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With the \u003ca href=\"http://www.smallfoodbiz.com/2014/04/07/sales-of-specialty-food-products-soar-infographic/\">booming demand\u003c/a> for specialty and artisanal foods, incubators can help hungry entrepreneurs get started in a licensed kitchen at a fraction of the price of leasing their own space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Portland, \u003ca href=\"http://kitchencru.biz/\">KitchenCru\u003c/a> is thriving, and in San Francisco, there's the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina,\u003c/a> which focuses on cultivating low-income food entrepreneurs. Incubators have sprung up in towns beyond these foodie meccas, too, at institutions like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_offices/departments/food_science/extension_outreach/incubator/\">Louisiana State Univerity \u003c/a> in Baton Rouge and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncagr.gov/markets/agribiz/foodbiz.html#incubator\">Mayland Community College\u003c/a> in North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone wants fresh and local [food],\" says Cullen Gilchrist, co-founder of food incubator \u003ca href=\"http://unionkitchendc.com/\">Union Kitchen\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting started as a foodpreneur is tricky. \"The failure rate of food businesses — it's enormous,\" says Gilchrist. His goal is to lower the barriers to entry and teach foodpreneurs what they need to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You need to be able to make great food — that's a given,\" says Gilchrist. But passion alone for your product only takes you so far. That stellar pie you bake from your grandmother's recipe that all your friends love is really just the first step, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you really want to make it, there's a long checklist to consider: Do you have a food handler's license? How are you going to find customers? What about business insurance, working a spreadsheet or a plan to distribute your food?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The food business] is not for the faint of heart,\" says Jenna Huntsberger as she pulls sheets of snickerdoodles out of the double-stacked convection ovens at Union Kitchen. Huntsberger started \u003ca href=\"http://whiskeddc.com/\">Whisked\u003c/a> bakery, one of about 50 startups housed at the food incubator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've got to know how much it costs to make this cookie,\" Huntsberger says. That means the labor and the ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/food-incubator-2_slide-a9ae7bab891219d844008dffe876ee60940dce49.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/food-incubator-2_slide-a9ae7bab891219d844008dffe876ee60940dce49.jpg\" alt=\"Jonas Singer (left) and Cullen Gilchrist co-founded Union Kitchen, a food incubator in Washington, D.C. Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86237\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonas Singer (left) and Cullen Gilchrist co-founded Union Kitchen, a food incubator in Washington, D.C. 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She has picked up retail clients, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonsgreengrocer.com/farms/whisked.htm\">Washington's Green Grocer\u003c/a>, which does a weekly pickup at Union Kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What you get is this collaborative environment,\" says business consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.terrystarbucker.com/\">Terry St. Marie, \u003c/a>who has studied the incubator model. \"It's more than just providing [startups] with a stove; it's giving them connections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's hard to estimate the success rate of food incubators, in part because the model is still new. But Union Kitchen says 10 of its members and alumni businesses have opened, or are in the process of opening, their own brick-and-mortar establishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've created about 300 jobs,\" Gilchrist says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, he says, incubators like his are cultivating the kind of food businesses the community wants. Every time a Union Kitchen startup opens a store, \"that's one less Subway or Potbelly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when big chains dominate, he's optimistic that small, independent businesses can find success, too. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003ch3>Three Tips For Would-Be Food Entrepreneurs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't Quit Your Day Job:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAndrea Bell of Chef's Kitchen tells prospective startups that it will likely take a couple of years before they turn a profit. If you can get 24/7 kitchen access at an incubator, you can can bake or cook in off hours or on weekends. If you make that work, you can scale up later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Food Biz Requires Enormous Physical Stamina:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nVictoria Lai, a D.C. attorney-turned-ice cream entrepreneur, recently moved out of Union Kitchen and opened her own storefront shop, called . 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa6.jpg\" alt=\"and Carolina Abolio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milena Mata with Carolina Abolio, owner of Miss Arepita / Arepa Mobile. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I had the pleasure of meeting Carolina Abolio, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Arepita-Arepa-Mobile/256816064510034\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Arepita / Arepa Mobile\u003c/a>, when she recently catered a meal for several \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Science\u003c/a> producers. After sampling the array of delicious arepas she prepared for the staff, I wanted to know more about her burgeoning business and these savory Venezuelan flatbreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85605\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/areperia-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/areperia-2-190x190.jpg\" alt=\"Arepera in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: Carolina Abolio\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-85605\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arepera in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: Carolina Abolio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You really can’t go too far in Venezuela without running into an \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em>,\" said Abolio via email. \"They are sold at \u003cem>areperas\u003c/em> everywhere throughout the country and given the countless ways it can be prepared, there is really an \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> is made of maize flour, grown by the natives in small indigenous villages. It was made from moistened maize, ground between stones to produce pliable dough. Later they were formed into discs and heated to a high temperature on earthenware tiles called \"\u003cem>aripos\u003c/em>,\" hence the name. \u003cem>Arepas\u003c/em> have always been the traditional breakfast food for most Venezuelan families. They are our \"daily bread,\" as they replace almost completely the use of wheat bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our \u003cem>arepas\u003c/em> are handmade, gluten-free, grilled pockets of corn meal that are crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside. Then they're stuffed with cooked meats, cheeses or sautéed locally grown veggies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/10373115_256913027833671_5967759281568584936_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/10373115_256913027833671_5967759281568584936_o-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"Carne Mechada Arepa\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" class=\"size-large wp-image-85604\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carne Mechada Arepa. Photo: Hugh Lovell\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Abolio doesn't have a professional background in the culinary arts -- she obtained a degree in civil engineering -- \"I learned with my family how food created strong bridges between communities. Growing up in Venezuela, in an Italian home, good food was always the central part of our tradition. Everything revolved around the kitchen table which always had warm and delicious treats to offer to everyone who rang the doorbell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I moved to Boston, I realized how handy all those days cooking with my sister Judith and listening to the stories about our family helped me on my homesick days to reproduce those flavors and smells that I missed so much. In the last 8 years, that passion for collecting, reproducing and sharing those traditional flavors and the stories attached to those flavors from my hometown have become stronger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in the city of Oakland, Abolio was drawn there as \"it's listed among the top cities in the country for sustainability practice. The food scene is booming because of those food artisans and creators that are moving here from all over the word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85623\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/market.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/market-217x290.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85623\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Miss Arepita\" and customer Nancy Warren at the Phat Beets Produce Farmers' Market in North Oakland. Photo courtesy of Carolina Abolio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's also supported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Phat Beets Produce\u003c/a>, \"a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a local park. It was started as a means to close the gap between small farmers of color that lack market outlets and urban communities that lack access to healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I prepare the arepas in a commercial kitchen subsidized by Phat Beets Produce. The goal of their \u003ca href=\"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/incubator-kitchen/\" target=\"_blank\">incubator kitchen\u003c/a> program is to train and support Oakland residents to become successful entrepreneurs in food ventures.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abolio then sells her food at \"this little neighborhood farmers' market [\u003ca href=\"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/farmers-markets/north-oakland-arlington-medical-center/\" target=\"_blank\">on Grace and Lowell Streets\u003c/a>]. It's a place for neighbors to be neighborly on Saturday mornings until 2pm. It's not big, but it rules. We also offer lunch delivery to your office or home for 20 people or more. We call it \"\u003cem>La Lonchera\u003c/em>\" and it features our traditional \u003cem>arepas\u003c/em> prepared on site.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a run down of Miss Arepita's offerings, as described by Abolio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pabellon\u003c/em>: \"A traditional dish from Venezuela that includes plantains, meat, beans and rice served on a plate. At some point, the rice was traded for white cheese and was placed inside an \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pata Pata\u003c/em>: \"Black beans, plantains and white cheese. This \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> was created in honor of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam Makeba\u003c/a>, famous for the song \"Pata Pata.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa3.jpg\" alt=\"Pata Pata Arepa\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85596\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pata Pata Arepa. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reina Pepiada\u003c/em>: \"Chicken salad with avocado. When Venezuela won the first “Miss World,” this \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> was created in her honor. The recipe that I use has a twist that I borrowed from my cousin Jenny. This recipe inspires the taste of Christmas year-round.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa2.jpg\" alt=\"Reina Pepiada Arepa\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85595\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reina Pepiada Arepa. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Veggie Calypso:\u003c/em> \"My own recipe. We make it using seasonal veggies from the farmers' market. It changes weekly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Carne Mechada\u003c/em>: \"Shredded beef in a red sauce with plantains.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We also prepared our own \u003cem>salsas\u003c/em>, such as \u003cem>guasacaca\u003c/em> (a green sauce that's great for drizzling over arepas and is our own recipe) and \u003cem>salsa picante\u003c/em>, a hot sauce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa5.jpg\" alt=\"Guasacaca and Salsa Picante\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guasacaca and Salsa Picante. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cem>Papelón con limón\u003c/em> is a refreshing Venezuelan beverage, made with \u003cem>papelón\u003c/em> (raw, hardened sugar cane juice), water and usually lime or lemon juice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa4.jpg\" alt=\"Papelón con limón\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85597\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papelón con limón. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's next for Miss Arepita? \"At the moment, [our plan for a food] truck is still in the 'blueprints' stage. My goal in the next couple of years is to introduce the \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> culture to our East Bay community one \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> at a time and the truck will follow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find out more about Miss Arepita / Arepita Mobile at her \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Arepita-Arepa-Mobile/256816064510034\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa6.jpg\" alt=\"and Carolina Abolio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milena Mata with Carolina Abolio, owner of Miss Arepita / Arepa Mobile. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I had the pleasure of meeting Carolina Abolio, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Arepita-Arepa-Mobile/256816064510034\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Arepita / Arepa Mobile\u003c/a>, when she recently catered a meal for several \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED Science\u003c/a> producers. After sampling the array of delicious arepas she prepared for the staff, I wanted to know more about her burgeoning business and these savory Venezuelan flatbreads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85605\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 190px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/areperia-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/areperia-2-190x190.jpg\" alt=\"Arepera in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: Carolina Abolio\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-85605\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arepera in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: Carolina Abolio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You really can’t go too far in Venezuela without running into an \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em>,\" said Abolio via email. \"They are sold at \u003cem>areperas\u003c/em> everywhere throughout the country and given the countless ways it can be prepared, there is really an \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> is made of maize flour, grown by the natives in small indigenous villages. It was made from moistened maize, ground between stones to produce pliable dough. Later they were formed into discs and heated to a high temperature on earthenware tiles called \"\u003cem>aripos\u003c/em>,\" hence the name. \u003cem>Arepas\u003c/em> have always been the traditional breakfast food for most Venezuelan families. They are our \"daily bread,\" as they replace almost completely the use of wheat bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our \u003cem>arepas\u003c/em> are handmade, gluten-free, grilled pockets of corn meal that are crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside. Then they're stuffed with cooked meats, cheeses or sautéed locally grown veggies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/10373115_256913027833671_5967759281568584936_o.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/10373115_256913027833671_5967759281568584936_o-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"Carne Mechada Arepa\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" class=\"size-large wp-image-85604\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carne Mechada Arepa. Photo: Hugh Lovell\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Abolio doesn't have a professional background in the culinary arts -- she obtained a degree in civil engineering -- \"I learned with my family how food created strong bridges between communities. Growing up in Venezuela, in an Italian home, good food was always the central part of our tradition. Everything revolved around the kitchen table which always had warm and delicious treats to offer to everyone who rang the doorbell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I moved to Boston, I realized how handy all those days cooking with my sister Judith and listening to the stories about our family helped me on my homesick days to reproduce those flavors and smells that I missed so much. In the last 8 years, that passion for collecting, reproducing and sharing those traditional flavors and the stories attached to those flavors from my hometown have become stronger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based in the city of Oakland, Abolio was drawn there as \"it's listed among the top cities in the country for sustainability practice. The food scene is booming because of those food artisans and creators that are moving here from all over the word.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85623\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/market.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/market-217x290.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85623\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Miss Arepita\" and customer Nancy Warren at the Phat Beets Produce Farmers' Market in North Oakland. Photo courtesy of Carolina Abolio\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She's also supported by \u003ca href=\"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Phat Beets Produce\u003c/a>, \"a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a local park. It was started as a means to close the gap between small farmers of color that lack market outlets and urban communities that lack access to healthy, affordable and culturally-appropriate food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I prepare the arepas in a commercial kitchen subsidized by Phat Beets Produce. The goal of their \u003ca href=\"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/incubator-kitchen/\" target=\"_blank\">incubator kitchen\u003c/a> program is to train and support Oakland residents to become successful entrepreneurs in food ventures.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abolio then sells her food at \"this little neighborhood farmers' market [\u003ca href=\"http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/farmers-markets/north-oakland-arlington-medical-center/\" target=\"_blank\">on Grace and Lowell Streets\u003c/a>]. It's a place for neighbors to be neighborly on Saturday mornings until 2pm. It's not big, but it rules. We also offer lunch delivery to your office or home for 20 people or more. We call it \"\u003cem>La Lonchera\u003c/em>\" and it features our traditional \u003cem>arepas\u003c/em> prepared on site.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a run down of Miss Arepita's offerings, as described by Abolio:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pabellon\u003c/em>: \"A traditional dish from Venezuela that includes plantains, meat, beans and rice served on a plate. At some point, the rice was traded for white cheese and was placed inside an \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pata Pata\u003c/em>: \"Black beans, plantains and white cheese. This \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> was created in honor of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Makeba\" target=\"_blank\">Miriam Makeba\u003c/a>, famous for the song \"Pata Pata.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa3.jpg\" alt=\"Pata Pata Arepa\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85596\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pata Pata Arepa. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reina Pepiada\u003c/em>: \"Chicken salad with avocado. When Venezuela won the first “Miss World,” this \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> was created in her honor. The recipe that I use has a twist that I borrowed from my cousin Jenny. This recipe inspires the taste of Christmas year-round.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85595\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa2.jpg\" alt=\"Reina Pepiada Arepa\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85595\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reina Pepiada Arepa. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Veggie Calypso:\u003c/em> \"My own recipe. We make it using seasonal veggies from the farmers' market. It changes weekly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Carne Mechada\u003c/em>: \"Shredded beef in a red sauce with plantains.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We also prepared our own \u003cem>salsas\u003c/em>, such as \u003cem>guasacaca\u003c/em> (a green sauce that's great for drizzling over arepas and is our own recipe) and \u003cem>salsa picante\u003c/em>, a hot sauce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa5.jpg\" alt=\"Guasacaca and Salsa Picante\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guasacaca and Salsa Picante. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"\u003cem>Papelón con limón\u003c/em> is a refreshing Venezuelan beverage, made with \u003cem>papelón\u003c/em> (raw, hardened sugar cane juice), water and usually lime or lemon juice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa4.jpg\" alt=\"Papelón con limón\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85597\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Papelón con limón. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's next for Miss Arepita? \"At the moment, [our plan for a food] truck is still in the 'blueprints' stage. My goal in the next couple of years is to introduce the \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> culture to our East Bay community one \u003cem>arepa\u003c/em> at a time and the truck will follow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find out more about Miss Arepita / Arepita Mobile at her \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Miss-Arepita-Arepa-Mobile/256816064510034\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/baconflight1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/baconflight1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Bacon Land vendor showcases Bacon Flight. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85825\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon Land vendor showcases Bacon Flight. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swine isn’t usually my thing. Although I’ve been known to nibble on a side of bacon at a diner, that’s usually the extent of it. But at this year’s Outside Lands where vendors offer an endless parade of tantalizing pork creations, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to dive in and explore this nationwide food trend in all its creative glory. From flights of bacon, to Filipino pork burritos, to chicharrones described as “puffy pork magic,” it’s clear that Bay Area chefs have embraced pork as so much more than just the \u003ca href=\"i/Pork._The_Other_White_Meat\" target=\"_blank\">other white meat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/chicharrones700.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/chicharrones700.jpg\" alt=\"Chicharrones from 4505 Meat. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85822\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicharrones from 4505 Meat. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for those not yet convinced that chocolate covered bacon is \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna\" target=\"_blank\">manna\u003c/a> from heaven, there are hundreds of other culinary creations to explore, along with knowledgeable artisans to answer your geekiest questions about making cheese, chocolate, wine and anything else you might want to learn about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranging from healthy to hearty to insanely indulgent, there is truly something for everyone at Outside Lands. But the best news of all is that even if you are not able to eat your way through the festival in person, you can still try most of the featured dishes at Bay Area restaurants and food trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the highlights from our food forays at Outside Lands, where we pigged out on pork and bounced for beignets. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breakfast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/eggsandwich700.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/eggsandwich700.jpg\" alt=\"Fried egg with bacon and cheese sandwich from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85837\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried egg with bacon and cheese sandwich from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday we started our day with a fried egg sandwich from \u003ca href=\"http://www.canerossosf.com/\">Il Canne Rosso\u003c/a>. If you don’t like oozy yolks this isn’t for you, but it was excellent. The fresh Acme bread smeared with onion butter was perfect for soaking up the peppery eggs, which were topped with -- you guessed it -- salty slabs of bacon. We also tried their made-from-scratch French toast, which was divine, but more like a hunk of bread pudding set in a puddle of honey caramel. I had to stop myself from licking the container.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/french-toast1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/french-toast1000.jpg\" alt=\"French Toast from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85838\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Toast from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For our late morning snack we opted for something more unusual: porcini doughnuts from \u003ca href=\"http://richtablesf.com/\">Rich Table\u003c/a>. You probably won’t want to dunk these in your coffee, but do dunk them in the cheese sauce offered on the side. They were savory, doughy and only slightly mushroom-y. Everyone one who tried one seemed to take a moment to process the unexpected combination of taste and texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porchini-mushroom1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porchini-mushroom1000.jpg\" alt=\"Porcini doughnuts from Rich Table. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85855\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porcini doughnuts from Rich Table. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/tasting-porcini-mushroom1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/tasting-porcini-mushroom1000.jpg\" alt=\"Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85857\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/mushroom-tasters1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/mushroom-tasters1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85854\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next we headed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.livinggreensjuice.com/\">Living Greens Juice\u003c/a> for a dose of liquefied fruits and veggies. The watermelon basil juice was sweet and refreshing and the potent, ginger infused “super greens” elixir packed a punch that wasn’t quite what we had in mind, but it did cleanse our palates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/fresh-juice1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/fresh-juice1000.jpg\" alt=\"Living Greens Juice: Watermelon Basil and Super Greens. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85839\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living Greens Juice: Watermelon Basil and Super Greens. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lunch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lunchtime is when we decided to go whole hog. After sampling a few different types of pork sandwiches, the grilled pork pernil from \u003ca href=\"http://www.jtomatoes.com/splitpea.htm\">Split Pea Seduction\u003c/a> rose to the top as our hands-down favorite. When I found out it was made from pork butts I almost turned and ran, but in the spirit of being adventurous I dug in, and enjoyed every bite. Herb stuffed and spit-roasted right in front of our eyes, the meat was layered with heirloom tomatoes, arugula and aioli on fresh \u003ca href=\"http://www.panoramabaking.com/\">Panorama bread\u003c/a>. We washed it down with a Chardonnay from \u003ca href=\"http://www.paperboywines.com/\">Paper Boy\u003c/a>, a sweet and creamy wine that provided a nice contrast to the flavor of the sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkroast-splitpeaseduction1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkroast-splitpeaseduction1000.jpg\" alt=\"Pork Roast on a spit at Spit Pea Seduction. Photo: Lisa Landers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85862\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pork Roast on a spit at Spit Pea Seduction. Photo: Lisa Landers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/pork-sandwich-splitpeaseduction1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/pork-sandwich-splitpeaseduction1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Grilled pork pernil sandwich from Split Pea Seduction. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85865\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grilled pork pernil sandwich from Split Pea Seduction. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We also tried a more traditional pulled pork sandwich from \u003ca href=\"http://www.southpawbbqsf.com/\">Southpaw\u003c/a>, which was tasty but would have been a little bland without help from the tangy sweet sauce and slaw piled on top. A dish of maple sweetened crispy Brussels sprouts from \u003ca href=\"http://theamericansf.com/\">American Grilled Cheese Kitchen\u003c/a> made the perfect side for this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/pulled-pork-southpaw1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/pulled-pork-southpaw1000.jpg\" alt=\"Pulled pork sandwich from Southpaw. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85896\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulled pork sandwich from Southpaw. