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Or you blow it and don’t turn in your paper. A lot of people become our family soon after they become our staff. I don't see them leaving and so it makes sense for me to figure out a way to make a lot of money for all of us, a nest egg. Work-wise, we grow and change and can’t always be in the same spot. Like when a bartender becomes a bar manager, we can take that into account when we're looking at growing the business. We’re about to start a bourbon concept and will be able to move as a group. We may do something that’s cocktail-centric but food’s always in play. Maybe the next project could be a wine bar. It’s really about growing the family so we don't put all our eggs in one basket. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-27.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-27.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Rotis famous porchetta\" title=\"Roli Rotis famous porchetta\" width=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49554\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://www.roliroti.com/\">Roli Roti\u003c/a> celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a pop-up party at \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/reservations/\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a>. The beloved gourmet rotisserie truck was in full effect, loaded up with glistening porchetta, juicy lemon and herb roast chickens, and a new addition, baskets of golden \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arancini\">arancini\u003c/a>, rotating at a hypnotic pace. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-123.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-123.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" title=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" width=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49568\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-17.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-17-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Acme rustic rolls\" title=\"Acme rustic rolls\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49551\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-22.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-22-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti arancini\" title=\"Roli Roti arancini\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49552\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-15.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-15-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti, on the line \" title=\"Roli Roti, on the line \" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49550\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-118.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-118-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" title=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49567\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-68.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-68-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Rotisserie Chicken\" title=\"Roli Roti's Rotisserie Chicken\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49560\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-64.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-64-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Rotisserie Truck\" title=\"Roli Roti Rotisserie Truck\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49559\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-140.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-140-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Raclette\" title=\"Raclette\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49569\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-57.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-57-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Girl enjoying Edible Schoolyard Acme bread\" title=\"Girl enjoying Edible Schoolyard Acme bread\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49558\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst the music and enticing wafts of roasting raclette waiting to ooze over hearty slabs of bread, \u003cstrong>Thomas Odermatt\u003c/strong>, founder of Roli Roti, could be seen smiling ear to ear, greeting guests, personally handing out his famous \u003ca href=\"http://lickmyspoon.com/restaurants/porchetta-sandwich-qa-with-rolirotis-thomas-odermatt/\">porchetta sandwiches\u003c/a>, and urging everyone to eat as much as possible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party was not only a celebration of Roli Roti, but of all the hardworking farmers, producers, supportive family and friends, and loyal fans that have made each of these ten years possible. This was a community celebration and everyone got involved. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-47.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-47.jpg\" alt=\"The Roli Roti crew\" title=\"The Roli Roti crew\" width=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49556\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-7-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti birthday cake\" title=\"Roli Roti birthday cake\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49549\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-25.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-25-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Masse and son (Masse's Pastries)\" title=\"Paul Masse and son (Masse's Pastries)\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49553\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-114.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-114-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" title=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49566\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-77.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-77-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Waters\" title=\"Alice Waters\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49563\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-79.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-79-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"On the line at Roli Roti\" title=\"On the line at Roli Roti\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49564\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-31.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-31-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Waters, Roli Roti\" title=\"Alice Waters, Roli Roti\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49555\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-50.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-50-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Porchetta Sandwich\" title=\"Roli Roti Porchetta Sandwich\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49557\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-141.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-141-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" title=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49570\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Masse, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.massespastries.com/Home.html\">Masse's Pastries\u003c/a>, from down the street brought the (intensely decadent) cake. Third-generation chicken farmer, David Pitman, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.maryschickens.com/\">Pitman Family Farms\u003c/a>, enjoyed the fruits of his labor with gusto. Even \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/\">Alice Waters\u003c/a>, benevolent local oracle, was in attendance, patting children on the head, moving wilting flowers out of the sun, and overall just giving everyone around her an extra little jolt of energy with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-74.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-74.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Waters and Thomas Odermatt\" title=\"Alice Waters and Thomas Odermatt\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49562\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Thomas about his connection with \u003cstrong>Alice Waters\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Chez Panisse\u003c/strong>, he explained:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Alice and I know each other from the farmers' market. We also know each other most recently from Slow Food Nation, where she invited me to be a vendor. The way we came together is, she wanted to try my chicken, we met at the skateboard park in Berkeley -- not that we skateboarded together -- but, we tasted the chicken there, and since then we’ve kept in contact.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All the proceeds from the Roli Roti pop-up benefited Alice Water’s \u003ca href=\"http://edibleschoolyard.org/\">Edible Schoolyard\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-86.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-86.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas' daughter\" title=\"Thomas' daughter\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49565\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I really admire the idea of Edible Schoolyard,” he continued. “I think that kids should dream of how good a carrot can be. That's a dream that Alice is really spearheading, and I cannot support it enough.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Carrots are great. So is \u003ca href=\"http://www.roliroti.com/porchetta\">crispy skin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Birthday, Roli Roti. We can’t wait to see (and taste!) what the next ten years bring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-70.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-70.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Porchetta Sandwich\" title=\"Roli Roti Porchetta Sandwich\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-27.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-27.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Rotis famous porchetta\" title=\"Roli Rotis famous porchetta\" width=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49554\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past weekend, \u003ca href=\"http://www.roliroti.com/\">Roli Roti\u003c/a> celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a pop-up party at \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/reservations/\">Chez Panisse\u003c/a>. The beloved gourmet rotisserie truck was in full effect, loaded up with glistening porchetta, juicy lemon and herb roast chickens, and a new addition, baskets of golden \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arancini\">arancini\u003c/a>, rotating at a hypnotic pace. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-123.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-123.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" title=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" width=\"554\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49568\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-17.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-17-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Acme rustic rolls\" title=\"Acme rustic rolls\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49551\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-22.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-22-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti arancini\" title=\"Roli Roti arancini\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49552\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-15.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-15-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti, on the line \" title=\"Roli Roti, on the line \" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49550\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-118.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-118-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" title=\"Roli Roti Pop-Up at Chez Panisse\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49567\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-68.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-68-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Rotisserie Chicken\" title=\"Roli Roti's Rotisserie Chicken\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49560\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-64.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-64-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Roli Roti Rotisserie Truck\" title=\"Roli Roti Rotisserie Truck\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49559\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-140.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-140-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Raclette\" title=\"Raclette\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49569\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-57.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-57-125x125.jpg\" alt=\"Girl enjoying Edible Schoolyard Acme bread\" title=\"Girl enjoying Edible Schoolyard Acme bread\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-49558\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amidst the music and enticing wafts of roasting raclette waiting to ooze over hearty slabs of bread, \u003cstrong>Thomas Odermatt\u003c/strong>, founder of Roli Roti, could be seen smiling ear to ear, greeting guests, personally handing out his famous \u003ca href=\"http://lickmyspoon.com/restaurants/porchetta-sandwich-qa-with-rolirotis-thomas-odermatt/\">porchetta sandwiches\u003c/a>, and urging everyone to eat as much as possible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party was not only a celebration of Roli Roti, but of all the hardworking farmers, producers, supportive family and friends, and loyal fans that have made each of these ten years possible. This was a community celebration and everyone got involved. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Third-generation chicken farmer, David Pitman, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.maryschickens.com/\">Pitman Family Farms\u003c/a>, enjoyed the fruits of his labor with gusto. Even \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/\">Alice Waters\u003c/a>, benevolent local oracle, was in attendance, patting children on the head, moving wilting flowers out of the sun, and overall just giving everyone around her an extra little jolt of energy with her presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-74.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-74.