Nabolom Bakery is a very Berkeley bakery. To begin, it's collectively owned and has been since it opened in 1976. That means, no hierarchy. No managers, bosses, overseers. The horizontal structure rewards self-starting, autonomous people, and challenges anyone who looks outside themselves for direction the job. Shifts start during the witching hour, and a good deal of them will find bakers here alone. As one of the bakers put it, the upside and downside of collective ownership are the same: You're on your own. Sometimes, that means freedom. And sometimes, that means the world is on your shoulders.
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On top of having salon-quality hair and reporting the news, Ron Burgundy now has his own ice cream.
Ben & Jerry's has rolled out the "Scotchy Scotch Scotch," crafted in honor of the San Diego TV news anchor with a passion for all things scotch. The creamy concoction of butterscotch ice cream and butterscotch swirl is available at participating scoop shops.
With a crisp evening breeze blowing the fallen orange and red leaves over your boots, San Francisco is finally embracing autumn. And if the end of summer isn't enough to convince you, we've put together a list of our favorite pumpkin dishes around the city to ring in the fall season -- and make your taste buds tingle too.
When it comes to beer, the sky's the limit. Want to try a pineapple rye porter aged in used Tabasco barrels with wild yeast and smoked herring? Somebody's probably considering brewing it as we speak. And we're all for keeping it fun -- sometimes bells and whistles go a long way. That being said, there's nothing like a well-built, classic brew. And newcomers Cellarmaker Brewing are already showing a deft hand at brewing both measured and adventurous beers.
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It's half past noon and Grace Teresi, 55, has just woken up from a nap in the front seat of her pickup truck at the Alemany Farmer's Market in Bernal Heights. The nap is well deserved, as she's been up since 4 a.m. preparing for a 90-minute drive to San Francisco from her small organic farm in San Juan Bautista.
Teresi has been farming since 1980, when she got her start growing snow peas on her parents' old cattle ranch in Castroville. As the years passed, her ability to grow more versatile vegetables showed, as she began growing baby lettuces to sell at markets with other small growers.
She's come a long way since then, now owning five acres of land that she calls Miramonte Farms. Teresi has become known for her tomatoes, early girl and heirloom, both dry-farmed.
"I'm trying to sell something that is uniquely produced, that people can't find in the store," says Teresi. "Dry-farmed heirlooms are hard to do. Typically, you don't get the full production for heirlooms, period. They scab and respond to stress, they can be tricky."
