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Ippuku’s owner: Making Japanese food with integrity
Christian Geideman, owner-chef of Ippuku in downtown Berkeley. Photo: Nicki Rosario He’s run a pizza joint in Montana and a Japanese restaurant in New Mexico, but Berkeley-bred Christian Geideman has...
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Chew on this: John Birdsall on Berkeley’s food scene
John Birdsall. Photo: Roxanne Webber John Birdsall knows his way around the Bay Area’s best food trucks, noodle shops, and unpretentious taco stands. Currently a senior editor at Chow, he was...
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Home winemaker part of a growing East Bay movement
Tim Patterson holds up a glass of wine he has just pressed. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Tim Patterson held up the wine glass filled with a ruby red liquid, twirled it, and then tipped it back to his...
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Kermit Lynch: ‘I abandoned my heart to Europe decades ago’
Councilwoman Linda Maio reads an official City of Berkeley proclamation honoring Kermit Lynch (r) on the 40th anniversary of the opening of his wine shop. Mayor Tom Bates is left. Photo: Tracey Taylor...
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In Berkeley, slide the door for homey Japanese food
Noriko Taniguchi’s journey to opening her Berkeley restaurant was long, and not always easy. Photo: Anna Mindess In a regular feature for NOSH, food writer Anna Mindess sets out to explore the journeys...
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Nosh Talk: Suzanne Drexhage, Bartavelle
Suzanne Drexhage. Photo: Kate Farnady Nosh Talk is a regular Q&A with an East Bay chef, restaurateur or food artisan, published on Berkeleyside Nosh, in which we snoop for inside intelligence… What...
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Berkeley couple make rillettes at artisanal start-up
Brian Johnson and Julie Gordon in the Wooden Spoons kitchen in Berkeley. Photo: Kaia Diringer Just six months ago, husband and wife team Brian Johnson and Julie Gordon started Wooden Spoons – a small...
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Nosh Talk: Hugh Groman, Phil’s Sliders
Hugh Groman has no secrets when it comes to junk food Nosh Talk is a regular Q&A with an East Bay chef, restaurateur or food artisan, published on Berkeleyside Nosh, in which we snoop for inside...
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Zachary’s taps local talent for 30th anniversary
Ian Ransley has won Zachary’s poster design competition 11 times Berkeley-born and raised designer Ian Ransley loves Zachary’s Pizza. Who in Berkeley doesn’t? But Ransley has found a way to graphically...
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Narsai David, top chefs, turn out for Five Star Night
Narsai David (front right) with the chefs participating in this year’s Five Star Night, a benefit for Alameda County’s Meals on Wheels Wine from Narsai David‘s personal cellar, dishes prepared by some...
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Chef Scott Quinn takes flight at Meritage
Scott Quin, Chef de Cuisine at Meritage at the Claremont. Photo: Claremont Hotel By Deborah Grossman After stints in Los Angeles and at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bistro in Las Vegas, Scott Quinn has...
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Meals on Wheels supporters feast for a cause
The lovely table settings promised a memorable meal, and did not disappoint. Photo: Emilie Raguso Supporters of Alameda County’s Meals on Wheels program came out in droves last Friday night to...
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FIVE chef on his time in Berkeley: ‘A great journey’
Banks White, executive chef at FIVE at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley, who is leaving to helm the kitchen in a new restaurant in New York City. Photo: Emilie Raguso Banks White remembers vividly...
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Pollan: We teach kids about sex, why not cooking?
Michael Pollan: “We already teach [kids] about driving, alcohol and drugs, and safe sex in school, and it seems to me cooking is just as important.” Photo: Fran CollinFor his new book, Cooked: A...
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Edible Schoolyard grad puts hemp burgers on map
The hemp burger, created by startup Bay Roots, includes onions, red peppers, brown rice, black beans, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, quinoa, and lots of spices — all organic — as well as hemp seeds....
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The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage…
The newly published book, The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family and How We Learn to Eat (edited by Caroline M. Grant and Lisa Catherine Harper), features 28 original stories...
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Some weeks ago, Pete Rosos, a contributing photographer to Berkeleyside, decided to embark on a portrait project: he set out to photograph as many people as he could who work for Berkeley Unified...
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Farmacology: Farm-to-body lessons
Daphne Miller, a doctor and writer, describes the farmer, and now also herself, as an “intelligent tinkerer” Dr. Daphne Miller is author of The Jungle Effect and the new Farmacology: What can...
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Shopping Berkeley Bowl with a professional chef
Chef Linda Carucci chooses Goldbar apricots outside the Berkeley Bowl. Like red onions, they should have a good heft for their size. Photo: JP Fernandez Are you confident about choosing a cantaloupe?...
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Waters: Response to fire is why I live in Berkeley
Alice Waters at Chez Panisse on Thursday June 20, 2013. The Berkeley restaurant re-opens to the public today after reconstruction following a fire on March 8 that destroyed a significant portion of the...
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