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Waters and Thomas Odermatt\" title=\"Alice Waters and Thomas Odermatt\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49562\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked Thomas about his connection with \u003cstrong>Alice Waters\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Chez Panisse\u003c/strong>, he explained:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Alice and I know each other from the farmers' market. We also know each other most recently from Slow Food Nation, where she invited me to be a vendor. The way we came together is, she wanted to try my chicken, we met at the skateboard park in Berkeley -- not that we skateboarded together -- but, we tasted the chicken there, and since then we’ve kept in contact.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All the proceeds from the Roli Roti pop-up benefited Alice Water’s \u003ca href=\"http://edibleschoolyard.org/\">Edible Schoolyard\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-86.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/10/2012-09-30-roliroti-chez-panisse-stephanie-hua-86.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas' daughter\" title=\"Thomas' daughter\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49565\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I really admire the idea of Edible Schoolyard,” he continued. “I think that kids should dream of how good a carrot can be. 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"content": "\u003cp>There's nothing like a weekday afternoon playing hooky at the movies, especially if you're sneaking off to films as uniquely thought-provoking as those on offer at the 17th annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/enindex.htm\">Berlin & Beyond Film Festival\u003c/a>, playing September 27 through October 4 at the Castro Theatre. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got in the mood this week by catching a day-before showing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pina-film.de\" title=\"Pina\">Pina\u003c/a>, Wim Wenders' celebrated 2011 film about the late German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. It's not often you get to wear 3D glasses for an art film, but Wenders' film revealed Bausch's unique vision, and her dances, with a gorgeous vigor and vision unmatched by any other dance film I've seen. And while it wasn't part of the festival, it was a good introduction to this eight-day banquet of German and Austrian films. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presented by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/enindex.htm\">Goethe Institute\u003c/a>, this year's festival features over two dozen films, most of which you won't see anywhere else. In putting together what has become the largest North American showcase for German-language films, the selection committee watches virtually the entire year's crop of German, Austrian, and German-language Swiss films, as well as a few made further afield, in Russia, Finland, even Kazakhstan and Iceland. While a few features--like the opening night film \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/opn/en9725865.htm\">Barbara\u003c/a>, which will be Germany's entry into the foreign-language category for the 2013 Academy Awards--may end up with distribution deals, showings of many of these small, independent films will remain limited to the festival circuit. So, you've got a week. What to see, and where to eat (and drink) before or after your films? It's also time for Oktoberfest, so many of the places mentioned below will have special beers on tap as well as seasonal menu specials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Harald-Schmitt-thisaintca.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Harald-Schmitt-thisaintca.jpg\" alt=\"This Aint California. Photo: Harald Schmitt\" title=\"This Aint California. Photo: Harald Schmitt\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49465\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This Ain't California. Photo: Harald Schmitt\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quirky film like \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/cln/en9596055.htm\">This Ain't California\u003c/a>, a loose documentary about the rebellious skateboarding scene in East Germany during the 1970s, deserves discussion at the East German \u003ca href=\"http://walzwerk.com/\">Walzwerk\u003c/a> in the Mission. Spare, cool decor belies autumn-hearty food like herring in cream sauce, soljanka (cabbage-bacon soup with salami and pickles), jaeger schnitzel (pork loin) with spaetzel (small, squiggly boiled dumplings) and mushroom sauce, followed by apple strudel and kalter hund, or \"cold dog,\" a layered cake made from rum, chocolate, and butter cookies. (They offer vegetarian dishes, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/roll-augen-by-Wildfremd-Production.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/roll-augen-by-Wildfremd-Production.jpg\" alt=\"This Aint California. Photo: Wildfremd Production\" title=\"This Aint California. Photo: Wildfremd Production\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49466\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This Ain't California. Photo: Wildfremd Production\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're coming from the north side of town, there's the \u003cem>gemütlich, \u003c/em>authentically Austrian (with a bit of French) \u003ca href=\"http://www.leopoldssf.com/\">Gasthaus Leopold's\u003c/a> in Russian Hill. Start with crispy pig trotters, grilled duck crepinettes, or a house-cured meat platter, then move on to beef goulash, bacon-wrapped trout, or a choucroute garni of pork ribs, smoked pork loin, and house-made sausage with sauerkraut and potatoes. The beer list is ample, and the selection of German, Austrian, and Hungarian wines intriguing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CourtesyofGasthausLeopolds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CourtesyofGasthausLeopolds.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" title=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" width=\"418\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49470\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopold's\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To follow? Last year's Austrian Academy-Award nominee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9783101.htm\">Breathing\u003c/a>, about a troubled teen who finds redemption through work at a funeral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/breathing1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/breathing1000.jpg\" alt=\"Breathing\" title=\"Breathing\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49469\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Breathing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open til 11pm for dinner Tuesday through Saturday (til 10pm Sunday and Monday), and with a daily happy hour from 5-7pm, the sleek \u003ca href=\"http://schmidts-sf.com\">Schmidt's\u003c/a> feels very European in a big-city way. On the menu: tasty green-pea pancakes topped with smoked salmon and chive sour cream, German and Austrian cheese and meat platters served with pumpernickel bread, pickles, and mustard, smoked pork chops with curried apricot chutney, blood sausage with stewed apples and onions, and over a dozen different kinds of sausage, all served with potato salad and sauerkraut. It's a good spot to grab brunch before Saturday September 29's reading of \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/edu/rea/enindex.htm\">Invisible Women: Growing Up Black in Germany\u003c/a> by Ika Hugel-Marshall, followed by a 2pm screening of \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ger/en9596031.htm\">Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/schmidts.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/schmidts.jpeg\" alt=\"Schmidts\" title=\"Schmidts\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49467\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo courtesy of Schmidt's\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, San Francisco has no coffeehouse to compare with New York City's gorgeously Viennese \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafesabarsky.com/\">Cafe Sabarsky\u003c/a>, a wood-paneled, torte-lavished hangout in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.neuegalerie.org\"> Neue Galerie\u003c/a>, a museum dedicated to early 20th century German and Austrian art and design. But for sheer schlag value, stop in at \u003ca href=\"http://www.schuberts-bakery.com/index2.php\">Schubert's Bakery\u003c/a>, a Richmond District staple for over a century. Choose, if you can, between cheesecake, cherry-decked Black Forest cake, marzipan-wrapped princess cake, strawberry Romanoff cake, chocolate-almond-hazelnut opera cake, even a classic version of the late, lamented Blum's coffee crunch cake. Stop in with the kids before or after Sunday's showing of a German-language version of Mark Twain's classic \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9789942.htm\">Tom Sawyer\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9788928.htm\">The Foster Boy\u003c/a>, one of Switzerland's most popular recent films, tells the bleak but deeply affecting story of Max, an orphan, brought to a new family in rural Switzerland as part of the Swiss \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16620597\">Verdingkinder\u003c/a> program of relocating orphaned, out-of-wedlock, and poor children from the cities to new families in the country. It was a system similar to the U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.orphantraindepot.com/OrphanTrainHistory.html\">Orphan Train\u003c/a> movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, and in much the same way, many of these \"contract children\" were often badly treated and used as unpaid servants and farm laborers. Yes, an accordion is involved, but this is no happy Heidi story, however; you might need a little fondue after the dark events that ensue, so plan to drop in at the old-fashioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.thematterhornrestaurant.com/\">Matterhorn Restaurant\u003c/a> afterwards. There's also the unlikely charmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9783099.htm\">Battle of the Queens\u003c/a>, a story of rural Switzerland that revolves around the head-to-head, field-fighting bouts between groups of cows whose muscled aggression could put any bull to shame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/beer-and-wine-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/beer-and-wine-new.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" title=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" width=\"295\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49468\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopold's\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, no German-food roundup would be complete with a mention of Hayes Valley's Bavarian-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.suppenkuche.com/\">Suppenkuche\u003c/a>, still pouring massive boot-shaped beer steins after 19 years. Since the restaurant serves both brunch and dinner on Sundays, it's a good pick before or after any of Sunday's five different screenings, starting at 10:30am. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming from the East Bay? \u003ca href=\"http://www.speisekammer.com/\">Speisekammer\u003c/a> has been a family-friendly Alameda hangout for the past decade, offering a comfy bar, a dining room with fireplace, and a spacious outdoor beer garden. It's open both lunch and dinner with dishes like potato pancakes, smoked trout, stuffed cabbage, wienerschnitzel, and veggie strudel, plus live music on Friday and Saturday nights, plus Oktoberfest festivities every Sunday through October 14. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There's nothing like a weekday afternoon playing hooky at the movies, especially if you're sneaking off to films as uniquely thought-provoking as those on offer at the 17th annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/enindex.htm\">Berlin & Beyond Film Festival\u003c/a>, playing September 27 through October 4 at the Castro Theatre. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got in the mood this week by catching a day-before showing of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pina-film.de\" title=\"Pina\">Pina\u003c/a>, Wim Wenders' celebrated 2011 film about the late German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch. It's not often you get to wear 3D glasses for an art film, but Wenders' film revealed Bausch's unique vision, and her dances, with a gorgeous vigor and vision unmatched by any other dance film I've seen. And while it wasn't part of the festival, it was a good introduction to this eight-day banquet of German and Austrian films. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presented by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/enindex.htm\">Goethe Institute\u003c/a>, this year's festival features over two dozen films, most of which you won't see anywhere else. In putting together what has become the largest North American showcase for German-language films, the selection committee watches virtually the entire year's crop of German, Austrian, and German-language Swiss films, as well as a few made further afield, in Russia, Finland, even Kazakhstan and Iceland. While a few features--like the opening night film \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/opn/en9725865.htm\">Barbara\u003c/a>, which will be Germany's entry into the foreign-language category for the 2013 Academy Awards--may end up with distribution deals, showings of many of these small, independent films will remain limited to the festival circuit. So, you've got a week. What to see, and where to eat (and drink) before or after your films? It's also time for Oktoberfest, so many of the places mentioned below will have special beers on tap as well as seasonal menu specials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Harald-Schmitt-thisaintca.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Harald-Schmitt-thisaintca.jpg\" alt=\"This Aint California. Photo: Harald Schmitt\" title=\"This Aint California. Photo: Harald Schmitt\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49465\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This Ain't California. Photo: Harald Schmitt\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quirky film like \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/cln/en9596055.htm\">This Ain't California\u003c/a>, a loose documentary about the rebellious skateboarding scene in East Germany during the 1970s, deserves discussion at the East German \u003ca href=\"http://walzwerk.com/\">Walzwerk\u003c/a> in the Mission. Spare, cool decor belies autumn-hearty food like herring in cream sauce, soljanka (cabbage-bacon soup with salami and pickles), jaeger schnitzel (pork loin) with spaetzel (small, squiggly boiled dumplings) and mushroom sauce, followed by apple strudel and kalter hund, or \"cold dog,\" a layered cake made from rum, chocolate, and butter cookies. (They offer vegetarian dishes, too.