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Or this \u003ca href=\"http://edibleeastbay.com/online-magazine/fall-harvest-2017/deaf-chefs-compete/\">profile of a Deaf chef and culinary arts instructor\u003c/a> at the California School for the Deaf.\r\n\r\nTo see my visual/edible take on the world, follow me on Instagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/annamindess/\">annamindess. \u003c/a>\r\n\r\nFor more of my stories: visit Contently \u003ca href=\"http://annamindess.contently.com\">annamindess.contently.com\u003c/a>","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5c0a68a51a07d3996f57634ef0cddaa6?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":null,"facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"arts","roles":["author"]},{"site":"bayareabites","roles":["author"]},{"site":"food","roles":["contributor"]}],"headData":{"title":"Anna Mindess | KQED","description":null,"ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5c0a68a51a07d3996f57634ef0cddaa6?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5c0a68a51a07d3996f57634ef0cddaa6?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/annamindess"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"arts","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"bayareabites_118750":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_118750","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"118750","score":null,"sort":[1499104174000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-the-story-of-beer-is-the-story-of-america","title":"How The Story Of Beer Is The Story Of America","publishDate":1499104174,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If you crack open a beer this Fourth of July, history might not be the first thing on your mind. But for \u003ca href=\"http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/1296\">Theresa McCulla\u003c/a>, the first brewing historian at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the story of beer is the story of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want to talk about the history of immigration in America, or urbanization or the expansion of transportation networks, really any subject that you want to explore, you can talk about through beer,\" McCulla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking the job earlier this year, she has combed through the Smithsonian's archives and pulled out treasures that show beer's part in American history — whether that has to do with advertising, technology, gender roles or even popular entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to some sheet music in the collection for a song called \"Budweiser Is a Friend of Mine,\" she explains that the tune premiered on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Follies in 1907.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-1020x492.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for Budweiser beer, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Mo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118758\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-1020x492.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-160x77.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-800x386.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-768x370.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-1180x569.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-960x463.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-240x116.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-375x181.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-520x251.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for Budweiser beer, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Mo. \u003ccite>(National Museum of American History, Archives Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They lyrics of the song tell the story of a man who goes out drinking in a bar and sings about how he prefers his Budweiser to his wife, because his beer does not talk back to him,\" McCulla says. \"But the song concludes with his wife pouring him a schooner of Budweiser at home so he does not need to drink elsewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can't truly tell the American story of beer, though, without talking about immigration. More than a million \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/03/513263766/budweiser-s-super-bowl-ad-misses-the-real-timelier-story-about-immigrants-and-be\">German immigrants came\u003c/a> to the U.S. in the second half of the 1800s – and they were beer drinkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They brought new kinds of brewing yeast, they brought different kinds of brewing methods, and suddenly they produced this lager beer – a very light, crisp brew that became very popular with Americans,\" McCulla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those immigrants transformed the kind of beer Americans drink and established a new industry in the process. The drink evolved from heavy, English-style ales to the cold, quaffable style that's common today. And instead of home brews, by 1900 many cities had entire neighborhoods full of breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulla says one of the most interesting aspects of the story of American beer is that it has come full circle: from the early days of home brews, to mass-produced beer, through the crash of Prohibition and back to a resurgence of microbreweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 707px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7.jpg\" alt='This beer tray, circa 1905 - from the Beer Drivers Union 132 — shows a driver and a brewer working together. It says in German \"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.\"' width=\"707\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7.jpg 707w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This beer tray, circa 1905 - from the Beer Drivers Union 132 — shows a driver and a brewer working together. It says in German \"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.\" \u003ccite>(National Museum of American History)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We now have so many breweries in this country, we have exceeded the pre-Prohibition number of breweries,\" McCulla says. \"We have reached over 5,000 breweries at this point, so it's truly the golden age to be a beer drinker.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far from the Smithsonian, this entire cycle is happening in one place. Outside the \u003ca href=\"https://portnerbrewhouse.com/\">Portner Brewhouse\u003c/a> in Alexandria, Va., a sign says: \"Established 1869, Re-Established 2012.\" The company was founded by Robert Portner, a German immigrant. At its peak, the company was the biggest employer in the city. More than 600 people worked for Portner, churning out more than 6 million bottles of beer every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portner's company was forced to close during Prohibition in 1916. But a century later, sisters Catherine and Margaret Portner, two of his great-great granddaughters, reopened the brewery just a few miles from its original site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the company's early marketing materials are in the Smithsonian's collection. The original advertisements note Robert Portner's company as the original king of beers, says Catherine Portner — long before Budweiser began using that phrase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Sisters Catherine (left) and Margaret Portner have re-established Portner's Brewery, which was opened in Alexandria, Va., in 1869 by their great-great grandfather, then closed during Prohibition.