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No everyday cookbook, but a collection of essays, poetry, art, and recipes, Bryant Terry’s latest is an ambitious account of Black food across continents

The Dodgers obliterated the Giants during last night's game in the playoff series, more 20mph speed limits could come to San Francisco, and testing will begin at Millennium Tower for a future repair plan that may (or may not) help the building from sinking further.

Plus, Mélisse’s Josiah Citrin and a four-course meal by Little Fish, the Bad Jew, and Kae Whalen

San Francisco’s famed deli arrives in Los Angeles

One of the country’s most well-known Jewish delis outside of New York, L.A.’s Canter’s Deli, is now available on the Peninsula in a new partnership with the food-delivery service DoorDash. Customers in Atherton, Belmont, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Carlos and Woodside can pick up or get delivery of matzah ball soup, latkes, pastrami and corned beef sandwiches, and sides including coleslaw, sauerkraut and dill pickles. All are prepared at DoorDash Kitchens in Redwood City, wit...

Local Kitchens are opening in 3 areas of the San Francisco Bay region. (Photo provided) April 16, 2021 Local Kitchens, a digital food hall, has launched locations in Lafayette, San Jose and Cupertino, California, bringing a mix of award-winning Bay Area restaurant brands under one roof for takeout or delivery, according to a press release. Customers can create a customized meal from any of the restaurant partners, mixing and matching cuisines, from comfort food and meaty selections, to vegan an...

Ghost kitchen operator allows customers to combine items from multiple concepts Local Kitchens, a new ghost kitchen concept that allows customers to order from multiple local restaurant brands, has opened in the San Francisco area with locations in Lafayette, San Jose and Cupertino, Calif. Local Kitchens operates outposts of Curry Up Now, Glaze, Humphry Slocombe, The Little Chihuahua, MIXT, Proposition Chicken, Saucy Asian, Señor Sisig, and Wise Sons, offering both delivery and takeout f...

Recipe Roots: Vancouver > Ventura, California > San Francisco Growing up in 1980s California, Evan Bloom’s idea of Jewish food wasn’t limited to the Ashkenazi culinary canon of his family’s roots. There was brisket on the family table, of course, kugel, matzo brei, and trips to delis in Los Angeles that seeded his love of pastrami and rye. But the idea of Jewish flavors and dishes extended beyond the common canon. “Salmon is just as Jewish to me,” Evan, who co-owns Wise...

Staffers Ashley (left) and Ella at the new Cupcakin’ Bake Shop location in the former Virginia Bakery space in North Berkeley show off the wares. Photo: Joanna Della Penna When Nosh posted its list of February openings and closings this time last year, there was very little hint as to the looming pandemic lockdown and ongoing months of crisis soon to come. Looking back now, it is remarkable to note that despite the year’s unparalleled challenges, only three of the 18 East Bay food and drink...

Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. Rachel B. Gross can pinpoint the exact moment the idea for her book was planted. It was when one of her undergrad professors introduced herself as “an anthropologist of Jews.” “I just thought that was the coolest thing possible, that you could study contemporary Jews for a living,” Gross told J. “I wanted to grow up to be that, to study living people and the ordinary things they did.” It was the g...