Posted by Alex Bigman on Thursday, October 22, 2009 07:03 pm
V(w)hat, so you think this is a profession now? It seems somebody has taken the life pursuit of so many Brooklyn-raised bubbies and established it with this name: deli researcher. And the best one is coming to Berkeley’s own Saul’s Deli! Get your pastrami on this Saturday. Details below: read more »
Posted by Cassie Myers on Sunday, October 04, 2009 02:30 pm
Nope, sorry folks, no Victoria Beckham in sight. But keep reading! The North Berkeley 7th Annual Spice of Life Festival is today. In place of a snooty fembot, you get fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Seems like a fair trade.
The spices start simmering 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Shattuck from Virginia to Rose Street. This will include demos from local chefs, gourmet street food, a farmers’ market, art exhibitions, farm animals, jazz bands, bossa nova, and something frighteningly referred to as “‘green’ coffin decorating.”
It’s enough to make anyone curious. At the very least it should be a nice airing-out of the city’s artsy types–a chance to see them in their full yarn-weaving, group-hugging, spice-making, hemp-sewing glory. And heck, read more »
Posted by Jill Cowan on Monday, July 20, 2009 04:46 pm
Not to be out-free crapped by its competition, Ye Olde Coffee of the Astronomical Dollars and Ubiquitous Mermaid is offering free pastries tomorrow morning. On the off-chance you’re confused by our (incredibly unnecessary) epithet, we’re talking about Starbucks.
The catch(es)? You’ve got to get there before 10:30. In the a.m. Yeah. For those of you still reading, the other catches are that you have to buy a beverage and you have to present this ticket in order to get your purportedly healthier-than-ever-before carbo-licious treat. Worth it to get out of bed before noon? Possibly. Actually healthy? Probably not.
The documentary explores food issues in America, and while it seems pretty likely to make you depressed/paranoid about all your past and future food choices, we’re still not ones to turn down a free screening.
The screening will take place at the Elmwood 6 Theatre at 7:30 on July 15, and similar ones are taking place throughout the nation.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 07:54 pm
If you didn’t get enough global culture at the Berkeley World Music Festival a couple of weeks ago, this Sunday from 12-5 p.m. is your chance to go for seconds at the Berkeley International Food Festival. The festival’s “nexus” will be at the intersection of University and San Pablo Avenues, which means you can take the 51–and you have no transportation-related excuses.
The international fun doesn’t end with comestibles. There will also be a main stage where “Grammy-nominated music sensation Johnny Polanco and his renowned LA salsa band” will be spicing up the general atmosphere, while a smattering of other world music and dance styles will be represented elsewhere.
And if world music still isn’t your cup of tea, don’t forget why you’re actually there–the food. In other words, if you attend the Berkeley Interntaional Food Festival and you leave without stuffing your face, you’ve done something horribly, horribly wrong.
In Berkeley’s got a detailed write-up of the new openings on Elmwood’s College Avenue. There are currently four vacant spaces in the block between Russell Street and Ashby Avenue, three of which are gearing up for some business. Sometime soon, expect to see:
- Summer Kitchen Bake Shop (in the place next to Your Basic Bird, the pet shop)
- a new cafe somehow possibly linked to the people of Cafe Fanny (in the shuttered Elmwood Pharmacy)
- a clothing store for an Oakland fashion designer (in the other half of the old hardware store)
Maybe, in the near future, Elmwood won’t be known just for its ice cream.
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Recession, what recession? in the Elmwood [In Berkeley]
Posted by Jill Cowan on Friday, May 01, 2009 05:53 pm
Get your ass up from the nest of books you’ve created while feverishly studying for your exam tomorrow morning in order to walk the two blocks to “La Burr” and risk breaking the tenuous thread of your concentration? OR have that selfsame burrito delivered to your door, thus minimizing the possibility of total focus annihilation, but also costing you an additional $2.75?
This is the borderline existential dilemma posed by CampusMunch, a new service operated by two entrepreneurial seniors. They’ll deliver food from a few Asian Ghet–er, Durant Food Court (we have got to stop doing that … ) staples, in addition to several others, including Northside pilgrimage-worthy Cheeseboard. Of course, you can order online, but make no mistake–you still have to answer the door.
Campus Much [YouTube]
Service Delivers Local Eats to Students [Daily Cal]
So every year the Daily Cal does the Best of Berkeley. And every year the ill-informed freshmen (no offense … OK, maybe a little) vote for some craptastic place like Gypsy’s for best Italian food in Berkeley. This time, we’re going to, er, “suggest” ideas for Best of Berkeley categories so that finally someplace/someone halfway decent and totally deserving of college students’ attention will win the coveted categories. Please!
The following are the categories we care most about. Nominate your own favorites in the comments and remember to vote on the BoB site. Voting ends Saturday, April 11 at 2 a.m. and the Best of Berkeley issue will be published on Thursday, April 16.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Monday, January 26, 2009 04:10 pm
It looks like Alice Waters’s culinary regality might not be enough to keep her Slow Food-sowing, local produce-julienning hands clean. And Anthony Bourdain might be a trifle intimidated, judging by the speed with which he backpedaled over his earlier digs at Waters. Well, as intimidated as someone who calls anyone else’s letters to the president “wildly hubristic” can be, anyway.
According to Gothamist–yet another “Ist” blog–Bourdain and Waters are set to duke it out, face to face, at a forum for gourmet heavyweights in May. We certainly look forward to hearing about this one. It promises to be a real ”food fight.” (Ha! Take that, Gothamist! Or … not.)
Update: More Waters-bashing on NPR. Wow, things are getting way more intense than we anticipated, up in here.
Posted by Jill Cowan on Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:03 pm
Alice Waters, you’re our hero … Or are you?
Not only did Berkeley’s most famously awesome foodie raise some major cash-monies for Washington charity organizations by cooking up (presumably) delicious noms for some D.C. do-gooders–er, eat-gooders, in any case–but she also kinda, maybe saved-ish someone from choking.
“How exactly does one kinda, maybe save-ish someone?” you ask. Simple, really. You see someone who is choking (in this case, cookbook author Joan Nathan) and then you go find someone (in this case, celebrity chef Tom Colicchio) who knows the Heimlich maneuver and then they save the choking person. Now, before you start weighing the woman down with mental (or actual) medals of honor, you may want to consider an interesting point that one SFist commenter phrased perhaps a bit more bluntly than we would have: read more »
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Alice Waters, you’re our hero … Or are you?
