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How to protect yourself from poor air quality | Berkeley’s 1923 fire, 100 years later | BUSD achievement gap among nation's worst

La Cocina

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La Cocina to showcase several of its businesses at Bay Area Book Festival

by Local sponsor April 30, 2019, 11:45 a.m.October 4, 2022

[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.

Posted inBites

Bites: A Week of Women in Food, Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement, Mexico City-inspired lunch at Doña Tomás

Avatar photo by Sarah Han March 06, 2018, 12:30 p.m.October 4, 2022

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

Avatar photo by Momo Chang March 02, 2018, 12:00 p.m.August 4, 2022

The Syrian refugee family resettled in Oakland and started a new life through cooking.

Posted inArts

Photo essay: Edible learning at the Berkeley Art Museum

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor Aug. 29, 2011, 6:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Guests at the OPENeducation event at BAM have a vantage point over the proceedings. Photos: Tracey Taylor Eating a shoe (center): flashback to 1980 when Alice Waters cooked one of filmmaker's Werner Herzog's shoes — and he ate it — in Berkeley On Saturday, the grounds of the Berkeley Art Museum were transformed into an […]

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La Cocina helps launch Mexican food business

Avatar photo by Sarah Henry Nov. 19, 2010, 8:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Dilsa Lugo who runs Berkeley catering company Los Cilantros 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, […]

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Why does the street food scene bypass Berkeley?

Avatar photo by Sarah Henry Oct. 18, 2010, 1:21 p.m.October 4, 2022

Kate McEachern and her CupKate mobile. 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 […]

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