have direct deals with the hop farmers themselves to secure access to certain hops, but competition is pretty fierce.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hops rhizomes produce vines that can reach 20 to 30 feet with plenty of sunlight and water. It takes about three years for a hops plant to fully mature and develop its root system. Gallagher, who grows four hops varieties, has been impressed with how quickly they can grow under the right conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"On a hot day,\" he says, \"they'll grow two to three inches.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But hops need regular maintenance and must be cut down to the ground after each harvest, says James Davids, an enologist with San Francisco Brewcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a pretty crazy plant,\" Davids says. \"After a year or two, it could take over the entire side of your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home brewing supply store sells 10 different hops varieties, but not all grow well in some parts of the Bay Area with its varying microclimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cascade or Centennial tend to do well whether it's foggy or sunny,\" Davids says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is growing six or seven hops varieties, including Cascade, Centennial, Nugget, Goldings and Fuggles. They are a mix of rhizomes and mature plants donated by a BrewLab brewer, all of which he hopes will produce enough hops to brew roughly 15 to 20 gallons of beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gilbert's freshly-planted rhizomes join mature hops plants donated by a BrewLab brewer.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"726\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60089\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gilbert's freshly-planted rhizomes join mature hops plants donated by a BrewLab brewer.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many home brewers who grow their own hops, he'll make a wet hops beer. Since hops have a very short shelf life once they are harvested, they are usually dried or pelletized. Gilbert will instead add the just-harvested hops to the boil kettle to impart a fresh, grassy flavor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more seasonal than any other beer,\" says Dunbar-Hall. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunbar-Hall grows 32 plants with eight hops varieties on his family's property north of Napa, which he says would produce more beer than he and his two partners could ever drink. They'll use some of the hops to make a wet hops double IPA, and will give the rest to other home brewers or possibly team up with a local brewery for a wet hops beer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-11.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-11.jpg\" alt=\"On his family's 85-acre plot of land north of Napa, Dunbar-Hall grows hops on two 16-foot trellis systems. Photo credit: Ian Dunbar-Hall\" width=\"1000\" height=\"722\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60082\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On his family's 85-acre plot of land north of Napa, Dunbar-Hall grows hops on two 16-foot trellis systems.\u003cbr> Photo credit: Ian Dunbar-Hall\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Keep an eye out for wet hops beers on tap at local brew pubs around the harvest season from August through late September, he says. Sierra Nevada also makes Northern and Southern Hemisphere Harvest Wet Hop Ales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With home brewed wet hops beers, there can be a lot of guesswork because unlike commercially-available hops, which are lab-tested, it is harder to determine the bitterness of backyard hops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Personally, I'm excited about making a beer completely with my own hops so I think I'll play that roulette and see what happens,\" Gilbert says. \"Hopefully I'll get something that isn't too bitter to drink or not bitter enough.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been our biggest year by far,\" Wonder says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a few members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareamashers.org/\" title=\"Bay Area Mashers\">Bay Area Mashers\u003c/a> home brew club are finally trying their hand at growing hops this year, says president Justin Unverricht.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I have seen a large increase in people wanting to grow their own hops,\" he says. \"More people are aware of how to do it and there is now a fairly large wealth of information for people who are interested. If you have the space, it's a fun distraction.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Growing your own hops ensures peak freshness compared to the hops home brewers can buy commercially, Gilbert says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone kind of prizes having the freshest hops possible in their beer,\" Gilbert says. \"There is no better way to control that than for it to be your own hops.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60087\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/BAB-hops-5.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Gilbert plants a Centennial hops rhizome between cilantro and rosemary plants, which will also be used in home-brewed beer.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60087\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Gilbert plants a Centennial hops rhizome between cilantro and rosemary plants, which will also be used in home-brewed beer.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chad Gallagher of Berkeley began growing hops because he wanted to be involved in another aspect of the beer-making process. He started four years ago at a time when hops were very expensive because of a hops shortage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you can find hops rhizomes at home brew stores in the spring for $4-$5, but with hops being a hot commodity, growing your own ensures a steady supply. It can also be difficult to buy fresh hops to make a wet hops beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some varieties that are in such demand that many home brew shops and hop distributors ration them out to a few ounces to home brewers at a time,\" Unverricht says. \"Large breweries often have direct deals with the hop farmers themselves to secure access to certain hops, but competition is pretty fierce.