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brussels-sprouts1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brussels-sprouts1000.jpg\" alt=\"Maple sweetened crispy Brussels sprouts from American Grilled Cheese Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend \" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85849\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maple sweetened crispy Brussels sprouts from American Grilled Cheese Kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For a post lunch snack I went for the flight of bacon: the ultimate symbol of bacon’s new found gastronomic prowess. As I sampled each of the five types of bacon slung between a pair of skewers, I could really taste the differences. Some were peppered and dry rubbed, while others were hickory smoked or cured in brown sugar. My favorite was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fattedcalf.com/\">Fatted Calf\u003c/a> fruitwood smoked bacon, which paired well with a glass of \u003ca href=\"http://www.napawineproject.com/calder-wine-company/\">Calder\u003c/a> Syrah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/cheeselands1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/cheeselands1000.jpg\" alt=\"Cheese Lands at Outside Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85902\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheese Lands at Outside Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/truffle-Burrata1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/truffle-Burrata1000.jpg\" alt=\"Truffle Burrata from Wisconsin. Photo: Lisa Landers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85879\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truffle Burrata from Wisconsin. Photo: Lisa Landers\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We also wandered over to CheeseLands to sample a variety of Bay Area cheeses as well as a creamy truffle Burrata from Wisconsin that’s not even on the market yet. Not to be left out of the pork party, CheeseLands also sold delicate slices of smoked Virginia ham from \u003ca href=\"http://www.longmeadowranch.com\">Long Meadow Ranch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Snack & Twerk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/big-freedia1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/big-freedia1000.jpg\" alt=\"Big Freedia sharing beignets from Brenda's French Soul Food. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85831\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Freedia sharing beignets from Brenda's French Soul Food. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>On Saturday afternoon, sugar dusted beignets from \u003ca href=\"http://frenchsoulfood.com\">Brenda’s French Soul Food\u003c/a> were handed out for free -- that is, if you were willing to shake your booty on stage alongside \u003ca href=\"http://www.bigfreedia.com\">Big Freedia\u003c/a>. A New Orleans native, Big Freedia and her band specialize in a hip-hop genre called “bounce” music, and you know why it’s called this as soon as you hear it. The performance was electric and wild, with band members and festival-goers grinding and twerking for their beignets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwxP_xV450]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Video by Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Beignet Bounce” event was just one of many on the GastroMagic stage, featuring imaginative pairings of chefs, butchers, musicians and others. Some of the other events offered limited tastings too, like scrambled eggs made entirely from plants and a colorful salad crafted to look like nature’s version of a bowl of Skittles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dinner\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa-veg1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/arepa-veg1000.jpg\" alt=\"Venezuelan vegetable arepas from Pica Pica. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85844\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Venezuelan vegetable arepas from Pica Pica. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday night we opted for Venezuelan vegetable arepas from \u003ca href=\"http://www.picapica.com/\">Pica Pica\u003c/a>. The fresh corn cakes stuffed with black beans, avocado and fried plantains would have been as good for breakfast as they were for dinner. The next night we decided to continue our pork-scapade with \u003ca href=\"http://bctbellyburgers.com/#about\">Big Chef Tom’s pork belly burger\u003c/a> crafted from the same cut used to make bacon. A guy named Aaron standing in line behind us randomly blurted out: “I just wish they would make a pork a vegetable already,” and then went on to sing the burger’s praises, having eaten one the previous year. He was right about the “belly burger” being one of the tastiest things I had eaten this weekend. It reminded me a little bit of a juicy, well-spiced turkey burger, but better. A glass of \u003ca href=\"http://www.oliviabrion.com\">Olivia Brion’s\u003c/a> Pinot Noir was the perfect wine to wash it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkbellyburger1000b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkbellyburger1000b.jpg\" alt=\"Big Chef Tom’s pork belly burger. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85884\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Chef Tom’s pork belly burger. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If we hadn’t been totally porked out by this point we might have tried some of the other creations like \u003ca href=\"http://huaracheloco.com\">El Huarache Loco’s\u003c/a> pinto bean stuffed tortillas topped with bacon and chorizo, bratwurst from \u003ca href=\"http://www.schallerweber.com/2012/09/the-butchers-daughter-julie-schaller/\">The Butcher’s Daughter\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.thechairmantruck.com/\">The Chairman's\u003c/a> pork belly bao. So much pork, so little time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dessert\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/chocolands1000b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/chocolands1000b.jpg\" alt=\"ChocoLands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85894\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ChocoLands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the irresistible offerings at ChocoLands are made with \u003ca href=\"http://www.guittard.com\">Guittard Chocolate\u003c/a>, a family run business based in the Bay Area for five generations. Amy Guittard invited us “backstage” to see the chocolate being tempered for their “liquid chocolate bar” treat. Sprinkled with bitter cacao nibs, a spoonful of this melted milk chocolate is like a shot of happiness straight to your veins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/guittard700.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/guittard700.jpg\" alt=\"Guittard chocolate being tempered for “liquid chocolate bar.” Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85840\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guittard chocolate being tempered for “liquid chocolate bar.” Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We also tried the Chocolate Gold Rush ice cream offered by newcomer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.humphryslocombe.com/www.humphryslocombe.com/Home.html\">Humphry Slocombe\u003c/a>. A velvety chocolate ice cream studded with pieces of chocolate covered cones, the flavor was made just for Outside Lands and selected by San Francisco residents who cast their vote for their favorite of three flavors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/humphry-slocombe1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/humphry-slocombe1000.jpg\" alt=\"Humphry Slocombe booth in ChocoLands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85887\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Humphry Slocombe booth in ChocoLands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although I thought I had hung up my pork hat for the weekend, I was lured right back into the fray by \u003ca href=\"http://www.baconbaconsf.com\">Bacon Bacon’s\u003c/a> chocolate-covered bacon slabs. Salty sweet with Heath Bar crumbles on top, my future as a swine eater was sealed after just one bite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/bacon-chocolate.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/bacon-chocolate.jpg\" alt=\"Bacon Bacon’s chocolate-covered bacon slabs. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85846\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon Bacon’s chocolate-covered bacon slabs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/baconflight1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/baconflight1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Bacon Land vendor showcases Bacon Flight. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85825\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bacon Land vendor showcases Bacon Flight. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Swine isn’t usually my thing. Although I’ve been known to nibble on a side of bacon at a diner, that’s usually the extent of it. But at this year’s Outside Lands where vendors offer an endless parade of tantalizing pork creations, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to dive in and explore this nationwide food trend in all its creative glory. From flights of bacon, to Filipino pork burritos, to chicharrones described as “puffy pork magic,” it’s clear that Bay Area chefs have embraced pork as so much more than just the \u003ca href=\"i/Pork._The_Other_White_Meat\" target=\"_blank\">other white meat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/chicharrones700.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/chicharrones700.jpg\" alt=\"Chicharrones from 4505 Meat. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85822\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicharrones from 4505 Meat. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for those not yet convinced that chocolate covered bacon is \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna\" target=\"_blank\">manna\u003c/a> from heaven, there are hundreds of other culinary creations to explore, along with knowledgeable artisans to answer your geekiest questions about making cheese, chocolate, wine and anything else you might want to learn about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranging from healthy to hearty to insanely indulgent, there is truly something for everyone at Outside Lands. But the best news of all is that even if you are not able to eat your way through the festival in person, you can still try most of the featured dishes at Bay Area restaurants and food trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of the highlights from our food forays at Outside Lands, where we pigged out on pork and bounced for beignets. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Breakfast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/eggsandwich700.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/eggsandwich700.jpg\" alt=\"Fried egg with bacon and cheese sandwich from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85837\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fried egg with bacon and cheese sandwich from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Friday we started our day with a fried egg sandwich from \u003ca href=\"http://www.canerossosf.com/\">Il Canne Rosso\u003c/a>. If you don’t like oozy yolks this isn’t for you, but it was excellent. The fresh Acme bread smeared with onion butter was perfect for soaking up the peppery eggs, which were topped with -- you guessed it -- salty slabs of bacon. We also tried their made-from-scratch French toast, which was divine, but more like a hunk of bread pudding set in a puddle of honey caramel. I had to stop myself from licking the container.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/french-toast1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/french-toast1000.jpg\" alt=\"French Toast from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85838\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">French Toast from Il Canne Rosso. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For our late morning snack we opted for something more unusual: porcini doughnuts from \u003ca href=\"http://richtablesf.com/\">Rich Table\u003c/a>. You probably won’t want to dunk these in your coffee, but do dunk them in the cheese sauce offered on the side. They were savory, doughy and only slightly mushroom-y. Everyone one who tried one seemed to take a moment to process the unexpected combination of taste and texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porchini-mushroom1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porchini-mushroom1000.jpg\" alt=\"Porcini doughnuts from Rich Table. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85855\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porcini doughnuts from Rich Table. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/tasting-porcini-mushroom1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/tasting-porcini-mushroom1000.jpg\" alt=\"Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85857\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/mushroom-tasters1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/mushroom-tasters1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85854\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tasting Rich Table Porcini doughnuts. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Next we headed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.livinggreensjuice.com/\">Living Greens Juice\u003c/a> for a dose of liquefied fruits and veggies. The watermelon basil juice was sweet and refreshing and the potent, ginger infused “super greens” elixir packed a punch that wasn’t quite what we had in mind, but it did cleanse our palates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85839\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/fresh-juice1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/fresh-juice1000.jpg\" alt=\"Living Greens Juice: Watermelon Basil and Super Greens. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85839\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Living Greens Juice: Watermelon Basil and Super Greens. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Lunch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lunchtime is when we decided to go whole hog. After sampling a few different types of pork sandwiches, the grilled pork pernil from \u003ca href=\"http://www.jtomatoes.com/splitpea.htm\">Split Pea Seduction\u003c/a> rose to the top as our hands-down favorite. When I found out it was made from pork butts I almost turned and ran, but in the spirit of being adventurous I dug in, and enjoyed every bite. Herb stuffed and spit-roasted right in front of our eyes, the meat was layered with heirloom tomatoes, arugula and aioli on fresh \u003ca href=\"http://www.panoramabaking.com/\">Panorama bread\u003c/a>. We washed it down with a Chardonnay from \u003ca href=\"http://www.paperboywines.com/\">Paper Boy\u003c/a>, a sweet and creamy wine that provided a nice contrast to the flavor of the sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkroast-splitpeaseduction1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkroast-splitpeaseduction1000.jpg\" alt=\"Pork Roast on a spit at Spit Pea Seduction. Photo: Lisa Landers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85862\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pork Roast on a spit at Spit Pea Seduction. 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A dish of maple sweetened crispy Brussels sprouts from \u003ca href=\"http://theamericansf.com/\">American Grilled Cheese Kitchen\u003c/a> made the perfect side for this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/pulled-pork-southpaw1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/pulled-pork-southpaw1000.jpg\" alt=\"Pulled pork sandwich from Southpaw. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85896\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulled pork sandwich from Southpaw. 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The fresh corn cakes stuffed with black beans, avocado and fried plantains would have been as good for breakfast as they were for dinner. The next night we decided to continue our pork-scapade with \u003ca href=\"http://bctbellyburgers.com/#about\">Big Chef Tom’s pork belly burger\u003c/a> crafted from the same cut used to make bacon. A guy named Aaron standing in line behind us randomly blurted out: “I just wish they would make a pork a vegetable already,” and then went on to sing the burger’s praises, having eaten one the previous year. He was right about the “belly burger” being one of the tastiest things I had eaten this weekend. It reminded me a little bit of a juicy, well-spiced turkey burger, but better. A glass of \u003ca href=\"http://www.oliviabrion.com\">Olivia Brion’s\u003c/a> Pinot Noir was the perfect wine to wash it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkbellyburger1000b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/porkbellyburger1000b.jpg\" alt=\"Big Chef Tom’s pork belly burger. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1154\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85884\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Chef Tom’s pork belly burger. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 659px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig1-659x417.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig1-659x417.jpg\" alt=\"Co-owners of Oakland's The Brick Pig's House Barry and Carolyn S. Alexander warmly greet their customers. Photo: Anna Vignet. \" width=\"659\" height=\"417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85762\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-owners of Oakland's The Brick Pig's House Barry and Carolyn S. Alexander warmly greet their customers. Photo: Anna Vignet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/author/nilogardezi/\" target=\"_blank\">nilogardezi\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/08/doing-barbecue-and-business-right-at-the-brick-pigs-house-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a> (8/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn S. Alexander, the co-owner of and chef at \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebrickpigshouse.com/\">Oakland’s The Brick Pig’s House\u003c/a> comes from a family of entrepreneurs. Her work is a source of abundant pleasure and pride, drawing on nearly 100 years of family tradition that traveled from Arkansas to California decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no wonder, then, that her barbeque is both steeped in the tastiest barbecue sauce you might \u003cem>ever\u003c/em> taste in your life and a whole lot of love. Love imbues every line and gesture of this warm-hearted woman, as it does the simple lines of the cozily-built Brick Pig’s. As a customer you feel it, in ways big and small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, darling!” Carolyn greets a patron who comes through the door, ready to pick up his lunch order. Turning back to me with a warm smile, she says, “You gotta give love for everybody.” There, in a nutshell, you have the business philosophy of Brick Pig’s. In current entrepreneur-speak, you might call them a “\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation\">benefit corporation\u003c/a>” of sorts, well before the business world ever branded that phrase and idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn and her husband of 43 years, Barry Alexander, the co-owner and manager of Brick Pig’s, have been offering up their love and singular Southern-style BBQ to the Oakland community and surrounding Bay Area since they opened their doors in 2006. They serve pork ribs, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal\" target=\"_blank\">halal\u003c/a> beef brisket (Yes, you read it right. The surprising and oh-so-tasty offering is a recent addition because, as Carolyn puts it, “Once you know better, do better.”), chicken, cornbread, potato salad, sweet potato pie, apple, blackberry, and peach cobblers and so much more. Absolutely all of it is mouth-wateringly, lip-smackingly, finger-and-plate-lickingly good. \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/brick-pigs-house-oakland\">The reviews on Yelp\u003c/a> attest to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That deliciousness comes from three generations of experience. The Alexanders arrived in Oakland from California’s \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_%28California%29\">Central Valley\u003c/a> in 1971, and Carolyn’s been cooking this barbeque since 1974, after learning it from her mother, Imogene. Her mother, in turn, learned the recipe from Carolyn’s Great-Uncle Richard, who created it back in 1916. After being a homemaker and raising their three sons while her husband worked in various IT positions over the years, Carolyn became inspired to put her passion for cooking to use and open up a family barbeque spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is her food amazing, but it doesn’t break the bank, which is part of their core philosophy as businesspeople. When the economic downturn hit the Bay, Carolyn shares, they took some items off the menu rather than raise their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did do greens and chili when we first opened. The economy got bad, [though] so I took them off. I didn’t want to go up [in price] on the people. The economy wasn’t right. You know, my thing wasn’t about making money. It’s about being there for the people too. We’ve been in Oakland, [and] this is my way of giving back.” After chatting up and laughing with another customer who ordered a slab of ribs, she says, “Whatever comes on that rib, you [are] supposed to give it back to the people. You don’t sell it extra. You give it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about the people,” she underscores. “If you [are] about the people, it’ll be alright. ‘Cause without them walking in that door, you know, I wouldn’t be here. So we kind of give to each other. When they come in, you give back. It’s not all about money all the time. If you do it right, you’ll make it.” She pauses and adds, “You’ll make it. You might not be rich but you’re doing something positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another wonderful dimension of their generous-spirited “do it right” philosophy strikes you right when you cross Brick Pig’s threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig2.jpg\" alt=\"A entire wall of love and memories greets you when you enter The Brick Pig’s House. Photo: Anna Vignet.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85761\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A entire wall of love and memories greets you when you enter The Brick Pig’s House. Photo: Anna Vignet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about an entire wall of their establishment that is covered in writing on small sheets of paper drawn from their order pad, Carolyn exclaims, “That’s my babies!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that the Alexanders ask any customer who has recently graduated from college—a two- or four-year institution—to write down her or his name, school, and major and post it up on the wall. A UC Berkeley graduate who was about to leave town to continue his education started it all, reveals Carolyn, “He said, ‘I want you to have something to remember me by.’” And so began the tradition of leaving your mark on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our way of saying congratulations to all the college kids,” she continues. “They are our future. They let us know that there is hope.” “They are doing marvelous,” beams Carolyn, “I try to let them know that they are doing good things.” The once ordinary wall has, over the years, been transformed into a remarkable wall of love and memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do yourself a favor and head over to The Brick Pig’s House to take in all that good food and love. They are located at 5973 Shattuck Avenue in Oakland, and their phone number is (510) 923-1789. And if you ask them to tell you the story of their restaurant’s name, you’ll be in for another treat.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 659px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig1-659x417.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig1-659x417.jpg\" alt=\"Co-owners of Oakland's The Brick Pig's House Barry and Carolyn S. Alexander warmly greet their customers. Photo: Anna Vignet. \" width=\"659\" height=\"417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85762\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-owners of Oakland's The Brick Pig's House Barry and Carolyn S. Alexander warmly greet their customers. Photo: Anna Vignet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/author/nilogardezi/\" target=\"_blank\">nilogardezi\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/08/doing-barbecue-and-business-right-at-the-brick-pigs-house-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a> (8/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn S. Alexander, the co-owner of and chef at \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebrickpigshouse.com/\">Oakland’s The Brick Pig’s House\u003c/a> comes from a family of entrepreneurs. Her work is a source of abundant pleasure and pride, drawing on nearly 100 years of family tradition that traveled from Arkansas to California decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s no wonder, then, that her barbeque is both steeped in the tastiest barbecue sauce you might \u003cem>ever\u003c/em> taste in your life and a whole lot of love. Love imbues every line and gesture of this warm-hearted woman, as it does the simple lines of the cozily-built Brick Pig’s. As a customer you feel it, in ways big and small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi, darling!” Carolyn greets a patron who comes through the door, ready to pick up his lunch order. Turning back to me with a warm smile, she says, “You gotta give love for everybody.” There, in a nutshell, you have the business philosophy of Brick Pig’s. In current entrepreneur-speak, you might call them a “\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation\">benefit corporation\u003c/a>” of sorts, well before the business world ever branded that phrase and idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn and her husband of 43 years, Barry Alexander, the co-owner and manager of Brick Pig’s, have been offering up their love and singular Southern-style BBQ to the Oakland community and surrounding Bay Area since they opened their doors in 2006. They serve pork ribs, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal\" target=\"_blank\">halal\u003c/a> beef brisket (Yes, you read it right. The surprising and oh-so-tasty offering is a recent addition because, as Carolyn puts it, “Once you know better, do better.”), chicken, cornbread, potato salad, sweet potato pie, apple, blackberry, and peach cobblers and so much more. Absolutely all of it is mouth-wateringly, lip-smackingly, finger-and-plate-lickingly good. \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/brick-pigs-house-oakland\">The reviews on Yelp\u003c/a> attest to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That deliciousness comes from three generations of experience. The Alexanders arrived in Oakland from California’s \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_%28California%29\">Central Valley\u003c/a> in 1971, and Carolyn’s been cooking this barbeque since 1974, after learning it from her mother, Imogene. Her mother, in turn, learned the recipe from Carolyn’s Great-Uncle Richard, who created it back in 1916. After being a homemaker and raising their three sons while her husband worked in various IT positions over the years, Carolyn became inspired to put her passion for cooking to use and open up a family barbeque spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only is her food amazing, but it doesn’t break the bank, which is part of their core philosophy as businesspeople. When the economic downturn hit the Bay, Carolyn shares, they took some items off the menu rather than raise their prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did do greens and chili when we first opened. The economy got bad, [though] so I took them off. I didn’t want to go up [in price] on the people. The economy wasn’t right. You know, my thing wasn’t about making money. It’s about being there for the people too. We’ve been in Oakland, [and] this is my way of giving back.” After chatting up and laughing with another customer who ordered a slab of ribs, she says, “Whatever comes on that rib, you [are] supposed to give it back to the people. You don’t sell it extra. You give it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about the people,” she underscores. “If you [are] about the people, it’ll be alright. ‘Cause without them walking in that door, you know, I wouldn’t be here. So we kind of give to each other. When they come in, you give back. It’s not all about money all the time. If you do it right, you’ll make it.” She pauses and adds, “You’ll make it. You might not be rich but you’re doing something positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another wonderful dimension of their generous-spirited “do it right” philosophy strikes you right when you cross Brick Pig’s threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85761\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/brickpig2.jpg\" alt=\"A entire wall of love and memories greets you when you enter The Brick Pig’s House. Photo: Anna Vignet.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85761\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A entire wall of love and memories greets you when you enter The Brick Pig’s House. Photo: Anna Vignet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about an entire wall of their establishment that is covered in writing on small sheets of paper drawn from their order pad, Carolyn exclaims, “That’s my babies!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that the Alexanders ask any customer who has recently graduated from college—a two- or four-year institution—to write down her or his name, school, and major and post it up on the wall. A UC Berkeley graduate who was about to leave town to continue his education started it all, reveals Carolyn, “He said, ‘I want you to have something to remember me by.’” And so began the tradition of leaving your mark on the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our way of saying congratulations to all the college kids,” she continues. “They are our future. They let us know that there is hope.” “They are doing marvelous,” beams Carolyn, “I try to let them know that they are doing good things.” The once ordinary wall has, over the years, been transformed into a remarkable wall of love and memories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do yourself a favor and head over to The Brick Pig’s House to take in all that good food and love. They are located at 5973 Shattuck Avenue in Oakland, and their phone number is (510) 923-1789. And if you ask them to tell you the story of their restaurant’s name, you’ll be in for another treat.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-table-setting-and-the-kitchen-bus-at-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-table-setting-and-the-kitchen-bus-at-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"The Metes and Bounds table setting and kitchen bus in the background at Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85647\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Metes and Bounds table setting and kitchen bus in the background at Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This lamb was actually a really nice guy,” farmer Ed Mann tells me, as we snack on tiny appetizers like lamb on crispy brick dough made with special ‘lamb number five’. “He’s pretty tasty too,” Mann says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Guests-mingle-outside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Guests-mingle-outside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"Guests mingle outside the barn at Mann Family Farm in Bolinas. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests mingle outside the barn at Mann Family Farm in Bolinas. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ed Mann and his family have lived on Horseshoe Hill in Bolinas for the past two years. Mann and his wife, Amanda moved here to start \u003ca href=\"http://mannfamilyfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mann Family Farm\u003c/a>, a small operation that breeds lambs like the one we are eating right now. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-Amanada-Mann-and-their-daughter.