[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
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
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?
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 […]