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/roll-augen-by-Wildfremd-Production.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/roll-augen-by-Wildfremd-Production.jpg\" alt=\"This Aint California. Photo: Wildfremd Production\" title=\"This Aint California. Photo: Wildfremd Production\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49466\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This Ain't California. Photo: Wildfremd Production\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're coming from the north side of town, there's the \u003cem>gemütlich, \u003c/em>authentically Austrian (with a bit of French) \u003ca href=\"http://www.leopoldssf.com/\">Gasthaus Leopold's\u003c/a> in Russian Hill. Start with crispy pig trotters, grilled duck crepinettes, or a house-cured meat platter, then move on to beef goulash, bacon-wrapped trout, or a choucroute garni of pork ribs, smoked pork loin, and house-made sausage with sauerkraut and potatoes. The beer list is ample, and the selection of German, Austrian, and Hungarian wines intriguing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CourtesyofGasthausLeopolds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CourtesyofGasthausLeopolds.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" title=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" width=\"418\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49470\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopold's\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To follow? Last year's Austrian Academy-Award nominee, \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9783101.htm\">Breathing\u003c/a>, about a troubled teen who finds redemption through work at a funeral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/breathing1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/breathing1000.jpg\" alt=\"Breathing\" title=\"Breathing\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49469\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Breathing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open til 11pm for dinner Tuesday through Saturday (til 10pm Sunday and Monday), and with a daily happy hour from 5-7pm, the sleek \u003ca href=\"http://schmidts-sf.com\">Schmidt's\u003c/a> feels very European in a big-city way. On the menu: tasty green-pea pancakes topped with smoked salmon and chive sour cream, German and Austrian cheese and meat platters served with pumpernickel bread, pickles, and mustard, smoked pork chops with curried apricot chutney, blood sausage with stewed apples and onions, and over a dozen different kinds of sausage, all served with potato salad and sauerkraut. It's a good spot to grab brunch before Saturday September 29's reading of \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/edu/rea/enindex.htm\">Invisible Women: Growing Up Black in Germany\u003c/a> by Ika Hugel-Marshall, followed by a 2pm screening of \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ger/en9596031.htm\">Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/schmidts.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/schmidts.jpeg\" alt=\"Schmidts\" title=\"Schmidts\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49467\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo courtesy of Schmidt's\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, San Francisco has no coffeehouse to compare with New York City's gorgeously Viennese \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafesabarsky.com/\">Cafe Sabarsky\u003c/a>, a wood-paneled, torte-lavished hangout in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.neuegalerie.org\"> Neue Galerie\u003c/a>, a museum dedicated to early 20th century German and Austrian art and design. But for sheer schlag value, stop in at \u003ca href=\"http://www.schuberts-bakery.com/index2.php\">Schubert's Bakery\u003c/a>, a Richmond District staple for over a century. Choose, if you can, between cheesecake, cherry-decked Black Forest cake, marzipan-wrapped princess cake, strawberry Romanoff cake, chocolate-almond-hazelnut opera cake, even a classic version of the late, lamented Blum's coffee crunch cake. Stop in with the kids before or after Sunday's showing of a German-language version of Mark Twain's classic \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9789942.htm\">Tom Sawyer\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9788928.htm\">The Foster Boy\u003c/a>, one of Switzerland's most popular recent films, tells the bleak but deeply affecting story of Max, an orphan, brought to a new family in rural Switzerland as part of the Swiss \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16620597\">Verdingkinder\u003c/a> program of relocating orphaned, out-of-wedlock, and poor children from the cities to new families in the country. It was a system similar to the U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.orphantraindepot.com/OrphanTrainHistory.html\">Orphan Train\u003c/a> movement of the late 19th and early 20th century, and in much the same way, many of these \"contract children\" were often badly treated and used as unpaid servants and farm laborers. Yes, an accordion is involved, but this is no happy Heidi story, however; you might need a little fondue after the dark events that ensue, so plan to drop in at the old-fashioned \u003ca href=\"http://www.thematterhornrestaurant.com/\">Matterhorn Restaurant\u003c/a> afterwards. There's also the unlikely charmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/bby/fil/ofs/en9783099.htm\">Battle of the Queens\u003c/a>, a story of rural Switzerland that revolves around the head-to-head, field-fighting bouts between groups of cows whose muscled aggression could put any bull to shame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/beer-and-wine-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/beer-and-wine-new.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" title=\"Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopolds\" width=\"295\" height=\"434\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49468\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Photo courtesy of Gasthaus Leopold's\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, no German-food roundup would be complete with a mention of Hayes Valley's Bavarian-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.suppenkuche.com/\">Suppenkuche\u003c/a>, still pouring massive boot-shaped beer steins after 19 years. Since the restaurant serves both brunch and dinner on Sundays, it's a good pick before or after any of Sunday's five different screenings, starting at 10:30am. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/daniel-patterson1000d.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/daniel-patterson1000d.jpg\" alt=\"Milk-Fed Brunch at Eat Real Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Milk-Fed Brunch at Eat Real Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49365\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Milk-Fed Brunch booth at Eat Real Festival.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>All Photos:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.coirestaurant.com\">Coi\u003c/a> chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/01/07/food-secrets-of-chefrestaurateurwriter-daniel-patterson/\">Daniel Patterson\u003c/a> isn't usually a five-bucks-a-plate kind of guy. \u003ca href=\"http://canerossosf.com/\">Il Cane Rosso\u003c/a> in the Ferry Building, his most casual spot, will make you a $9 egg-salad sandwich; at Jack London Square's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/01/10/let-them-cook-for-you-haven/\">Haven\u003c/a>, $6 will buy you a side of Chantenay carrots with hay and \u003ca href=\"http://www.vadouvan.com/\">vadouvan\u003c/a>. Toying with the tasting menu at Coi, from abalone with nettle-dandelion salsa verde to frozen lime marshmallow, will set you back a cool 165 clams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/daniel-patterson1000b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/daniel-patterson1000b.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Patterson and crew at 2012 Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Daniel Patterson and crew at 2012 Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49363\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Daniel Patterson (center) and crew at Eat Real Festival's Sunday Milk-Fed Brunch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here was Patterson on a sunny Sunday morning in Oakland, surrounded by a crew of at least a dozen. Bent double over their folding-table workstations, they draped slices of grilled lamb over mounds of herby three-grain salad (farro, buckwheat, and wheat berries), doused cubes of poached veal in bone broth, and scooped slivers of string beans and fresh shelling beans over slices of fat-ringed pork confit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/danielpatterson-veal10001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/danielpatterson-veal10001.jpg\" alt=\"Milk Poached Veal from Eat Real Sunday Milk-Fed Brunch. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Milk Poached Veal from Eat Real Sunday Milk-Fed Brunch. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49397\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Milk Poached Veal from Eat Real Sunday Milk-Fed Brunch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price for each appetizer-sized plate? Five bucks, and did we mention that all the meat came from young, milk-fed animals (hence the name) raised on the pastures of \u003ca href=\"http://www.belcampoinc.com/inc/#!/company/about\">Belcampo Meats\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/danielpatterson-lamb-pork500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/danielpatterson-lamb-pork500.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled Lamb and Pig Confit at Eat Real Sunday Milk-fed Brunch. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Grilled Lamb and Pig Confit at Eat Real Sunday Milk-fed Brunch. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49368\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Grilled Lamb and Pig Confit at Eat Real Sunday Milk-fed Brunch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the Milk-Fed Brunch touted by \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatrealfest.com\">Eat Real\u003c/a>, and if grilled lamb and veal meatballs weren't exactly typical brunch fare, those who managed to find Patterson's stand, which was tucked away at the far end of the Eat Real Festival's sprawl, next to the manically shouting hucksters of the Toyota sponsors' display, enjoyed some restaurant-quality eats, made with a degree of care and flavor-layering not usually seen in such a setting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Mike-the-Bejkr1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Mike-the-Bejkr1000.jpg\" alt=\" Mike the bejkr Zakowski at Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\" Mike the bejkr Zakowski at Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49391\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mike [the bejkr] Zakowski at Eat Real Festival in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides downing some excellent lamb and very tender veal and carrots, tracking down Patterson's booth helped us stumble upon the surprisingly un-swamped stand of Sonoma's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cultsonoma.com/2011/03/a-good-baker-mike-the-bejkr-zakowski-sonoma-valley/\">Mike the Bejkr\u003c/a>, whose artisan, wood-oven loaves are easily the match of Tartine Bakery's line-out-the-door breads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eatreal-bejkr1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eatreal-bejkr1000.jpg\" alt=\"Mike the Bejkr. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Mike the Bejkr. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49390\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike had four different loaves (including a hefty pain de campagne stenciled with \"real eat\" in flour on the crust) but the real delight was his fresh-from-the-oven Tuscan schiacciata, oval pizza-like flatbreads loaded with local farm veggies, including zucchini, onion, and red peppers. On Friday mornings at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svcfm.org/\">Sonoma Valley Farmers' Market\u003c/a>, he says, his stall is mobbed from opening to closing; here, the lines were longer for lumpia. Still, this meant no wait for us in snagging a fresh loaf and a hot, melty-cheesed schiacciata, definitely one of the very best things we ate all weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tuscan-schiacciata500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tuscan-schiacciata500.jpg\" alt=\"Wood-Fired Schiacciata from Mike the Bejkr at Eat Real Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Wood-Fired Schiacciata from Mike the Bejkr at Eat Real Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49392\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Wood-Fired Schiacciata from Mike the Bejkr at Eat Real Festival\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, with baking on our minds, it was over the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eco-sf.org\">Ecology Center SF\u003c/a>'s table, where a fire was burning in the cob-built community oven and Laurie Ellen Pelicano of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tartinebakery.com\">Tartine Bakery\u003c/a> was demonstrating the fine art of dough-rolling, sharing the skills she's developed making some of the dozens and dozens of galettes that Tartine Bakery sells each day. No bowl needed here; instead, Pelicano dusted her chilled butter cubes with flour, made a casual little well in a mound of flour, dropped in the butter and started rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tartine-eatreal560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tartine-eatreal560.jpg\" alt=\" Laurie Ellen Pelicano of Tartine Bakery. Photo: Stephanie Rosenbaum\" title=\" Laurie Ellen Pelicano of Tartine Bakery. Photo: Stephanie Rosenbaum\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49399\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n \u003cem>Laurie Ellen Pelicano of Tartine Bakery. Photo: Stephanie Rosenbaum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few passes, and she had a steam-rollered heap of long, flat butter shards coated in flour. Shaped into another well, she added water (much less than you think), and started, casually again, to fold the flour-and-butter shards over themselves, gently distributing the water while scraping the mixture into a mound. As she mixed, she passed along tips on avoiding the basic mistakes most home bakers make, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't cut your butter in too finely, especially if you're using a food processor. Stop once the butter's the size of M&Ms; taking the mixture all the way to sand or cornmeal will make a dough that's crumbly, not flaky. Use just enough water to make it hold together; if you tap your squeezed-together handful of dough, it should fall apart. And finally, most importantly, don't overwork the finished dough. That nice, gummy, workable Play-Doh texture? Not what you want. