A new Black-owned food collective is opening a marketplace in West Oakland
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Red Door Catering owner Reign Free (left) speaks with Vice President Kamala Harris and Senator Alex Padilla during a visit to West Oakland’s Red Door Catering. The kitchen will host the new Black Culinary Collective.Jessica Christian / The Chronicle
A new collective of Black-owned food and beverage producers is officially forming on Wednesday and the group is looking for five more members. Together, they’ll share a commercial kitchen space in West Oakland, sell their goods at an on-site marketplace and collaborate on community service projects.
A good breakfast taco is a rare bird in San Francisco, but this pop-up nails them
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LoJo s Tacos is a breakfast taco pop-up at Avedano s Meats in Bernal Heights.Loren Johnson
In “The Austin Cookbook,” author Paula Forbes writes that the breakfast taco, being one of the city’s highest art forms, is both deceptively simple and tricky to master. “Every element must be on point,” she writes: Tortillas must be fresh; salsa, scalding; and the other components, layered thoughtfully. That said, I think she and I would both agree that LoJo’s Tacos, a breakfast taco pop-up in Bernal Heights, nails it.