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-Amanada-Mann-and-their-daughter.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Mann, Amanda Mann and their daughter stand in front of their farm on Horseshoe Hill. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Mann, Amanda Mann and their daughter stand in front of their farm on Horseshoe Hill. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tonight, lamb number five is part of many courses of a five course dinner, cooked by \u003ca href=\"http://metesandbounds.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Metes and Bounds\u003c/a>, a new traveling “table-to-farm” dining experience that brings “\u003ca href=\"http://metesandbounds.co/field-report/diy\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo,\u003c/a>” a red school bus-turned-kitchen, wood burning grill, two chefs and a sommelier to small farms and wineries around Northern California. They set up a long table, lots of pearl lights, and cook a five-course dinner (paired with wine) derived almost all from the day’s harvest at the host farm. The dinner in Bolinas is their sixth dinner so far, and the farmers always get a seat at the table, head chef and co-founder Heath Thomson tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“For me growing up in the Bay Area there’s a lot of noise about farm to table, seasonal and local and I was somebody who took it really literally. There are a lot of good restaurants that advertising it, but don’t follow through. So part of starting this was actually believing that ideology and wanting to really do it right, actually walking the talk,” Thomson says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Heath-Thomson-prepares-the-second-course-of-the-night-for-Metes-and-Bounds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Heath-Thomson-prepares-the-second-course-of-the-night-for-Metes-and-Bounds.jpg\" alt=\"Heath Thomson prepares the second course of the night for Metes and Bounds. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85641\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heath Thomson prepares the second course of the night for Metes and Bounds. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Hugo-the-bus-is-an-old-school-bus-the-Metes-and-Bounds-team-converted-into-a-professional-kitchen.-They-named-it-after-chef-Hugo-Matheson-a-friend-and-mentor-of-Heath-Thomson%E2%80%99s.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Hugo-the-bus-is-an-old-school-bus-the-Metes-and-Bounds-team-converted-into-a-professional-kitchen.-They-named-it-after-chef-Hugo-Matheson-a-friend-and-mentor-of-Heath-Thomson%E2%80%99s.jpg\" alt=\"Hugo the bus is an old school bus the Metes and Bounds team converted into a professional kitchen. They named it after chef Hugo Matheson, a friend and mentor of Heath Thomson’s. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85642\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugo the bus is an old school bus the Metes and Bounds team converted into a professional kitchen. They named it after chef Hugo Matheson, a friend and mentor of Heath Thomson’s. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tonight, the Mann’s are joined by about forty other dinner guests, who mingle and sip champagne as they walk around the farm, looking at the chickens, sheep, cows, and two guard donkeys that protect the ewes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Two-of-the-guard-donkeys-that-protect-the-Manns-eight-ewes.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Two-of-the-guard-donkeys-that-protect-the-Manns-eight-ewes.jpg\" alt=\"Two of the guard donkeys that protect the Mann’s eight ewes. Photo: Angela Johnston.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85633\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of the guard donkeys that protect the Mann’s eight ewes. Photo: Angela Johnston.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-friendly-dairy-cow-licks-a-guests-hand-before-they-sit-down.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-friendly-dairy-cow-licks-a-guests-hand-before-they-sit-down.jpg\" alt=\"A friendly dairy cow licks a guests hand before they sit down for the Metes and Bounds dinner. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85634\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A friendly dairy cow licks a guests hand before they sit down for the Metes and Bounds dinner. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the chefs prepare our first course, Ed Mann gives us a tour of the farm, which is filled with a strong sense of history and community. It’s located on five acres of former Mattos Dairy Farm, which occupies about 65 acres of rolling pastures and oak woodlands overlooking the Bolinas Lagoon. Gabrielle Mann, Ed’s sister, and Paul Mann, Ed’s father, also live on and tend to the property. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranch was originally a dairy farm, developed by immigrants from the Azores, Mann tells me. Philanthropist and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass creator Warren Hellman purchased the farm in 1991, and hired Gabrielle Mann to tend to his horses and the property. Ed Mann, his wife Amanda, and their two daughters now operate the family farm, raising chickens and eggs, lambs, shearing sheep for fiber and yarn, and growing different types of veggies. They sell most of their meat and produce direct to the local community, although you can buy their eggs at \u003ca href=\"http://www.tobysfeedbarn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Toby’s Feed Barn\u003c/a> in Point Reyes Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-view-of-Bolinas-Lagoon-from-the-top-of-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-view-of-Bolinas-Lagoon-from-the-top-of-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"The view of Bolinas Lagoon from the top of the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85631\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view of Bolinas Lagoon from the top of the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We really feel it’s important to continue agriculture on this land, and share the land with people, and enjoy producing and eating food with people. That’s why we’re doing this,” Mann says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of the farm is a beautiful wood barn, which was once photographed by Ansel Adams in the 1930s. It now hosts a number of different events, from wedding receptions to farm camps. Duggan set up a miniature cocktail stand on a wood barrel inside the barn to greet guests as they entered the dinner, offering champagne, local red and white wines, and a tasty non-alcoholic peach and sage iced tea. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Looking-inside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Looking-inside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"Looking inside the barn at the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85643\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking inside the barn at the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Metes and Bounds head chef, Heath Thomson, has cooked for \u003ca href=\"http://www.bouletteslarder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Boulette's Larder\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sprucesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Spruce\u003c/a> in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thevillagepub.net/\" target=\"_blank\">The Village Pub\u003c/a> in Woodside, and for \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmdinners.com/dinners2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">Meadlow Lark Farm Dinners\u003c/a>, a similar table-to-farm dining experience in Boulder, Colorado. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are challenges to cooking in a mobile restaurant that changes locations every week, Thomson says. Tonight, they have to throw away a big batch of beet chips because the Bolinas humidity made them soggy before they could get on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really interested in cooking from an artistic perspective, and it is really important to me to adapt to what we have here, to challenge myself to create a menu from just the crop list from the farm,” Thomson says. “I also love being out in the elements, cooking outside with the cows mooing and roosters squawking the background, it may be difficult but it beats any kitchen I’ve ever worked in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Mann tells me that it took almost two months to finalize the menu with Thomson and Metes and Bounds. They talked about every detail, including selecting the perfect lamb for the menu and figuring out which fruits and vegetables would be ripe and ready on the day of the dinner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Artichokes-that-were-picked-for-one-of-the-dishes-on-the-menu.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Artichokes-that-were-picked-for-one-of-the-dishes-on-the-menu.jpg\" alt=\"Artichokes that were picked for one of the dishes on the menu. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85636\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artichokes that were picked for one of the dishes on the menu. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-chefs-plate-the-first-course-a-yogurt-and-cucumber-soup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-chefs-plate-the-first-course-a-yogurt-and-cucumber-soup.jpg\" alt=\"The chefs plate the first course -- a yogurt and cucumber soup. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85644\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chefs plate the first course -- a yogurt and cucumber soup. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first course is a simple chilled yogurt and cucumber soup, made with milk from the nearby \u003ca href=\"http://strausfamilycreamery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Straus Family Creamery\u003c/a>. An artistic long crouton adorned with radish flowers, cherry tomatoes and lemon zest, rests on top of the bowl. This is followed by a plate of delicious, but very small lamb (also made from parts of lamb number five) and pork belly meatballs, with a few smashed potatoes, marinated artichokes, escarole and capers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service is fast, and we only only wait a few minutes in between courses, which is when Thomson explains the next dish and sommelier and Metes and Bounds co-founder Drew Duggan explains why the wine he picked paired well with the previous course, and what to expect and look for in his next selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Drew-Duggan-explains-his-wine-choices-in-between-courses.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Drew-Duggan-explains-his-wine-choices-in-between-courses.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Duggan explains his wine choices in between courses. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85637\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Duggan explains his wine choices in between courses. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Thomson-cooks-potatoes-for-the-second-course.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Thomson-cooks-potatoes-for-the-second-course.jpg\" alt=\"Thomson cooks potatoes for the second course. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85632\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomson cooks potatoes for the second course. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-three-bean-salad-with-a-fried-egg-from-the-chickens-on-the-farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-three-bean-salad-with-a-fried-egg-from-the-chickens-on-the-farm.jpg\" alt=\"A three bean salad with a fried egg from the chickens on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85635\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A three bean salad with a fried egg from the chickens on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The third course is my favorite of the night -- a three bean salad, with a walnut \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarator\" target=\"_blank\">tarator\u003c/a> and a perfectly soft boiled, breaded and fried egg, or a “corndog” egg as Thomson jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main course is served family style -- a deep dish of braised lamb shoulder and grilled leg of lamb from the Mann’s lamb number five, on top of some of the sweetest pink and orange beets I have ever tasted, turnips, carrots, romanesco, squash from the Mann’s farm, potato and elephant garlic chips and lemon aioli. Dessert promptly followed -- a simple selection of berries from the Mann berry patch that I can almost touch from the dinner table, some fresh peaches from \u003ca href=\"http://www.drycreekpeach.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dry Creek Peach and Produce\u003c/a> in Healdsburg, topped \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2012/03/sabayon-zabaglione-recipe/\" target=\"_blank\">sabayon\u003c/a> with Prosecco, and a mint tea brewed with mint leaves picked from the Mann’s garden earlier in the evening. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5184px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-main-course-was-served-family-style-and-also-featured-the-famous-lamb-number-five.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-main-course-was-served-family-style-and-also-featured-the-famous-lamb-number-five.jpg\" alt=\"The main course was served family style and also featured the famous lamb number five. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85646\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main course was served family style and also featured the famous lamb number five. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The meal is well prepared, expertly plated, and tastes extremely fresh. However, the ticket price for this particular dinner, at $185 per person, seems somewhat prohibitive. But Thomson tells me most of that is going to the farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deal with each farm is always different. We negotiate the price with the farmers for the space; we buy all the produce from them at full retail price. And then there’s our labor cost. At this point that’s about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun sets and the stars come out, servers come around with shawls and blankets to keep the guests warm. Amanda Mann offers me a wool sweater her grandmother had knit. Gabrielle and Paul Mann share stories of growing up down the road in Bolinas; it’s easy to forget that I had only met everyone at the table around me only hours before, and that this isn’t a dinner party for close friends of the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-leans-over-to-talk-to-a-guest-at-the-end-of-the-evening.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-leans-over-to-talk-to-a-guest-at-the-end-of-the-evening.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Mann leans over to talk to a guest at the end of the evening. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85638\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Mann leans over to talk to a guest at the end of the evening. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meeting the farmer that grew your vegetables or raised the lamb you buy at the farmers' market is one thing, but actually sitting across from them at a table in the middle of their crops, enjoying a meal made almost entirely from things grown and raised right beside you, takes eating local to another level. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson says it’s important for him to include the farmers at the table because much of the time they don’t get the opportunity to go eat at the restaurants where a lot of their harvest ends up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Metes and Bounds dinner is set for August 19 at Bernier Farms in Healdsburg at their Alexander Valley location. The Bernier family grows grapes garlic, kale, tomatoes and fruit trees. Tickets are available online for $120. View the full schedule at \u003ca href=\"http://metesandbounds.co/events\" target=\"_blank\">Metes and Bounds Events\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Disclaimer: Via a press invitation Metes and Bounds comped this meal for the reporter and a guest.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-table-setting-and-the-kitchen-bus-at-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-table-setting-and-the-kitchen-bus-at-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"The Metes and Bounds table setting and kitchen bus in the background at Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85647\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Metes and Bounds table setting and kitchen bus in the background at Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This lamb was actually a really nice guy,” farmer Ed Mann tells me, as we snack on tiny appetizers like lamb on crispy brick dough made with special ‘lamb number five’. “He’s pretty tasty too,” Mann says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Guests-mingle-outside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Guests-mingle-outside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"Guests mingle outside the barn at Mann Family Farm in Bolinas. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests mingle outside the barn at Mann Family Farm in Bolinas. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ed Mann and his family have lived on Horseshoe Hill in Bolinas for the past two years. Mann and his wife, Amanda moved here to start \u003ca href=\"http://mannfamilyfarm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mann Family Farm\u003c/a>, a small operation that breeds lambs like the one we are eating right now. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-Amanada-Mann-and-their-daughter.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-Amanada-Mann-and-their-daughter.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Mann, Amanda Mann and their daughter stand in front of their farm on Horseshoe Hill. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Mann, Amanda Mann and their daughter stand in front of their farm on Horseshoe Hill. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tonight, lamb number five is part of many courses of a five course dinner, cooked by \u003ca href=\"http://metesandbounds.co/\" target=\"_blank\">Metes and Bounds\u003c/a>, a new traveling “table-to-farm” dining experience that brings “\u003ca href=\"http://metesandbounds.co/field-report/diy\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo,\u003c/a>” a red school bus-turned-kitchen, wood burning grill, two chefs and a sommelier to small farms and wineries around Northern California. They set up a long table, lots of pearl lights, and cook a five-course dinner (paired with wine) derived almost all from the day’s harvest at the host farm. The dinner in Bolinas is their sixth dinner so far, and the farmers always get a seat at the table, head chef and co-founder Heath Thomson tells me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“For me growing up in the Bay Area there’s a lot of noise about farm to table, seasonal and local and I was somebody who took it really literally. There are a lot of good restaurants that advertising it, but don’t follow through. So part of starting this was actually believing that ideology and wanting to really do it right, actually walking the talk,” Thomson says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Heath-Thomson-prepares-the-second-course-of-the-night-for-Metes-and-Bounds.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Heath-Thomson-prepares-the-second-course-of-the-night-for-Metes-and-Bounds.jpg\" alt=\"Heath Thomson prepares the second course of the night for Metes and Bounds. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85641\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heath Thomson prepares the second course of the night for Metes and Bounds. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Hugo-the-bus-is-an-old-school-bus-the-Metes-and-Bounds-team-converted-into-a-professional-kitchen.-They-named-it-after-chef-Hugo-Matheson-a-friend-and-mentor-of-Heath-Thomson%E2%80%99s.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Hugo-the-bus-is-an-old-school-bus-the-Metes-and-Bounds-team-converted-into-a-professional-kitchen.-They-named-it-after-chef-Hugo-Matheson-a-friend-and-mentor-of-Heath-Thomson%E2%80%99s.jpg\" alt=\"Hugo the bus is an old school bus the Metes and Bounds team converted into a professional kitchen. They named it after chef Hugo Matheson, a friend and mentor of Heath Thomson’s. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85642\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hugo the bus is an old school bus the Metes and Bounds team converted into a professional kitchen. They named it after chef Hugo Matheson, a friend and mentor of Heath Thomson’s. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tonight, the Mann’s are joined by about forty other dinner guests, who mingle and sip champagne as they walk around the farm, looking at the chickens, sheep, cows, and two guard donkeys that protect the ewes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Two-of-the-guard-donkeys-that-protect-the-Manns-eight-ewes.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Two-of-the-guard-donkeys-that-protect-the-Manns-eight-ewes.jpg\" alt=\"Two of the guard donkeys that protect the Mann’s eight ewes. Photo: Angela Johnston.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85633\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two of the guard donkeys that protect the Mann’s eight ewes. Photo: Angela Johnston.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-friendly-dairy-cow-licks-a-guests-hand-before-they-sit-down.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-friendly-dairy-cow-licks-a-guests-hand-before-they-sit-down.jpg\" alt=\"A friendly dairy cow licks a guests hand before they sit down for the Metes and Bounds dinner. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85634\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A friendly dairy cow licks a guests hand before they sit down for the Metes and Bounds dinner. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the chefs prepare our first course, Ed Mann gives us a tour of the farm, which is filled with a strong sense of history and community. It’s located on five acres of former Mattos Dairy Farm, which occupies about 65 acres of rolling pastures and oak woodlands overlooking the Bolinas Lagoon. Gabrielle Mann, Ed’s sister, and Paul Mann, Ed’s father, also live on and tend to the property. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ranch was originally a dairy farm, developed by immigrants from the Azores, Mann tells me. Philanthropist and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass creator Warren Hellman purchased the farm in 1991, and hired Gabrielle Mann to tend to his horses and the property. Ed Mann, his wife Amanda, and their two daughters now operate the family farm, raising chickens and eggs, lambs, shearing sheep for fiber and yarn, and growing different types of veggies. They sell most of their meat and produce direct to the local community, although you can buy their eggs at \u003ca href=\"http://www.tobysfeedbarn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Toby’s Feed Barn\u003c/a> in Point Reyes Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-view-of-Bolinas-Lagoon-from-the-top-of-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-view-of-Bolinas-Lagoon-from-the-top-of-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"The view of Bolinas Lagoon from the top of the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85631\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view of Bolinas Lagoon from the top of the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We really feel it’s important to continue agriculture on this land, and share the land with people, and enjoy producing and eating food with people. That’s why we’re doing this,” Mann says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The centerpiece of the farm is a beautiful wood barn, which was once photographed by Ansel Adams in the 1930s. It now hosts a number of different events, from wedding receptions to farm camps. Duggan set up a miniature cocktail stand on a wood barrel inside the barn to greet guests as they entered the dinner, offering champagne, local red and white wines, and a tasty non-alcoholic peach and sage iced tea. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Looking-inside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Looking-inside-the-barn-at-the-Mann-Family-Farm.jpg\" alt=\"Looking inside the barn at the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85643\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking inside the barn at the Mann Family Farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Metes and Bounds head chef, Heath Thomson, has cooked for \u003ca href=\"http://www.bouletteslarder.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Boulette's Larder\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.sprucesf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Spruce\u003c/a> in San Francisco, \u003ca href=\"http://www.thevillagepub.net/\" target=\"_blank\">The Village Pub\u003c/a> in Woodside, and for \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmdinners.com/dinners2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">Meadlow Lark Farm Dinners\u003c/a>, a similar table-to-farm dining experience in Boulder, Colorado. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are challenges to cooking in a mobile restaurant that changes locations every week, Thomson says. Tonight, they have to throw away a big batch of beet chips because the Bolinas humidity made them soggy before they could get on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really interested in cooking from an artistic perspective, and it is really important to me to adapt to what we have here, to challenge myself to create a menu from just the crop list from the farm,” Thomson says. “I also love being out in the elements, cooking outside with the cows mooing and roosters squawking the background, it may be difficult but it beats any kitchen I’ve ever worked in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amanda Mann tells me that it took almost two months to finalize the menu with Thomson and Metes and Bounds. They talked about every detail, including selecting the perfect lamb for the menu and figuring out which fruits and vegetables would be ripe and ready on the day of the dinner. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Artichokes-that-were-picked-for-one-of-the-dishes-on-the-menu.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Artichokes-that-were-picked-for-one-of-the-dishes-on-the-menu.jpg\" alt=\"Artichokes that were picked for one of the dishes on the menu. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85636\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artichokes that were picked for one of the dishes on the menu. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-chefs-plate-the-first-course-a-yogurt-and-cucumber-soup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-chefs-plate-the-first-course-a-yogurt-and-cucumber-soup.jpg\" alt=\"The chefs plate the first course -- a yogurt and cucumber soup. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85644\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The chefs plate the first course -- a yogurt and cucumber soup. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first course is a simple chilled yogurt and cucumber soup, made with milk from the nearby \u003ca href=\"http://strausfamilycreamery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Straus Family Creamery\u003c/a>. An artistic long crouton adorned with radish flowers, cherry tomatoes and lemon zest, rests on top of the bowl. This is followed by a plate of delicious, but very small lamb (also made from parts of lamb number five) and pork belly meatballs, with a few smashed potatoes, marinated artichokes, escarole and capers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service is fast, and we only only wait a few minutes in between courses, which is when Thomson explains the next dish and sommelier and Metes and Bounds co-founder Drew Duggan explains why the wine he picked paired well with the previous course, and what to expect and look for in his next selection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Drew-Duggan-explains-his-wine-choices-in-between-courses.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Drew-Duggan-explains-his-wine-choices-in-between-courses.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Duggan explains his wine choices in between courses. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85637\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Duggan explains his wine choices in between courses. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Thomson-cooks-potatoes-for-the-second-course.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Thomson-cooks-potatoes-for-the-second-course.jpg\" alt=\"Thomson cooks potatoes for the second course. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85632\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomson cooks potatoes for the second course. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-three-bean-salad-with-a-fried-egg-from-the-chickens-on-the-farm.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/A-three-bean-salad-with-a-fried-egg-from-the-chickens-on-the-farm.jpg\" alt=\"A three bean salad with a fried egg from the chickens on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85635\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A three bean salad with a fried egg from the chickens on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The third course is my favorite of the night -- a three bean salad, with a walnut \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarator\" target=\"_blank\">tarator\u003c/a> and a perfectly soft boiled, breaded and fried egg, or a “corndog” egg as Thomson jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main course is served family style -- a deep dish of braised lamb shoulder and grilled leg of lamb from the Mann’s lamb number five, on top of some of the sweetest pink and orange beets I have ever tasted, turnips, carrots, romanesco, squash from the Mann’s farm, potato and elephant garlic chips and lemon aioli. Dessert promptly followed -- a simple selection of berries from the Mann berry patch that I can almost touch from the dinner table, some fresh peaches from \u003ca href=\"http://www.drycreekpeach.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Dry Creek Peach and Produce\u003c/a> in Healdsburg, topped \u003ca href=\"http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2012/03/sabayon-zabaglione-recipe/\" target=\"_blank\">sabayon\u003c/a> with Prosecco, and a mint tea brewed with mint leaves picked from the Mann’s garden earlier in the evening. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 5184px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-main-course-was-served-family-style-and-also-featured-the-famous-lamb-number-five.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/The-main-course-was-served-family-style-and-also-featured-the-famous-lamb-number-five.jpg\" alt=\"The main course was served family style and also featured the famous lamb number five. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"5184\" height=\"3456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85646\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main course was served family style and also featured the famous lamb number five. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The meal is well prepared, expertly plated, and tastes extremely fresh. However, the ticket price for this particular dinner, at $185 per person, seems somewhat prohibitive. But Thomson tells me most of that is going to the farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deal with each farm is always different. We negotiate the price with the farmers for the space; we buy all the produce from them at full retail price. And then there’s our labor cost. At this point that’s about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun sets and the stars come out, servers come around with shawls and blankets to keep the guests warm. Amanda Mann offers me a wool sweater her grandmother had knit. Gabrielle and Paul Mann share stories of growing up down the road in Bolinas; it’s easy to forget that I had only met everyone at the table around me only hours before, and that this isn’t a dinner party for close friends of the farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-leans-over-to-talk-to-a-guest-at-the-end-of-the-evening.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/Ed-Mann-leans-over-to-talk-to-a-guest-at-the-end-of-the-evening.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Mann leans over to talk to a guest at the end of the evening. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85638\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Mann leans over to talk to a guest at the end of the evening. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meeting the farmer that grew your vegetables or raised the lamb you buy at the farmers' market is one thing, but actually sitting across from them at a table in the middle of their crops, enjoying a meal made almost entirely from things grown and raised right beside you, takes eating local to another level. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomson says it’s important for him to include the farmers at the table because much of the time they don’t get the opportunity to go eat at the restaurants where a lot of their harvest ends up. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Metes and Bounds dinner is set for August 19 at Bernier Farms in Healdsburg at their Alexander Valley location. The Bernier family grows grapes garlic, kale, tomatoes and fruit trees. Tickets are available online for $120. View the full schedule at \u003ca href=\"http://metesandbounds.co/events\" target=\"_blank\">Metes and Bounds Events\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/windmill-friday1000-wendygoodfriend1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/windmill-friday1000-wendygoodfriend1.jpg\" alt=\"Outside Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85446\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Move over \u003ca href=\"http://www.kanyewest.com/\">Kanye West\u003c/a> and make way for beignets. At this year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/home/\">Outside Lands Festival\u003c/a> in Golden Gate Park (Aug 8-10), celebrated chefs, mixologists and even butchers will take center stage just like the musical talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An idea concocted by the festival’s directors to bring their fantastical food and music mash-up to the next level, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/gastromagic\">GastroMagic\u003c/a>” is a new area dedicated to performances that spotlight the culinary culture and creativity of the Bay Area and beyond. Located in the woods of MacLaren Pass, GastroMagic will include a brand new stage, seating area and a lounge for watching, eating and kicking back with a cocktail from local watering holes like \u003ca href=\"http://www.15romolo.com/\">15 Romolo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alembicbar.com/\">The Alembic\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.homesteadsf.com/\">The Homestead\u003c/a>, and the East Bay’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.hotsytotsyclub.com/\">Hotsy Totsy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they may be wielding spatulas and cocktail shakers instead of guitars and maracas, make no mistake – the GastroMagic stage will feature rock star caliber talent including celebrity chef \u003ca href=\"http://offalgood.com/\">Chris Cosentino\u003c/a>, Michelin-starred \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/people/chefs/article/christopher-kostow\">Christopher Kostow\u003c/a>, Evan Rich of San Francisco’s beloved \u003ca href=\"http://richtablesf.com/\">Rich Table\u003c/a> restaurant, wine phenom \u003ca href=\"http://www.restauranthearth.com/Paul.html\">Paul Grieco\u003c/a> and beer maven \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/28/into-the-cellar-with-dave-mclean-brews-dogpatch-news/\">Dave McLean\u003c/a>, among others. Musicians, comedians and improv artists will also be on hand as part of the gastro-tainment, and there will even be a tasting table for a few lucky fans to sample some of the delicacies whipped up on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you don’t arrive early enough to snag a spot at the tasting table, fear not: GastroMagic will also be the home of \u003cstrong>BaconLand\u003c/strong>, a new area that makes my mouth water just writing about it. Think flights of bacon from top-notch purveyors including the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fattedcalf.com/\">Fatted Calf\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://bentonscountryhams2.com/\">Benton Bacon\u003c/a> from Tennessee. And if your arteries can take it, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/\">Cowgirl Creamery\u003c/a> is throwing some cheese into the mix to create grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches; an offer my taste buds may not be able to refuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 646px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/gastromagic.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/gastromagic.jpg\" alt=\"GastroMagic at Outside Lands. Photo: Courtesy of Outside Lands\" width=\"646\" height=\"397\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85471\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GastroMagic! Photo: Courtesy of Outside Lands\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are a few of the GastroMagic events that piqued our interest. View the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/gastromagic/\">complete line-up and schedule for GastroMagic\u003c/a> at the Outside Lands website.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>FRIDAY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flavor Tripping Food Science with Chris Jones\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHampton Creek chef and former \u003cem>Top Chef\u003c/em> contestant Chris Jones changes food’s molecular anatomy and flavor profile, and talks the future of food technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offal Good Music with Chris Cosentino\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAward-winning chef Chris Cosentino teams up with a musician to discuss the creative process of food and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chocolate Gold Rush with Holy Ghost! and Guittard Chocolate Company\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA party for the senses ensues with Holy Ghost! spinning and Donald Wressell of Guittard Chocolate Company creating a masterpiece on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SATURDAY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beignets & Bounce Brunch with Big Freedia and Brenda’s French Soul Food\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA New Orleans style brunch like no other, Big Freedia shakes and bounces all over the stage and audience members who answer her call to twerk will be awarded with beignets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BBQ & Drank featuring Lewis Black, Dave McLean, Paul Grieco, Andie Ferman & Southpaw BBQ\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA tasting panel led by comedian Lewis Black will determine which goes best, beer, wine or bourbon, with Southpaw BBQ’s creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SUNDAY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Breakdown Breakdance: Fatted Calf vs. Avedano’s\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFatted Calf competes against female butchery shop Avedano’s to break down a pig while professional dancers break dance on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Food Fight: Marlowe vs Park Tavern, Hosted by Craig Robinson\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith a game show inspired format, Craig Robinson hosts as sister restaurants Marlowe and Park Tavern compete against one another in kitchen challenges and trivia\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mezcal Mambo Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA discussion of mezcal is amplified by a troupe of mambo dancers and a limbo contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Beyond GastroMagic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While GastroMagic takes the cake as the most noteworthy addition to this year’s food and drink line-up, don’t forget about the other \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/taste/\">200 menu items\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/wine/\">100 wines\u003c/a> and more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/beer/\">50 beers\u003c/a> that will grace the grassy meadows and wooded groves of this food and music fantasyland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like readers of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel, festival goers direct their own experience. Will you head west to listen to The \u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/the-killers\">Killers\u003c/a>, or east to check out the \u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/chvrches\">Chvrches\u003c/a>? Hike over to Cheese Lands or meander around the bend to Choco Lands? Traverse the meadow for a pint of \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinbrewing.com/mt-tam-pale-ale\">Mt. Tam Pale Ale\u003c/a> or duck into Wine Lands for a glass of \u003ca href=\"http://www.drinkcannonball.com/aboutthewine.htm\">Cannonball merlot\u003c/a>? Empanadas, bratwurst, or chicken curry nachos? Or will you just spend the entire day eating bacon at GastroMagic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/chocolands-art-food1000wendygoodfriend1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/chocolands-art-food1000wendygoodfriend1.jpg\" alt=\"Choco Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85445\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choco Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decisions can be daunting, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/festival/festival-map.php\">a map is a must\u003c/a> and like everything else about your Outside Lands adventure, the choice is all yours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Other new and noteworthy additions to Outside Lands this year include:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More cheese.\u003c/strong> Cheese Lands is expanding to include four “cheese bar” stations with new varieties and wine pairings, and opportunities to learn about the wonders of cheese from master mongers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobile goes local.\u003c/strong> In place of the usual hot dog vendors, mobile carts stocked with delicacies crafted by Bay Area artisans will rove the festival grounds. Think savory nibbles from \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/alicia-tamales-los-mayas/\">Alicia’s Tamales\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebutchersdaughtersf.com/\">Butcher’s Daughter\u003c/a>, and made-to-order flavored cotton candy from \u003ca href=\"http://www.sugarandspun.com/\">Sugar and Spun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scooped, Fried and Flipped\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAlways inventive and invariably delectable, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.humphryslocombe.com/www.humphryslocombe.com/Home.html\">Humphry Slocombe\u003c/a> ice cream will be on hand this year to dole out their sophisticated scoops (have you tried their Boccalone Prosciutto flavor?). Taste of the Bay curator, Ari Feingold, is also fired up about the debut of vendors like high-end restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.aq-sf.com/\">AQ\u003c/a> (dishing up “high brow spaghetti”) and more low-key Indian Street food purveyor, \u003ca href=\"http://curryupnow.com/\">Curry Up Now\u003c/a>. Other newcomers like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.beastandthehare.com/\">Beast and the Hare\u003c/a> will be grilling lamb and shrimp, while \u003ca href=\"http://www.propositionchicken.com/\">Proposition Chicken\u003c/a> will be frying and flipping free-range birds to make savory sandwiches. With every new menu item, Feingold says he tries to build a more complete representation of the Bay Area’s culinary diversity in terms of flavors, styles and price-points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/beer-lands700wendygoodfriend1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/beer-lands700wendygoodfriend1.jpg\" alt=\"Beer Lands. Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85444\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer Lands. Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Double the Kegs\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nJumping the number of breweries from 16 to 30, the offerings at Beer Lands this year reflects the growth of the craft beer movement in northern California. Bay Area additions include \u003ca href=\"http://factionbrewing.com/\">Faction\u003c/a> from Alameda and San Francisco based \u003ca href=\"http://www.headlandsbrewing.com/\">Headlands Brewery\u003c/a>, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.strongbow.com/\">Strongbow Hard Apple Cider\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.acecider.com/\">Ace Cider\u003c/a> will also be on tap, rounding out the refreshments curated by Magnolia Brewery owner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.magnoliapub.com/\">Dave McClean\u003c/a>. And if you are looking to stave off the effects of the bone chilling fog that descends on the park each evening, McClean suggests a mug of \u003ca href=\"http://www.highwaterbrewing.com/highwater.php\">Highwater’s Campfire Stout\u003c/a>, which he describes as “a warm s’more in a beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/winelands-wendygoodfriend.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/winelands-wendygoodfriend.jpg\" alt=\"Wine Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85454\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wine Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Perfect Pairings\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe 36-winery line-up will include some lesser known, top-notch labels like \u003ca href=\"http://www.wine-maker.net/\">Sean Thackrey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.paperboywines.com/#our-wines\">Paperboy\u003c/a> from Healdsburg, whose wines are packaged in eco-friendly paper bottles. Another newcomer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oliviabrion.com/\">Olivia Brion\u003c/a>, is the one to drink if you’re going to watch \u003ca href=\"http://noconamusic.com/\">Nocona\u003c/a> perform; the wine is cultivated on the family property of band member Annie Rothschild. As always, there are countless options when it comes to music and wine pairings. Wine Land’s curator, stellar sommelier \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/sommeliers-of-the-year-2013\">Peter Eastlake\u003c/a> offers a few suggestions to get you started:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/big-freedia\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Big Freedia\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scharffenbergercellars.com/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Scharffenberger Brut Rose\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Nothing makes a crowd wanna' bounce like tiny pink bubbles and Big Freedia's incredible show.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Tom Petty\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"mailto:http://www.josephphelps.com/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Joseph Phelps Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“These icons deserve each other. There's a spiciness about both Petty and Napa Valley Cabernet, pure and simple.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/the-killers\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Killers\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wine-maker.net/\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Sean Thackrey Pleiades\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“These guys shoot for the stars when they hit the stage. An astronomical combination.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/windmill-friday1000-wendygoodfriend1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/windmill-friday1000-wendygoodfriend1.jpg\" alt=\"Outside Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85446\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Move over \u003ca href=\"http://www.kanyewest.com/\">Kanye West\u003c/a> and make way for beignets. At this year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/home/\">Outside Lands Festival\u003c/a> in Golden Gate Park (Aug 8-10), celebrated chefs, mixologists and even butchers will take center stage just like the musical talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An idea concocted by the festival’s directors to bring their fantastical food and music mash-up to the next level, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/gastromagic\">GastroMagic\u003c/a>” is a new area dedicated to performances that spotlight the culinary culture and creativity of the Bay Area and beyond. Located in the woods of MacLaren Pass, GastroMagic will include a brand new stage, seating area and a lounge for watching, eating and kicking back with a cocktail from local watering holes like \u003ca href=\"http://www.15romolo.com/\">15 Romolo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alembicbar.com/\">The Alembic\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.homesteadsf.com/\">The Homestead\u003c/a>, and the East Bay’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.hotsytotsyclub.com/\">Hotsy Totsy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they may be wielding spatulas and cocktail shakers instead of guitars and maracas, make no mistake – the GastroMagic stage will feature rock star caliber talent including celebrity chef \u003ca href=\"http://offalgood.com/\">Chris Cosentino\u003c/a>, Michelin-starred \u003ca href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/people/chefs/article/christopher-kostow\">Christopher Kostow\u003c/a>, Evan Rich of San Francisco’s beloved \u003ca href=\"http://richtablesf.com/\">Rich Table\u003c/a> restaurant, wine phenom \u003ca href=\"http://www.restauranthearth.com/Paul.html\">Paul Grieco\u003c/a> and beer maven \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/28/into-the-cellar-with-dave-mclean-brews-dogpatch-news/\">Dave McLean\u003c/a>, among others. Musicians, comedians and improv artists will also be on hand as part of the gastro-tainment, and there will even be a tasting table for a few lucky fans to sample some of the delicacies whipped up on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you don’t arrive early enough to snag a spot at the tasting table, fear not: GastroMagic will also be the home of \u003cstrong>BaconLand\u003c/strong>, a new area that makes my mouth water just writing about it. Think flights of bacon from top-notch purveyors including the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fattedcalf.com/\">Fatted Calf\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://bentonscountryhams2.com/\">Benton Bacon\u003c/a> from Tennessee. And if your arteries can take it, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/\">Cowgirl Creamery\u003c/a> is throwing some cheese into the mix to create grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches; an offer my taste buds may not be able to refuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 646px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/gastromagic.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/gastromagic.jpg\" alt=\"GastroMagic at Outside Lands. Photo: Courtesy of Outside Lands\" width=\"646\" height=\"397\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85471\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GastroMagic! Photo: Courtesy of Outside Lands\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here are a few of the GastroMagic events that piqued our interest. View the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/gastromagic/\">complete line-up and schedule for GastroMagic\u003c/a> at the Outside Lands website.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>FRIDAY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flavor Tripping Food Science with Chris Jones\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nHampton Creek chef and former \u003cem>Top Chef\u003c/em> contestant Chris Jones changes food’s molecular anatomy and flavor profile, and talks the future of food technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Offal Good Music with Chris Cosentino\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAward-winning chef Chris Cosentino teams up with a musician to discuss the creative process of food and music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chocolate Gold Rush with Holy Ghost! and Guittard Chocolate Company\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA party for the senses ensues with Holy Ghost! spinning and Donald Wressell of Guittard Chocolate Company creating a masterpiece on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SATURDAY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beignets & Bounce Brunch with Big Freedia and Brenda’s French Soul Food\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA New Orleans style brunch like no other, Big Freedia shakes and bounces all over the stage and audience members who answer her call to twerk will be awarded with beignets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BBQ & Drank featuring Lewis Black, Dave McLean, Paul Grieco, Andie Ferman & Southpaw BBQ\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA tasting panel led by comedian Lewis Black will determine which goes best, beer, wine or bourbon, with Southpaw BBQ’s creations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SUNDAY\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Breakdown Breakdance: Fatted Calf vs. Avedano’s\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFatted Calf competes against female butchery shop Avedano’s to break down a pig while professional dancers break dance on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Food Fight: Marlowe vs Park Tavern, Hosted by Craig Robinson\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWith a game show inspired format, Craig Robinson hosts as sister restaurants Marlowe and Park Tavern compete against one another in kitchen challenges and trivia\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mezcal Mambo Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA discussion of mezcal is amplified by a troupe of mambo dancers and a limbo contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Beyond GastroMagic\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While GastroMagic takes the cake as the most noteworthy addition to this year’s food and drink line-up, don’t forget about the other \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/taste/\">200 menu items\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/wine/\">100 wines\u003c/a> and more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/beer/\">50 beers\u003c/a> that will grace the grassy meadows and wooded groves of this food and music fantasyland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like readers of a “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel, festival goers direct their own experience. Will you head west to listen to The \u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/the-killers\">Killers\u003c/a>, or east to check out the \u003ca href=\"http://lineup.sfoutsidelands.com/band/chvrches\">Chvrches\u003c/a>? Hike over to Cheese Lands or meander around the bend to Choco Lands? Traverse the meadow for a pint of \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinbrewing.com/mt-tam-pale-ale\">Mt. Tam Pale Ale\u003c/a> or duck into Wine Lands for a glass of \u003ca href=\"http://www.drinkcannonball.com/aboutthewine.htm\">Cannonball merlot\u003c/a>? Empanadas, bratwurst, or chicken curry nachos? Or will you just spend the entire day eating bacon at GastroMagic?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85445\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/chocolands-art-food1000wendygoodfriend1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/chocolands-art-food1000wendygoodfriend1.jpg\" alt=\"Choco Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85445\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choco Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The decisions can be daunting, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfoutsidelands.com/festival/festival-map.php\">a map is a must\u003c/a> and like everything else about your Outside Lands adventure, the choice is all yours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Other new and noteworthy additions to Outside Lands this year include:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More cheese.\u003c/strong> Cheese Lands is expanding to include four “cheese bar” stations with new varieties and wine pairings, and opportunities to learn about the wonders of cheese from master mongers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobile goes local.\u003c/strong> In place of the usual hot dog vendors, mobile carts stocked with delicacies crafted by Bay Area artisans will rove the festival grounds. Think savory nibbles from \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/alicia-tamales-los-mayas/\">Alicia’s Tamales\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thebutchersdaughtersf.com/\">Butcher’s Daughter\u003c/a>, and made-to-order flavored cotton candy from \u003ca href=\"http://www.sugarandspun.com/\">Sugar and Spun\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scooped, Fried and Flipped\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAlways inventive and invariably delectable, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.humphryslocombe.com/www.humphryslocombe.com/Home.html\">Humphry Slocombe\u003c/a> ice cream will be on hand this year to dole out their sophisticated scoops (have you tried their Boccalone Prosciutto flavor?). Taste of the Bay curator, Ari Feingold, is also fired up about the debut of vendors like high-end restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.aq-sf.com/\">AQ\u003c/a> (dishing up “high brow spaghetti”) and more low-key Indian Street food purveyor, \u003ca href=\"http://curryupnow.com/\">Curry Up Now\u003c/a>. Other newcomers like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.beastandthehare.com/\">Beast and the Hare\u003c/a> will be grilling lamb and shrimp, while \u003ca href=\"http://www.propositionchicken.com/\">Proposition Chicken\u003c/a> will be frying and flipping free-range birds to make savory sandwiches. With every new menu item, Feingold says he tries to build a more complete representation of the Bay Area’s culinary diversity in terms of flavors, styles and price-points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/beer-lands700wendygoodfriend1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/beer-lands700wendygoodfriend1.jpg\" alt=\"Beer Lands. Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85444\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer Lands. Wendy Goodfriend\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Double the Kegs\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nJumping the number of breweries from 16 to 30, the offerings at Beer Lands this year reflects the growth of the craft beer movement in northern California. Bay Area additions include \u003ca href=\"http://factionbrewing.com/\">Faction\u003c/a> from Alameda and San Francisco based \u003ca href=\"http://www.headlandsbrewing.com/\">Headlands Brewery\u003c/a>, among others. \u003ca href=\"http://www.strongbow.com/\">Strongbow Hard Apple Cider\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.acecider.com/\">Ace Cider\u003c/a> will also be on tap, rounding out the refreshments curated by Magnolia Brewery owner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.magnoliapub.com/\">Dave McClean\u003c/a>. And if you are looking to stave off the effects of the bone chilling fog that descends on the park each evening, McClean suggests a mug of \u003ca href=\"http://www.highwaterbrewing.com/highwater.php\">Highwater’s Campfire Stout\u003c/a>, which he describes as “a warm s’more in a beer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/winelands-wendygoodfriend.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/winelands-wendygoodfriend.jpg\" alt=\"Wine Lands. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85454\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wine Lands. 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There's a spiciness about both Petty and Napa Valley Cabernet, pure and simple.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-has-been-workign-at-Drakes-Bay-since-1984.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-has-been-workign-at-Drakes-Bay-since-1984.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge Mata has been working at Drakes Bay since 1984. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85221\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mata has been working at Drakes Bay since 1984. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drakes Bay Oyster farmer Jorge Mata was devastated when he heard he had to start throwing away heaps of plastic poles with of hundreds baby oysters attached to them. Mata has worked harvesting oysters from Drakes Estero for over 30 years, currently for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.drakesbayoyster.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Company\u003c/a> and previously for Johnson’s Oyster Farm. A few weeks ago, the farm received a final notice from the federal government that said they had to close their cannery and retail store, pack up their supplies and vacate their land by July 31. But thanks to a last minute lawsuit by a group of restaurants and local business owners who rely on the oysters from Drakes Bay, Mata and the rest of the farm get at least another month’s reprieve. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Drakes Bay Oyster Company had been leasing offshore seabeds from Point Reyes National Seashore and the U.S Department of the Interior. However, their 40 year lease expired in 2012, and the department said it would not renew the lease because it wants to include the over a thousand acres of land in a marine-wilderness property. The farm has been involved in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/12/05/kqeds-forum-drakes-bay-oyster-company-sues-to-stay/\" target=\"_blank\">legal battles\u003c/a> and campaigns to keep it running for the past few years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Drakes-Bay-Mueller-024.jpg.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Drakes-Bay-Mueller-024.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"Drakes Bay Oyster Company Owner Kevin Lunny. Photo: Cyrus Musiker\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay Oyster Company Owner Kevin Lunny. Photo: Cyrus Musiker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While owners Kevin and Nancy Lunny asked for an extension, earlier this month the Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal. Except for the lawsuit, the farm had exhausted most legal options to keep the company open while they continue litigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-stands-next-to-one-of-the-boats-he-uses-to-go-check-on-the-oysters-out-in-the-estero.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-stands-next-to-one-of-the-boats-he-uses-to-go-check-on-the-oysters-out-in-the-estero.