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Catherine (left) and Margaret Portner have re-established Portner's Brewery, which was opened in Alexandria, Va., in 1869 by their great-great grandfather, then closed during Prohibition. \u003ccite>(Ari Shapiro/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historical artifacts line the walls of the Portner Brewhouse, and the kitchen serves up food with a German twist. And at the in-house brewery, the sisters have recreated some of the original Portner's brews, based on the notes that Robert Portner wrote in German. But they've also made some innovations themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, harkening back to the early days of home brewing, the company also has a \"\u003ca href=\"https://portnerbrewhouse.com/craft-beer-test-kitchen/\">Craft Beer Test Kitchen Series\u003c/a>,\" which gives home brewers professional experience and feedback on their original recipes, which are brewed at Portner's and then sold to thirsty customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Portner pours a cloudy yellow beer from the tap. \"This is the Hofbrau Pilsner that we have reconstructed from the Robert Portner brewing company,\" she says. The Pilsner was one of the company's flagship beers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn't look or taste like a glass full of American history, or technology or immigration – even though on some level, it is all of those things. It just tastes like a really good beer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Smithsonian's first brewing historian explores everything from immigration to urbanization through the lens of beer. And with the boom in microbrewing, she says beer's story has come full circle.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1529346996,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":830},"headData":{"title":"How The Story Of Beer Is The Story Of America | KQED","description":"The Smithsonian's first brewing historian explores everything from immigration to urbanization through the lens of beer. 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But for \u003ca href=\"http://americanhistory.si.edu/profile/1296\">Theresa McCulla\u003c/a>, the first brewing historian at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the story of beer is the story of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want to talk about the history of immigration in America, or urbanization or the expansion of transportation networks, really any subject that you want to explore, you can talk about through beer,\" McCulla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking the job earlier this year, she has combed through the Smithsonian's archives and pulled out treasures that show beer's part in American history — whether that has to do with advertising, technology, gender roles or even popular entertainment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to some sheet music in the collection for a song called \"Budweiser Is a Friend of Mine,\" she explains that the tune premiered on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Follies in 1907.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-1020x492.jpg\" alt=\"An advertisement for Budweiser beer, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Mo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118758\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-1020x492.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-160x77.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-800x386.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-768x370.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-1180x569.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-960x463.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-240x116.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-375x181.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85-520x251.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/budweiser-archives_custom-fb104e69e6181f3da21a499a5af0427ce7630978-s1300-c85.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement for Budweiser beer, Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Mo. \u003ccite>(National Museum of American History, Archives Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They lyrics of the song tell the story of a man who goes out drinking in a bar and sings about how he prefers his Budweiser to his wife, because his beer does not talk back to him,\" McCulla says. \"But the song concludes with his wife pouring him a schooner of Budweiser at home so he does not need to drink elsewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can't truly tell the American story of beer, though, without talking about immigration. More than a million \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/03/513263766/budweiser-s-super-bowl-ad-misses-the-real-timelier-story-about-immigrants-and-be\">German immigrants came\u003c/a> to the U.S. in the second half of the 1800s – and they were beer drinkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They brought new kinds of brewing yeast, they brought different kinds of brewing methods, and suddenly they produced this lager beer – a very light, crisp brew that became very popular with Americans,\" McCulla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those immigrants transformed the kind of beer Americans drink and established a new industry in the process. The drink evolved from heavy, English-style ales to the cold, quaffable style that's common today. And instead of home brews, by 1900 many cities had entire neighborhoods full of breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCulla says one of the most interesting aspects of the story of American beer is that it has come full circle: from the early days of home brews, to mass-produced beer, through the crash of Prohibition and back to a resurgence of microbreweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 707px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7.jpg\" alt='This beer tray, circa 1905 - from the Beer Drivers Union 132 — shows a driver and a brewer working together. It says in German \"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.\"' width=\"707\" height=\"530\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7.jpg 707w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/beer-drivers-union-jn2014-3515.jpg1-a3d27e14ab1efb3689bfde6d940b8f11117d0ff7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This beer tray, circa 1905 - from the Beer Drivers Union 132 — shows a driver and a brewer working together. It says in German \"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.\" \u003ccite>(National Museum of American History)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We now have so many breweries in this country, we have exceeded the pre-Prohibition number of breweries,\" McCulla says. \"We have reached over 5,000 breweries at this point, so it's truly the golden age to be a beer drinker.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far from the Smithsonian, this entire cycle is happening in one place. Outside the \u003ca href=\"https://portnerbrewhouse.com/\">Portner Brewhouse\u003c/a> in Alexandria, Va., a sign says: \"Established 1869, Re-Established 2012.\" The company was founded by Robert Portner, a German immigrant. At its peak, the company was the biggest employer in the city. More than 600 people worked for Portner, churning out more than 6 million bottles of beer every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portner's company was forced to close during Prohibition in 1916. But a century later, sisters Catherine and Margaret Portner, two of his great-great granddaughters, reopened the brewery just a few miles from its original site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the company's early marketing materials are in the Smithsonian's collection. The original advertisements note Robert Portner's company as the original king of beers, says Catherine Portner — long before Budweiser began using that phrase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"Sisters Catherine (left) and Margaret Portner have re-established Portner's Brewery, which was opened in Alexandria, Va., in 1869 by their great-great grandfather, then closed during Prohibition.