It runs in my blood : East Bay pop-up celebrates Mexico s most iconic baked good
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Just as everyone was getting into sourdough kit starters and baking fresh bread loaves last year, Agueda Ulloa was longing to create something that hit closer to home.
As the granddaughter of a former Mexican bakery owner, Ulloa gravitated towards Mexican pan dulce (sweet pastry bread) and realized that what she wanted to bake most was one of Mexico’s most quintessential baked goods the iconic concha.
Of all the Mexican sweet bread varieties, conchas are among the most popular. The pastry itself is best described as a rounded bread with a thick powdery sugar dome that’s etched with a sundry of linear designs. Its shape and appearance help give the traditional pastry its name, meaning seashell.
Calif. launches way any resident can become vaccine eligible
March 8, 2021
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Half care workers check the information of two people preparing to get a COVID-19 vaccination at the mass vaccination site opened to the public at the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum Complex in Oakland, Calif. on Feb. 16, 2021. The site is expected to deliver up to 6,000 shots of COVID-19 vaccine a day.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE
The state of California launched a new program Friday that allows residents the opportunity to get vaccinated by volunteering to help get others inoculated.
The online tool allows users to look for clinics and mass vaccine sites seeking help based on their ZIP code.
Lightning, hail and rain: Incoming storm could put on show in SF Bay Area
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A hail storm moved across Marin County, Nov. 8, 2020.Douglas Zimmerman
Dropping down from the Gulf of Alaska, a typical late-winter storm is forecast to move across the San Francisco Bay Area Monday through Wednesday, delivering a potent mix of scattered rain, thunderstorms, small hail, gusty winds, chilly temperatures and low-elevation snow.
The slow-moving system will arrive in the North Bay in the late afternoon Monday and spread across the entire region overnight, with widespread scattered showers in the forecast Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
SF s newest mural is a love letter to Slow Streets
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Street artist Amos Goldbaum just completed a mural on a block of a slow street at Sanchez and 24th streets in San Francisco on March 5, 2021.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATEShow MoreShow Less
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People walk by a mural created by street artist Amos Goldbaum on a block of a slow street at Sanchez and 24th Streets in San Francisco, Calif. on Mar. 5, 2021.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATEShow MoreShow Less
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Street artist Amos Goldbaum points out details in his just completed a mural on a block of a slow street at Sanchez and 24th Streets in San Francisco, Calif. on Mar. 5, 2021.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATEShow MoreShow Less
California will begin distributing 40% of all vaccine doses to the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the state to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus in the latest revamp of the state's rules, the state announced Thursday. Those given priority in the new system live in ZIP codes that fall into the lowest quartile of the state’s Healthy Places Index, which measures socioeconomic opportunity. Here are the 10 Bay Area ZIP codes on the.