.Food

Community-based organizations are finding innovative ways to address food insecurity through bottom-up organizing, including Planting Justice, Community Kitchens Oakland, West Oakland Punks with Lunch, and Rogers and Rosewater, which are driven by the passion to take care of fellow humans.

Bisou Chocolate and The Xocolate Bar both offer creative, high-end, locally made chocolates, with Bisou's truffles and bars being vegan and gluten-free and The Xocolate Bar's candy bars experiment with flavors.

Late 2000s Clement Street housed Singapore Malaysian Restaurant. If the dry heat led to caving in the East Bay, the mie tek tek at Padi in San Leandro provided comfort. And having overcome heat, terrible parking and...

For Emily Winston, bagels are family.  An onion bagel covered in chive cream cheese. An everything bagel loaded with lox and garlic cream cheese. A garlic bagel stuffed with tomatoes, capers, onions and chile cream cheese. All of...

Whether it’s pillows of gnocchi, spaghetti strings or the twisted strands of casarecce, the homemade pasta dishes at Matt Solimano’s Sfizio make one forget that other Italian restaurants exist. Even though Solimano, whose heritage is Italian, claims...

The East Bay is in love: with cheese. It’s that simple. Survey anyone about curdled, pressed and in other ways casein made magnificent—even ask total strangers—and find ample testimony and proof that cheese is either just one...

From novice, clumsy kitchen explorers, to kids hungering to use their own hands to make oodles of noodles or pizzas from around the world, to master chefs shoring up established skills or learning new techniques, anyone can...