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as a handful would hold together, it was wrapped and put in a cooler to chill. Well-prepared, Pelicano pulled out another already-chilled cube of dough and starting rolling, quickly filling her round of dough with apple slices, a squirt of lemon and a sprinkle of organic sugar, then flipping up the edges of the dough to lap over the apples. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That charming wood oven didn't do a very good job of baking Pelicano's demo galettes, which came out burned on the bottom and slightly underbaked within, but none of the watchers minded. Who would turn down a slice of Tartine-style galette, fresh out of the oven, with no line to wait in? Even better, Pelicano sent interested bakers home with chunks of her leftover dough for their own kitchen experiments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for beer in a jar: chocolatey-dark \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacbrewlab.com/beers/squid-ink/\">Squid Ink\u003c/a>, even darker \u003ca href=\"http://www.moonlightbrewing.com/\">Death and Taxes\u003c/a>, autumn-y, crisp Bahl Hornin Mow Keef from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.avbc.com\">Anderson Valley Brewing Company\u003c/a>. And then over to the main stage, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dave-the-Butcher/313452850163\"> Dave the Butcher\u003c/a> and (relative) newbie Daren King were duking it out in the Flying Knives pork-butchering competition, narrated by Belcampo Meats CEO Anya Fernald, with frequent check-ins by the team of judges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/butchery-contest1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/butchery-contest1000.jpg\" alt=\"Dave the Butcher battles Daren King at 3rd Annual Flying Knives Pork Butchery Contest. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Dave the Butcher battles Daren King at 3rd Annual Flying Knives Pork Butchery Contest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price for each appetizer-sized plate? Five bucks, and did we mention that all the meat came from young, milk-fed animals (hence the name) raised on the pastures of \u003ca href=\"http://www.belcampoinc.com/inc/#!/company/about\">Belcampo Meats\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/danielpatterson-lamb-pork500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/danielpatterson-lamb-pork500.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled Lamb and Pig Confit at Eat Real Sunday Milk-fed Brunch. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Grilled Lamb and Pig Confit at Eat Real Sunday Milk-fed Brunch. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49368\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Grilled Lamb and Pig Confit at Eat Real Sunday Milk-fed Brunch\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the Milk-Fed Brunch touted by \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatrealfest.com\">Eat Real\u003c/a>, and if grilled lamb and veal meatballs weren't exactly typical brunch fare, those who managed to find Patterson's stand, which was tucked away at the far end of the Eat Real Festival's sprawl, next to the manically shouting hucksters of the Toyota sponsors' display, enjoyed some restaurant-quality eats, made with a degree of care and flavor-layering not usually seen in such a setting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Mike-the-Bejkr1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/Mike-the-Bejkr1000.jpg\" alt=\" Mike the bejkr Zakowski at Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\" Mike the bejkr Zakowski at Eat Real Festival in Oakland. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49391\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mike [the bejkr] Zakowski at Eat Real Festival in Oakland\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides downing some excellent lamb and very tender veal and carrots, tracking down Patterson's booth helped us stumble upon the surprisingly un-swamped stand of Sonoma's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cultsonoma.com/2011/03/a-good-baker-mike-the-bejkr-zakowski-sonoma-valley/\">Mike the Bejkr\u003c/a>, whose artisan, wood-oven loaves are easily the match of Tartine Bakery's line-out-the-door breads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eatreal-bejkr1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eatreal-bejkr1000.jpg\" alt=\"Mike the Bejkr. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Mike the Bejkr. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49390\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike had four different loaves (including a hefty pain de campagne stenciled with \"real eat\" in flour on the crust) but the real delight was his fresh-from-the-oven Tuscan schiacciata, oval pizza-like flatbreads loaded with local farm veggies, including zucchini, onion, and red peppers. On Friday mornings at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.svcfm.org/\">Sonoma Valley Farmers' Market\u003c/a>, he says, his stall is mobbed from opening to closing; here, the lines were longer for lumpia. Still, this meant no wait for us in snagging a fresh loaf and a hot, melty-cheesed schiacciata, definitely one of the very best things we ate all weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tuscan-schiacciata500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tuscan-schiacciata500.jpg\" alt=\"Wood-Fired Schiacciata from Mike the Bejkr at Eat Real Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Wood-Fired Schiacciata from Mike the Bejkr at Eat Real Festival. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49392\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Wood-Fired Schiacciata from Mike the Bejkr at Eat Real Festival\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, with baking on our minds, it was over the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eco-sf.org\">Ecology Center SF\u003c/a>'s table, where a fire was burning in the cob-built community oven and Laurie Ellen Pelicano of \u003ca href=\"http://www.tartinebakery.com\">Tartine Bakery\u003c/a> was demonstrating the fine art of dough-rolling, sharing the skills she's developed making some of the dozens and dozens of galettes that Tartine Bakery sells each day. No bowl needed here; instead, Pelicano dusted her chilled butter cubes with flour, made a casual little well in a mound of flour, dropped in the butter and started rolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tartine-eatreal560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/tartine-eatreal560.jpg\" alt=\" Laurie Ellen Pelicano of Tartine Bakery. Photo: Stephanie Rosenbaum\" title=\" Laurie Ellen Pelicano of Tartine Bakery. Photo: Stephanie Rosenbaum\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49399\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n \u003cem>Laurie Ellen Pelicano of Tartine Bakery. Photo: Stephanie Rosenbaum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few passes, and she had a steam-rollered heap of long, flat butter shards coated in flour. Shaped into another well, she added water (much less than you think), and started, casually again, to fold the flour-and-butter shards over themselves, gently distributing the water while scraping the mixture into a mound. As she mixed, she passed along tips on avoiding the basic mistakes most home bakers make, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don't cut your butter in too finely, especially if you're using a food processor. Stop once the butter's the size of M&Ms; taking the mixture all the way to sand or cornmeal will make a dough that's crumbly, not flaky. Use just enough water to make it hold together; if you tap your squeezed-together handful of dough, it should fall apart. And finally, most importantly, don't overwork the finished dough. That nice, gummy, workable Play-Doh texture? Not what you want. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as a handful would hold together, it was wrapped and put in a cooler to chill. Well-prepared, Pelicano pulled out another already-chilled cube of dough and starting rolling, quickly filling her round of dough with apple slices, a squirt of lemon and a sprinkle of organic sugar, then flipping up the edges of the dough to lap over the apples. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That charming wood oven didn't do a very good job of baking Pelicano's demo galettes, which came out burned on the bottom and slightly underbaked within, but none of the watchers minded. Who would turn down a slice of Tartine-style galette, fresh out of the oven, with no line to wait in? Even better, Pelicano sent interested bakers home with chunks of her leftover dough for their own kitchen experiments. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then it was time for beer in a jar: chocolatey-dark \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacbrewlab.com/beers/squid-ink/\">Squid Ink\u003c/a>, even darker \u003ca href=\"http://www.moonlightbrewing.com/\">Death and Taxes\u003c/a>, autumn-y, crisp Bahl Hornin Mow Keef from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.avbc.com\">Anderson Valley Brewing Company\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/bacon-fire1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/bacon-fire560.jpg\" alt=\"Bacon on fire at Meatopia - Big Bob Gibson BBQ BLTs. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bacon on fire at Meatopia - Big Bob Gibson BBQ BLTs. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49218\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Flaming bacon for BLTs from Big Bob Gibson BBQ at Meatopia\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All Photos: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another weekend, another all-day outdoor food festival. Thanks perhaps to the mellow, lovely \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/night-market-sf-street-food-festival/\">Night Market\u003c/a> last month, the evening previews for these events are now my favorites: smaller crowds, less garbage, less glare, with shorter lines and beautiful sunset-streaked skies overhead. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oakland's first \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatrealfest.com\">Eat Real Festival\u003c/a>, in 2009, the Friday night preview was a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/08/30/eat-real-festival/\">beer and ice cream tasting\u003c/a>, featuring nothing but, you guessed it, beer and ice cream. Now in its fourth year, the festival's added a bunch of food trucks and stalls to its Friday afternoon-to-evening beginning, plus beer, wine, and cocktail bars, live music, and for the first time this year, a West Coast version of New York City's party of carnivores, \u003ca href=\"http://eatrealfest2012meatopia.eventbrite.com/\">Meatopia\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/meatopia-haybales1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/meatopia-haybales560.jpg\" alt=\"Eat Real Festival in Oakland- Meatopia. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Eat Real Festival in Oakland- Meatopia. Photo by Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49199\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A $50 ticket got you into a fenced-off section of parking lot, where a DJ blasted overly loud vintage soul and Latin beats, and where the smell of wood smoke, charcoal, and charring meat hung heavy in the air over the hay-bale seating and shady umbrellas festooned with Eat Real pennants. 10 booths, staffed by chefs from around the country, offered small meatcentric tasting plates; a bar handed out Eat Real-branded Mason jars of Anchor Steam and Laguinitas on tap. (Wine drinkers got a choice of red or white in a plastic cup, unless, like us, you begged for a jar.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Ozersky, a man who's no stranger to \u003ca href=\"http://ozersky.tv/2012/09/oh-come-with-me-to-meatopia/\">self-promotion and buzz generating\u003c/a>, launched the original \u003ca href=\"http://www.meatopia.org\">Meatopia\u003c/a> on New York City's Randall Island. But somehow, transplanted to the West Coast, the event--at least Friday night's eating part-- was just, well, meatiocre. (Several Meatopia-connected butchery competitions and demos were planned for Saturday and Sunday.) There were a few tasty treats, Pizzaiolo's meatballs and Jim 'N Nick's pork and grits among them, but not much was really adventurous or, in fact, much different than what was on offer a la carte at the trucks and booths outside. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/bocanova1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/bocanova560.jpg\" alt=\"Bocanova pork with tomatillo sauce. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bocanova pork with tomatillo sauce. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49234\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using white chocolate to mellow the tang of tomatillos was inventive, sure, but did \u003ca href=\"http://bocanova.com/\">Bocanova\u003c/a>'s Chartreuse-green sauce really have much to say to the juicy, achiote-rubbed pork loin it was blanketing? No, although the meat was tender and juicy enough. A well-balanced peach chutney couldn't save an underdone, charcoal-tasting chicken leg from locavore restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.saltscure.com\">Salt's Cure\u003c/a> in West Hollywood. Were I a Great Dane, I'd have been thrilled by the foot-long beef ribs served up by \u003ca href=\"http://www.greatbbq.com\">Great American Barbecue\u003c/a> from Alameda; alas, the smaller, boneless chunk of meat I tried was too greasily pocketed with fat to chew. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorites? The supple white grits and slow-cooked pork with a squirt of hot sauce from \u003ca href=\"http://www.jimnnicks.com\">Jim 'N Nick’s Bar-B-Q\u003c/a>, the Southern barbecue chain whose massive rig was parked outside in the main area, boasting a winged pig with the slogan “First we send him to heaven. Then we send you there.” Having tasted what they do to those pigs, I can confirm their truth in advertising. Still, the same fork-tender pig was also on the menu, this time in a sandwich, at their truck outside, making Meatopia moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq560.jpg\" alt=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ truck. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ truck. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49217\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/jimnicks-bbq1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/jimnicks-bbq560a.jpg\" alt=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ Pork and Grits. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ Pork and Grits. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49229\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, the pork meatballs from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\">Pizzaiolo\u003c/a>, served with a smile by owner Charlie Hallowell, will always be better than mine, yours, and everyone we know's. Hallowell starts with organic, humanely raised pork from Iowa’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.beckerlaneorganic.com/\">Becker Lane Organic Farm\u003c/a>, which Hallowell calls \"the best pork around,\" then adds bread crumbs, eggs, milk, pine nuts, greens, and capers. After shaping, the meatballs are deep-fried, braised in chicken stock, napped in a thick crushed-tomato sauce, doused with olive oil and sprinkled with Parmesan. They fall apart under the fork, gently, and the whole bite—meat, tomato sauce, cheese, oil—cries out for pasta or a swipe of Italian bread. Good as they are, eating them plain like this turns out to be a very good argument for driving a few miles over to Temescal, sitting down at the restaurant, and ordering them off the menu, so you can eat them the way they were meant to be served. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CharlieHallowell-Pizzaiolo400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CharlieHallowell-Pizzaiolo400.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Hallowell of Pizzaiolo serving meatballs at Eat Real Fest Me\" title=\"Charlie Hallowell of Pizzaiolo serving meatballs at Eat Real Fest Meatopia. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49191\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/meatball-pizziaolo8001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/meatball-pizziaolo8001.jpg\" alt=\"Pizzaiolo meatball. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Pizzaiolo meatball. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49223\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the puzzlement of local restaurants and food businesses serving up their favorite menu items at these festivals: why wait and wait in line for a cardboard bowl of \u003ca href=\"http://homeroom510.com/menu/#mac+cheese\">Homeroom’s Gilroy garlic mac and cheese\u003c/a>, for example, when you can just go to the restaurant, sit down, and eat the same thing in comfort for a similar price? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or take the \u003ca href=\"http://brittany-crepesandgalettes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=5\">Brittany Crepes and Galettes\u003c/a> stand: who doesn’t like a Nutella crepe hot out of the pan? But fans can find their crepes practically any day of the week at numerous farmers’ markets all around the Bay Area. A lot of the popular food trucks—El Porteno empanadas, Chaac Mool, 4505 Meats—are now as ubiquitous as they are delicious. A good thing, of course, to see small businesses like these become so successful, but one that's making every food-truck event and festival seem more and more the same. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/crepe1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/crepe560.jpg\" alt=\"Crepe. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Crepe. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49204\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the pink-streaked sky was gorgeous, the harborside setting with sailboats gliding by made a relaxing change from urban clamor, and even the Oakland PD was in a good mood, keeping the peace with a little \u003ca href=\"http://www.folsomstreetevents.org/\">Folsom Street Fair\u003c/a>-style handcuffing between two dueling barbecue workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq-handcuffs1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq-handcuffs560.jpg\" alt=\"Nicks Bar-B-Q handcuff scene. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Nicks Bar-B-Q handcuff scene. 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But somehow, transplanted to the West Coast, the event--at least Friday night's eating part-- was just, well, meatiocre. (Several Meatopia-connected butchery competitions and demos were planned for Saturday and Sunday.) There were a few tasty treats, Pizzaiolo's meatballs and Jim 'N Nick's pork and grits among them, but not much was really adventurous or, in fact, much different than what was on offer a la carte at the trucks and booths outside. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/bocanova1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/bocanova560.jpg\" alt=\"Bocanova pork with tomatillo sauce. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Bocanova pork with tomatillo sauce. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49234\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using white chocolate to mellow the tang of tomatillos was inventive, sure, but did \u003ca href=\"http://bocanova.com/\">Bocanova\u003c/a>'s Chartreuse-green sauce really have much to say to the juicy, achiote-rubbed pork loin it was blanketing? No, although the meat was tender and juicy enough. A well-balanced peach chutney couldn't save an underdone, charcoal-tasting chicken leg from locavore restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.saltscure.com\">Salt's Cure\u003c/a> in West Hollywood. Were I a Great Dane, I'd have been thrilled by the foot-long beef ribs served up by \u003ca href=\"http://www.greatbbq.com\">Great American Barbecue\u003c/a> from Alameda; alas, the smaller, boneless chunk of meat I tried was too greasily pocketed with fat to chew. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Favorites? The supple white grits and slow-cooked pork with a squirt of hot sauce from \u003ca href=\"http://www.jimnnicks.com\">Jim 'N Nick’s Bar-B-Q\u003c/a>, the Southern barbecue chain whose massive rig was parked outside in the main area, boasting a winged pig with the slogan “First we send him to heaven. Then we send you there.” Having tasted what they do to those pigs, I can confirm their truth in advertising. Still, the same fork-tender pig was also on the menu, this time in a sandwich, at their truck outside, making Meatopia moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq560.jpg\" alt=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ truck. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ truck. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49217\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/jimnicks-bbq1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/jimnicks-bbq560a.jpg\" alt=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ Pork and Grits. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Jim N Nicks BBQ Pork and Grits. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49229\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, the pork meatballs from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\">Pizzaiolo\u003c/a>, served with a smile by owner Charlie Hallowell, will always be better than mine, yours, and everyone we know's. Hallowell starts with organic, humanely raised pork from Iowa’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.beckerlaneorganic.com/\">Becker Lane Organic Farm\u003c/a>, which Hallowell calls \"the best pork around,\" then adds bread crumbs, eggs, milk, pine nuts, greens, and capers. After shaping, the meatballs are deep-fried, braised in chicken stock, napped in a thick crushed-tomato sauce, doused with olive oil and sprinkled with Parmesan. They fall apart under the fork, gently, and the whole bite—meat, tomato sauce, cheese, oil—cries out for pasta or a swipe of Italian bread. Good as they are, eating them plain like this turns out to be a very good argument for driving a few miles over to Temescal, sitting down at the restaurant, and ordering them off the menu, so you can eat them the way they were meant to be served. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CharlieHallowell-Pizzaiolo400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/CharlieHallowell-Pizzaiolo400.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie Hallowell of Pizzaiolo serving meatballs at Eat Real Fest Me\" title=\"Charlie Hallowell of Pizzaiolo serving meatballs at Eat Real Fest Meatopia. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49191\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/meatball-pizziaolo8001.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/meatball-pizziaolo8001.jpg\" alt=\"Pizzaiolo meatball. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Pizzaiolo meatball. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49223\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the puzzlement of local restaurants and food businesses serving up their favorite menu items at these festivals: why wait and wait in line for a cardboard bowl of \u003ca href=\"http://homeroom510.com/menu/#mac+cheese\">Homeroom’s Gilroy garlic mac and cheese\u003c/a>, for example, when you can just go to the restaurant, sit down, and eat the same thing in comfort for a similar price? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or take the \u003ca href=\"http://brittany-crepesandgalettes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=5\">Brittany Crepes and Galettes\u003c/a> stand: who doesn’t like a Nutella crepe hot out of the pan? But fans can find their crepes practically any day of the week at numerous farmers’ markets all around the Bay Area. A lot of the popular food trucks—El Porteno empanadas, Chaac Mool, 4505 Meats—are now as ubiquitous as they are delicious. A good thing, of course, to see small businesses like these become so successful, but one that's making every food-truck event and festival seem more and more the same. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/crepe1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/crepe560.jpg\" alt=\"Crepe. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Crepe. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49204\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the pink-streaked sky was gorgeous, the harborside setting with sailboats gliding by made a relaxing change from urban clamor, and even the Oakland PD was in a good mood, keeping the peace with a little \u003ca href=\"http://www.folsomstreetevents.org/\">Folsom Street Fair\u003c/a>-style handcuffing between two dueling barbecue workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq-handcuffs1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/nicks-bbq-handcuffs560.jpg\" alt=\"Nicks Bar-B-Q handcuff scene. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Nicks Bar-B-Q handcuff scene. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/aileen-suzara.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48820\" title=\"Aileen Suzara\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/aileen-suzara.jpg\" alt=\"Aileen Suzara\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coconut is the new pomegranate. Touted for \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/coconut-oil-benefits_b_821453.html\">its health benefits\u003c/a>, it’s popping up everywhere. Electrolyte-rich coconut water has replaced Gatorade as the new sports drink and claims abound that coconut oil boosts the immune system, thyroid and heart. But the reason I took the Cooking with Coconut class at \u003ca href=\"http://www.oacc.cc/\">Oakland’s Asian Cultural Cente\u003c/a>r (OACC) was less about health and more about taste. I’m cuckoo for coconuts (the unsweetened natural stuff). I also wanted to broaden my knowledge of Filipino cuisine, beyond adobo and lumpia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know it’s risky to spread the word on the insider \u003ca href=\"http://www.oacc.cc/programs/classes/culinaryworkshops.html\">cooking classes at OACC\u003c/a>, because they may all sell out before I get a ticket, but this is an amazing hidden pearl for DIY ethnic food fans: intimate hands-on workshops, most priced under $50 for a three-hour class that includes lunch. (A few months ago, I savored \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/22/thy-tran%E2%80%99s-asian-themed-classes-empower-cooks-on-both-sides-of-bay/\">Thy Tran’s Steamed Asian Sweets class\u003c/a> at OACC.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I arrived in OACC’s kitchen on a recent Sunday and surveyed the ingredients for Cooking with Coconut arranged on tables around the room, I was puzzled by the absence of the familiar brown hairy globes. Turned out we were using young or immature coconuts, which take the form of squat white cylinders with pointed tops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/young-cocunuts-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48821\" title=\"young coconuts Collage\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/young-cocunuts-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"young coconuts Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"434\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aileen Suzara, a 2nd generation Filipina American, guided eight of us through three coconut-centric recipes from her culture:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Binakol\u003c/em>: a chicken soup, featuring fresh coconut water, shallot, garlic, ginger, mushrooms and young coconut slices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Laing\u003c/em>: a green vegetable dish traditionally made with taro leaves, coconut milk and chilis. Suzara opted for fresh kale leaves instead of taro and upped the ante with coconut cream, plus plenty of garlic and ginger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for dessert, \u003cem>Palitaw\u003c/em>: simple rice flour dumplings rolled in sesame seeds and chopped coconut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To round out the meal, she shared some precious heirloom black rice a friend had brought back from the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against a background of resounding drumbeats from OACC’s Lion Dance class next door, Suzara demonstrated the ease of cracking open the stocky, young coconuts. A few decisive whacks of a cleaver, and coconut water came gushing forth. Then she showed how easy it is to scoop out the soft, slimy white flesh with just a spoon. While some of us scraped out coconut meat, others chopped ginger, as directed by Suzara, “in pieces big enough to slap you in the face with a burst of ginger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/busy-hands.