Anna Mindess
Sign language interpreter by day, food writer by night; endlessly fascinated by the interplay of what we eat and who we are.
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East Bay Ethnic Eats
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Recent Posts
- Dinner with The Spice Whisperer
- Sushi California: 27 years as Berkeley’s Beloved Japanese restaurant with an Okinawan Twist
- A Dozen Deaf Foodies Savor Gourmet Ghetto Tasting Tour in ASL
- FuseBOX Electrifies West Oakland with Chef Chang’s Korean Small Plates
- How to Buy a Live Fish in Oakland Chinatown for Chinese New Year
- Café Raj Creates Community and Great Food
- Mazatlán’s Endless Seafood Fiesta
- Watermelon and Pomegranate to celebrate Persian Longest Night of the Year
- Ancient Ethiopian Cuisine Honored with a Limited Run At Guest Chef
- Noriko Nurtures Berkeley Diners with Homey Japanese Dishes
- Afghan Food Chinese food Denmark Ethiopian food France German Food gluten-free food Hawaiian food holiday food Immigrants' stories Indian food Italy Japan Japanese food Jewish Food Korean food Lebanese food lucky food Mexican food Middle Eastern Food Morocco Persian/Iranian Politeness Spain Sweden Thai food Turkey Uncategorized vegetarian ffod Vietnamese food
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Category Archives: Immigrants’ stories
FuseBOX Electrifies West Oakland with Chef Chang’s Korean Small Plates
Chef Sunhui Chang combines innovative and traditional Korean cooking at FuseBOX, where his kimchi and pickles make use of every part of the vegetable. His tiny space on an industrial West Oakland street has already won rave reviews and awards. Continue reading →
Posted in Immigrants' stories, Korean food
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Tagged FuseBOX, Korean food, Korean restaurant, Sunhui Chang, West Oakland
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Noriko Nurtures Berkeley Diners with Homey Japanese Dishes
Noriko Taniguchi cooks Japanese food “the way it used to be” at her cozy Berkeley restaurant, Norikonoko. Surrounded by tiny tea sets and origami cranes hardly bigger than a grain of rice, this nurturing grandmother will make you onigiri, oden or her special pork curry. Continue reading →
Posted in Immigrants' stories, Japan, Japanese food
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Tagged Japanese homestyle cooking, Noriko Taniguchi, Norikonoko
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Palestinian Family Shares Treasured Dishes at Zaki Kabob House
You’ve had falafel, you’ve had shawarma, but have you tried spheeha, maklouba or mensaf? Zaki Kabob House in Albany is one of the few restaurants that serves these specialties of Palestinian cuisine. Family-owned and run by Fayza and Kameem Ayyad and their children, Zaki offers tastes of another world, plus warm hospitality. Continue reading →
My Mom’s Chiles Rellenos – A Mexican Immigrant’s Story
Ten poblano chiles sit scorching on a comal (a flat Latin American griddle) on top of a small stove, filling the cozy apartment kitchen near Mills College with an enticing, spicy aroma. “I do it this way because when my … Continue reading →
Posted in gluten-free food, Immigrants' stories, Mexican food
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Tagged chiles rellenos, immigrants' story, Leukemia Society, Lupita Peimbert, Mi Pueblo, Team in Training
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“America is Food Heaven” – A Danish Immigrant’s story
Story of a Danish immigrant who falls in love with America’s bounty of ethnic restaurants, free coffee refills and hot fudge sundaes, but eventually misses a few tastes from home. Continue reading →
Posted in Denmark, Immigrants' stories
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Tagged Danish Food, Danish immigrants, glogg, Kim Aronson, smorrebrod
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“Food Makes Friends” – a Turkish Immigrant’s Story
A Turkish immigrant to the Bay Area makes her family dolmas and borek and misses the bread of her homeland. By reaching out to people from different cultures in her new home, she discovers food can help make friends. Continue reading →
Posted in Immigrants' stories, Turkey
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Tagged Ashure, BAYCC, borek, Indus Market, Netivot Shalom, Sigara borek, Turkish dessert, Turkish dolmas, Turkish food
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Jeannette Jafarzadeh’s Journey to Middle East Market
The aromatic Persian bread baked by Ecuadorian-born Jeannette Jafarzadeh at Berkeley’s Middle East Market only hints at her two year detention in Iran. Continue reading →
Posted in Immigrants' stories, Middle Eastern Food, Persian/Iranian
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Tagged afghan bread, Berkeley, flatbread, Middle East Market, San Pablo Avenue
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