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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- 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
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Vintage Candies Evoke Sweet Memories at Powell’s
Get a retro sugar rush at Powell’s Sweet Shoppe. Sugar-coated nostalgia in candy you remember from your childhood (whether Boomer or Millennial) and even turn of the last century tasty treasures from Abba-Zabba’s to Zotz. Continue reading
At the Alameda County Food Bank, Volunteers Get Nourished Too
To help combat exponential increases in hunger and demand for food assistance, the Alameda County Community Food Bank feeds 49,000 people a week. Its volunteers range from school children to retired Stanford University professors. They bag fresh produce, sort cans and fill boxes with essential foodstuffs. Continue reading
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Tagged Alameda County Community Food Bank, food banks, hunger, Oakland, volunteer
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A Year of Cross-Cultural Culinary Encounters — and a Giveaway!
East Bay Ethnic Eats happily celebrates its first birthday. In the past year, this blog has provided me a ticket to explore my passion: the intersection of food and culture. With this forum to share my discoveries, I let my … Continue reading
