With a succession plan in place, the Food Mill remains a consistent community presence offering a broad range of supplements, bulk foods and other hard-to-find items.
Alix Wall
Alix Wall is an Oakland-based freelance writer. She is contributing editor of J., The Jewish News of Northern California, for which she has a food column and writes other features. In addition to Berkeleyside’s Nosh, her writing can be found in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Edible East Bay and more. Alix is also the founder of The Illuminoshi: The Not-So-Secret Society of Bay Area Jewish Food Professionals and is producer/writer of a documentary in progress called “The Lonely Child.” Her web site is: https://alix-wall.com/
Posted inNosh Features
Only 2 shops in the U.S. get this colossal Italian cheese. One is in Oakland
The arrival of a 350-pound wheel of Crucolo is met with prayers, dancing and fanfare each year in Rockridge.
Posted inNosh Features
Remembering an Oakland chef and house-concert host
Jeff Rosen died of kidney cancer earlier this year. His family is launching a nonprofit to carry on his dream of pairing live music with good food.
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What is Crixa Cakes’ recipe for success after 25 years? It starts with perseverance
The artisanal bakery has built a loyal customer base, weathered the pandemic and supply chain woes. What’s next for owners Elizabeth Kloian and Zoltan Der?
Posted inArts
In a new play at the Rep, a reckoning with growing up Arab and Jewish in Berkeley
Tony winner Ari’el Stachel comes home with a deeply personal one-man show, ‘Out of Character,’ opening June 28 at the Berkeley Rep.
Posted inNosh
Hotly anticipated Sailing Goat opens with menu of pizza and potjie
Richmond catering veteran Arnon Oren’s new restaurant, Sailing Goat, opens today in Point San Pablo Harbor.
Posted inNosh Features
Remembering Community Foods, West Oakland’s crowd-funded grocery store
Oakland’s Community Foods opened with great promise, but was defeated in 2022 by a lack of support, vendor issues and the pandemic.
Posted inCommunity
A year after life-changing award, Berkeley inventor for the blind is writing a memoir
Joshua Miele won a MacArthur “genius” prize in 2021. Set up in a new workshop, he’s planning a listening party for the sounds of the aurora borealis and is learning to use his celebrity for good.
Posted inNew Restaurants
At Delirama, traditional and vegan pastrami are served side-by-side
Delirama also makes its own rye bread, bagels and bialys.
Posted inNosh
Saul’s Deli will be sold to Grand Bakery owner and longtime chef
Jesus “Chuy” Mendoza and Sam Tobis have joined Saul’s as partners, as longtime owners Peter Levitt and Karen Adelman step away.
Posted inNosh
Why the owner of Saul’s Deli dropped everything and went to Poland
Peter Levitt said that cooking for Ukrainian refugees was his way to fight back against Putin.
Posted inObituaries
Remembering Rachel Brodie, teachers’ mentor, master Jewish educator
Brodie was the co-founder of Jewish Milestones, an educational resource for Jewish lifecycle ceremonies that launched in 2004 as The Ritualist.
