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Berkeley Bowl West celebrates first anniversary

This coming weekend, from Friday 4 to Sunday 6, Berkeley Bowl West will be celebrating its first-year anniversary. BBW has rapidly become a favorite Berkeley destination with twitterers galore regularly extolling the quality of its produce department and the store’s pleasing architecture. Citizens tend to be strictly divided, however, between those who are faithful to […]

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Berkeley Bites: Novella Carpenter

Each Friday in this space food writer Sarah Henry asks a well-known, up-and-coming, or under-the-radar food aficionado about their favorite tastes in town, preferred food purveyors and other local culinary gems worth sharing. Novella Carpenter grows greens and raises rabbits, goats, chickens, and bees on a dead-end street in the ghetto. The dumpster diver and […]

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The Berkeley Bowl effect

Ever since Berkeley Bowl West opened last June, it’s been my supermarket of choice. What’s not to like? The fruits and vegetables are beyond compare, the prices are reasonable (if I don’t get tempted by some of the French cheeses or some of the more expensive fish), the layout is intelligent, and the parking is […]

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Berkeley Bites: Cristina Lau

Each Friday in this space food writer Sarah Henry asks a well-known, up-and-coming, or under-the-radar food aficionado about their favorite tastes in town, preferred food purveyors and other local culinary gems worth sharing. UC Berkeley graduate Cristina Lau, 23, heads up the non-profit Berkeley’s Kitchen, which runs cooking classes and hosts food events with an […]

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Yams were harmed in the writing of this post

Photo: Jim Rosenau Jim Rosenau reports from the Berkeley Bowl vegetable section: Those displaced New Englanders among us are heard to say they miss having “real” seasons.  If easily discerned seasons are such a big deal,  go ahead and move back to the Old Country — and take your boiled dinner recipe with you when you shut the door! The settled among us recognize our own […]