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hops rhizomes produce vines that can reach 20 to 30 feet with plenty of sunlight and water. It takes about three years for a hops plant to fully mature and develop its root system. Gallagher, who grows four hops varieties, has been impressed with how quickly they can grow under the right conditions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"On a hot day,\" he says, \"they'll grow two to three inches.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But hops need regular maintenance and must be cut down to the ground after each harvest, says James Davids, an enologist with San Francisco Brewcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a pretty crazy plant,\" Davids says. \"After a year or two, it could take over the entire side of your house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home brewing supply store sells 10 different hops varieties, but not all grow well in some parts of the Bay Area with its varying microclimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cascade or Centennial tend to do well whether it's foggy or sunny,\" Davids says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilbert is growing six or seven hops varieties, including Cascade, Centennial, Nugget, Goldings and Fuggles. 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The liquid nitrogen freezes the ingredients together, and your cup or cone is ready about a minute later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each serving is made from only a few ingredients — including none of the gums, egg yolks or other emulsifiers normally needed to keep ice cream frozen on its months-long journey from manufacturer to distributor to store to your home freezer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mint chip, for example, contains just organic cream and milk, mint and a dash of salt. 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At the end of a recent Saturday afternoon that was sunny but not particularly warm, there was a steady line of people eager to order at Smitten, which is located in a repurposed shipping container.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smitten charges a buck an ounce, but a small amount of the ice cream is rich enough to satisfy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing there are only a few ingredients makes me feel like I can indulge,\" says customer Claire Kensington, the founder of a food, fashion and sex \u003ca href=\"http://www.the3fs.com/\">website\u003c/a>, who'd returned two days after her last serving for some more mint chip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there's \u003ca href=\"http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/Henry/Icecream/Icecream.html\">nothing new\u003c/a> about making ice cream with liquid nitrogen. In fact, cooking with the stuff has become so trendy lately that \u003cem>Wired \u003c/em>felt inspired to put together this \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/02/how-to/cook-with-liquid-nitrogen\">how-to guide\u003c/a>. (As we reported last year, sometimes these culinary experiments can go \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/10/162636324/liquid-nitrogen-cocktails-smoking-hot-trend-or-unnecessary-risk\">dangerously wrong\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At New York's \u003ca href=\"http://elevenmadisonpark.com/\">Eleven Madison Park\u003c/a>, guests brought back to the kitchen after dinner are treated to an apple-and-brandy cocktail topped with a frozen dome of foam fashioned with liquid nitrogen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It gives us the opportunity to do a little performance before the guests that's really easy and quick, and at the same time entertaining,\" says Angela Pinkerton, the restaurant's head pastry chef. \"Liquid nitrogen is fun to watch, and everyone's curious about it. It looks cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does look (and feel) cool when clouds of vapors come pouring out of the metal containers where the ice cream's stirring at Smitten. Fisher started serving ice cream out of a kid's red wagon back in 2009. She spent years developing a patented machine that keeps her ingredients churning in a safe, controlled environment. She goes into the techie details in this video:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52fXpS9YCY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stirring, along with the minus 321 F temperature of the liquid nitrogen, keeps ice crystals from forming and is responsible for Smitten's smooth texture, which my son likens to a cross between standard-issue ice cream and whipped cream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it is a different texture than any other ice cream,\" says Kensington, \"it feels like a new experience, like a new treat.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bee-flower-feast.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/bee-flower-feast.jpg\" alt=\"honey bee\" width=\"1000\" height=\"972\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60030\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">honey bee\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do you dream of harvesting your own super-local honey to drizzle on your breakfast bread? Wonder how hard it is to keep bees and how to start? \u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites\u003c/strong> interviewed some East Bay beekeepers and collected a swarm of resources listed at the end of this post. Considering the seasonal cycle of bees, spring is the perfect time to take off on this new adventure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Nina-Mark-and-hive.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Nina-Mark-and-hive.jpg\" alt=\"Nina, Mark and Langstroth hive\" width=\"1000\" height=\"762\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60020\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nina, Mark and Langstroth hive\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before they got their bees, Nina Carter’s and Mark Hogenson’s apple tree produced a measly five apples, the next year, after they set up a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langstroth_hive\">Langstroth hive\u003c/a> in their Oakland garden, their tree showered them with hundreds of apples. (And their neighbor’s plum tree had so many plums they had to help her pick them and make jam).\u003cbr>\n(This brings up a good point in beekeeping etiquette: ask--or at least alert--your neighbors about the new brood that will be moving in.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BAB: Did you have a learning curve?