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge Mata stands next to one of the boats he uses to go check on the oysters out in the estero. He lives on the farm with the other workers, and his daughter was born and raised on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mata stands next to one of the boats he uses to go check on the oysters out in the estero. He lives on the farm with the other workers, and his daughter was born and raised on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lunny, who purchased the oyster farm eight years before the lease ended, says he knew the lease was expiring, but had hoped the government would realize how important the oyster farm is for the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Visitors-line-up-to-buy-bags-oysters-at-the-shack.-The-shack-along-with-the-cannery-is-set-to-close-on-July-31st.-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Visitors-line-up-to-buy-bags-oysters-at-the-shack.-The-shack-along-with-the-cannery-is-set-to-close-on-July-31st.-.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors line up to buy bags oysters at the shack. The shack, along with the cannery, is set to close on July 31. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors line up to buy bags oysters at the shack. The shack, along with the cannery, is set to close on July 31. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We get over 50,000 visitors a year and what’s most memorable and important is the direct connection to the public. We are living the dream producing high quality food and connecting with the public and sharing how to do it right. I can’t think of another way to have your cake and eat it too,” Lunny says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The oysters the company plants and harvests are enjoyed by restaurants and families all over Northern California, and it’s this community that has granted Drakes at least another month of oyster production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The lawsuit fundamentally is about insuring and protecting to the maximum extent possible the supply of locally grown oysters in the Bay Area as well as California grown oysters for a lot of folks who are outside the Bay Area,” says Stuart Gross, the attorney representing the restaurants and the other businesses who are the plaintiffs.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://tomalesbayoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomales Bay Oyster Company\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://osteriastellina.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Osteria Stellina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-reyes-point-reyes-station\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Reyes\u003c/a> in Point Reyes Station, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saltwateroysterdepot.com/about-2-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Saltwater Oyster Depot\u003c/a> in Inverness, \u003ca href=\"http://sirandstar.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sir and Star\u003c/a> in Olema, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hayesstreetgrill.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hayes Street Grill\u003c/a> in San Francisco argue that having this local supply of oysters is key to their business. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their businesses depends on having local, sustainably grown oysters to sell,” Gross says. “For a number of these restaurants in addition to dollars, one of the main selling points is the farm to table setting that they’re able to provide and without Drakes Bay Oyster Company that’s not going include local oysters.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs also include the \u003ca href=\"http://www.alsamarin.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Alliance for Local and Sustainable Agriculture\u003c/a> (ASLA); ALSA board member and rangeland ecologist Jeff Creque; and oyster farm employee Loretta Murphy. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From their perspective, the closure of Drakes Bay Oyster Company is an extremely wrongheaded action from an environmental perspective. These oysters are about the most sustainably grown source of protein that you could imagine. It’s about making sure that local source of protein that’s grown in a way that has very little environmental impact, doesn’t go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Families-and-friends-gather-by-the-water-at-Drakes-Bay-to-enjoy-oysters-together.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Families-and-friends-gather-by-the-water-at-Drakes-Bay-to-enjoy-oysters-together.jpg\" alt=\"Families and friends gather by the water at Drakes Bay to enjoy oysters together. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85243\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families and friends gather by the water at Drakes Bay to enjoy oysters together. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gross says they’ve challenged the U.S Department of the Interior’s decision to close the farm based on the fact that they didn’t follow procedural laws when making their decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that the then-Secretary of the Interior - Ken Salazar did not follow proper procedure because he did not consult with a federal aquaculture coordinating group before making his 2012 decision to not renew the company’s permit. They say failure to do so violated the \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/laws/administrative-procedure/\" target=\"_blank\">Administrative Procedures Act\u003c/a> and harmed the interests of local businesses that rely on Drakes Bay. Gross says that another policy that wasn’t followed was California’s policy that coastal land that’s being used for agricultural use can not be converted to nonagricultural use unless its no longer practicable. Drakes is California’s last operating oyster cannery and restaurants cannot get shucked oysters from anywhere else in the state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Save-Drakes-Bay-sign-near-Point-Reyes-Station.-The-Lunnys-and-the-community-have-been-involved-in-a-long-legal-battle-to-keep-the-farm-open.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Save-Drakes-Bay-sign-near-Point-Reyes-Station.-The-Lunnys-and-the-community-have-been-involved-in-a-long-legal-battle-to-keep-the-farm-open.jpg\" alt=\"A Save Drakes Bay sign near Point Reyes Station. The Lunny's and the community have been involved in a long legal battle to keep the farm open. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85215\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Save Drakes Bay sign near Point Reyes Station. The Lunny's and the community have been involved in a long legal battle to keep the farm open. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what we will do without the oysters on the menu,” says \u003ca href=\"http://untermanonfood.com/author/patricia/\" target=\"_blank\">Patricia Unterman\u003c/a>, the founder and co-owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hayesstreetgrill.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hayes Street Grill\u003c/a> in San Francisco. “People love them on our menu, and people love that they come from only 45 minutes away. It’s a terrible, terrible loss if we couldn’t continue to serve these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-owner and Chef Daniel Delong of the \u003ca href=\"http://sirandstar.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sir and Star\u003c/a> in Olema says he and his partner Margaret Gradé use Drakes oysters in several popular dishes on the menu - served raw with pickled kelp and mustard seeds, fried with potatoes and duck egg hollandaise. DeLong says he not only is disappointed he may not be able to cook with them anymore; he’s also sad to be losing a local food source, that’s why they are part of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be like winning the lottery for them, we just don’t really think we are ready to give up. I think it’s too important to give up. I think to lose such a valuable piece of California’s history would be a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLong and Grandé say they’ll fight until the very last second to keep this important food supply running. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever you got, you may as well bring it now, because when it’s over, it’s over,” says Tod Friend, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://tomalesbayoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomales Bay Oyster Company\u003c/a> (TBOC). TBOC buys a quarter million oysters from Drakes annually to supplement their demand. The alternative, Friend says, is getting them from the North West, which costs extra for transportation and packaging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Bags-of-oyster-shells-at-Drakes-Bay-Oyster-Company.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Bags-of-oyster-shells-at-Drakes-Bay-Oyster-Company.jpg\" alt=\"Bags of oyster shells at Drakes Bay Oyster Company. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85217\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bags of oyster shells at Drakes Bay Oyster Company. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kevin Lunny sees this new lawsuit as extremely important because he says it demonstrates a community sentiment that has been here since the beginning of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There is this collective disbelief that we are actually closing, and this is just another example of the community coming together and saying this cannot happen. They raise some very sound arguments about the state’s right to grow selfish and I hope it will help sort out some important questions,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the restaurants and business owners filed a motion for a temporary restraining order combined with a motion for a preliminary injunction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically went to the court and said we cannot wait for a full briefing because if we do wait, the farm will have already closed and we will suffer irreparable harm from not having that local supply of fresh protein,” Gross says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Rosa-Meza-sorts-baby-oysters-based-on-their-size.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Rosa-Meza-sorts-baby-oysters-based-on-their-size.jpg\" alt=\"Drakes Bay biologist Rosa Meza sorts baby oysters based on their size. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85228\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay biologist Rosa Meza sorts baby oysters based on their size. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Drakes Bay can continue harvesting for thirty days while the plaintiffs pursue their case, and the government will not require Drakes Bay to remove any oysters or any of the frames in the Estero without giving them a 30-day notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So every day that goes by there’s at least 30 more where Drakes Bay Oyster Company can harvest oysters. We hope that in September, we can litigate our case and have the courts set aside the decision that closed the oyster farm, and require the department of the Interior to revisit it but in compliance of the law and all of the procedures the failed to address. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Lorena-Pablo-shucks-oysters-in-a-shipping-container-behind-the-farm.-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Lorena-Pablo-shucks-oysters-in-a-shipping-container-behind-the-farm.-.jpg\" alt=\"Lorena Pablo shucks oysters in a shipping container behind the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Pablo shucks oysters in a shipping container behind the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kevin Lunny says they are also trying to evaluate every possibility for keeping his staff employed, including looking at relocating to a small spot in Tomales Bay, an area of Humboldt Bay, or as far away as Baja California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are keeping our eyes wide open. We need something to work so that we can keep these wonderful people on at work. They’ve known for years their job is on the line and they had every reason to find another job before this thing happened but they didn’t, they stuck with us. Their hope only makes us more hopeful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Lorena-Pablo-serves-customers-some-oysters-from-inside-the-shack.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Lorena-Pablo-serves-customers-some-oysters-from-inside-the-shack.jpg\" alt=\"Lorena Pablo serves customers some oysters from inside the shack. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Pablo serves customers some oysters from inside the shack. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drakes Bay Oyster Company will still close retail operations on Thursday, July 31, but will continue to harvest oysters. The group’s request for an injunction will likely be heard on September 9. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to KQED News report on the closing of the retail operation at Drake's Bay Oyster Company:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/161180039&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch a KQED News video on last day of the retail operation at Drake's Bay Oyster Company:\u003cbr>\n[vimeo 102581161]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85221\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-has-been-workign-at-Drakes-Bay-since-1984.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-has-been-workign-at-Drakes-Bay-since-1984.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge Mata has been working at Drakes Bay since 1984. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85221\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mata has been working at Drakes Bay since 1984. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drakes Bay Oyster farmer Jorge Mata was devastated when he heard he had to start throwing away heaps of plastic poles with of hundreds baby oysters attached to them. Mata has worked harvesting oysters from Drakes Estero for over 30 years, currently for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.drakesbayoyster.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Drakes Bay Oyster Company\u003c/a> and previously for Johnson’s Oyster Farm. A few weeks ago, the farm received a final notice from the federal government that said they had to close their cannery and retail store, pack up their supplies and vacate their land by July 31. But thanks to a last minute lawsuit by a group of restaurants and local business owners who rely on the oysters from Drakes Bay, Mata and the rest of the farm get at least another month’s reprieve. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Drakes Bay Oyster Company had been leasing offshore seabeds from Point Reyes National Seashore and the U.S Department of the Interior. However, their 40 year lease expired in 2012, and the department said it would not renew the lease because it wants to include the over a thousand acres of land in a marine-wilderness property. The farm has been involved in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/12/05/kqeds-forum-drakes-bay-oyster-company-sues-to-stay/\" target=\"_blank\">legal battles\u003c/a> and campaigns to keep it running for the past few years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85380\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Drakes-Bay-Mueller-024.jpg.jpeg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Drakes-Bay-Mueller-024.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"Drakes Bay Oyster Company Owner Kevin Lunny. Photo: Cyrus Musiker\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85380\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay Oyster Company Owner Kevin Lunny. Photo: Cyrus Musiker\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While owners Kevin and Nancy Lunny asked for an extension, earlier this month the Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal. Except for the lawsuit, the farm had exhausted most legal options to keep the company open while they continue litigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-stands-next-to-one-of-the-boats-he-uses-to-go-check-on-the-oysters-out-in-the-estero.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Jorge-Mata-stands-next-to-one-of-the-boats-he-uses-to-go-check-on-the-oysters-out-in-the-estero.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge Mata stands next to one of the boats he uses to go check on the oysters out in the estero. He lives on the farm with the other workers, and his daughter was born and raised on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Mata stands next to one of the boats he uses to go check on the oysters out in the estero. He lives on the farm with the other workers, and his daughter was born and raised on the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lunny, who purchased the oyster farm eight years before the lease ended, says he knew the lease was expiring, but had hoped the government would realize how important the oyster farm is for the surrounding community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85230\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Visitors-line-up-to-buy-bags-oysters-at-the-shack.-The-shack-along-with-the-cannery-is-set-to-close-on-July-31st.-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Visitors-line-up-to-buy-bags-oysters-at-the-shack.-The-shack-along-with-the-cannery-is-set-to-close-on-July-31st.-.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors line up to buy bags oysters at the shack. The shack, along with the cannery, is set to close on July 31. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors line up to buy bags oysters at the shack. The shack, along with the cannery, is set to close on July 31. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We get over 50,000 visitors a year and what’s most memorable and important is the direct connection to the public. We are living the dream producing high quality food and connecting with the public and sharing how to do it right. I can’t think of another way to have your cake and eat it too,” Lunny says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The oysters the company plants and harvests are enjoyed by restaurants and families all over Northern California, and it’s this community that has granted Drakes at least another month of oyster production. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“The lawsuit fundamentally is about insuring and protecting to the maximum extent possible the supply of locally grown oysters in the Bay Area as well as California grown oysters for a lot of folks who are outside the Bay Area,” says Stuart Gross, the attorney representing the restaurants and the other businesses who are the plaintiffs.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://tomalesbayoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomales Bay Oyster Company\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://osteriastellina.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Osteria Stellina\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/cafe-reyes-point-reyes-station\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Reyes\u003c/a> in Point Reyes Station, \u003ca href=\"http://www.saltwateroysterdepot.com/about-2-2/\" target=\"_blank\">Saltwater Oyster Depot\u003c/a> in Inverness, \u003ca href=\"http://sirandstar.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sir and Star\u003c/a> in Olema, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.hayesstreetgrill.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hayes Street Grill\u003c/a> in San Francisco argue that having this local supply of oysters is key to their business. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It’s about making sure that local source of protein that’s grown in a way that has very little environmental impact, doesn’t go away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Families-and-friends-gather-by-the-water-at-Drakes-Bay-to-enjoy-oysters-together.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Families-and-friends-gather-by-the-water-at-Drakes-Bay-to-enjoy-oysters-together.jpg\" alt=\"Families and friends gather by the water at Drakes Bay to enjoy oysters together. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85243\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families and friends gather by the water at Drakes Bay to enjoy oysters together. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gross says they’ve challenged the U.S Department of the Interior’s decision to close the farm based on the fact that they didn’t follow procedural laws when making their decision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They argue that the then-Secretary of the Interior - Ken Salazar did not follow proper procedure because he did not consult with a federal aquaculture coordinating group before making his 2012 decision to not renew the company’s permit. They say failure to do so violated the \u003ca href=\"http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/laws/administrative-procedure/\" target=\"_blank\">Administrative Procedures Act\u003c/a> and harmed the interests of local businesses that rely on Drakes Bay. Gross says that another policy that wasn’t followed was California’s policy that coastal land that’s being used for agricultural use can not be converted to nonagricultural use unless its no longer practicable. Drakes is California’s last operating oyster cannery and restaurants cannot get shucked oysters from anywhere else in the state. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Save-Drakes-Bay-sign-near-Point-Reyes-Station.-The-Lunnys-and-the-community-have-been-involved-in-a-long-legal-battle-to-keep-the-farm-open.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Save-Drakes-Bay-sign-near-Point-Reyes-Station.-The-Lunnys-and-the-community-have-been-involved-in-a-long-legal-battle-to-keep-the-farm-open.jpg\" alt=\"A Save Drakes Bay sign near Point Reyes Station. The Lunny's and the community have been involved in a long legal battle to keep the farm open. 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It’s a terrible, terrible loss if we couldn’t continue to serve these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Co-owner and Chef Daniel Delong of the \u003ca href=\"http://sirandstar.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sir and Star\u003c/a> in Olema says he and his partner Margaret Gradé use Drakes oysters in several popular dishes on the menu - served raw with pickled kelp and mustard seeds, fried with potatoes and duck egg hollandaise. DeLong says he not only is disappointed he may not be able to cook with them anymore; he’s also sad to be losing a local food source, that’s why they are part of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be like winning the lottery for them, we just don’t really think we are ready to give up. I think it’s too important to give up. I think to lose such a valuable piece of California’s history would be a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLong and Grandé say they’ll fight until the very last second to keep this important food supply running. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever you got, you may as well bring it now, because when it’s over, it’s over,” says Tod Friend, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://tomalesbayoysters.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tomales Bay Oyster Company\u003c/a> (TBOC). TBOC buys a quarter million oysters from Drakes annually to supplement their demand. The alternative, Friend says, is getting them from the North West, which costs extra for transportation and packaging. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Bags-of-oyster-shells-at-Drakes-Bay-Oyster-Company.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Bags-of-oyster-shells-at-Drakes-Bay-Oyster-Company.jpg\" alt=\"Bags of oyster shells at Drakes Bay Oyster Company. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85217\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bags of oyster shells at Drakes Bay Oyster Company. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kevin Lunny sees this new lawsuit as extremely important because he says it demonstrates a community sentiment that has been here since the beginning of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“There is this collective disbelief that we are actually closing, and this is just another example of the community coming together and saying this cannot happen. They raise some very sound arguments about the state’s right to grow selfish and I hope it will help sort out some important questions,” he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the restaurants and business owners filed a motion for a temporary restraining order combined with a motion for a preliminary injunction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We basically went to the court and said we cannot wait for a full briefing because if we do wait, the farm will have already closed and we will suffer irreparable harm from not having that local supply of fresh protein,” Gross says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Rosa-Meza-sorts-baby-oysters-based-on-their-size.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Rosa-Meza-sorts-baby-oysters-based-on-their-size.jpg\" alt=\"Drakes Bay biologist Rosa Meza sorts baby oysters based on their size. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85228\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drakes Bay biologist Rosa Meza sorts baby oysters based on their size. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, Drakes Bay can continue harvesting for thirty days while the plaintiffs pursue their case, and the government will not require Drakes Bay to remove any oysters or any of the frames in the Estero without giving them a 30-day notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So every day that goes by there’s at least 30 more where Drakes Bay Oyster Company can harvest oysters. We hope that in September, we can litigate our case and have the courts set aside the decision that closed the oyster farm, and require the department of the Interior to revisit it but in compliance of the law and all of the procedures the failed to address. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85225\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Lorena-Pablo-shucks-oysters-in-a-shipping-container-behind-the-farm.-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Lorena-Pablo-shucks-oysters-in-a-shipping-container-behind-the-farm.-.jpg\" alt=\"Lorena Pablo shucks oysters in a shipping container behind the farm. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Pablo shucks oysters in a shipping container behind the farm. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 659px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/cat-cafe.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/cat-cafe.jpg\" alt=\"Cat Town Café project founders Adam Myatt and Ann Dunn. Photo: Jean Lee \" width=\"659\" height=\"988\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85020\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Town Café project founders Adam Myatt and Ann Dunn. Photo: Jean Lee\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/author/jeanhlee/\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Lee\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/07/oakland-cat-cafe-comes-closer-to-reality-set-to-open-in-september/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Local\u003c/a> (7/14/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is the idea of opening a cat café too crazy for Oakland to handle? It certainly doesn’t seem so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambitious Cat Town Café project, which is set to be a space where visitors can enjoy a coffee and bagel while simultaneously having quality cat playtime, is coming closer to fruition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founders Ann Dunn and Adam Myatt have been working since January to make their ideas a reality, and announced on July 1 that they secured a lease for a space at 29th and Broadway. Oakland’s first cat cafe is now set to open as soon as September, which could also make it the first in North America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also participating in what Myatt calls “friendly cat competition” is KitTea, the proposed San Francisco cat cafe that is projected to open sometime in 2014, according to its \u003ca href=\"http://www.kitteasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cat Town Café’s big move was made possible with the help of two \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cat-town-cafe\" target=\"_blank\">Indiegogo\u003c/a> campaigns for the cafe, which collectively raised over 40,000 dollars. In addition to numerous donors supporting the project, local East Bay companies \u003ca href=\"http://www.bicyclecoffeeco.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bicycle Coffee\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.abagelcompany.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Authentic Bagel Co.\u003c/a> have committed to being vendors for the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunn, founder of the local cat rescue organization \u003ca href=\"http://cattownoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Town\u003c/a>, and Myatt, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandhoodcats.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoodcats\u003c/a> and also known as the “Cat Man of West Oakland” first met at the end of last year, after realizing that they both shared a love for cats and the idea of opening a cat cafe in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myatt’s entrance into the cat scene began when he started taking pictures of cats while on tour with his bandmates. When he was back home in West Oakland, he realized there were cats around his neighborhood — which he called “hood cats,” since they hung around the edge of downtown and the edge of West Oakland, a “no man’s neighborhood.” After questions from his friends about what he would do with his photos, he came up with the idea of kickstarting a calendar featuring the hoodcats themselves. Within the first year of hoodcats, the calendars sold out, and the success only continued with this past year, when Myatt made and sold a thousand orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunn’s work with cats began as a former volunteer at the \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandanimalservices.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Animal Shelter\u003c/a>, where she began realizing that cats were being euthanized because they were scared of their environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were measured by the reaction of being in the shelter, which wasn’t necessarily an indication of who they are,” Dunn said, inspiring her to remove cats from a shelter setting to see how they naturally behaved. Dunn envisioned a more uplifting environment where people could meet cats — which is how Cat Town was born. “I think the cafe is just going to be such an exponential growth of that,” said Dunn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it would be a big achievement to be the first cat cafe to open on the continent, Dunn emphasizes that it isn’t as important as the reality that cats who need homes are going to be adopted much more quickly. She described it as a “a way to lure people in that’s sort of passive.” Instead of entering a shelter space, which Dunn noted can be “depressing,” people who don’t necessarily come in with the intention of adopting a cat can have the opportunity to come into the cafe, get coffee, hang out and get to know the cats, making a much more positive adoption experience. Dunn said that she and Myatt are working with cat behaviorists to design the space and make sure it’s a low-stress environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the perspective of our furry four-legged counterparts, Dunn pointed out, “If you’re waiting for a home, would you rather be sitting in this tiny little cage or be in the space where you’re running around and having fun?