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Jen Yee was pitting cherries when I arrived at her commissary kitchen in Los Angeles’s Chinatown on a Thursday morning in late June. “Do you want a cherry? They’re so good. They’re so sweet,” she said, nodding towards the tub full of mahogany fruit. I happily obliged, then agreed. She had picked them up from Andy’s Orchard at the Santa Monica Farmers Market the day before for her seasonal fruit danish at Bakers Bench, the bakery she runs out of a kiosk on the other side of the Far East Plaza. Yee’s danish, along with her croissants and her cookies, are entirely vegan unless you count the honey used in her frangipane, which many vegans don’t eat. After several years running the pastry program at the Japanese sandwich spot Konbi, where her croissants were revered, and many more working in professional kitchens, Bakers Bench is her first solo project.
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Taste of Hope
The St. Joseph Center’s Taste of Hope returns for a fundraising evening of small plates, drinks and live entertainment. On June 3, the nonprofit’s annual tasting night will take place in front of the Miracle Theater with food from L.A. restaurants including Earle’s on Crenshaw, Nueva Venice and Kogi BBQ plus raffles, cooking demos, cocktails, an auction and live music. Tickets range from $100 to $250 and will aid unhoused families as well as struggling restaurants that were affected by the pandemic.
The St. Joseph Center is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide working, low-income families and homeless men, women and children with resources to become stable and self-supporting. Its programs include housing, mental health, educational and vocational services, and a food pantry, cafe and street outreach.
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11 dishes and drinks to make the most of strawberry season in Atlanta
But like fresh strawberries, they ll disappear soon
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There are only a few certainties in life: Death. Taxes. The fact that locally-grown strawberries always taste better than the ones at the grocery store. How many times have you picked out a carton of strawberries at the grocery store, tempted by their plumpness and scarlet hue, only to sink your teeth into one and discover that it tastes like . . . nothing? No sweetness, no juiciness. Fortunately, Atlanta’s chefs and bartenders are aware of this certainty, too, and many of them source locally-grown strawberries from farms like Rodgers Greens & Roots and Georgia Proud Provisions. They also know how to make the most of these fleeting fruits that will probably be gone by June.