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-large wp-image-118754\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/07/img_3771-af891e26d29e6b10a602743b360246420e8759ce-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sisters Catherine (left) and Margaret Portner have re-established Portner's Brewery, which was opened in Alexandria, Va., in 1869 by their great-great grandfather, then closed during Prohibition. \u003ccite>(Ari Shapiro/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historical artifacts line the walls of the Portner Brewhouse, and the kitchen serves up food with a German twist. And at the in-house brewery, the sisters have recreated some of the original Portner's brews, based on the notes that Robert Portner wrote in German. But they've also made some innovations themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, harkening back to the early days of home brewing, the company also has a \"\u003ca href=\"https://portnerbrewhouse.com/craft-beer-test-kitchen/\">Craft Beer Test Kitchen Series\u003c/a>,\" which gives home brewers professional experience and feedback on their original recipes, which are brewed at Portner's and then sold to thirsty customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catherine Portner pours a cloudy yellow beer from the tap. \"This is the Hofbrau Pilsner that we have reconstructed from the Robert Portner brewing company,\" she says. The Pilsner was one of the company's flagship beers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It doesn't look or taste like a glass full of American history, or technology or immigration – even though on some level, it is all of those things. It just tastes like a really good beer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/118750/how-the-story-of-beer-is-the-story-of-america","authors":["byline_bayareabites_118750"],"categories":["bayareabites_301","bayareabites_13306","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_2354","bayareabites_2433","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_14177","bayareabites_15903"],"featImg":"bayareabites_118751","label":"source_bayareabites_118750"},"bayareabites_116500":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_116500","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"116500","score":null,"sort":[1491502180000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tapestry-suppers-serve-up-immigrants-stories-with-good-food-and-company","title":"Tapestry Suppers Serve Up Immigrants’ Stories with Good Food and Company","publishDate":1491502180,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A lovely garden party. Inviting platters of delicate shrimp rolls and crusty \u003cem>banh mi\u003c/em> sandwiches. Groups of people in lively conversations, getting to know each other. But there is another powerful thread running through this recent South Bay get-together, brought into focus as hostess Thoa van Seventer shares her story of leaving Vietnam and suddenly chokes up with emotion. When American troops pulled out of Vietnam in 1975, Thoa was 17 years old. Six years later, her father succumbed to despair and passed away. Thoa, her mother and sisters remained in Saigon under Viet Cong rule until 1985 when the former French Ambassador to Vietnam sponsored her family for French residency. But at that point, Thoa had a hard choice to make since she had just received a marriage proposal from a chief military officer's son in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg\" alt=\"Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-520x410.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her voice breaks as she explains to the assembled guests, “I told him ‘No, thank you’ because freedom is everything; freedom is more important than a broken heart. I made a hard choice to leave everything behind.” Thoa and her family had few possessions when they arrived in Paris in the freezing cold winter of 1985. “We came to France as beggars,” she says. “When we landed, we didn’t know if we would be welcome. But I felt like a child, who was lovingly adopted by the French people. They helped us a lot. I am so grateful to the country that adopted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see pictures of the refugees now,” she adds, “I feel respect for the refugees and for the people who help them.” And with that, Thoa serves a tray of flavorful crab and asparagus soup to her guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg\" alt=\"Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This moving encounter is from the first in a series of “Tapestry Suppers” organized by Danielle Tsi, a freelance photographer and owner of the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/\">Beyond the Plate\u003c/a>. Her goal is to get people together to share their experiences and break down barriers by showcasing immigrant stories and cuisines. “I want to bring people together to connect offline, instead of just getting sucked into the digital black hole of news,” says Tsi, who emigrated from Singapore ten years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-768x614.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-960x768.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As an immigrant myself who is not a citizen and can’t vote, what can I do? Give money to causes. But I want to do more. There is so much culture and diversity in the Bay Area,” says Tsi. “In Singapore, enjoying food together is a big unifier across all the different cultural groups there. People often underestimate the power of food—besides feeding and nurturing it can also to foster empathy. And food is a way to chip away at the public’s ignorance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsi combined the ideas of people sharing food, learning about immigrants and raising money for good causes. Each get-together features a different immigrant home chef and raise money for a cause of their choice. (This one raised $350 for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rescue.org\">The International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>.) Her idea seems to resonate in these unsettled times. The first event sold out in four days, which may partly be due to the fact that Thoa van Seventer is a beloved yoga instructor. Many of the 30 guests who gathered at her home in Palo Alto were her students and fellow yogis, including Danielle Tsi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Thoa’s oldest sister left Viet Nam two years after the communists took over in 1975, she, her younger sisters and mother did not get out until ten years later. In the intervening years, her mother advised: “you better learn something” and arranged for her daughters to take cooking lessons. The guests at the Tapestry Supper lunch enjoyed the benefits of her mother’s forethought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg\" alt=\"Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dishes Thoa prepared were familiar, but the execution exquisite. They drew high praise from the other Vietnamese guests. The rice paper on the delicate shrimp rolls was perfectly tender, the filling held a surprise bite of fresh pineapple. The varied ingredients in the banh mi sandwich combined in harmony, and the crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for weddings, was sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoa confides that she is puzzled and saddened by a friend of hers, who is also Vietnamese, but has a completely different attitude to the refugees who are desperately trying to escape persecution right now. The friend states she doesn’t want them here in the U.S. “She says that we should just take care of ourselves and our country and keep everything we can,” Thoa reports. She is dumbstruck by this lack of empathy, knowing full well that the refugees are not coming by choice, but face a stark choice: leave or die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg\" alt=\"Anh Hodges also has a story to share.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-768x547.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-960x684.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Hodges also has a story to share. