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As Emotions Run High in Oakland Chinatown, a Dumpling Class Promotes Asian and Black Unity The virtual fundraiser comes after a wave of attacks against elderly Asian people in the Bay Area Share this story Adrian Chang When Oakland-raised cook Adrian Chang first saw the videos of the violent attacks against elderly Asian people in Oakland Chinatown that have circulated the internet in recent weeks, he felt enraged. The wave of attacks, including a clip of a 91-year-old man getting shoved headfirst onto the pavement in broad daylight, felt personal for Chang, as they did for many Asian Americans. Just last month, he and Erin Wilkins, the proprietor of Herb Folk, an Asian-American herbalist shop in Petaluma, had launched a yearlong workshop series focused on Asian-American folk traditions and the use of food as medicine a deliberate effort to reclaim those practices’ Asian roots. ....
For the year of the ox, Bay Area s food community is grounding itself FacebookTwitterEmail Water buffalo, whose milk is used to make Italian style mozzarella di bufala, at the Ramini facility in Tomales. The buffalo have rock star names like Pat Benetar, Van Morrison, and Chris Isaac.Jason Henry / Special To The Chronicle 2015 We’re entering this new phase in the lunar calendar, which has come along with a palpable period of mental and physical fatigue among a lot of people I know. The year of the rat has left many with feelings of cynicism, exhaustion and grief, and rightfully so, considering everything that we’ve endured until now. But I’m finding comfort in knowing that we’re entering the year of the ox or in the Vietnamese version of the zodiac, the water buffalo. The buffalo’s steadiness and determination are grounding forces: antipodes to the chaos and instability of the previous year. ....
Adrian Chang and Erin Wilkins Traditional Chinese Medicine has a complicated history in the Bay. The practice itself can be traced back thousands of years, and has evolved over time but here in the US, it has a shorter history. For a while, it was mainly kept within immigrant communities. But in 1974, a Chinese immigrant in Palo Alto named Miriam Lee was arrested and put on trial for practicing acupuncture even though she learned it from a master in her hometown in China. The trial culminated in acupuncture becoming legal in California. Today, Traditional Chinese Medicine is still often exoticized or dismissed. But now, some Asian Americans in the Bay Area are reconnecting with these practices, and building new communities in the process. ....
Emblossom Herbal Business Conference to support emerging botanical brands New herbal business conference aims to support emerging botanical brands by providing a venue to learn about formulation, GMPs, sustainable sourcing, claim substantiation, federal regulation enforcement, choosing a contract lab, and more. The Emblossom Herbal Business Conference, which will take place digitally February 23rd and 24th, will provide sessions on regulatory compliance, marketing, and ethical business practices. Focusing on companies making herbal dietary supplements, cosmetics, and foods, the audience will range from companies still in the daydream stage through mid-sized brands. Co-founder and marketer Summer Singletary said that the Emblossom team realized that understanding the business of CPGs and herbal regulations is a huge barrier to scale for many of these emerging brands. ....