What’s in Season

Relishing Fall and Early Winter Foods By Meggin Thwing Eastman Photos by Carloe Topalian   Living in the East Bay, we are so lucky to have luscious heirloom tomatoes, fresh herbs, eggplant, and other summer goodies available well into the fall. But as the winter rains start falling and temperatures drop, the new season offers…

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Backyard to Bountiful

Temescal Amity Works: Telling a Community’s Story By Romney Steele Fruit trees, berry bushes, and gardens abound in North Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood. Originally planned as an orchard suburb in the 1920’s, and once a major center for Italian immigrant life, the neighborhood has an abundance of older fruit trees that continue to produce. In some…

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Get Your Line in the Water

  By David G. Brown I am a fisherman of the first order. Just pick up the phone and I’m ready to go-to any fishery, anywhere, anytime. Early on, my sport was baseball. Then hockey. Later I became a golfing fanatic. As a kid back in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, I dabbled in fishing, occasionally hooking…

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East Bay Charcuterie

  By Derrick Schneider | Photos by Melissa Schneider Look around a neighborhood grocery store, or even a national supermarket chain, and you could believe that the business of curing meat is alive and well. Salami and ham are easy to find in the lunchmeat section or behind the sandwich counter. But these commercial forms…

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Around the Table at Zocalo Coffeehouse

By Cheryl Koehler     It’s often said that half the pleasure of good food and drink is the company with which we enjoy it, and so with that in mind, Edible East Bay presents “Around the Table,” offering news of selected East Bay places and projects where the spirit of camaraderie is as important…

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Letter from the Editor Fall 2005

  Edible East Bay—it’s such a naturally appealing idea, one so good that it makes us wonder why it didn’t come along years ago. But now Edible East Bay is here, thanks to Edible Communities, a growing, award-winning, nationwide series of community-based food publications with a laudable mission: “to transform the way communities shop for,…

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Contents Fall 2005

  Sweet Success at Bakesale Betty  East Bay Charcuterie Get Your Line in the Water What’s in Season Fall 2005    Notable Edibles Backyard to Bountiful Livermore Valley Wine Afoot in a Brentwood Garden of Eden A Taste of Golden-Green Around the Table at Zocalo Coffeehouse

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Afoot in a Brentwood Garden of Eden

A visit to Knoll Farms By Cheryl Koehler     As a casual Westerner, I always feel an odd sense of awe when visiting a home where the convention is to take off one’s shoes at the door. The custom implies a certain honoring of the space within the home. It was a similar feeling…

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Sweet Success at Bakesale Betty

  By Romney Steele | Photos by Carole Topalian Alison Barakat (aka Betty) wears a bright blue wig and has an infectious smile. She exudes warmth and has seemingly boundless energy to match—greeting customers like they were old friends, affectionately calling them “my love” and tending to their needs in between our conversation. Mind you,…

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