UC Berkeley student wants Californians to dine out on horsemeat

The SF Chronicle’s Open Forum part is the place one will sometimes see group members arguing their specific place: why BART ought to run for twenty-four hours, maybe, or why Burger King shouldn’t be allowed to participate in Bay Space Pleasure celebrations. This week, Shingis Kudaibergen, a grasp’s scholar at UC Berkeley’s Goldman College of Public Coverage, has a place related to meat-eating diners, as he says that meat-eating Californians should trade beef or pork for horsemeat, as “not solely does horsemeat have extra protein than beef, it is also decrease in fats, ldl cholesterol and energy.” Kudaibergen additionally argues that horses have digestive methods that produce much less methane than cows, so “the planet can be a a lot safer place if nearly all of meat eaters developed a style for horsemeat as a substitute of beef.” In Kudaibergen’s house nation of Kazakhstan horsemeat is a staple, and the mentality that they shouldn’t be eaten as a result of they’re companion animals is “unusual,” he says. As a longtime non-meat-eater, I’ve typically thought the identical factor, and questioned why of us are cool with consuming pigs however balk at dogmeat, although per PBS pigs are extra trainable and intellectually superior to our canine companions. Kudaibergen and I’ll probably hold questioning about this seemingly arbitrary animal class system, although`, as California voters banned the slaughter or sale of horses for consumption in 1998 and seem unlikely to relent.

Followers of Berkeley’s widespread Ici ice cream outlets nonetheless often bring the mini-chain’s abrupt closure up to Nosh, with a current correspondent asking if we knew the place founder Mary Canales (a Chez Panisse alum whose frozen Bûche de Noel cake was the stuff of legend) had ended up. A current e-mail from the UC Botanical Garden solutions that query, because it declares that Canales is its new membership supervisor. There, she’ll generate help for the backyard’s huge assortment of uncommon, endangered and simply plain nifty vegetation and proceed to debunk that way-too-frequently quoted F. Scott Fitzgerald line.

Edible East Bay has a report from opening day on the Freedom Farmers Market, the produce sales event intended to support Black farmers and vendors. Look ahead to Oakland-grown leafy greens, nuts from LeMule Ranch and vibrant yellow watermelons from Blue Ridge Ranch on the occasion, which runs Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. by means of November 13 at Shattuck Avenue and forty sixth Avenue in Oakland.

Cheyenne Xochitl Love’s Oakland micro-roastery Queer Wave Coffee is the main target of a sweet feature at Eater SF that highlights Love’s anti-racist work and resolution to not serve regulation enforcement employees in her nascent brick-and-mortar area. 

Karibu Wine Lounge is the “first Black lady owned vineyard tasting room in Alameda County,” ABC 7 reports. It’s owned and operated by Dr. Chris Wachira, who (per Karibu’s web site) is “the primary Kenyan-born, Californian winemaker” in addition to a healthcare worker with Palo Alto’s Stanford Health Care.

The Daily Cal has a profile of Erika Hazel, the founding father of the Bizerkeley Vegan Food Festival (which is Saturday Sept 5 from 11 a.m. to five p.m. on the Berkeley Sports activities Basement at 2727 Milvia St.) and vegan meals critic. “My goal as a meals critic is to steer folks to veganism in essentially the most enjoyable and happiest approach doable,” Hazel stated. “I wish to take the trial and error out of going vegan.”

East Bay Specific meals critic Jeffrey Edalatpour heads to Wingen Bakery (one of our 13 freshest restaurants for August) this week, and writes that the Livermore spot made “the very best BLT I’ve had this century.”

If you need a beer with a bark as a substitute of a chew, Oakland’s Ale Industries may need what you’re looking for. The Bay Area News Group reports that the brewery is emblazoning some cans of its IPA with photographs of adoptable pets from the  East Bay SPCA to assist drive adoptions and spotlight animals in want. 4-packs of the pet-focused brew are available for $20.