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina:\u003c/strong> Actually, our first hive failed because we weren’t controlling for Varroa mites. We were following a holistic approach and thought the bees would adapt. They were thriving for six months and then became sickly and after two weeks just disappeared. Bees have this altruistic behavior, when they get infected they fly away to protect the hive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mark:\u003c/strong> It was disappointing, but we got advice from experienced beekeepers on several options to deal with mites. One way is to cover the bees with powdered sugar. Since they are very hygienic, that makes them completely clean themselves and they get rid of the tiny mites they might not have realized were eating a hole in their sides. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a saying in the bee community,” Mark adds with a rueful smile, “If you want to know anything about beekeeping, ask a second year beekeeper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So where did you get your next round of bees?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mark:\u003c/strong> We got one swarm and one “cut–out,” which means that the bees had invaded an interior wall belonging to--we were told--\u003ca href=\"http://www.spiritrock.org/\">Spirit Rock Meditation Center\u003c/a>. Actually, those bees weren’t too productive, perhaps due to the change in the environment between Marin and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is it like to keep bees?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina:\u003c/strong> Fascinating and therapeutic. We’re in love with them. It’s kind of like having a new baby. We work at home as computer consultants and can just watch the bees and appreciate the scents of honey and beeswax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Langstroth-frame1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Langstroth-frame1.jpg\" alt=\"Langstroth frame\" width=\"1000\" height=\"858\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60028\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Langstroth frame\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much honey do you get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mark:\u003c/strong> Last year, we got 150 pounds of honey from one hive and now we’re thinking about selling some. (We’re talking with local storeowners about carrying this super local product. We call it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RockridgeHoney?fref=ts\">Rockridge Honey\u003c/a>. We also make a salve and lip balm from the beeswax.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Any advice for beginning beekeepers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina:\u003c/strong> When you’re just starting, you hear a lot of rumors and contradictory stories about what you should do and it’s hard to know who to believe. We did research for a year before we got our hives and read a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mark:\u003c/strong> I would start with two hives so if any problems arise, you can compare them. \u003ca href=\"http://alamedabees.org/\">The Alameda County Beekeepers Association\u003c/a> has a lot of resources and taking a hands-on class helped; in it we also learned about the lifecycle and timing of beehive management. Every few weeks, you have to check and see if the bees have enough room, if not you need to get more boxes (called supers). You use a smoker so you can calm the bees before you approach. You want to get them out of the way before you lift a frame so that you don’t crush any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina:\u003c/strong> If we can, we are always going to have hives. They help us to be more in harmony with the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blumes-stairs.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blumes-stairs.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Blume designed and made these stairs \" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60021\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Blume designed and made these stairs\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruby Blume has kept bees since 1997. It wasn’t a conscious decision on her part; someone dropped off a Top Bar style beehive in her garden, showed her how to manage it and then just disappeared. Now Blume, whose license plate reads BEE GRRL, teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping classes at \u003ca href=\"http://www.iuhoakland.com/\">The Institute of Urban Homesteading\u003c/a>. The classes focus on “how to keep bees naturally” without the use of chemicals or sugar-water and promote \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-bar_hive\">the Top Bar system\u003c/a> (an alternative to the Langstroth hive) for the small-scale backyard beekeeper. Even Blume’s allergy to bee stings has not prevented her from keeping bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blume.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blume.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Blume and Top bar hive\" width=\"1000\" height=\"794\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60022\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Blume and Top bar hive\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why do you raise bees?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love bees. I get an incredible sense of joy hanging out with them and feeling their exuberant energy. It’s a privilege to learn from them and through them I am more connected to nature’s cycles and seasons. Bees have such an elegant way of working together and being in concert with nature. They are amazing, highly evolved and, next to humans, the most studied species on earth. It’s easy to get started in beekeeping, yet after 16 years I am still learning!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you decide to use the Top Bar system?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly because it is what I learned on and what I am comfortable with. But also because it allows the bees to build their comb naturally, instead of on pre-imprinted frames, which manipulates the way they build. I trust that bees know what they are doing—after all they have been doing it for millions of years perfectly well without us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some advantages of the Top Bar System?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you let bees build natural combs, with smaller cells, it inhibits mites and then there is no need to treat them with pharmaceuticals. I also find the system to be much easier on my body as a beekeeper [full Langstroth boxes often weigh 50 pounds] and to require much less maintenance. Plus you can build a top bar hive yourself at a fraction of the cost of pre-fabricated boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/top-bar-comb.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/top-bar-comb.jpg\" alt=\"top bar comb\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60025\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">top bar comb\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else do you do to keep bees naturally?