Alameda County food workers now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines
Berkeley grocery store and convenience store workers are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines. On Monday, the city of Berkeley announced it was expanding eligibility for these workers, along with in-person educators and childcare workers, to make appointments at the Curative vaccination site in Albany. By Tuesday, all available appointment slots had been filled, but the city said more appointments could become available due to cancellations or added supplies.
Meanwhile, food and agriculture workers (including restaurant workers) in Alameda County are eligible to schedule vaccine appointments at the newly opened Oakland Coliseum vaccination site through the California Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 vaccination website.
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ABOUT THE FILM, WRITTEN BY DIRECTORS JAMES Q. CHAN & SANTHOSH DANIEL.
How do you transform what we might see as negative into something positive? The is the question at the heart of the short food documentary
Bloodline a metaphorical, personal exploration by Tu David Phu of his genesis as a chef, as seen through his parents memories of the Vietnam War and Khmer Rouge, and how US culture often disregards certain seminal life experiences as “scrap,” similar to how the physical bloodline of fish is often thrown away by chefs, even though it carries the animal’s “essence.”
The story, directed by James Q. Chan (
The Sit List: 5 ways to celebrate February holidays and more
This week, join a Lunar New Year celebration, see local Black artists for Black History Month, join a global book festival, date a shark and more.
Photo: Oakland Asian Cultural Center
LUNAR NEW YEAR A holiday celebrated by many Asian countries and diasporic people of Asian descent, Lunar New Year is celebrating the year of the Ox. Tune into a digital Lunar New Year celebration with the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. They will host a kick-off party on the first day of Lunar New Year, as well as days dedicated to how different countries celebrate, including China and Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Tibet. They will also host a special event on the food and drink of Lunar New Year, with a wonton-making workshop with Chef Tu David Phu accompanied by a mixology class. Don’t miss the virtual community night market featuring AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander)-owned and AAPI-ally businesses and restaurants. In a
AlaMar’s Nelson German will be on the next ‘Top Chef’
East Bay “Top Chef” fans have a local chef to root for when the 18th season of the Bravo cooking competition series premieres on April 1. Oakland chef Nelson German, who owns popular brunch spot alaMar Kitchen & Bar and Afro-Latino cocktail bar Sobre Mesa, will duke it out against 14 other chefs from around the country.
The latest season was filmed last year in Portland, Oregon, in the midst of the pandemic, and while the “Top Chef” Season 18 trailer shows mostly maskless chefs, hosts and guests as if it were any other year, some of the appearances and challenges speak to the times, including a Zoom appearance from Alice Waters and a competition where chefs work with Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen to feed front line hospital workers. German is the third Oakland-based chef to compete on the series, the others are Tanya Holland and Tu David Phu (Preeti Mistry, of Juhu Beach Club fame, lived in San Francisco whe