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Fast-Food Scandal Revives China’s Food Safety Anxieties
An “Out of Stock” sticker on a menu picture of chicken nuggets at a McDonald’s store in Hong Kong on July 25, 2014. A U.S. company that supplies meat to some fast food chains in China has pulled all...
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McDonald’s Responsible For Treatment Of Workers, Agency Says
The National Labor Relations Board says McDonald’s shares responsibility for how workers are treated at its franchised restaurants. Photo: Gene J. Puskar/AP by Alan Greenblatt, The Two-Way at NPR News...
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From Bacon to Bounce: Twerking and Pigging out at Outside Lands
Bacon Land vendor showcases Bacon Flight. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend Swine isn’t usually my thing. Although I’ve been known to nibble on a side of bacon at a diner, that’s usually the extent of it. But...
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Meet Miss Arepita: A Taste of Venezuela in North Oakland
Milena Mata with Carolina Abolio, owner of Miss Arepita / Arepa Mobile. Photo: Jenny Oh/KQED I had the pleasure of meeting Carolina Abolio, the founder of Miss Arepita / Arepa Mobile, when she...
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Across The Country, Fast-Food Workers Rally For $15-An-Hour Pay
Protesters demonstrate outside a McDonald’s in Chicago. Hundreds of workers from McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Wendy’s and other fast-food chains were expected to walk off their jobs Thursday to push the...
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Check, Please! Bay Area Revisits 3 Mom ‘n’ Pop Restaurants in New Episode
The Grubstake in San Francisco featured on Check, Please! Bay Area Three Mom ‘n’ Pop restaurants located in San Francisco from previous series are featured in this new Check, Please! Bay Area episode....
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Food Trucks, Share The Lane. Food Bikes Are Merging Into The Business
Charlie Wicker of Trailhead Coffee Roasters makes all of his deliveries within the 6-mile radius of urban Portland, Ore., on one of his custom-built cargo bikes. He can also pull over to brew and...
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A Tempting Tour of Turkish Delights through Culinary Backstreets
Turkish breakfast essentials: simit (seeded roll), cheeses, pastrami, olives. photo: Anna Mindess Squatting on a box and eating off a newspaper with my hands certainly wasn’t the most elegant repast I...
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Chipotle Says Adios To GMOs, As Food Industry Strips Away Ingredients
Fast-casual food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced it has removed all ingredients made with genetically modified organisms from its menu, making good on a two-year-old promise. It’s the latest...
View ArticleFrom Soup to Fries: Amy’s Joins the “Clean” Fast Food Club
In two weeks, an organic farmer at an undisclosed California potato patch will harvest the first crop of potatoes destined for the fryer in the kitchen at the soon-to-launch Amy’s Drive Thru restaurant...
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GUIDE: Here’s What You Need to Eat at Outside Lands This Weekend
Lucky enough to have a ticket to San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival this weekend? Consider us your gastronomic advance party. With almost 80 restaurants, nearly 40 wineries and over 30 breweries,...
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Bay Area Bites Guide to 6 Favorite Falafel Joints in the Bay
As much as enthusiastic fried chickpea eaters would like to disagree, the Bay Area is not a falafel town. (Okay, the Bay Area is also definitely not a town, so forgive the figure of speech.) There are...
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Here’s 12 Things We Tried (and Loved) at the 2015 Eat Real Festival
The Food Craft Institute’s 7th annual Eat Real Festival, the outdoor food extravaganza that showcases local, organic and sustainable fare, kicked off today in Oakland’s Jack London Square. We...
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Eating Vegan and Gluten-Free Fast Food at Amy’s Drive Thru in Rohnert Park
Andy and Rachel Berliner started their line of vegetarian frozen dinners in 1987 after their daughter Amy was born and the time-crunched parents couldn’t find any healthy frozen meals that didn’t...
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Where to Get Your International Street Food Fix in San Francisco & Berkeley
Experienced international travelers will tell you that eating street food is always a gamble. Delicious yet not without risks, street food will delight you now but may betray you later. Fortunately,...
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Tasting Los Angeles: Jonathan and his ‘City of Gold’
It begins with a writer staring at a blank screen. Fingers fidget. Then culinary poetry emerges. Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold is writing about tacos (again). While his language makes...
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LocoL Oakland Opens with Cheap, Tasty Burgs and Bowls
Given the hype surrounding the opening of LocoL, the alternative fast food restaurant from Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson, I expected there to be a line around the block. In fact, when I showed up at...
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Reem’s Flatbreads Bake in the Hospitality of the Homeland
Six years ago, Reem Assil found herself traveling in the Middle East in search of direction. After working on the front lines as a community and labor organizer, she felt she had hit a wall in terms of...
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A Guide to Healthy Fast Food in the Bay Area
Healthy fast food used to seem like an oxymoron, but no more. Noticing a gap between fast food joints like McDonald’s and Taco Bell and high-end restaurants like the ones reviewed by Zagat, more than a...
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One Restaurant’s Recipe For Social Good: Same Meals, Different Prices
A restaurant chain that charges twice as much for a meal in one location as it does in another? You would think that’s a recipe for angry customers. But Everytable in Los Angeles is betting that this...
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