[Sponsored] Old Damascus Fare and Noodle Girl will be among the booths featured at the Festival’s outdoor fair in Civic Center Park this weekend.
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Bites: A Week of Women in Food, Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement, Mexico City-inspired lunch at Doña Tomás
Catch up on the latest East Bay food news and events.
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Old Damascus Fare is a new family-run catering business from Oakland serving traditional Syrian food
The Syrian refugee family resettled in Oakland and started a new life through cooking.
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Photo essay: Edible learning at the Berkeley Art Museum
On Saturday, the grounds of the Berkeley Art Museum were transformed into an open campus and living kitchen as myriad food makers and food-related initiatives were displayed to the public — or at least those who had reserved (free) reservations for the event. OPENEducation was held to commemorate the 40th birthday of Chez Panisse restaurant […]
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La Cocina helps launch Mexican food business
The story of how Dilsa Lugo launched Berkeley catering company Los Cilantros starts in Cuernavaca in the Mexican state of Morelos where she grew up. Her family had a vegetable garden outside of town, where her father grew corn, beans, chilies, lemons, mangoes and more. Her mother, who had nine kids to feed, cooked fresh tortillas […]
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Why does the street food scene bypass Berkeley?
At Berkeley’s Spice of Life Festival yesterday, for the first time in the event’s eight-year history, street carts were part of the mix. Jon’s Street Eats, Primo Parrilla, Chairman Bao and Skylite Snowballs were among the dozen or so street-food purveyors who signed up to join Gourmet Ghetto chefs and local D.I.Y. food artisans doling out morsels for the […]