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dunn said that “this is a crisis time of year” for cats, since it’s the season for kittens to be born, which can push the shelter to becoming more full than it already is. She pointed out that a September opening date is even more crucial since the primary time for adoption is Labor Day to the end of the year. “It’s just urgent for us to get open and running,” said Dunn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Cat Town Cafe has reached a huge portion of its goal, it has still fallen short of its projected $60,000. However, a private backer has reached out to the duo and offered to match a $10,000 donation if they can raise $10,000. To support Myatt and Dunn in their endeavors to help the future kitties of Cat Town Cafe, you can \u003ca href=\"http://www.cattowncafe.com/donate\">donate here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s awesome to be building this community of people all around cats and just further shows how crazy Oakland is,” Myatt concluded.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "Andy's Orchard: Maverick Orchardist Demystifies Heirloom Stone Fruit & Shares Tips for Selection",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/candycots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/candycots.jpg\" alt=\"Originating in Central Asia, these CandyCots -- intensely sweet, small apricots -- from Andy's Orchard taste like honeyed marmalade. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84888\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Originating in Central Asia, these CandyCots -- intensely sweet, small apricots -- from Andy's Orchard taste like honeyed marmalade. Photos: Susan Hathaway\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imagine eating a peach, nectarine or plum during this stone fruit season. Sweet flavors burst in your mouth, the heady aroma envelopes you and the exploding juices run down your arm and chin. Or not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often, the fruit available today just doesn't deliver this full-monty experience. Sold simply as \"peaches\" or \"plums,\" it's too firm. It's barely sweet. There's not enough juice to run anywhere. Blame factory farming or suburbia encroaching on California's agricultural land or just the hideous economics of making a living by growing produce. But most of us are still in search of that mythical juicy, sweet summer fruit. Can you even find it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive to the southern end of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpl.org/blog/canning-valley-heart-s-delight-0\" target=\"_blank\">once-agriculturally-magnificent Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a> to sleepy Morgan Hill and follow the weathered signs for \u003ca href=\"http://andysorchard.com/cart/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Andy's Orchard\u003c/a>. This unassuming operation of around 50 patched-together acres is what has been called \"the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2013/03/10-things-every-wine-lover-should-know-about-petrus\">Château Pétrus\u003c/a> of stone fruit.\" While other orchardists dry their mediocre fruit, focus on higher-margin crops like cherries or -- more likely -- have sold their land to developers, tall, low-key Andy Mariani, who's in his late 60s, is a rare artisanal grower who's \"going purely for flavor\" in the fruit he grows, he explains. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1977px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andy.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andy.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Mariani has the largest collection of heirloom stone fruit on the West Coast. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1977\" height=\"1488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84884\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Mariani has the largest collection of heirloom stone fruit on the West Coast.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariani's 250-plus varieties of stone fruit -- cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and hybrids -- represent the most extensive collection of heirloom fruit on the West Coast. Local Michelin two-stars like \u003ca href=\"http://www.manresarestaurant.com/\">Manresa\u003c/a> in Los Gatos, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baumerestaurant.com/\">Baumé\u003c/a> in Palo Alto and demanding chefs on the East Coast have Andy's Orchard on speed dial during the summer fruit season. \"Right now, my problem is having a lot more demand than supply,\" he admits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/fruit-medley.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/fruit-medley.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the stone fruit grown at Andy’s Orchard. From top right, going clockwise: Silver Logan peach, Sierra Pink peach, Raspberry Red nectarine, two “Yuliya” CandyCots, Alameda Hemskirke apricot, two Lasgerdii Mashad apricots, Galaxy doughnut peach, Red Top peach. Middle top: Dolly yellow plum; below: two Canada White apricots. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"988\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84891\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the stone fruit grown at Andy’s Orchard. From top right, going clockwise: Silver Logan peach, Sierra Pink peach, Raspberry Red nectarine, two “Yuliya” CandyCots, Alameda Hemskirke apricot, two Lasgerdii Mashad apricots, Galaxy doughnut peach, Red Top peach. Middle top: Dolly yellow plum; below: two Canada White apricots.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the conservative farming community, Mariani is viewed as a maverick. Consider his efforts with \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/California-Apricots-Orchards-Silicon-American/dp/1609497953\">apricots\u003c/a>, which the public largely dismissed years ago because \"they thought that apricots didn't taste like anything,\" he says. While other local orchardists simply dry pedestrian varieties, he is helping consumers rediscover this lovely orange fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/drying-apricots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/drying-apricots.jpg\" alt=\"Andy's Orchard dries a small part of its intensely sweet CandyCot production, which makes the fruit particularly unctuous. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84890\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy's Orchard dries a small part of its intensely sweet CandyCot production, which makes the fruit particularly unctuous.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Mariani, \"You have to find the right varieties\" and not be put off by the cultivation challenges. He's now growing 60 kinds of apricot from across the globe such as the Lasgerdii Mashad, a Persian variety whose ethereal taste chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.manresarestaurant.com/people/\">David Kinch\u003c/a> has said is like eating a cloud. \"The newest trend,\" he says, is small, outrageously sweet \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/article/sweetness-light-making-candycots\">CandyCots\u003c/a>; the bright-orange Yuliya from Central Asia tastes like honeyed marmalade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andys-Orchard-label-closeup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andys-Orchard-label-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"The approximately 100 varieties of commercially grown stone fruit from Andy's Orchard are available via fruit subscriptions that send whatever is perfectly ripe to consumers the day after being picked. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84885\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The approximately 100 varieties of commercially grown stone fruit from Andy's Orchard are available via fruit subscriptions that send whatever is perfectly ripe to consumers the day after being picked.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Besides all his heirloom, hand-picked fruit varieties, Mariani is a horticultural wizard who continually experiments with cross breeding or refining fruit, such as the incredibly sweet, juicy, flavorful \u003ca href=\"http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark-item/baby-crawford-peach\">Baby Crawford peach\u003c/a>. This unnamed potential drying peach was rejected by UC Davis but resurrected, improved and christened by Mariani. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/grafting.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/grafting.jpg\" alt=\"Horticulturalist Andy Mariani has an experimental orchard where he develops new strains of stone fruit. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84892\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horticulturalist Andy Mariani has an experimental orchard where he develops new strains of stone fruit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We have one we're calling 'juice ball,'\" he says. \"It's a nectarine that when you bite into it, it's like a waterfall.\" Then there are indescribably delicious varieties he grows like the Raspberry Red nectarine, with luscious flesh and complex flavors, or the stunning \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/ark-product.jsp?id=138\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Logan\u003c/a> white peach with creamy texture, gushing juice and a super-rich, balanced taste. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eating Mariani's varieties, it's depressing to learn details about the vast majority of California stone fruit orchards, which have mostly been relocated from the coastal areas with ideal climate like Santa Clara County. \"Most peaches and nectarines now come from the Central Valley and they're mass produced,\" he explains. \"They pick 'em on the green side. Even the varieties themselves are being developed with more red blush only to hide the fact that they're being picked green. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They put them in bins, then they dump 'em, defuzz 'em, put fungicides on 'em and pack 'em. Then they go to a central distribution area and they can sit there for several weeks,\" Mariani recites, with a sad look in his blue eyes. \"An ideal fruit for growers now is something you can treat like gravel. You can throw it into the bins. But it has no sugar, no flavor.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/boxes-of-apricots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/boxes-of-apricots.jpg\" alt=\"These Alameda Hemskirke 'cots are sweet and rare, with a rich flavor. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84887\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These Alameda Hemskirke 'cots are sweet and rare, with a rich flavor.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariani likes to remind people that \"The riper the fruit, the more perishable it is,\" which underscores why supermarket stone fruit is frequently so disappointing. Another downside to putting green fruit in cold storage is that this creates the mealy texture that ultimately makes eating fruit a letdown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He bemoans the myth that equates redness in peaches to ripeness, recalling the customer who once looked at some of his gloriously ripe, yellow \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/ark-product.jsp?id=140\" target=\"_blank\">Suncrest peaches\u003c/a> and asked how long they needed to sit at home before turning red and thus being ready to eat. Mariani contrasts this with a high-production peach variety called Yukon King that is \"red all over and hard as a rock. When you bite into it, it breaks off in chunks like Styrofoam.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2253px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/trays-of-drying-apricots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/trays-of-drying-apricots.jpg\" alt=\"Rather than throwing all their fruit together like the factory farms, Andy's Orchard keeps each variety separate so consumers can experience their unique flavors and characteristics.\" width=\"2253\" height=\"1354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84897\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rather than throwing all their fruit together like the factory farms, Andy's Orchard keeps each variety separate so consumers can experience their unique flavors and characteristics.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says he has become \"jaundiced\" about farmers markets. \"There's a lot of abuse,\" he reports, with some vendors buying fruit from distribution centers and reselling it as their own. \"That's illegal but it happens a lot,\" he notes. For this reason, Mariani trucks his fruit over 300 miles to the only farmers market he trusts, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.smgov.net/portals/farmersmarket/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Monica\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately for Bay Area residents, Mariani has a retail store on his property (generally, fruit costs $3.50 per pound, which is equivalent to what the few other top-drawer producers charge) and his fruit is sold by produce vendors like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigonas.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sigona's\u003c/a> (in Redwood City and Palo Alto) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjolsoncherries.com/\" target=\"_blank\">C.J. Olson\u003c/a> in Sunnyvale. The low-travel approach is a \u003ca href=\"http://andysorchard.com/cart/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=95\" target=\"_blank\">fruit subscription\u003c/a> in which luscious, just-picked fruit is shipped to your door the next day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/store.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/store.jpg\" alt=\"The retail store at Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill has a huge assortment of currently-ripe stone fruit as well as vegetables grown on the ranch and by neighbors. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84895\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The retail store at Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill has a huge assortment of currently-ripe stone fruit as well as vegetables grown on the ranch and by neighbors.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariani's operation might be a throwback to a time when fruit tasted better and it was easier for small farmers to make a living, but it's not immune to modern-day pressures. \"We're an island now,\" he says, pointing at the spreading housing developments encroaching on his orchards. But as long as he's able, Mariani wants his chin-dripping, exquisite fruit to continue going into the mouths of grateful customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/houses-and-orchard.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/houses-and-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"The fruit trees at Andy's Orchard on the right are being crowded out as subdivisions increasingly take over Morgan Hill. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84893\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fruit trees at Andy's Orchard on the right are being crowded out as subdivisions increasingly take over Morgan Hill.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Andy Mariani's tips for selecting stone fruit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Season\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Look for local cherries anywhere from early to mid June. Apricots come in anywhere from late June to early July. Peaches, nectarines and plums come in from July through August.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>While there are early-season varieties, the best tasting varieties are those at peak season.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get familiar with varieties and seek them out at farmers markets and stores rather than just buying generic supermarket fruit.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/nectarines-on-tree.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/nectarines-on-tree.jpg\" alt=\"These ripening nectarines from Andy' Orchard are not from the inner part of the tree, thus will have higher quality and sweetness. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84894\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These ripening nectarines from Andy' Orchard are not from the inner part of the tree, thus will have higher quality and sweetness.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Looks\u003c/strong> \n\u003cli>Some of the best fruit is cracked and ugly. Fantastic flavor is hiding underneath.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brown spots in some apricots can mean that's a particularly sweet spot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Don't assume red skin means ripeness in peaches. Look on the stem end at the ground color. If that's gold or yellow, then generally, the peach is riper. If it's green, the fruit is not ripe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Look for the speckles on nectarines, which indicate sugar content and that the fruit is particularly sweet and was grown toward the outside of the tree, where the better fruit is located.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Avoid steep piles of fruit in the market because no tree-ripened fruit can handle such treatment. Such piles are of unripe fruit.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/sugar-dots-on-nectarine.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/sugar-dots-on-nectarine.jpg\" alt=\"These speckles on Red Raspberry nectarines from Andy' Orchard indicate particular sweetness. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84896\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These speckles on Red Raspberry nectarines from Andy's Orchard indicate particular sweetness.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Feel and aroma\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Touch the fruit and if it has a little give to it, it's on its way to ripening. If it's rubbery -- which is different from being tender and delicate -- that means it's been around for awhile. Most supermarket fruit has been off the tree for at least a month.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Aromas usually aren't there if the fruit isn't ripe. Peaches, nectarines and particularly apricots, when ripe, will be aromatic. Smell is a great indicator of quality. However, cherries have no smell and most plums -- except for Santa Rosa plums -- don't, either.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/white-donut-peach.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/white-donut-peach.jpg\" alt=\"This earlier peach variety is juicy and sweet.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84898\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This earlier peach variety is juicy and sweet.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Eating\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>For the most flavor, first bit into the sun-kissed end opposite the stem.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cooking peaches ruins the flavor.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>Information:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://andysorchard.com/cart/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Andy's Orchard\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Address:\u003c/strong> [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/PWF8Zj\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n1615 Half Road\u003cbr>\nMorgan Hill, CA 95037\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> (408) 782-7600\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours\u003c/strong> (store): Open May 15-December 31; weekdays, 10-6; weekends, 10-4.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AndysOrchard\" target=\"_blank\">Andy's Orchard\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AndysOrchard\" target=\"_blank\">@AndysOrchard\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/candycots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/candycots.jpg\" alt=\"Originating in Central Asia, these CandyCots -- intensely sweet, small apricots -- from Andy's Orchard taste like honeyed marmalade. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84888\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Originating in Central Asia, these CandyCots -- intensely sweet, small apricots -- from Andy's Orchard taste like honeyed marmalade. Photos: Susan Hathaway\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Imagine eating a peach, nectarine or plum during this stone fruit season. Sweet flavors burst in your mouth, the heady aroma envelopes you and the exploding juices run down your arm and chin. Or not. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often, the fruit available today just doesn't deliver this full-monty experience. Sold simply as \"peaches\" or \"plums,\" it's too firm. It's barely sweet. There's not enough juice to run anywhere. Blame factory farming or suburbia encroaching on California's agricultural land or just the hideous economics of making a living by growing produce. But most of us are still in search of that mythical juicy, sweet summer fruit. Can you even find it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drive to the southern end of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjpl.org/blog/canning-valley-heart-s-delight-0\" target=\"_blank\">once-agriculturally-magnificent Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a> to sleepy Morgan Hill and follow the weathered signs for \u003ca href=\"http://andysorchard.com/cart/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Andy's Orchard\u003c/a>. This unassuming operation of around 50 patched-together acres is what has been called \"the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2013/03/10-things-every-wine-lover-should-know-about-petrus\">Château Pétrus\u003c/a> of stone fruit.\" While other orchardists dry their mediocre fruit, focus on higher-margin crops like cherries or -- more likely -- have sold their land to developers, tall, low-key Andy Mariani, who's in his late 60s, is a rare artisanal grower who's \"going purely for flavor\" in the fruit he grows, he explains. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1977px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andy.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andy.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Mariani has the largest collection of heirloom stone fruit on the West Coast. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1977\" height=\"1488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84884\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Mariani has the largest collection of heirloom stone fruit on the West Coast.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariani's 250-plus varieties of stone fruit -- cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and hybrids -- represent the most extensive collection of heirloom fruit on the West Coast. Local Michelin two-stars like \u003ca href=\"http://www.manresarestaurant.com/\">Manresa\u003c/a> in Los Gatos, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baumerestaurant.com/\">Baumé\u003c/a> in Palo Alto and demanding chefs on the East Coast have Andy's Orchard on speed dial during the summer fruit season. \"Right now, my problem is having a lot more demand than supply,\" he admits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/fruit-medley.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/fruit-medley.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the stone fruit grown at Andy’s Orchard. From top right, going clockwise: Silver Logan peach, Sierra Pink peach, Raspberry Red nectarine, two “Yuliya” CandyCots, Alameda Hemskirke apricot, two Lasgerdii Mashad apricots, Galaxy doughnut peach, Red Top peach. Middle top: Dolly yellow plum; below: two Canada White apricots. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"988\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84891\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the stone fruit grown at Andy’s Orchard. From top right, going clockwise: Silver Logan peach, Sierra Pink peach, Raspberry Red nectarine, two “Yuliya” CandyCots, Alameda Hemskirke apricot, two Lasgerdii Mashad apricots, Galaxy doughnut peach, Red Top peach. Middle top: Dolly yellow plum; below: two Canada White apricots.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the conservative farming community, Mariani is viewed as a maverick. Consider his efforts with \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/California-Apricots-Orchards-Silicon-American/dp/1609497953\">apricots\u003c/a>, which the public largely dismissed years ago because \"they thought that apricots didn't taste like anything,\" he says. While other local orchardists simply dry pedestrian varieties, he is helping consumers rediscover this lovely orange fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/drying-apricots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/drying-apricots.jpg\" alt=\"Andy's Orchard dries a small part of its intensely sweet CandyCot production, which makes the fruit particularly unctuous. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84890\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy's Orchard dries a small part of its intensely sweet CandyCot production, which makes the fruit particularly unctuous.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Mariani, \"You have to find the right varieties\" and not be put off by the cultivation challenges. He's now growing 60 kinds of apricot from across the globe such as the Lasgerdii Mashad, a Persian variety whose ethereal taste chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.manresarestaurant.com/people/\">David Kinch\u003c/a> has said is like eating a cloud. \"The newest trend,\" he says, is small, outrageously sweet \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/article/sweetness-light-making-candycots\">CandyCots\u003c/a>; the bright-orange Yuliya from Central Asia tastes like honeyed marmalade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andys-Orchard-label-closeup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Andys-Orchard-label-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"The approximately 100 varieties of commercially grown stone fruit from Andy's Orchard are available via fruit subscriptions that send whatever is perfectly ripe to consumers the day after being picked. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84885\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The approximately 100 varieties of commercially grown stone fruit from Andy's Orchard are available via fruit subscriptions that send whatever is perfectly ripe to consumers the day after being picked.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Besides all his heirloom, hand-picked fruit varieties, Mariani is a horticultural wizard who continually experiments with cross breeding or refining fruit, such as the incredibly sweet, juicy, flavorful \u003ca href=\"http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ark-item/baby-crawford-peach\">Baby Crawford peach\u003c/a>. This unnamed potential drying peach was rejected by UC Davis but resurrected, improved and christened by Mariani. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/grafting.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/grafting.jpg\" alt=\"Horticulturalist Andy Mariani has an experimental orchard where he develops new strains of stone fruit. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84892\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horticulturalist Andy Mariani has an experimental orchard where he develops new strains of stone fruit.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We have one we're calling 'juice ball,'\" he says. \"It's a nectarine that when you bite into it, it's like a waterfall.\" Then there are indescribably delicious varieties he grows like the Raspberry Red nectarine, with luscious flesh and complex flavors, or the stunning \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/ark-product.jsp?id=138\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Logan\u003c/a> white peach with creamy texture, gushing juice and a super-rich, balanced taste. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After eating Mariani's varieties, it's depressing to learn details about the vast majority of California stone fruit orchards, which have mostly been relocated from the coastal areas with ideal climate like Santa Clara County. \"Most peaches and nectarines now come from the Central Valley and they're mass produced,\" he explains. \"They pick 'em on the green side. Even the varieties themselves are being developed with more red blush only to hide the fact that they're being picked green. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They put them in bins, then they dump 'em, defuzz 'em, put fungicides on 'em and pack 'em. Then they go to a central distribution area and they can sit there for several weeks,\" Mariani recites, with a sad look in his blue eyes. \"An ideal fruit for growers now is something you can treat like gravel. You can throw it into the bins. But it has no sugar, no flavor.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84887\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/boxes-of-apricots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/boxes-of-apricots.jpg\" alt=\"These Alameda Hemskirke 'cots are sweet and rare, with a rich flavor. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84887\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These Alameda Hemskirke 'cots are sweet and rare, with a rich flavor.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariani likes to remind people that \"The riper the fruit, the more perishable it is,\" which underscores why supermarket stone fruit is frequently so disappointing. Another downside to putting green fruit in cold storage is that this creates the mealy texture that ultimately makes eating fruit a letdown. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He bemoans the myth that equates redness in peaches to ripeness, recalling the customer who once looked at some of his gloriously ripe, yellow \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/ark-product.jsp?id=140\" target=\"_blank\">Suncrest peaches\u003c/a> and asked how long they needed to sit at home before turning red and thus being ready to eat. Mariani contrasts this with a high-production peach variety called Yukon King that is \"red all over and hard as a rock. When you bite into it, it breaks off in chunks like Styrofoam.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2253px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/trays-of-drying-apricots.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/trays-of-drying-apricots.jpg\" alt=\"Rather than throwing all their fruit together like the factory farms, Andy's Orchard keeps each variety separate so consumers can experience their unique flavors and characteristics.\" width=\"2253\" height=\"1354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84897\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rather than throwing all their fruit together like the factory farms, Andy's Orchard keeps each variety separate so consumers can experience their unique flavors and characteristics.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says he has become \"jaundiced\" about farmers markets. \"There's a lot of abuse,\" he reports, with some vendors buying fruit from distribution centers and reselling it as their own. \"That's illegal but it happens a lot,\" he notes. For this reason, Mariani trucks his fruit over 300 miles to the only farmers market he trusts, in \u003ca href=\"http://www.smgov.net/portals/farmersmarket/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Monica\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately for Bay Area residents, Mariani has a retail store on his property (generally, fruit costs $3.50 per pound, which is equivalent to what the few other top-drawer producers charge) and his fruit is sold by produce vendors like \u003ca href=\"http://www.sigonas.