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t feed my bees sugar water in the winter. Instead I leave them enough of their own honey to survive. Honey is a much healthier food for the bees. It takes one bee her whole life to make 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey. Bees need one pound a day of honey to maintain themselves in the summer, plus in the Bay Area they need to put away about 30 pounds to last them through the winter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bee colony basically acts as a single organism. The inside of the hive is like a womb with its own flora and fauna—sugar, and chemical treatments like antibiotics upset this harmony. I know this might not be a popular perspective, but I believe that animals need to die off sometimes in order to build resistance in the entire colony. So if you treat for mites with pharmaceuticals, then the mites will become more resistant to them. You need to let those bees with weaker genetics cull themselves. Last winter was especially hard and I lost several colonies but with spring, there was a big boom in population. It was an uplifting spiritual feeling to see their resistance and the upwelling of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There has been a lot in the news about colony collapse disorder. Do beekeepers know what is causing that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://science.time.com/2012/04/11/whats-the-buzz-study-links-pesticide-with-honeybee-collapse/\">Colony collapse\u003c/a> has been shown to be caused by specific pesticides that interrupt the bees’ ability to navigate. Bees use the sun and landmarks to navigate and then do a “bee dance” to tell other bees where flowers are. When exposed to these pesticides, they can’t find their way home. Of course there are many other factors within industrial apiculture that are impacting the health of our honeybees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there any myths about bees that you would like to clear up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, a swarm of bees is never an “angry” swarm; it’s a reproductive behavior that happens in the spring when the bees sense it will be a good year with plenty of food. The queen leaves the hive with some of the bees to find a new home. The old colony stays and raises a new queen—in this way the bees “reproduce” and make more of themselves. And the male bees neither sting nor collect pollen, only females. 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We work at home as computer consultants and can just watch the bees and appreciate the scents of honey and beeswax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60028\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Langstroth-frame1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Langstroth-frame1.jpg\" alt=\"Langstroth frame\" width=\"1000\" height=\"858\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60028\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Langstroth frame\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much honey do you get?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mark:\u003c/strong> Last year, we got 150 pounds of honey from one hive and now we’re thinking about selling some. (We’re talking with local storeowners about carrying this super local product. We call it \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RockridgeHoney?fref=ts\">Rockridge Honey\u003c/a>. We also make a salve and lip balm from the beeswax.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Any advice for beginning beekeepers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina:\u003c/strong> When you’re just starting, you hear a lot of rumors and contradictory stories about what you should do and it’s hard to know who to believe. We did research for a year before we got our hives and read a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mark:\u003c/strong> I would start with two hives so if any problems arise, you can compare them. \u003ca href=\"http://alamedabees.org/\">The Alameda County Beekeepers Association\u003c/a> has a lot of resources and taking a hands-on class helped; in it we also learned about the lifecycle and timing of beehive management. Every few weeks, you have to check and see if the bees have enough room, if not you need to get more boxes (called supers). You use a smoker so you can calm the bees before you approach. You want to get them out of the way before you lift a frame so that you don’t crush any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nina:\u003c/strong> If we can, we are always going to have hives. They help us to be more in harmony with the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blumes-stairs.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blumes-stairs.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Blume designed and made these stairs \" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60021\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Blume designed and made these stairs\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruby Blume has kept bees since 1997. It wasn’t a conscious decision on her part; someone dropped off a Top Bar style beehive in her garden, showed her how to manage it and then just disappeared. Now Blume, whose license plate reads BEE GRRL, teaches beginning and advanced beekeeping classes at \u003ca href=\"http://www.iuhoakland.com/\">The Institute of Urban Homesteading\u003c/a>. The classes focus on “how to keep bees naturally” without the use of chemicals or sugar-water and promote \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-bar_hive\">the Top Bar system\u003c/a> (an alternative to the Langstroth hive) for the small-scale backyard beekeeper. Even Blume’s allergy to bee stings has not prevented her from keeping bees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60022\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blume.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Ruby-Blume.jpg\" alt=\"Ruby Blume and Top bar hive\" width=\"1000\" height=\"794\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60022\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Blume and Top bar hive\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why do you raise bees?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love bees. I get an incredible sense of joy hanging out with them and feeling their exuberant energy. It’s a privilege to learn from them and through them I am more connected to nature’s cycles and seasons. Bees have such an elegant way of working together and being in concert with nature. 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