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48830\" title=\"busy hands\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/busy-hands.jpg\" alt=\"busy hands\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Suzara spooned a dollop of coconut oil into the hot wok, followed by the chopped shallots, ginger and garlic, a symphony of aromas filled the room. Chicken thighs browned and then slowly simmered in the coconut water collected from the half-dozen young coconuts. Black peppercorns, and lemongrass were added to the soup and finally oyster mushrooms and the white coconut meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adding-coconut-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48822\" title=\"adding coconut Collage\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adding-coconut-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"adding coconut Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"353\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Adding coconut cream to the laing and young coconut meat to the binakol\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suzara, who encouraged us to cook with our senses instead of relying exclusively on recipes, modeled how to cheerfully roll with the punches of a few kitchen mishaps. These “teaching moments” -- as she referred to the pop-up surprises -- included: a little cut here, a minor burnt wooden board there and a rice flour mixture that was too liquid, so she changed desserts mid-course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/serving-time.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48831\" title=\"serving time\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/serving-time.jpg\" alt=\"serving time\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Our lunch of binakol, laing and palitaw\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we enjoyed our collectively created lunch, Suzara shared a little about herself. After studying environmental science, she worked with non-profits on environmental re-education, catered Filipino cooking and completed a program at UC Santa Cruz in \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/apprentice-training\">ecological horticulture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is active in social justice and agricultural education and wants to help her community make wise food choices. She cites the impact that 400 years of Spanish and US colonization has had on the traditional Filipino diet, resulting in, for example, a switch to refined flour and convenience foods and fried dishes which were traditionally enjoyed for just for special celebrations (like lumpia) that have become defining dishes of the cuisine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This reminded me of a similar struggle in African American food culture portrayed in the film, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/25/film-soul-food-junkies-examines-african-american-cuisine-and-culture/\">Soul Food Junkies\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we cleaned up the kitchen, I interviewed Suzara about how she learned to cook Filipino food, her involvement in agricultural education and her future plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/aileen-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48826\" title=\"aileen Collage\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/aileen-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"aileen Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"348\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why did you pick coconut as the focus of this class?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coconut is close to my heart. My father is from Bicol, a region of the Philippines famous for its coconut dishes, so cooking with coconut is in my blood. In the Philippines, coconut is called the “Tree of Life” because you can use every part of it. Its trunk and leaves provide building materials and home décor, its oil is used in beauty products and is very healthy for cooking, coconut sugar is better for diabetics and coconut milk is used all over South East Asia, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up in five different states but spent my adolescence on The Big Island Hawaii, so I ate the local coconuts there. When I was a freshman, they held a school “Olympics” with running and swimming events but somehow even though I was the scrawniest 14-year old, they put me in the coconut cracking and husking competition. Of course, I was slower and lost to a bunch of big boys, but I got the process down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you learn to cook Filipino specialties from your parents?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes and no, I’m somewhat self-taught. My hardworking parents worked long hours as a nurse and doctor. When I was about eight, they gave me free reign in the kitchen and I started cooking for the family. At first I did scrambled eggs but later moved on to soups and stews. Then I found some old Filipino cookbooks, including one that my mom brought when she immigrated at 23. It was in English but there were all these words for ingredients that I had never seen before. I wanted to learn what it all meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, meals were flavored by my parents’ ‘post-WWII diet’ of American imports -- things like Spam, Vienna sausage, corned beef -- and of course, fish and rice. So that’s the kind of thing they cooked. But when I was eight, we took a trip back to the Philippines and I met my grandparents and extended family. They took me to these huge markets. I tasted everything and fell in love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Didn’t you just come back from living and working on a farm?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, first, I spent six months in an \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/apprentice-training\">apprenticeship program\u003c/a> at UC Santa Cruz in ecological horticulture. \u003cem>(Here’s a video from the Filipino channel interviewing Aileen about her experience working on the organic farm.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/36876509\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/36876509\">ADOBO NATION. Sustainable Farming.\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/jeremiahysip\">Jeremiah Ysip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I just returned from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pieranch.org/\">Pie Ranch\u003c/a>, an educational farm in Pescadero with a youth program that teaches young people to learn where their food comes from. I helped care for their 250 chickens, goats and 15+ acres of wheat, squash and other crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are some of your future plans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there’s anything I learned from experiences in the food world, it’s that we need more culturally relevant models. I hope to be part of developing new programs to engage Asian-Pacific youth. Filipinos have a long history of leadership in the food movement that unfortunately, not enough people are aware of. In the early 1900s thousands came and worked on California farms. And while many people have heard of the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Farm_Workers\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>, they may not know of Filipino organizers like \u003ca href=\"http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8211-the-farm-workers-filipino-american-champion\">Larry Itliong\u003c/a>, who worked alongside Cesar Chavez and co-founded the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’d like to grow traditional ingredients used in Filipino cuisine and work with my community for more access to healthy fresh food and on health issues linked to food. It’s the immigrant paradox, as what we may now think of as a typical Filipino diet has steered away from plant-based foods, which have always been part of our traditions, one reason why heart disease, type 2 diabetes and hypertension have all become so common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just moved back to Oakland. This week, I start my new job as Garden Coordinator for a green school program at a San Francisco elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch for Aileen Suzara to teach more classes at OACC and share her cooking in a pop-up sponsored by Oakland’s People's Kitchen to celebrate Filipino American History Month in October. And on \u003ca href=\"http://http://pawablog.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/10132012-pawa-and-irmas-present-for-litcrawl-sf/\">October 13, catch her at a Litcrawl Reading\u003c/a> at Irma's (one of San Francisco's oldest Filipino restaurants), sponsored by PAWA (Philippine American Writers and Artists).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aileen Suzara's website: \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitchenkwento.com/\">Kitchen Kwento\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kitchenkwento\">@kitchenkwento\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Suzara opted for fresh kale leaves instead of taro and upped the ante with coconut cream, plus plenty of garlic and ginger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for dessert, \u003cem>Palitaw\u003c/em>: simple rice flour dumplings rolled in sesame seeds and chopped coconut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To round out the meal, she shared some precious heirloom black rice a friend had brought back from the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against a background of resounding drumbeats from OACC’s Lion Dance class next door, Suzara demonstrated the ease of cracking open the stocky, young coconuts. A few decisive whacks of a cleaver, and coconut water came gushing forth. Then she showed how easy it is to scoop out the soft, slimy white flesh with just a spoon. While some of us scraped out coconut meat, others chopped ginger, as directed by Suzara, “in pieces big enough to slap you in the face with a burst of ginger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/busy-hands.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48830\" title=\"busy hands\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/busy-hands.jpg\" alt=\"busy hands\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as Suzara spooned a dollop of coconut oil into the hot wok, followed by the chopped shallots, ginger and garlic, a symphony of aromas filled the room. Chicken thighs browned and then slowly simmered in the coconut water collected from the half-dozen young coconuts. 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These “teaching moments” -- as she referred to the pop-up surprises -- included: a little cut here, a minor burnt wooden board there and a rice flour mixture that was too liquid, so she changed desserts mid-course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/serving-time.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48831\" title=\"serving time\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/serving-time.jpg\" alt=\"serving time\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Our lunch of binakol, laing and palitaw\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we enjoyed our collectively created lunch, Suzara shared a little about herself. After studying environmental science, she worked with non-profits on environmental re-education, catered Filipino cooking and completed a program at UC Santa Cruz in \u003ca href=\"http://casfs.ucsc.edu/apprentice-training\">ecological horticulture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is active in social justice and agricultural education and wants to help her community make wise food choices. She cites the impact that 400 years of Spanish and US colonization has had on the traditional Filipino diet, resulting in, for example, a switch to refined flour and convenience foods and fried dishes which were traditionally enjoyed for just for special celebrations (like lumpia) that have become defining dishes of the cuisine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(This reminded me of a similar struggle in African American food culture portrayed in the film, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/06/25/film-soul-food-junkies-examines-african-american-cuisine-and-culture/\">Soul Food Junkies\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we cleaned up the kitchen, I interviewed Suzara about how she learned to cook Filipino food, her involvement in agricultural education and her future plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/aileen-Collage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48826\" title=\"aileen Collage\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/aileen-Collage.jpg\" alt=\"aileen Collage\" width=\"560\" height=\"348\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why did you pick coconut as the focus of this class?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coconut is close to my heart. My father is from Bicol, a region of the Philippines famous for its coconut dishes, so cooking with coconut is in my blood. In the Philippines, coconut is called the “Tree of Life” because you can use every part of it. Its trunk and leaves provide building materials and home décor, its oil is used in beauty products and is very healthy for cooking, coconut sugar is better for diabetics and coconut milk is used all over South East Asia, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up in five different states but spent my adolescence on The Big Island Hawaii, so I ate the local coconuts there. When I was a freshman, they held a school “Olympics” with running and swimming events but somehow even though I was the scrawniest 14-year old, they put me in the coconut cracking and husking competition. Of course, I was slower and lost to a bunch of big boys, but I got the process down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you learn to cook Filipino specialties from your parents?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes and no, I’m somewhat self-taught. My hardworking parents worked long hours as a nurse and doctor. When I was about eight, they gave me free reign in the kitchen and I started cooking for the family. At first I did scrambled eggs but later moved on to soups and stews. Then I found some old Filipino cookbooks, including one that my mom brought when she immigrated at 23. It was in English but there were all these words for ingredients that I had never seen before. I wanted to learn what it all meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, meals were flavored by my parents’ ‘post-WWII diet’ of American imports -- things like Spam, Vienna sausage, corned beef -- and of course, fish and rice. So that’s the kind of thing they cooked. 