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sigona's\u003c/a> (in Redwood City and Palo Alto) and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cjolsoncherries.com/\" target=\"_blank\">C.J. Olson\u003c/a> in Sunnyvale. The low-travel approach is a \u003ca href=\"http://andysorchard.com/cart/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=95\" target=\"_blank\">fruit subscription\u003c/a> in which luscious, just-picked fruit is shipped to your door the next day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/store.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/store.jpg\" alt=\"The retail store at Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill has a huge assortment of currently-ripe stone fruit as well as vegetables grown on the ranch and by neighbors. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84895\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The retail store at Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill has a huge assortment of currently-ripe stone fruit as well as vegetables grown on the ranch and by neighbors.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariani's operation might be a throwback to a time when fruit tasted better and it was easier for small farmers to make a living, but it's not immune to modern-day pressures. \"We're an island now,\" he says, pointing at the spreading housing developments encroaching on his orchards. But as long as he's able, Mariani wants his chin-dripping, exquisite fruit to continue going into the mouths of grateful customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/houses-and-orchard.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/houses-and-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"The fruit trees at Andy's Orchard on the right are being crowded out as subdivisions increasingly take over Morgan Hill. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"515\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84893\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fruit trees at Andy's Orchard on the right are being crowded out as subdivisions increasingly take over Morgan Hill.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Andy Mariani's tips for selecting stone fruit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Season\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Look for local cherries anywhere from early to mid June. Apricots come in anywhere from late June to early July. Peaches, nectarines and plums come in from July through August.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>While there are early-season varieties, the best tasting varieties are those at peak season.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Get familiar with varieties and seek them out at farmers markets and stores rather than just buying generic supermarket fruit.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/nectarines-on-tree.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/nectarines-on-tree.jpg\" alt=\"These ripening nectarines from Andy' Orchard are not from the inner part of the tree, thus will have higher quality and sweetness. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84894\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These ripening nectarines from Andy' Orchard are not from the inner part of the tree, thus will have higher quality and sweetness.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Looks\u003c/strong> \n\u003cli>Some of the best fruit is cracked and ugly. Fantastic flavor is hiding underneath.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Brown spots in some apricots can mean that's a particularly sweet spot.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Don't assume red skin means ripeness in peaches. Look on the stem end at the ground color. If that's gold or yellow, then generally, the peach is riper. If it's green, the fruit is not ripe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Look for the speckles on nectarines, which indicate sugar content and that the fruit is particularly sweet and was grown toward the outside of the tree, where the better fruit is located.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Avoid steep piles of fruit in the market because no tree-ripened fruit can handle such treatment. Such piles are of unripe fruit.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84896\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/sugar-dots-on-nectarine.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/sugar-dots-on-nectarine.jpg\" alt=\"These speckles on Red Raspberry nectarines from Andy' Orchard indicate particular sweetness. Photo: Susan Hathaway\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84896\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These speckles on Red Raspberry nectarines from Andy's Orchard indicate particular sweetness.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Feel and aroma\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Touch the fruit and if it has a little give to it, it's on its way to ripening. If it's rubbery -- which is different from being tender and delicate -- that means it's been around for awhile. Most supermarket fruit has been off the tree for at least a month.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Aromas usually aren't there if the fruit isn't ripe. Peaches, nectarines and particularly apricots, when ripe, will be aromatic. Smell is a great indicator of quality. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/lead-photo.safia-bubakar-hands-a-plate-of-food-to-a-zendesk-employee.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/lead-photo.safia-bubakar-hands-a-plate-of-food-to-a-zendesk-employee.jpg\" alt=\"CHEFS student Safia Bubakar serves a meal to Zendesk employees. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHEFS student Safia Bubakar serves a meal to Zendesk employees. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Monday afternoon at tech company \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/04/yammer-signs-big-lease-in-twitter.html?page=all\">Yammer’s\u003c/a> headquarters on Market Street, engineers and programmers take a break from their desks, or the pinball machines and air hockey tables in the corner, and line up for snacks in the kitchen. They fill their plates with roast beef sliders with arugula, horseradish sauce and Parmesan cheese; sausage and leek quiches; and miniature blueberry cream cheese tarts. These bites aren’t prepared by a resident chef (Yammer doesn’t have one), instead they are created and served by homeless culinary students in transition, hoping for a shot in the food industry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Yammer-employees-line-up-to-get-snacks-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Yammer-employees-line-up-to-get-snacks-.jpg\" alt=\"Yammer employees line up to get snacks. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84597\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yammer employees line up to get snacks. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students are part of a six month, three-phase program called \u003ca href=\"http://ecs-sf.org/programs/chefs.html\">CHEFS\u003c/a>, or Conquering Homelessness through Employment in Food Services, operated by Episcopal Community Services. They learn everything from basic sanitation and safety in the kitchen, to knife skills, nutrition, and how to make different stocks and sauces. They also cater for various businesses around the city like Yammer, who uses CHEFS about once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-preps-lunch-for-Zendesk1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-preps-lunch-for-Zendesk1000.jpg\" alt=\"Safia Bubakar preps a catered lunch for Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84602\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safia Bubakar preps a catered lunch for Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s an opportunity I never thought I’d get,” says Safia Bubakar, who found out about CHEFS from the shelter she was staying in. Today, Bubakar made caramelized onion, mushroom, and brie crostinis for Yammer employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> When I visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.zendesk.com/\">Zendesk\u003c/a> for their CHEFS catered lunch, Bubakar was there, serving a long line of employees barbeque chicken, veggie chili, and rice pilaf. “I knew how to cook but I didn’t know why things turned out they way they do or why sauces break.” She tells me she wants to open an Asian fusion restaurant in San Francisco someday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/CHEFS-instructor-Mike-Sullivan-observes-Safia-Bubakar-g.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/CHEFS-instructor-Mike-Sullivan-observes-Safia-Bubakar-g.jpg\" alt=\"CHEFS instructor Mike Sullivan observes Safia Bubakar. Credit Angela Johnston\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84599\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHEFS instructor Mike Sullivan observes Safia Bubakar. Credit Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of the program, students get internships at well-known restaurants around the Bay Area like Nopa, Mission Pie, Boulevard, Kokkari and Zut. Many of them even secure jobs there after graduating. More than 75% of students graduate with steady employment and a place to live. The program is now in its 17th year and has had over 50 graduating classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, CHEFS has begun to cater meals for tech companies that have moved into the mid-market and Tenderloin neighborhoods after receiving big tax incentives from the city. In order to receive a payroll tax cut, companies need to form community benefit agreements, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5480\">CBAs\u003c/a>, contracts with the city that show how they’ll contribute to their new neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Software company Zendesk was the first to add CHEFS to their \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=8285\">CBA\u003c/a> back in 2011. Zoosk, Zynga and Yammer followed. According to their annual community benefit agreements report, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9685\">last year\u003c/a> Zendesk spent just under $100,000 in donations and hiring local businesses. $3,500 of that went to CHEFS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless San Franciscans serving tech workers lunch is an interesting juxtaposition. Critics of the mid-market tech revitalization argue that it's the the tech companies that are driving up rent and contributing to even more homelessness. But CHEFS culinary training manager Al Leddy says this is an effective way to bridge the gap between rich companies moving into poor neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, and the existing residents, many of whom are in shelters, transitional housing, or living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Al-Leddy-explains-the-snacks-his-CHEFS-students-made-for-Yammer1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Al-Leddy-explains-the-snacks-his-CHEFS-students-made-for-Yammer1.jpg\" alt=\"Al Leddy explains the snacks his CHEFS students made for Yammer employees. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Leddy explains the snacks his CHEFS students made for Yammer employees. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It's definitely working,” Leddy says. “The students get to come in, they get to meet people that work in high tech, and most importantly they're treated with respect, which goes a long way for them.” It’s extremely important, he says, to create this initial connection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The food is just outstanding,” says Cristina Akimoff, the community liaison in charge of maintaining Yammer’s relationship with the neighborhood and nonprofits like CHEFS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akimoff says she would like to have CHEFS come in more consistently; weekly or twice a month, rather than once a month for an event. Part of that would involve restructuring Yammer’s community benefit agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'd really like to narrow it down so that we're not stretched so thin, so we can really hone in on two or three really great organizations like CHEFS and make a big impact there instead of tiny impacts in a bunch of different places,” Akimoff says. This has been a common critique of the mid-market community benefits agreements - parachuting into a nonprofit for a day, serving breakfast, or reading to kids, and then moving on to the next one. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Yammer-employee-adds-some-stuffed-mushrooms-to-her-plate.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Yammer-employee-adds-some-stuffed-mushrooms-to-her-plate.jpg\" alt=\"A Yammer employee adds some stuffed mushrooms to her plate. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84661\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yammer employee adds some stuffed mushrooms to her plate. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With CHEFS, in some cases, you can already see a small impact. Mobile gaming company \u003ca href=\"http://zynga.com/\">Zynga\u003c/a> has hired a few homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gTu9iHiGs\">CHEFS graduates\u003c/a> to work in the startup’s massive kitchen, assisting their in-house butcher, baker, and brewer. A few weeks ago, the current class took a field trip to Zynga’s kitchen to hear from the former CHEFS students who now work there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the people who actually live, and cook breakfast, lunch and dinner in the mid-market and Tenderloin neighborhoods, a nutritious, and filling meal is still difficult to come by. There isn’t a \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2014/03/a-fresh-food-oasis-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin.php\">full service grocery store\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin. The district has the city’s highest concentration of convenience stores -- places more likely to sell potato chips and alcohol than apples and whole wheat bread. And according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/mtgsGrps/FoodSecTaskFrc/docs/AChangingLandscape-FoodSecurityintheTenderloin.pdf\">ratio of unhealthy to healthy food\u003c/a> retailers here is 97% to 3%. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some tech companies have vowed to help fix this food desert problem in their new neighborhoods, data shows that most nonprofit programs are unable to sufficiently meet the current food and nutrition needs of the city and the Tenderloin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmfoodbank.org/sites/default/files/documents/OurWork/coping_with_accelerating_food_needs_2012_final.pdf\">A 2012 study\u003c/a> conducted by Stanford and the San Francisco Food Bank estimates that there were over 63 million “missing” meals, or unmet food need, in San Francisco in 2010. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're just one ripple in the giant pond. We are very clear that we aren’t here to be heroes. We aren’t here to have the big solution that answers everything. We just want to be the person that helps the person in front of us and show people that we value the talent that they are literally bringing to our table,” says Tiffany Apczynski, a community liaison with Zendesk and the first person to bring CHEFS to a tech company kitchen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-serves-a-meal-to-Zendesk-employees1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-serves-a-meal-to-Zendesk-employees1000.jpg\" alt=\"Safia Bubakar serves a meal to an employee at Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84603\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safia Bubakar serves a meal to an employee at Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at Yammer, Victoria (who did not want to give her last name), a student halfway through the program, lays down the final tray of stuffed mushrooms on the stainless steel counters. She tells me when she graduates from CHEFS she’d much rather cook for a startup than a restaurant because they pay better. The program has managed to give her and other people in transition more opportunities to get out of shelters and out of poverty, but there’s still bigger issues created by the tech boom, she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could get more affordable housing so that the people who become chefs could afford housing in the city they work in, now that would be solving something.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a Monday afternoon at tech company \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/04/yammer-signs-big-lease-in-twitter.html?page=all\">Yammer’s\u003c/a> headquarters on Market Street, engineers and programmers take a break from their desks, or the pinball machines and air hockey tables in the corner, and line up for snacks in the kitchen. They fill their plates with roast beef sliders with arugula, horseradish sauce and Parmesan cheese; sausage and leek quiches; and miniature blueberry cream cheese tarts. These bites aren’t prepared by a resident chef (Yammer doesn’t have one), instead they are created and served by homeless culinary students in transition, hoping for a shot in the food industry. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Yammer-employees-line-up-to-get-snacks-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Yammer-employees-line-up-to-get-snacks-.jpg\" alt=\"Yammer employees line up to get snacks. Photo: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84597\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yammer employees line up to get snacks. Photo: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The students are part of a six month, three-phase program called \u003ca href=\"http://ecs-sf.org/programs/chefs.html\">CHEFS\u003c/a>, or Conquering Homelessness through Employment in Food Services, operated by Episcopal Community Services. They learn everything from basic sanitation and safety in the kitchen, to knife skills, nutrition, and how to make different stocks and sauces. They also cater for various businesses around the city like Yammer, who uses CHEFS about once a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84602\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-preps-lunch-for-Zendesk1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-preps-lunch-for-Zendesk1000.jpg\" alt=\"Safia Bubakar preps a catered lunch for Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84602\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safia Bubakar preps a catered lunch for Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s an opportunity I never thought I’d get,” says Safia Bubakar, who found out about CHEFS from the shelter she was staying in. Today, Bubakar made caramelized onion, mushroom, and brie crostinis for Yammer employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> When I visited \u003ca href=\"http://www.zendesk.com/\">Zendesk\u003c/a> for their CHEFS catered lunch, Bubakar was there, serving a long line of employees barbeque chicken, veggie chili, and rice pilaf. “I knew how to cook but I didn’t know why things turned out they way they do or why sauces break.” She tells me she wants to open an Asian fusion restaurant in San Francisco someday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/CHEFS-instructor-Mike-Sullivan-observes-Safia-Bubakar-g.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/CHEFS-instructor-Mike-Sullivan-observes-Safia-Bubakar-g.jpg\" alt=\"CHEFS instructor Mike Sullivan observes Safia Bubakar. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, CHEFS has begun to cater meals for tech companies that have moved into the mid-market and Tenderloin neighborhoods after receiving big tax incentives from the city. In order to receive a payroll tax cut, companies need to form community benefit agreements, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=5480\">CBAs\u003c/a>, contracts with the city that show how they’ll contribute to their new neighborhood. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Software company Zendesk was the first to add CHEFS to their \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=8285\">CBA\u003c/a> back in 2011. Zoosk, Zynga and Yammer followed. According to their annual community benefit agreements report, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgsa.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9685\">last year\u003c/a> Zendesk spent just under $100,000 in donations and hiring local businesses. $3,500 of that went to CHEFS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless San Franciscans serving tech workers lunch is an interesting juxtaposition. Critics of the mid-market tech revitalization argue that it's the the tech companies that are driving up rent and contributing to even more homelessness. But CHEFS culinary training manager Al Leddy says this is an effective way to bridge the gap between rich companies moving into poor neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, and the existing residents, many of whom are in shelters, transitional housing, or living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Al-Leddy-explains-the-snacks-his-CHEFS-students-made-for-Yammer1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Al-Leddy-explains-the-snacks-his-CHEFS-students-made-for-Yammer1.jpg\" alt=\"Al Leddy explains the snacks his CHEFS students made for Yammer employees. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Leddy explains the snacks his CHEFS students made for Yammer employees. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It's definitely working,” Leddy says. “The students get to come in, they get to meet people that work in high tech, and most importantly they're treated with respect, which goes a long way for them.” It’s extremely important, he says, to create this initial connection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The food is just outstanding,” says Cristina Akimoff, the community liaison in charge of maintaining Yammer’s relationship with the neighborhood and nonprofits like CHEFS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Akimoff says she would like to have CHEFS come in more consistently; weekly or twice a month, rather than once a month for an event. Part of that would involve restructuring Yammer’s community benefit agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'd really like to narrow it down so that we're not stretched so thin, so we can really hone in on two or three really great organizations like CHEFS and make a big impact there instead of tiny impacts in a bunch of different places,” Akimoff says. This has been a common critique of the mid-market community benefits agreements - parachuting into a nonprofit for a day, serving breakfast, or reading to kids, and then moving on to the next one. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Yammer-employee-adds-some-stuffed-mushrooms-to-her-plate.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/A-Yammer-employee-adds-some-stuffed-mushrooms-to-her-plate.jpg\" alt=\"A Yammer employee adds some stuffed mushrooms to her plate. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84661\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Yammer employee adds some stuffed mushrooms to her plate. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With CHEFS, in some cases, you can already see a small impact. Mobile gaming company \u003ca href=\"http://zynga.com/\">Zynga\u003c/a> has hired a few homeless \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6gTu9iHiGs\">CHEFS graduates\u003c/a> to work in the startup’s massive kitchen, assisting their in-house butcher, baker, and brewer. A few weeks ago, the current class took a field trip to Zynga’s kitchen to hear from the former CHEFS students who now work there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the people who actually live, and cook breakfast, lunch and dinner in the mid-market and Tenderloin neighborhoods, a nutritious, and filling meal is still difficult to come by. There isn’t a \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2014/03/a-fresh-food-oasis-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin.php\">full service grocery store\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin. The district has the city’s highest concentration of convenience stores -- places more likely to sell potato chips and alcohol than apples and whole wheat bread. And according to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/mtgsGrps/FoodSecTaskFrc/docs/AChangingLandscape-FoodSecurityintheTenderloin.pdf\">ratio of unhealthy to healthy food\u003c/a> retailers here is 97% to 3%. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although some tech companies have vowed to help fix this food desert problem in their new neighborhoods, data shows that most nonprofit programs are unable to sufficiently meet the current food and nutrition needs of the city and the Tenderloin. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmfoodbank.org/sites/default/files/documents/OurWork/coping_with_accelerating_food_needs_2012_final.pdf\">A 2012 study\u003c/a> conducted by Stanford and the San Francisco Food Bank estimates that there were over 63 million “missing” meals, or unmet food need, in San Francisco in 2010. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're just one ripple in the giant pond. We are very clear that we aren’t here to be heroes. We aren’t here to have the big solution that answers everything. We just want to be the person that helps the person in front of us and show people that we value the talent that they are literally bringing to our table,” says Tiffany Apczynski, a community liaison with Zendesk and the first person to bring CHEFS to a tech company kitchen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-serves-a-meal-to-Zendesk-employees1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/Safia-Bubakar-serves-a-meal-to-Zendesk-employees1000.jpg\" alt=\"Safia Bubakar serves a meal to an employee at Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84603\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safia Bubakar serves a meal to an employee at Zendesk. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at Yammer, Victoria (who did not want to give her last name), a student halfway through the program, lays down the final tray of stuffed mushrooms on the stainless steel counters. She tells me when she graduates from CHEFS she’d much rather cook for a startup than a restaurant because they pay better. The program has managed to give her and other people in transition more opportunities to get out of shelters and out of poverty, but there’s still bigger issues created by the tech boom, she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_exterior1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84616\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_exterior1000.jpg\" alt=\"Crossroads, from outside. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"781\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossroads, from outside. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this era of the $12 hamburger, lots of us are searching high and low for affordable dining options. Here's one that's hiding in plain sight — although it’s haunted by lingering memories of grim gray patties and the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman_15\">Freshman 15\u003c/a>: university residence-hall buffets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hey, they've changed. Organic, vegetarian and vegan options are now ubiquitous at facilities such as UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://caldining.berkeley.edu/crossroads.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crossroads\u003c/a>, which sources its ingredients from famously sustainable outfits including Niman Ranch, Hodo Soy, Bi-Rite, Wild Planet, Peet's Coffee, Peerless Coffee, Mary's Chickens, Wilcox Eggs, Alvarado Street Bakery, Numi and Silk. Augmenting a wide array of cooked entrées (think pizza, tagine, tofu steaks and pho) at any given meal, Crossroads also sports house-baked pastries, an organic salad bar — audited regularly by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccof.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Certified Organic Farmers\u003c/a> organization — and an extensive cold-cereal bar that's accessible morning, noon and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_scones1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_scones1000.jpg\" alt=\"Freshly baked scones. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"622\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly baked scones. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And what’s the price for as much of this and more as you care to eat? Ten dollars at dinner. Nine at lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all prepared in a lively, organic, open kitchen under the direction of Crossroads' executive chef Marcos Hernandez, a young California Culinary Institute/Greystone alumnus whose previous gigs include Postino and Cliff House. It's served smilingly in an airy, sunny, certified-green building — one of Berkeley's first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/marcos_hernandez1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/marcos_hernandez1000.jpg\" alt=\"Executive chef Marcos Hernandez in the Crossroads kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84765\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive chef Marcos Hernandez in the Crossroads kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking — with its soaring ceiling, sweeping stainless-steel angularity, potted palms and glass-enclosed patio — like a tiny airport, this multi-award-winning Bay Area Green Business has one downside if you relish personal service: Yours will be one of some 3,500 meals prepared here today. Crossroads sometimes gets crowded. But hey, so does Comal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_salad_bar1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_salad_bar1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Organic Salad Bar at Crossroads. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84767\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organic Salad Bar at Crossroads. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not that Crossroads rivals \u003ca href=\"http://www.comalberkeley.com/\">Comal\u003c/a> for potential Michelin stars. But Crossroads has the edge when it comes to customizability: Its comprehensiveness lets you tweak, tailor and personalize your meal to a degree unimaginable at standard restaurants. Crave tacos and clam chowder, side by side? No problem. Want sliced pears \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Sriracha sauce in your triple-decker ham sandwich? Beef teriyaki on naan? A baked potato stuffed with vegan sausage, marinated mushrooms and a whole mugful of pumpkin seeds? Done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/ida_shen1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84610\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/ida_shen1000.jpg\" alt=\"Ida Shen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ida Shen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people are prejudiced against buffets. And there's a general stigma against eating in a student dining hall,\" says Ida Shen, culinary and catering director for \u003ca href=\"http://caldining.berkeley.edu/\">Cal Dining\u003c/a>, the self-supporting, independent nonprofit that operates Crossroads and other open-to-the-public UC Berkeley student-dining facilities such as Café 3, whose sushi bar is wildly popular and whose pop-arty design evokes Mad Men meets The Jetsons in a psychedelic Tokyo disco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people didn't have good dining-hall experiences in their own college days,\" Shen sighs. \"They remember gray mystery meat. They don't realize how much things have changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_interior1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_interior1000.jpg\" alt=\"A typical lunchtime scene at Crossroads. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"677\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A typical lunchtime scene at Crossroads. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But change abounds. In 2006, the Crossroads' kitchen became the first in any college dining hall nationwide to be certified organic. That same year, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unh.edu/dining/community/about.html\">University of New Hampshire\u003c/a> — which operates its own organic dairy farm and, like many schools, welcomes non-students into its dining halls — became the nation's first college to sign the International Slow Food Association's Agreement of Intention and Collaboration. Ever more universities are increasing their dining-hall sustainability; Yale, Bowdoin and Michigan State, for example, source produce from their own organic gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This trend is transforming these institutions into attractive, under-the-radar options not just for students but for anyone seeking to dine out, dine well and dine affordably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area student-dining facilities open to the public include the University of San Francisco's largely organic Market Café, outfitted with a fifteen-foot salad bar. Non-students can eat buffet-style at CD-operated Clark Kerr Campus, Foothill, Café 3, and Crossroads, as well as at Berkeley's mouthwatering International House dining hall, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsu.edu/~housing/dining/dining.html#\">San Francisco State's City Eats Dining Center\u003c/a> and several \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/dining/visitors-gateway\">Stanford University dining halls\u003c/a> for the price of a single sandwich at La Note, say, or Luka's Taproom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don't need a college degree to do that math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/shawn_lapean1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/shawn_lapean1000.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Dining director Shawn LaPean. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Dining’s director Shawn LaPean. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone's working on making college dining more sustainable. We're on a path toward getting better at that every day,\" says Cal Dining's director Shawn LaPean, who hails Cal Dining's partnerships with the Marine Stewardship Council, the \"Buy Fresh, Buy Local\" campaign, the Real Food Challenge, the LeanPath Food Waste Prevention Project, Feeding Forward, Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions, the Green Initiative Fund, and the Berkeley Environmentally Aware Consulting Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_kitchen1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_kitchen1000.jpg\" alt=\"The Crossroads' open kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"624\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crossroads' open kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bottom line, of course, is serving Cal Dining's target audience: students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What do students want? Flavor. Safety. Sustainability. Salmon. They want gourmet food at Walmart prices,\" LaPean laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College dining programs can afford to offer affordable abundance because they buy ingredients in such quantities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's all about economies of scale,\" LaPean explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads has tripled its meals-served volume over the last decade: the same span of time between the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1036711327163385908\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> calling Cal Dining the nation's worst college-meals program in 2002 and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailymeal.com/60-best-colleges-food-america-2013\">TheDailyMeal.com\u003c/a> deeming it, last year, one of the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This tripling of volume has allowed us to have an organic salad bar stocked with all those nuts and seeds,\" LaPean adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don't have to be under 23 to love that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_pizza1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_pizza1000.jpg\" alt=\"Vegetarian pizza. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"675\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vegetarian pizza. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caldining.berkeley.edu/locations/dining-commons/crossroads\" target=\"_blank\">Crossroads\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2415 Bowditch St. (at Channing Way) Berkeley, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/rioK17\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPhone: (510) 643-8323\u003cbr>\nSummer hours: Open daily: Breakfast: 7am-9am.; Lunch, 11am-2pm; Dinner, 5pm-9pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/caldining\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Dining\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caldining\" target=\"_blank\">@CalDining\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_exterior1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84616\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_exterior1000.jpg\" alt=\"Crossroads, from outside. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"781\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crossroads, from outside. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this era of the $12 hamburger, lots of us are searching high and low for affordable dining options. Here's one that's hiding in plain sight — although it’s haunted by lingering memories of grim gray patties and the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman_15\">Freshman 15\u003c/a>: university residence-hall buffets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hey, they've changed. Organic, vegetarian and vegan options are now ubiquitous at facilities such as UC Berkeley's \u003ca href=\"http://caldining.berkeley.edu/crossroads.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crossroads\u003c/a>, which sources its ingredients from famously sustainable outfits including Niman Ranch, Hodo Soy, Bi-Rite, Wild Planet, Peet's Coffee, Peerless Coffee, Mary's Chickens, Wilcox Eggs, Alvarado Street Bakery, Numi and Silk. Augmenting a wide array of cooked entrées (think pizza, tagine, tofu steaks and pho) at any given meal, Crossroads also sports house-baked pastries, an organic salad bar — audited regularly by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccof.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Certified Organic Farmers\u003c/a> organization — and an extensive cold-cereal bar that's accessible morning, noon and night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84612\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_scones1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_scones1000.jpg\" alt=\"Freshly baked scones. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"622\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly baked scones. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And what’s the price for as much of this and more as you care to eat? Ten dollars at dinner. Nine at lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all prepared in a lively, organic, open kitchen under the direction of Crossroads' executive chef Marcos Hernandez, a young California Culinary Institute/Greystone alumnus whose previous gigs include Postino and Cliff House. It's served smilingly in an airy, sunny, certified-green building — one of Berkeley's first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84765\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/marcos_hernandez1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/marcos_hernandez1000.jpg\" alt=\"Executive chef Marcos Hernandez in the Crossroads kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84765\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive chef Marcos Hernandez in the Crossroads kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking — with its soaring ceiling, sweeping stainless-steel angularity, potted palms and glass-enclosed patio — like a tiny airport, this multi-award-winning Bay Area Green Business has one downside if you relish personal service: Yours will be one of some 3,500 meals prepared here today. Crossroads sometimes gets crowded. But hey, so does Comal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_salad_bar1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_salad_bar1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Organic Salad Bar at Crossroads. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84767\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organic Salad Bar at Crossroads. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not that Crossroads rivals \u003ca href=\"http://www.comalberkeley.com/\">Comal\u003c/a> for potential Michelin stars. But Crossroads has the edge when it comes to customizability: Its comprehensiveness lets you tweak, tailor and personalize your meal to a degree unimaginable at standard restaurants. Crave tacos and clam chowder, side by side? No problem. Want sliced pears \u003cem>and\u003c/em> Sriracha sauce in your triple-decker ham sandwich? Beef teriyaki on naan? A baked potato stuffed with vegan sausage, marinated mushrooms and a whole mugful of pumpkin seeds? Done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/ida_shen1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84610\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/ida_shen1000.jpg\" alt=\"Ida Shen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ida Shen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people are prejudiced against buffets. And there's a general stigma against eating in a student dining hall,\" says Ida Shen, culinary and catering director for \u003ca href=\"http://caldining.berkeley.edu/\">Cal Dining\u003c/a>, the self-supporting, independent nonprofit that operates Crossroads and other open-to-the-public UC Berkeley student-dining facilities such as Café 3, whose sushi bar is wildly popular and whose pop-arty design evokes Mad Men meets The Jetsons in a psychedelic Tokyo disco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some people didn't have good dining-hall experiences in their own college days,\" Shen sighs. \"They remember gray mystery meat. They don't realize how much things have changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_interior1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84615\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_interior1000.jpg\" alt=\"A typical lunchtime scene at Crossroads. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"677\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A typical lunchtime scene at Crossroads. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But change abounds. In 2006, the Crossroads' kitchen became the first in any college dining hall nationwide to be certified organic. That same year, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unh.edu/dining/community/about.html\">University of New Hampshire\u003c/a> — which operates its own organic dairy farm and, like many schools, welcomes non-students into its dining halls — became the nation's first college to sign the International Slow Food Association's Agreement of Intention and Collaboration. Ever more universities are increasing their dining-hall sustainability; Yale, Bowdoin and Michigan State, for example, source produce from their own organic gardens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This trend is transforming these institutions into attractive, under-the-radar options not just for students but for anyone seeking to dine out, dine well and dine affordably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area student-dining facilities open to the public include the University of San Francisco's largely organic Market Café, outfitted with a fifteen-foot salad bar. Non-students can eat buffet-style at CD-operated Clark Kerr Campus, Foothill, Café 3, and Crossroads, as well as at Berkeley's mouthwatering International House dining hall, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfsu.edu/~housing/dining/dining.html#\">San Francisco State's City Eats Dining Center\u003c/a> and several \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/dining/visitors-gateway\">Stanford University dining halls\u003c/a> for the price of a single sandwich at La Note, say, or Luka's Taproom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You don't need a college degree to do that math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/shawn_lapean1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/shawn_lapean1000.jpg\" alt=\"Cal Dining director Shawn LaPean. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cal Dining’s director Shawn LaPean. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone's working on making college dining more sustainable. We're on a path toward getting better at that every day,\" says Cal Dining's director Shawn LaPean, who hails Cal Dining's partnerships with the Marine Stewardship Council, the \"Buy Fresh, Buy Local\" campaign, the Real Food Challenge, the LeanPath Food Waste Prevention Project, Feeding Forward, Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions, the Green Initiative Fund, and the Berkeley Environmentally Aware Consulting Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_kitchen1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84614\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_kitchen1000.jpg\" alt=\"The Crossroads' open kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\" width=\"1000\" height=\"624\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crossroads' open kitchen. Photo: Kristan Lawson\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bottom line, of course, is serving Cal Dining's target audience: students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What do students want? Flavor. Safety. Sustainability. Salmon. They want gourmet food at Walmart prices,\" LaPean laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College dining programs can afford to offer affordable abundance because they buy ingredients in such quantities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's all about economies of scale,\" LaPean explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crossroads has tripled its meals-served volume over the last decade: the same span of time between the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1036711327163385908\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> calling Cal Dining the nation's worst college-meals program in 2002 and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailymeal.com/60-best-colleges-food-america-2013\">TheDailyMeal.com\u003c/a> deeming it, last year, one of the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This tripling of volume has allowed us to have an organic salad bar stocked with all those nuts and seeds,\" LaPean adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you don't have to be under 23 to love that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_pizza1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84613\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/crossroads_pizza1000.jpg\" alt=\"Vegetarian pizza. Photo: Anneli Rufus\" width=\"1000\" height=\"675\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vegetarian pizza. Photo: Anneli Rufus\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caldining.berkeley.edu/locations/dining-commons/crossroads\" target=\"_blank\">Crossroads\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2415 Bowditch St. (at Channing Way) Berkeley, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/rioK17\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPhone: (510) 643-8323\u003cbr>\nSummer hours: Open daily: Breakfast: 7am-9am.; Lunch, 11am-2pm; Dinner, 5pm-9pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/caldining\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Dining\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/caldining\" target=\"_blank\">@CalDining\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84681\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/07/09/velobrews-cafe-and-cycling-community-center-now-open-in-bayview/velobrews11/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84681\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84681\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/velobrews11.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Del Duca and Jennifer Leeper \" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Del Duca and Jennifer Leeper\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'll readily admit that I'm a fan of any establishment that combines my dual love of coffee and cycling in one place -- like NOPA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.mojobicyclecafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mojo Bicycle Cafe\u003c/a> that also houses a bike shop; Oakland's \u003ca href=\"http://actualcafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Actual Cafe\u003c/a> with indoor bike parking and bicycle bingo nights; and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bicyclecoffeeco.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bicycle Coffee\u003c/a>, which makes all of its deliveries by bicycle. So when the \u003ca href=\"http://velobrews.com/\" target=\"_blank\">VeloBrews Cafe and Cycling Community Center\u003c/a> popped up on my radar recently, I connected with Jennifer Leeper and Ross Del Duca, to find out more about their new venture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery link=\"file\" ids=\"84672,84673,84671\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partners in life and in business, the co-general managers and Bayview residents live just a few blocks away from their airy space on 3rd Avenue near Newcomb Avenue. With bicycles hanging from the ceiling and cycling-themed art scattered throughout the space, it's a relaxing atmosphere for folks to either enjoy their coffee or pop in for bike repair. There's plans to host screenings soon, but in the meantime, they'll have video from the ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://www.letour.com/us/\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France\u003c/a> playing in the background.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery link=\"file\" ids=\"84675,84674,84678\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How long has VeloBrews been open?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> The official opening day of the bike shop was May 4th, which was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sundaystreetssf.com/bayviewdogpatch-5414/\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Streets in the Bayview\u003c/a>. The cafe opened for coffee a week later, and we've been steadily increasing our offerings since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your respective roles in running VeloBrews?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> We both serve as general managers, though I lean more toward the cafe side of things. One of the nice things about our relationship is that our strengths complement each other; we balance out each others weaknesses pretty well. It's nice that this has carried over from our personal relationship into our professional one. I've done much of the sourcing in regards to suppliers on the food end, and I'm working on company policy and procedure. I'm also trying to be there as much as I can before I go back to work in August [in education] to help get things together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> I'm a bit spoiled; I get to be the \"vision\" guy. While I am involved in the operations of the cafe, I tend to focus most of my efforts on the bicycle retail side, as well as helping out our shop manager to run the repair services. I also spend a lot of my time reaching out to local bicycle groups and organizations to find out what we can offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/07/09/velobrews-cafe-and-cycling-community-center-now-open-in-bayview/velobrews10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84680\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/velobrews10.jpg\" alt=\"VeloBrews Cafe & Cycling Community Center\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84680\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the inspiration for creating VeloBrews?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> For me, it was a desire to build community and have a place where people could hang out. I've lived in Bayview-Hunter's Point for about nine years now. A few years ago, I met up with a former student; it was disappointing, because there was no place where we could sit down, have a cup of coffee and talk. I realized that our neighborhood was really lacking in places where people could go to meet, and I wished that I had a way to provide something like that for myself and other members of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> I've basically been building the place that I've always wanted to have available myself. I'm passionate about cycling and love hanging out and talking about bikes -- in all applications. So the idea is a place where you can meet with your local riding club, or just grab a cup of coffee and share cycling stories with other cyclists. Somewhere where the competitive cyclist can sit next to the daily bicycle commuter, share a sandwich and their interests in the bicycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's your related experience in restaurant management and/or cycling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/07/09/velobrews-cafe-and-cycling-community-center-now-open-in-bayview/velobrews15/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84685\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/velobrews15-290x162.jpg\" alt=\"Jennifer Leeper\" width=\"290\" height=\"162\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> I have absolutely no restaurant management experience and EXTREMELY limited food service experience. I am an educator, and any management experience I have comes from running a classroom. I love food and I love to eat -- that's where most of my experience comes from. As for cycling, well, I hadn't been on a bike since I was in high school. After meeting Ross and knowing his passion for cycling, I was inspired to get a bike myself. I love my commuter bike, and we've had a few fun rides out in the city. I like to stay in shape but I rarely have much time for the gym, so it's good for me to remember that I can ride my bike from time to time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> I've been riding for awhile now. I've also been running a cycling media company called VeloReviews. That got me a lot of exposure to the bicycle retail business as a person reporting on products and companies. Restaurant management is a new endeavor for both of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where do you source the items on your menu, or is all of the food and drinks prepared from scratch on site?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_84689\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/07/09/velobrews-cafe-and-cycling-community-center-now-open-in-bayview/velobrews19/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84689\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-84689\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/velobrews19.jpg\" alt=\"The Contador Sandwich: hummus; Monterey Jack cheese; avocado; artichoke hearts; roasted red peppers; red onion; bell pepper; sprouts; Italian dressing (but free of clenbuterol-tainted beef.) $6.50\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The description for the Alberto \"Contador\" sandwich ($6.50) jokes about the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/contador-banned-for-two-years-after-clenbuterol-positive-45544\" target=\"_blank\">2-year ban the pro racer faced\u003c/a> after testing positive for a prohibited drug, which he claimed he obtained through tainted beef. It's prepared with hummus; Monterey Jack cheese; avocado; artichoke hearts; roasted red peppers; red onion; bell pepper; sprouts; and Italian dressing (but of course, free of clenbuterol-tainted beef.) They've also recently revamped their sandwich menu with other references to popular cycling rides, races and athletes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> We're keeping things simple and just making sandwiches, which we offer along with products from other local vendors. Our goal is to keep all our food offerings as local as possible. Our coffee comes from \u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntucoffeecoop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ubuntu Coffee Cooperative\u003c/a> in Emeryville and we serve chai from \u003ca href=\"http://www.baychaisf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Chai\u003c/a> here in SF. Our bagels are from \u003ca href=\"http://www.sourflour.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Sour Flour\u003c/a> and the pastries from \u003ca href=\"http://www.lavictoriabakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">La Victoria Bakery\u003c/a> in SF. We also carry cookies from \u003ca href=\"http://eatsaltysweet.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Salty Sweet\u003c/a>. We just started using jams and chutneys from \u003ca href=\"http://www.jakescastrokitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jake's Castro Kitchen\u003c/a>, as well as carrying chicken salad from \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Comfort-Foods-National-Inc/107842212594062\" target=\"_blank\">Comfort Foods National\u003c/a>, Inc. We've connected with \u003ca href=\"http://kingknish.com/\" target=\"_blank\">King Knish\u003c/a> and will be hosting Saturday pop-ups over the next couple months. There are some other small, local businesses we hope to partner with soon; we'd like to use the Bayview honey from \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhoneyandpollen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SF Honey and Pollen Company\u003c/a> and some gluten-free options from \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholesomebakery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Wholesome Bakery\u003c/a>. Keep checking back for new offerings!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery link=\"file\" ids=\"84682,84690,84687,84683,84686,84684\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What services does the cycling community center offer?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> We of course have the full-service bicycle shop with repairs and sales. However, the community center part will focus on bicycle advocacy work as well as education. We're still working to get the necessary connections in place and will very shortly be offering classes for basic skills needed to successfully get around by bicycle: how to fix a flat tire, adjust your brakes, adjust your gears, etc. One of the core principles is to get more people out on bicycles. Obviously getting their bikes fixed is part of that mission, but helping them to get home without getting stranded is much more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery link=\"file\" ids=\"84679,84677,84676\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anything you'd like to add?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> I think we've gotten off to a good start and will only continue to improve as we move forward. I know things aren't perfect, but our hearts are in in this 100% and I believe that shows. One of the best things about being involved in this venture is that we've met a lot of fantastic people in our community, who've given us a great deal of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> I've been very pleasantly surprised how well the bike shop has been doing, and how much pent-up demand [there is] for bicycle repairs. There have been a number of people that have come in for a cup of coffee and discovered that we are a bike shop, too. It is the folks like this that say, \"This bike has been sitting in my garage for two years. Now that there is a shop in the neighborhood, I'll bring it in to get fixed.\" This is exactly the type of thing that we're about - getting more people on bikes. And hopefully they'll run into other bicycle people while they're in the shop and that will just encourage them more. Cycling is a fantastic activity that has had nothing but a positive impact on my life. Sharing that with others is the reason we are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://velobrews.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>VeloBrews Cafe and Cycling Community Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n4634 3rd St. at Newcomb, San Francisco [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/NVOAB\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: 415-926-8930\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon.-Fri. 6:30AM-4PM; Sat.-Sun. 8AM-4PM\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/velobrews\" target=\"_blank\">VeloBrew Cafe and Cycling Community Center\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/velobrews\" target=\"_blank\">@VeloBrews\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All photos by Jenny Oh\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I also spend a lot of my time reaching out to local bicycle groups and organizations to find out what we can offer them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/07/09/velobrews-cafe-and-cycling-community-center-now-open-in-bayview/velobrews10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84680\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/07/velobrews10.jpg\" alt=\"VeloBrews Cafe & Cycling Community Center\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84680\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the inspiration for creating VeloBrews?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> For me, it was a desire to build community and have a place where people could hang out. I've lived in Bayview-Hunter's Point for about nine years now. A few years ago, I met up with a former student; it was disappointing, because there was no place where we could sit down, have a cup of coffee and talk. I realized that our neighborhood was really lacking in places where people could go to meet, and I wished that I had a way to provide something like that for myself and other members of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross:\u003c/strong> I've basically been building the place that I've always wanted to have available myself. I'm passionate about cycling and love hanging out and talking about bikes -- in all applications. So the idea is a place where you can meet with your local riding club, or just grab a cup of coffee and share cycling stories with other cyclists. 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It's prepared with hummus; Monterey Jack cheese; avocado; artichoke hearts; roasted red peppers; red onion; bell pepper; sprouts; and Italian dressing (but of course, free of clenbuterol-tainted beef.) They've also recently revamped their sandwich menu with other references to popular cycling rides, races and athletes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer:\u003c/strong> We're keeping things simple and just making sandwiches, which we offer along with products from other local vendors. Our goal is to keep all our food offerings as local as possible. Our coffee comes from \u003ca href=\"http://www.ubuntucoffeecoop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Ubuntu Coffee Cooperative\u003c/a> in Emeryville and we serve chai from \u003ca href=\"http://www.baychaisf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Chai\u003c/a> here in SF. 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