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the guests, Anh Hodges, shared with her tablemates her own harrowing story of numerous thwarted attempts to escape Vietnam throughout her childhood. In 1978, four brothers and one sister in her family of 11 children did escape to avoid the Cambodian draft. But when Anh and her other sisters repeatedly tried to leave they were often caught, sometimes beaten, or sent to prison for several months. Her mother would pay money to men who were supposed to help them escape by boat, but took advantage of them and just kept their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family would not give up. After 13 failed attempts, in 1989, they finally made it out by plane. Sponsored by one of her older brothers, Anh stayed in Los Angeles for a year and then came up north. In Vietnam, she had been a high school teacher of English and math. She wanted to continue her studies, but there was no money for that. So she attended beauty school instead, became a hairstylist and eventually owned her own salon in San Jose for 20 years, with 20 employees. A friend at the table tells of Ahn’s contributions: donating the produce from her organic garden to a local school; her volunteering at the local hospital; and other good deeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg\" alt=\"The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1429\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-768x572.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1180x878.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-960x715.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-240x179.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-375x279.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-520x387.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The host of the next Tapestry Supper, April Chou, left Burma in 1977 at age 15, as an immigrant. She says, “when the military junta took over in 1962, no one had freedom, no one dared to speak up, as often relatives and friends ended up in jail. They shut down all private businesses and food was often rationed. Schools, especially universities, were shut down regularly due to student uprisings. Then came the massacre in 1988. Some of my old friends survived by living in the jungle. It’s sad to see Burma become one of the poorest countries with the lowest GDP despite its rich natural resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg\" alt=\"April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-768x615.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After many years working in high tech, Chou got more involved with Ashtanga yoga and Vipassana mediation, became vegan, switched gears and attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.baumancollege.org/\">Bauman College\u003c/a>’s Natural Chef training program. She is still finalizing the menu for April 23, and says she will probably make crudités and dips, tea leaf salad, coconut rice, and chicken/vegetable curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Tapestry Supper will be held in Sunnyvale on April 23. Tickets will be available for purchase starting Monday April 10 at 9am. Monthly dinners will follow through the summer, with different chefs. May's dinner will be an Iranian meal and Tsi is exploring possibility of featuring Tanzanian, Indian and Syrian cuisines. She does not yet have a website and advises that the best way to stay informed about future events is to sign up for her \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/cFMhND\">newsletter and mailing list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tsi states \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/2017/03/tapestry-suppers-immigrant-stories/\">on her blog\u003c/a> \"At a time of strong anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., our gatherings are the antidote to this zeitgeist by bringing people around the table to share a meal and learn about the multitude of cultures that make the Bay Area such a vibrant place to live. We believe that a society is made stronger by the diversity of its parts, and that the best way to learn about cultures foreign to us is through their cuisine.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tapestry Suppers pair immigrant home chefs with guests who want to learn about their experiences, culture and cuisine. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1492041876,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1478},"headData":{"title":"Tapestry Suppers Serve Up Immigrants’ Stories with Good Food and Company | KQED","description":"Tapestry Suppers pair immigrant home chefs with guests who want to learn about their experiences, culture and cuisine. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"116500 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=116500","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/04/06/tapestry-suppers-serve-up-immigrants-stories-with-good-food-and-company/","disqusTitle":"Tapestry Suppers Serve Up Immigrants’ Stories with Good Food and Company","source":"Pop-Ups, Dinner Parties","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/restaurants-and-bars/","path":"/bayareabites/116500/tapestry-suppers-serve-up-immigrants-stories-with-good-food-and-company","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A lovely garden party. Inviting platters of delicate shrimp rolls and crusty \u003cem>banh mi\u003c/em> sandwiches. Groups of people in lively conversations, getting to know each other. But there is another powerful thread running through this recent South Bay get-together, brought into focus as hostess Thoa van Seventer shares her story of leaving Vietnam and suddenly chokes up with emotion. When American troops pulled out of Vietnam in 1975, Thoa was 17 years old. Six years later, her father succumbed to despair and passed away. Thoa, her mother and sisters remained in Saigon under Viet Cong rule until 1985 when the former French Ambassador to Vietnam sponsored her family for French residency. But at that point, Thoa had a hard choice to make since she had just received a marriage proposal from a chief military officer's son in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116557\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg\" alt=\"Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1513\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-160x126.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-800x630.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-768x605.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1020x804.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-1180x930.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-960x757.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-240x189.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-375x296.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/2-Thoa-new-520x410.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoa van Seventer shares her story with guests at the first Tapestry Supper. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her voice breaks as she explains to the assembled guests, “I told him ‘No, thank you’ because freedom is everything; freedom is more important than a broken heart. I made a hard choice to leave everything behind.” Thoa and her family had few possessions when they arrived in Paris in the freezing cold winter of 1985. “We came to France as beggars,” she says. “When we landed, we didn’t know if we would be welcome. But I felt like a child, who was lovingly adopted by the French people. They helped us a lot. I am so grateful to the country that adopted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I see pictures of the refugees now,” she adds, “I feel respect for the refugees and for the people who help them.” And with that, Thoa serves a tray of flavorful crab and asparagus soup to her guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg\" alt=\"Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/3-soup-new-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for Vietnamese weddings. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This moving encounter is from the first in a series of “Tapestry Suppers” organized by Danielle Tsi, a freelance photographer and owner of the blog \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/\">Beyond the Plate\u003c/a>. Her goal is to get people together to share their experiences and break down barriers by showcasing immigrant stories and cuisines. “I want to bring people together to connect offline, instead of just getting sucked into the digital black hole of news,” says Tsi, who emigrated from Singapore ten years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116559\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-768x614.