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In his proclamation, the governor cites the many great things the wine industry brings to California, from the beauty of wine regions, the jobs created and revenue generated, to the industry’s commitment to sustainability. According to Gladys Horiuchi with the Wine Institute, this month “Is a way for people to really feel part of the harvest. You can get out to wineries and smell the grapes being crushed and be part of the excitement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/ferrybldg-560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/ferrybldg-560.jpg\" alt=\"SF Ferry Building\" title=\"SF Ferry Building\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49041\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Wondering about wines from Santa Clara or Livermore? 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Every Sunday you can work with the winemakers and learn the trade, from soil types to blending techniques. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Napa:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOn September 29th, \u003ca href=\"http://www.peju.com/\">Peju Winery\u003c/a> is hosting a \u003ca href=\"http://dotcal.com/event/landing?u=8994f7f0&w=http://www.peju.com/Experience-Peju/calendar.php&c=ae110510-a5cf-012e-73ae-002421a2359e&a=peju&f=dotCal-ce7ea3f0-754d-012f-e23c-52540010a04a.ics\">farm to table feast\u003c/a> to celebrate the harvest season. Cost: $175 members/$195 non-members. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sonoma:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe \u003ca href=\"http://www.heartofsonomavalley.com/products/2012-sonoma-valley-crush\">Sonoma Valley CRUSH\u003c/a> takes places September 29-30, 2012 throughout wineries on the Sonoma Valley Wine Trail. Designate a driver and get tasting. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB560_TDesJ_WillieBrown.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB560_TDesJ_WillieBrown.jpg\" alt=\"Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown\" title=\"Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown\" width=\"560\" height=\"432\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49002\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown at Jardinière anniversary party. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month in Hayes Valley, \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\">Jardinière\u003c/a> Restaurant and chef-owner \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chef_traci\">Traci Des Jardins\u003c/a> celebrate 15 years of business, a notable feat for any fine dining spot. Along with launching a revamped menu, Des Jardins and executive chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/The-Inside-Scoop-New-chef-wine-director-head-up-3268029.php\">Morgan Mueller\u003c/a> hosted a party at Jardinière attended by luminaries from both the culinary and political worlds, including Jardinière alums and folks like Willie Brown. In other exciting news, Des Jardins flew to Southern California days later to help her friend \u003ca href=\"http://marysueandsusan.com/about/about_msm.htm\">Mary Sue Milliken\u003c/a> -- along with \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Goin\">Suzanne Goin\u003c/a>, Karen Hatfield, \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em8B1iCQl7E\">Hans Rockenwagner\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef-masters/bio/michael-cimarusti\">Michael Cimarusti\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://melisse.com/josiah-citrin\">Josiah Citrin\u003c/a> for a sold out dinner \u003ca href=\"https://donate.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/2012/Food4Thought\">event\u003c/a> to raise funds for President Obama’s re-election. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Des Jardins is known for her cooking, \u003ca href=\"http://tracidesjardins.com/chef\">awards\u003c/a> from Esquire, SF Chronicle, James Beard, Food & Wine, philanthropy and time on TV for Top Chef: Masters, Iron Chef (remember how she beat Mario Batali, anyone?), and The Next Iron Chef. Des Jardins is chef/co-owner of Mijita Cocina Mexicana as well as Chef and Partner of Public House and Manzanita. She shared her thoughts with Bay Area Bites via telephone interview and her comments have been edited for clarity and grammar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: How have you stayed in business for 15 years? What are the secrets of success? Do you have any horror stories?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins:\u003c/strong> There’s been a lot of ups and downs and we had the boom years in the early years. Back then, the restaurant was so busy and honestly there was a lot of money coming in. Our problems were control and keeping track of everything and the real trick was getting ready for service every day. I was 32 when I opened the restaurant and was more the chef in the kitchen. I’ve evolved to more of a business person and am always looking at how to stay in business. You have to have business acumen and know what’s happening behind the scenes. \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Nieporent\">Drew Nieporent\u003c/a> said “it’s a nickel and dime business and you have to track every nickel and dime.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most important thing -- and I tell my managers this all the time -- is the guest experience. That is the best marketing tool. You have to be a good listener and listen to what the guests feedback is and what that means. It’s key to being a good chef or restaurateur. The guests will tell you and that’s the name of the game. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first three to four years with Jardinière were insanely busy and then after 9/11 things got a lot trickier. When 9/11 happened our revenue dropped by 20 percent or something like that day to day. That was our most challenging time. 9/11 just sort of sealed the deal and it was really hard. I think a lot of people went out of business at that time. Over the last decade, we haven’t had as many fluctuations but the costs have gone up so much. The public doesn't really see that. How much things cost has changed so much. Our percentages have dwindled due to uncontrollable costs on things like mandatory healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" title=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49001\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Morgan Mueller and Traci Des Jardins. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the best and worst things about running a restaurant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The best is that our job is to make people happy. That makes it super, super fun and satisfying. It’s horrifying when they aren’t happy. People are coming in to have a good time and our job is to deliver. It’s kind of like theatre and you’re putting on the best show possible. When the day ends, then the show begins again. There are a lot of tiny, tiny details. My job is super fun; the business part I don't love but the feeding people part is fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst part is the amount of effort that goes into what we do every day. There’s not a huge monetary reward. It’s an act of love. Maybe people are making a ton of money and yet -- it seems so expensive. If you knew what goes into that experience then that’s hard. It’s even been exacerbated with the whole celebrity thing because people think that if you are on TV then you must have millions of dollars and you must have a Ferrari (laughs). People are making money from product lines and endorsements and there are folks making a tremendous amount of money but I’m not one of them. With the whole celebrity thing, people think that’s the kind of lifestyle were living. Right now, I’m sitting in my office and it’s really a storeroom. There are dry goods, an ice cream machine, and no place to sit. It’s not all that glamorous. But I love it. That’s the great thing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Can you talk about your role becoming a successful woman in the culinary field? Do you have any positive versus negative experiences regarding being a female in a male dominated profession?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>I’ve never felt discriminated against in this business. I was so young when I started. A lot of what I endured was pure naïveté and putting my head down and I was determined and dogged and I didn’t think about “yeah, I was the only woman.” I didn’t focus on that. I was smaller and wasn’t as strong and the actual physicality was a challenge. It’s harder for me to pick up big bags of stuff; that’s made it harder. Was it hard? Yeah. But it’s hard for everybody. You’ve got to be tough and strong. I think it’s the same answer as every other industry: when faced with taking care of family -- when women have to make that choice, they’re always going to pick the family. That kind of bleeds a lot of people out of the field. When they get to childbearing years, it’s pretty hard to be able to that in our business. Is that discrimination? I think it’s choice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One form of discrimination is more to do with a woman who’s older, which is a Hollywood thing. Actors can be sexy into their 60s and 70s and the women actresses aren’t. 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Our percentages have dwindled due to uncontrollable costs on things like mandatory healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDJ-Morgan_560anniv-party-3.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" title=\"Chef Morgan and Traci Des Jardins\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49001\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chef Morgan Mueller and Traci Des Jardins. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the best and worst things about running a restaurant?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The best is that our job is to make people happy. That makes it super, super fun and satisfying. It’s horrifying when they aren’t happy. People are coming in to have a good time and our job is to deliver. It’s kind of like theatre and you’re putting on the best show possible. When the day ends, then the show begins again. There are a lot of tiny, tiny details. My job is super fun; the business part I don't love but the feeding people part is fantastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst part is the amount of effort that goes into what we do every day. There’s not a huge monetary reward. It’s an act of love. Maybe people are making a ton of money and yet -- it seems so expensive. If you knew what goes into that experience then that’s hard. It’s even been exacerbated with the whole celebrity thing because people think that if you are on TV then you must have millions of dollars and you must have a Ferrari (laughs). People are making money from product lines and endorsements and there are folks making a tremendous amount of money but I’m not one of them. With the whole celebrity thing, people think that’s the kind of lifestyle were living. Right now, I’m sitting in my office and it’s really a storeroom. There are dry goods, an ice cream machine, and no place to sit. It’s not all that glamorous. But I love it. That’s the great thing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Can you talk about your role becoming a successful woman in the culinary field? Do you have any positive versus negative experiences regarding being a female in a male dominated profession?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>I’ve never felt discriminated against in this business. I was so young when I started. A lot of what I endured was pure naïveté and putting my head down and I was determined and dogged and I didn’t think about “yeah, I was the only woman.” I didn’t focus on that. I was smaller and wasn’t as strong and the actual physicality was a challenge. It’s harder for me to pick up big bags of stuff; that’s made it harder. Was it hard? Yeah. But it’s hard for everybody. You’ve got to be tough and strong. I think it’s the same answer as every other industry: when faced with taking care of family -- when women have to make that choice, they’re always going to pick the family. That kind of bleeds a lot of people out of the field. When they get to childbearing years, it’s pretty hard to be able to that in our business. Is that discrimination? I think it’s choice. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One form of discrimination is more to do with a woman who’s older, which is a Hollywood thing. Actors can be sexy into their 60s and 70s and the women actresses aren’t. It’s the same thing and exacerbated with the celebrity of chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Did you feel or notice that when you were on TV? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong> I didn't feel it personally. If you look at the men who have been successful and most of the women who are successful, it’s sex appeal and showing cleavage. Right? That’s kind of interesting. For the men, that’s not criteria. They don’t have to be strikingly handsome. None of it’s absolute. There are exceptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most excited about on the new menu?\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Des Jardins: \u003c/strong>The evolution of the food. I’m excited about the next 15 years. I want this restaurant to be 30 years old. It requires evolution and change. We’ve started out kind of small by changing the format and focus. The menu changes are about my own taste and about what I want to express in the food: I want to have smaller portions because it’s healthier. I don’t like a ton of ingredients -- mostly three to five ingredients. I also want distilled flavors. I’m returning to simplicity. The evolution of the menu is also driven by the products we have here, and the idea is to let them shine. Less is more; accent natural fabulousness and let the ingredients shine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDesJwithJard_Alums560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/BAB_TDesJwithJard_Alums560.jpg\" alt=\"Traci Des Jardin with Jardinere alumni\" title=\"Traci Des Jardin with Jardinere alumni\" width=\"560\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49003\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Jardinière Alums: L to R with Traci Des Jardins: Lizzie Binder, Deepak Kaul, Michael Hung, Morgan Mueller, Robbie Lewis and Richard Reddington. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: You've groomed many chefs who have gone on to do their own thing. 