Food & Literature Tour at the Cemetery: Sept 27 in Oakland

Left to right from top: Tour guide Barbara Gibson at the tomb of Leroy Napoleon “Jack” McQuesten; Chocolate entrepreneur Domingo Ghiradelli; Horticulturist Henderson Luelling (founder of Fruitvale); an early Folgers Coffee ad; Gibson at Folger’s resting place.P hotos courtesy of Barbara Gibson. Public Domain via Wikipedia: 

It’s never too soon to start getting ready for Halloween, and this free quirky two-hour history tour at Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery is one place to start. Guide Barbara Gibson takes you to the final resting places of Victor “Trader Vic” Bergeron, James Folger, Frank Norris, Ina Coolbrith, and Domingo Ghiradelli, as well as inventors, cookbook and detective novel writers, and historical icons.  Each stop includes a tasting and/or reading.

If you want to attend, just show up on Saturday, September 27, 10am, inside the Mountain View Cemetery front gate at 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, and let Barbara know you learned about the tour from Edible East Bay.

For a little more background, check out our story on several (mostly no longer current) food tours published in our Summer 2014 issue. It provides a link to the cemetery website.