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-1180x944.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-960x768.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/4-Danielle-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Tsi, founder of Tapestry Suppers and owner of Beyond the Plate blog. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As an immigrant myself who is not a citizen and can’t vote, what can I do? Give money to causes. But I want to do more. There is so much culture and diversity in the Bay Area,” says Tsi. “In Singapore, enjoying food together is a big unifier across all the different cultural groups there. People often underestimate the power of food—besides feeding and nurturing it can also to foster empathy. And food is a way to chip away at the public’s ignorance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tsi combined the ideas of people sharing food, learning about immigrants and raising money for good causes. Each get-together features a different immigrant home chef and raise money for a cause of their choice. (This one raised $350 for \u003ca href=\"http://www.rescue.org\">The International Rescue Committee\u003c/a>.) Her idea seems to resonate in these unsettled times. The first event sold out in four days, which may partly be due to the fact that Thoa van Seventer is a beloved yoga instructor. Many of the 30 guests who gathered at her home in Palo Alto were her students and fellow yogis, including Danielle Tsi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Thoa’s oldest sister left Viet Nam two years after the communists took over in 1975, she, her younger sisters and mother did not get out until ten years later. In the intervening years, her mother advised: “you better learn something” and arranged for her daughters to take cooking lessons. The guests at the Tapestry Supper lunch enjoyed the benefits of her mother’s forethought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116560\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg\" alt=\"Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/5-plate-new-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shrimp rolls and banh mi sandwich made by Thoa van Seventer. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dishes Thoa prepared were familiar, but the execution exquisite. They drew high praise from the other Vietnamese guests. The rice paper on the delicate shrimp rolls was perfectly tender, the filling held a surprise bite of fresh pineapple. The varied ingredients in the banh mi sandwich combined in harmony, and the crab and asparagus soup, a traditional dish for weddings, was sublime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoa confides that she is puzzled and saddened by a friend of hers, who is also Vietnamese, but has a completely different attitude to the refugees who are desperately trying to escape persecution right now. The friend states she doesn’t want them here in the U.S. “She says that we should just take care of ourselves and our country and keep everything we can,” Thoa reports. She is dumbstruck by this lack of empathy, knowing full well that the refugees are not coming by choice, but face a stark choice: leave or die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116561\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116561\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg\" alt=\"Anh Hodges also has a story to share.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1367\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-800x570.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-768x547.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1020x726.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-960x684.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-240x171.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-375x267.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/6-Anh-new-520x370.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anh Hodges also has a story to share. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the guests, Anh Hodges, shared with her tablemates her own harrowing story of numerous thwarted attempts to escape Vietnam throughout her childhood. In 1978, four brothers and one sister in her family of 11 children did escape to avoid the Cambodian draft. But when Anh and her other sisters repeatedly tried to leave they were often caught, sometimes beaten, or sent to prison for several months. Her mother would pay money to men who were supposed to help them escape by boat, but took advantage of them and just kept their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family would not give up. After 13 failed attempts, in 1989, they finally made it out by plane. Sponsored by one of her older brothers, Anh stayed in Los Angeles for a year and then came up north. In Vietnam, she had been a high school teacher of English and math. She wanted to continue her studies, but there was no money for that. So she attended beauty school instead, became a hairstylist and eventually owned her own salon in San Jose for 20 years, with 20 employees. A friend at the table tells of Ahn’s contributions: donating the produce from her organic garden to a local school; her volunteering at the local hospital; and other good deeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116562\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116562\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg\" alt=\"The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1429\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-768x572.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-1180x878.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-960x715.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-240x179.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-375x279.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/7-group-new-520x387.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The point of Tapestry Suppers is for people to get to know each other and share their stories. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The host of the next Tapestry Supper, April Chou, left Burma in 1977 at age 15, as an immigrant. She says, “when the military junta took over in 1962, no one had freedom, no one dared to speak up, as often relatives and friends ended up in jail. They shut down all private businesses and food was often rationed. Schools, especially universities, were shut down regularly due to student uprisings. Then came the massacre in 1988. Some of my old friends survived by living in the jungle. It’s sad to see Burma become one of the poorest countries with the lowest GDP despite its rich natural resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-116563\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg\" alt=\"April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-768x615.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1020x817.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-1180x945.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-960x769.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-240x192.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-375x300.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/04/8-April-new-520x416.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Chou will be the host of the next Tapestry Supper and cook food from her native Burma. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After many years working in high tech, Chou got more involved with Ashtanga yoga and Vipassana mediation, became vegan, switched gears and attended \u003ca href=\"https://www.baumancollege.org/\">Bauman College\u003c/a>’s Natural Chef training program. She is still finalizing the menu for April 23, and says she will probably make crudités and dips, tea leaf salad, coconut rice, and chicken/vegetable curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Tapestry Supper will be held in Sunnyvale on April 23. Tickets will be available for purchase starting Monday April 10 at 9am. Monthly dinners will follow through the summer, with different chefs. May's dinner will be an Iranian meal and Tsi is exploring possibility of featuring Tanzanian, Indian and Syrian cuisines. She does not yet have a website and advises that the best way to stay informed about future events is to sign up for her \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/cFMhND\">newsletter and mailing list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Tsi states \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondtheplate.net/2017/03/tapestry-suppers-immigrant-stories/\">on her blog\u003c/a> \"At a time of strong anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., our gatherings are the antidote to this zeitgeist by bringing people around the table to share a meal and learn about the multitude of cultures that make the Bay Area such a vibrant place to live. We believe that a society is made stronger by the diversity of its parts, and that the best way to learn about cultures foreign to us is through their cuisine.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/116500/tapestry-suppers-serve-up-immigrants-stories-with-good-food-and-company","authors":["5283"],"categories":["bayareabites_2998","bayareabites_109","bayareabites_1865","bayareabites_2332","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_91"],"tags":["bayareabites_15806","bayareabites_14117","bayareabites_15803","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_12834","bayareabites_15805","bayareabites_15802","bayareabites_15804","bayareabites_10793","bayareabites_10756","bayareabites_10985","bayareabites_13581","bayareabites_1130"],"featImg":"bayareabites_116556","label":"source_bayareabites_116500"},"bayareabites_116411":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_116411","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"116411","score":null,"sort":[1490745422000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"deportation-fears-prompt-immigrants-to-cancel-food-stamps","title":"Deportation Fears Prompt Immigrants To Cancel Food Stamps","publishDate":1490745422,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttps://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/03/20170328_atc_immigrants_cancel_food_assistance_to_avoid_deportation.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups that help low-income families get food assistance are alarmed by a recent drop in the number of immigrants seeking help. Some families are even canceling their food stamps and other government benefits, for fear that receiving them will affect their immigration status or lead to deportation. Many of the concerns appear to be unfounded but have been fueled by the Trump administration's tough stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at Manna Food Center in Montgomery County, Md., report that about 20 percent of the 561 families they have helped apply for food stamps, or SNAP benefits, in the past few months have asked that their cases be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Chavez, an outreach worker for Manna, says her immigrant clients are scared, especially if they're unauthorized parents getting SNAP benefits for their eligible American children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They say, 'I want to close my food stamp.' And I say, 'Why you want to close it?' They say, 'Well, because I am afraid that something [will] happen to me or they [will] deport me,' \" says Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Wengler, director of benefits access at Hunger Free New York City, says fewer immigrants have also been showing up recently at the 20 sites his group serves around the city. And he says some noncitizens — even those in the country legally — want all of their government benefits canceled, including Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is really frightening because these are families that are often working minimum-wage jobs, trying to raise children, trying to do the right thing, and with the help of these benefits are getting by. But without them, [they] will be in a really desperate situation,\" Wengler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits around the country say they're seeing similar declines, although there are no hard numbers to back up the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the concerns seem to be twofold. Unauthorized immigrants, who can't get benefits themselves, are worried about getting deported if they receive benefits for their children. And lawful permanent residents are worried that receiving government aid — which they generally have to wait five years to do — will jeopardize their chances of becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 812px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM.png\" alt=\"SNAP Recipients In 2015, By Citizenship\" width=\"812\" height=\"411\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM.png 812w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-160x81.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-800x405.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-768x389.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-240x121.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-375x190.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-520x263.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP Recipients In 2015, By Citizenship \u003ccite>(Source: \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Characteristics2015.pdf\">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u003c/a> (PDF))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's no evidence either of these things will happen, but rumors have been flying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so much misinformation that it's creating a lot of anxiety among all immigrants right now,\" says Matthew Lopas, an attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, which is trying to allay people's fears. \"Nothing in the law has changed as of now, and there's certainly no danger at this point in using programs for which a person is eligible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, President Trump has made clear that he would like to restrict both illegal and legal immigration. In an address to Congress last month, he said that the nation's current immigration system is a drain on American taxpayers and that the country should be more selective about whom it lets in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a basic principle that those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially. Yet, in America we do not enforce this rule, straining the very public resources that our poorest citizens rely upon,\" Trump told Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many economists disagree that's the case, but there are those within the administration who are concerned about immigrants' use of government aid. In January, a draft White House executive order was leaked that proposes new limits on the use of public benefits by those seeking citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order hasn't been signed, and it might never be signed. But Marco Liu, director of advocacy and outreach for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, says the draft order and stepped-up immigration enforcement make it difficult to convince noncitizens that they should continue to apply for the benefits they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the sensitive and tricky part, because honestly, if I were in their shoes, I might be just as apprehensive,\" says Liu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One additional note. We tried repeatedly to find immigrants willing to talk to us for the story, even without using their names. But we were unable to do so, which is highly unusual. Liu says people are so worried, they don't want to take any risks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Groups that help low-income families get food aid report a big drop in the number of immigrants seeking help. Some are canceling government benefits for fear it will affect their immigration status.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490745422,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":736},"headData":{"title":"Deportation Fears Prompt Immigrants To Cancel Food Stamps | KQED","description":"Groups that help low-income families get food aid report a big drop in the number of immigrants seeking help. 