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Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48957\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Picnic-table environment at SoMa StrEat Food Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48926\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco trying some \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldenwaffle.net/#!home/mainPage\">Golden Waffles\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, the presence of the blonde, wide-smiling Sbrocco--in 4-inch-high silver wedge sandals and a deep V-neck blue dress, trailing a mike and a camera crew--added some glamour to the next-to-the-freeway event. Making the rounds of the park's handful of trucks, Sbrocco did brief on-camera interviews with each truck's owners, enthusiastically sampling everything from Belgian waffles to Argentinian empanadas. In between bites, Sbrocco paused to chat with fans of the show, posing for snapshots and swapping restaurant tips. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual with food trucks, the focus was meat: in a bun, in a crust, piled high, squirted with sauces mayo-y, herby, smoky or sweet. For sheer size, there were the sloppy, Godzilla-sized sandwiches of \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamsgrubtruck.com\">Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/a>, colossally stacked combos of panko-fried or garlicky grilled chicken cutlets, pulled pork, cheese, bacon, fried eggs, and chunky Napa cabbage slaw on squashy, sweet brioche buns. And for sheer deliciousness, there were the can't-miss Hawaiian sliders served under a roll-down thatched palapa awning by \u003ca href=\"http://www.slidershacksf.com/\">Slider Shack\u003c/a>, fluffy little buns filled to bursting with succulent strands of slow-cooked BBQ pork or carnitas-like chunks of kalua pork, dolloped with a mouth-tingling cilantro sauce fiery with fresh hot peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" title=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48919\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slider Shack owner John Cade, a native San Franciscan whose truck has been serving for just 6 months, got into the biz after 14 years in finance and at least a decade of dedicated backyard barbecuing for family and friends. His Hawaiian mother took the family back the islands frequently, and he grew up on Hawaiian staples like kalua pork. But right now, it's the green sauce he's most excited about. In a month or so, Slider Shack will have it bottled for sale on the truck, with grocery stores to follow. The inspiration? The green sauce at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sophiescuban.com/\">Sophie's Cuban\u003c/a> restaurant near the American Stock Exchange in New York City, where Cade spent time during his finance career. He and a buddy would lunch there every day, emptying the tabletop bottle of green sauce (which, thanks to Peruvian owners, was a jalapeno-based variation of Peruvian aji sauce) on every visit. Determined to reverse-engineer the sauce, Cade ended up with his own creation, one that was herby, tangy, and spicy, a perfect foil to the unctuous pork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders.Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48932\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Slider Shack Hawaiian Pork Sliders.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48974\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco, Slider Shack owner John Cade and KQED camera engineer Blake McHugh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the South Seas theme of the truck, it's Cade's hope that his customers can relax and enjoy a little Pacific-island getaway over their kalua pork or panko chicken rather than just the usual deli grab-and-go before returning to cubicle-land. (There's even a Cast Away-style Wilson volleyball tied to the surfboard-mounted menu in front of the truck.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over at \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/LetsEatGrillStop\">Let's Eat Grill Stop\u003c/a>, the showstopper is the South-by-Southwest buttermilk-fried chicken, zingy with Southwestern spices and a lime-cilantro-Sriracha butter, alongside an arugula salad (one of the few green vegetables to be seen on these meat-dominated menus). Owner Carlos Williams, based in Mill Valley, was also touting his wild salmon plate, served over a bed of similar greens with avocado and red onions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48930\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48923\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48934\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Salmon.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wash it down? From the new StrEat Brew truck, PBR, Stella, Sierra, Blue Moon, Bud, a couple of not-so-great wines but four tasty sangrias, including white with watermelon and strawberries, and red with orange and ginger. (And hey, they're \u003ca href=\"http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/fbh/3221493580.html\">hiring\u003c/a>!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/alcoholic-bev1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/alcoholic-bev1000.jpg\" alt=\"Sangria, beer and wine were available. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Sangria, beer and wine were available. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48958\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Sangria, beer and wine were available.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still hungry? Not to be missed were the hot, buttery-crusted empanadas from \u003ca href=\"http://www.elsursf.com/\">El Sur\u003c/a>'s groovy, cream-colored Citroen van. This time, having tried the beef version at last month's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/08/20/night-market-sf-street-food-festival/\">Night Market\u003c/a>, we went for the pollo (delish, with bits of hard-boiled egg and olives) and verde (chard and spinach with onions and five cheeses) which had a nuanced hint of nutmeg. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/veg-empanada1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/veg-empanada1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Verde - Vegetarian empanada from El Sur. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Verde - Vegetarian empanada from El Sur. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48940\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Verde - Vegetarian empanada from El Sur.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-el-sur-empanadas1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-el-sur-empanadas1000.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco with El Sur owner Marianne Despres. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco with El Sur owner Marianne Despres. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48928\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco with El Sur owner Marianne Despres.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/streateats-kqed-signage1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/streateats-kqed-signage1000.jpg\" alt=\"SoMa StrEat Food Park and KQED signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"SoMa StrEat Food Park and KQED signage. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48937\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>SoMa StrEat Food Park and KQED signage\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-streatfood1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-streatfood1000.jpg\" alt=\"Check, Please! host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Check, Please! host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48931\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Check, Please! Bay Area host Leslie Sbrocco tasting Smokin' Warehouse Barbecue at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All photos by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/wendy-goodfriend/\">Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday night, to celebrate the continuation of the seventh season of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/\">Check, Please! Bay Area\u003c/a> on KQED, host \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/host-biography/\">Leslie Sbrocco\u003c/a> and her crew were taking it to the streets--or more specifically, to the \u003ca href=\"http://somastreatfoodpark.com/\">SoMa StrEat Food Park\u003c/a>, the city's latest food-truck hangout. It was a savvy pick for the everyone's-a-critic show, in which a roundtable of everyday Bay Area denizens dine and debate the merits (and mistakes) of their favorite neighborhood restaurants. After all, nothing sparks easy, whaddya-got chat like a food truck event, where the buy-in's cheap (most of the items on offer were $10 or less) and the casual, picnic-table environment makes foodie cross-talk a breeze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eating-area1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/eating-area1000.jpg\" alt=\"Picnic-style eating area at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Picnic-style eating area at SoMa StrEat Food Park. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48957\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Picnic-table environment at SoMa StrEat Food Park.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-eating-waffle1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco trying some Golden Waffles at SoMa StrEat Food Park KQED event\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48926\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco trying some \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldenwaffle.net/#!home/mainPage\">Golden Waffles\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, the presence of the blonde, wide-smiling Sbrocco--in 4-inch-high silver wedge sandals and a deep V-neck blue dress, trailing a mike and a camera crew--added some glamour to the next-to-the-freeway event. Making the rounds of the park's handful of trucks, Sbrocco did brief on-camera interviews with each truck's owners, enthusiastically sampling everything from Belgian waffles to Argentinian empanadas. In between bites, Sbrocco paused to chat with fans of the show, posing for snapshots and swapping restaurant tips. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As usual with food trucks, the focus was meat: in a bun, in a crust, piled high, squirted with sauces mayo-y, herby, smoky or sweet. For sheer size, there were the sloppy, Godzilla-sized sandwiches of \u003ca href=\"http://www.adamsgrubtruck.com\">Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/a>, colossally stacked combos of panko-fried or garlicky grilled chicken cutlets, pulled pork, cheese, bacon, fried eggs, and chunky Napa cabbage slaw on squashy, sweet brioche buns. And for sheer deliciousness, there were the can't-miss Hawaiian sliders served under a roll-down thatched palapa awning by \u003ca href=\"http://www.slidershacksf.com/\">Slider Shack\u003c/a>, fluffy little buns filled to bursting with succulent strands of slow-cooked BBQ pork or carnitas-like chunks of kalua pork, dolloped with a mouth-tingling cilantro sauce fiery with fresh hot peppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/adam-bomb-ultimate500.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" title=\"Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48919\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Mars Pasache and the Adam Bomb from Adam's Grub Truck\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slider Shack owner John Cade, a native San Franciscan whose truck has been serving for just 6 months, got into the biz after 14 years in finance and at least a decade of dedicated backyard barbecuing for family and friends. His Hawaiian mother took the family back the islands frequently, and he grew up on Hawaiian staples like kalua pork. But right now, it's the green sauce he's most excited about. In a month or so, Slider Shack will have it bottled for sale on the truck, with grocery stores to follow. The inspiration? The green sauce at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sophiescuban.com/\">Sophie's Cuban\u003c/a> restaurant near the American Stock Exchange in New York City, where Cade spent time during his finance career. He and a buddy would lunch there every day, emptying the tabletop bottle of green sauce (which, thanks to Peruvian owners, was a jalapeno-based variation of Peruvian aji sauce) on every visit. Determined to reverse-engineer the sauce, Cade ended up with his own creation, one that was herby, tangy, and spicy, a perfect foil to the unctuous pork. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/pork-2ways-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Slider Shack Pork Sliders.Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48932\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Slider Shack Hawaiian Pork Sliders.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/slidershack1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco tasting the sliders. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48974\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco, Slider Shack owner John Cade and KQED camera engineer Blake McHugh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the South Seas theme of the truck, it's Cade's hope that his customers can relax and enjoy a little Pacific-island getaway over their kalua pork or panko chicken rather than just the usual deli grab-and-go before returning to cubicle-land. (There's even a Cast Away-style Wilson volleyball tied to the surfboard-mounted menu in front of the truck.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over at \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/LetsEatGrillStop\">Let's Eat Grill Stop\u003c/a>, the showstopper is the South-by-Southwest buttermilk-fried chicken, zingy with Southwestern spices and a lime-cilantro-Sriracha butter, alongside an arugula salad (one of the few green vegetables to be seen on these meat-dominated menus). Owner Carlos Williams, based in Mill Valley, was also touting his wild salmon plate, served over a bed of similar greens with avocado and red onions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/leslie-salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48930\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Leslie Sbrocco and Owner Carlos Williams at Lets Eat Grill Stop.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/fried-chix1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" title=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48923\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Let's Eat Grill Stop Fried Chicken.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/09/salmon1000.jpg\" alt=\"Lets Eat Grill Stop Salmon. 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