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Byun/Boston Globe/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"521823480","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=521823480&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/28/521823480/deportation-fears-prompt-immigrants-to-cancel-food-stamps?ft=nprml&f=521823480","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:09:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:56:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:09:11 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/03/20170328_atc_immigrants_cancel_food_assistance_to_avoid_deportation.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&d=241&p=2&story=521823480&t=progseg&e=521761226&seg=9&ft=nprml&f=521823480","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1521823481-9eebf7.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1003&d=241&p=2&story=521823480&t=progseg&e=521761226&seg=9&ft=nprml&f=521823480","path":"/bayareabites/116411/deportation-fears-prompt-immigrants-to-cancel-food-stamps","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/03/20170328_atc_immigrants_cancel_food_assistance_to_avoid_deportation.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1003&d=241&p=2&story=521823480&t=progseg&e=521761226&seg=9&ft=nprml&f=521823480","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the story on All Things Considered:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"nprOneAudioLink","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2017/03/20170328_atc_immigrants_cancel_food_assistance_to_avoid_deportation.mp3"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups that help low-income families get food assistance are alarmed by a recent drop in the number of immigrants seeking help. Some families are even canceling their food stamps and other government benefits, for fear that receiving them will affect their immigration status or lead to deportation. Many of the concerns appear to be unfounded but have been fueled by the Trump administration's tough stance on immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at Manna Food Center in Montgomery County, Md., report that about 20 percent of the 561 families they have helped apply for food stamps, or SNAP benefits, in the past few months have asked that their cases be closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Chavez, an outreach worker for Manna, says her immigrant clients are scared, especially if they're unauthorized parents getting SNAP benefits for their eligible American children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They say, 'I want to close my food stamp.' And I say, 'Why you want to close it?' They say, 'Well, because I am afraid that something [will] happen to me or they [will] deport me,' \" says Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Wengler, director of benefits access at Hunger Free New York City, says fewer immigrants have also been showing up recently at the 20 sites his group serves around the city. And he says some noncitizens — even those in the country legally — want all of their government benefits canceled, including Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Which is really frightening because these are families that are often working minimum-wage jobs, trying to raise children, trying to do the right thing, and with the help of these benefits are getting by. But without them, [they] will be in a really desperate situation,\" Wengler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits around the country say they're seeing similar declines, although there are no hard numbers to back up the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the concerns seem to be twofold. Unauthorized immigrants, who can't get benefits themselves, are worried about getting deported if they receive benefits for their children. And lawful permanent residents are worried that receiving government aid — which they generally have to wait five years to do — will jeopardize their chances of becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_116417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 812px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM.png\" alt=\"SNAP Recipients In 2015, By Citizenship\" width=\"812\" height=\"411\" class=\"size-full wp-image-116417\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM.png 812w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-160x81.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-800x405.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-768x389.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-240x121.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-375x190.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/03/Screen-shot-2017-03-28-at-4.48.16-PM-520x263.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SNAP Recipients In 2015, By Citizenship \u003ccite>(Source: \u003ca href=\"https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/ops/Characteristics2015.pdf\">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\u003c/a> (PDF))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's no evidence either of these things will happen, but rumors have been flying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so much misinformation that it's creating a lot of anxiety among all immigrants right now,\" says Matthew Lopas, an attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, which is trying to allay people's fears. \"Nothing in the law has changed as of now, and there's certainly no danger at this point in using programs for which a person is eligible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, President Trump has made clear that he would like to restrict both illegal and legal immigration. In an address to Congress last month, he said that the nation's current immigration system is a drain on American taxpayers and that the country should be more selective about whom it lets in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a basic principle that those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially. Yet, in America we do not enforce this rule, straining the very public resources that our poorest citizens rely upon,\" Trump told Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many economists disagree that's the case, but there are those within the administration who are concerned about immigrants' use of government aid. In January, a draft White House executive order was leaked that proposes new limits on the use of public benefits by those seeking citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order hasn't been signed, and it might never be signed. But Marco Liu, director of advocacy and outreach for the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, says the draft order and stepped-up immigration enforcement make it difficult to convince noncitizens that they should continue to apply for the benefits they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the sensitive and tricky part, because honestly, if I were in their shoes, I might be just as apprehensive,\" says Liu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One additional note. We tried repeatedly to find immigrants willing to talk to us for the story, even without using their names. But we were unable to do so, which is highly unusual. Liu says people are so worried, they don't want to take any risks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/116411/deportation-fears-prompt-immigrants-to-cancel-food-stamps","authors":["byline_bayareabites_116411"],"categories":["bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_14177","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_15255"],"featImg":"bayareabites_116412","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_115577":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_115577","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"115577","score":null,"sort":[1488479936000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"to-the-restaurants-immigrant-workers-ba-bite-in-oakland-feels-like-home","title":"To the Restaurant's Immigrant Workers, Ba-Bite in Oakland Feels Like Home","publishDate":1488479936,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>They’ve won accolades for their silken hummus and rainbow of organic salads, but for the owners of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.BaBiteOakland.com\">Ba-Bite\u003c/a>, the most precious thing the almost two-year old restaurant can display right now may be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/table4everyone/\">Sanctuary Restaurant\u003c/a> poster on their front door. (While \u003ca href=\"http://sanctuaryrestaurants.org/\">“Sanctuary Restaurant”\u003c/a> is not a legal designation, its slogan, \"a place at the table for everyone\" signifies a growing movement for inclusion, diversity and dignity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920.jpg\" alt=\"One of Ba-Bite's colorful salads: red cabbage with mung bean sprouts, dried figs, arugula and feta and the creamiest hummus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Ba-Bite's colorful salads: red cabbage with mung bean sprouts, dried figs, arugula and feta and the creamiest hummus. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ba-Bite is Hebrew for “at home.” Even though most of Mica Talmor and Robert Gott’s employees don’t speak Hebrew, (besides English, they speak Spanish, Maya, and Arabic) they completely understand the concept. The majority of them -- like most food service workers in the Bay Area -- are immigrants. After walking across deserts at night, being shortchanged or abused in other restaurants where they could not complain, working at Ba-Bite feels like they have found a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Chable manages the kitchen at Ba-Bite and is responsible for set up, prepping, and cooking. He grew up in a tiny town in Mexico’s Yucatan. When he was 18, he set off alone on a journey to a new land. The oldest of 5 brothers, he was determined to make enough money to send to his parents so they could build a proper house of concrete, instead of the rickety wooden structure where they all lived. He accomplished that goal after three years working double shifts in Thai, American and Louisiana restaurants. He started as a dishwasher and worked his way up to his lead position in Ba-Bite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920.jpg\" alt=\"Russell cooks at Ba-Bite, which he says feels like a family.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-800x637.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-768x611.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-1020x812.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-1180x939.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-960x764.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-375x298.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell cooks at Ba-Bite, which he says feels like a family. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After eight years away from home, Russell missed his mom. Sure, he would talk to her on the phone every week, but he wanted to see her face. So this determined young man decided to build his parents a cell tower so that he could FaceTime with his mom. Six months ago, he made contact with a man back in Mexico who outlined what would be needed: laptops, cables and a cell tower. Russell had his uncle check out the man and then sent money. Now he uses FaceTime to talk to his mom every week, and his parents have a small business renting out computer and internet time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given the recent actions of the new administration, Russell is scared and worried. He doesn’t feel welcome anymore. “When I walk on the street, I never know who is watching.” He has been working for Talmor and Gott for three years and feels like he has found another family at Ba-Bite. “Everyone cares about each other. The owners talk nicely to us. That is a different experience from the other places I worked. I feel so lucky. My message to other immigrants is ‘If you get the opportunity to come here, use it well.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920.jpg\" alt=\"A generous spread at Ba-Bite, including butternut squash and quinoa salad with cranberries and pumpkin seeds; Salad Shirazi (cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley and mint), Red Cabbage salad, Baba Ganoush, Lamb Kefta and Chicken Shishlik.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-800x586.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-768x562.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-1180x864.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-960x703.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-375x275.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A generous spread at Ba-Bite, including butternut squash and quinoa salad with cranberries and pumpkin seeds; Salad Shirazi (cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley and mint), Red Cabbage salad, Baba Ganoush, Lamb Kefta and Chicken Shishlik. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Co-owner Mica Talmor was born in Israel and has tried to create a family feeling among her workers. “The day after the election was hard for all of us,” she says. “The workers were frightened. They have hard lives. We want to give them a place to work that’s nice, clean, happy and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What do I tell my 90-year old Holocaust survivor grandmother who lives in Israel about what's going on in this country with the current wave of hate crimes, threats and attacks against Jewish institutions? We have collective memory. Closing the door on refugees reminds me of family members who were detained as they left Europe for Israel after World War ll. Their boats were stopped in Cypress and they were put in refugee camps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep's milk feta provides creamy center to Ba-bite's stuffed falafel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep's milk feta provides creamy center to Ba-bite's stuffed falafel. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fatima Abudamos is from Jordan and works as cashier. She also holds the distinction as Ba-Bite's best falafel shaper. As she stuffs the green balls with sheep’s milk feta, she says, “This is an amazing place, just like a family. I’ve worked here almost two years. Mica is not like a boss, she’s more like a friend. She doesn’t scream if you make a mistake; she explains things. I feel safe here; it’s my second family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fatima appreciates her caring employers at Ba-Bite.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fatima appreciates her caring employers at Ba-Bite. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Fatima previously worked in another Middle Eastern Restaurant, but one owned by her uncle, where she did not feel appreciated. “Here, they thank me. They are nice and respectful. And,” she adds, “I love the food here; it’s organic and delicious.” Fatima’s father had lived in America previously and described it to his family before they moved here five years ago. “He told us it’s very clean. He explained about the lifestyle. You have to learn to smile at people and not stare at anyone too long. He also taught us that all people are human: white, black, Jewish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920.jpg\" alt=\"Quidsiah, an homage to this East Jerusalem (i.e. Palestinian) specialty with split, peeled, braised fava beans atop garlicky hummus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quidsiah, an homage to this East Jerusalem (i.e. Palestinian) specialty with split, peeled, braised fava beans atop garlicky hummus. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gott points to the sign that states, “\u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/network-against-islamophobia/\">We stand with Our Muslim, Arab and Immigrant Neighbors.\u003c/a>” We have gotten more pushback on this one than the Sanctuary sign. But the majority of customers have been extremely supportive. Some even apologized to one of our employees who wore a hijab, for the actions of the new administration. They hugged her, saying, ‘that doesn't represent us’\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife adds, “You only hate someone you’ve never met. The first time I met a Palestinian was here. My husband’s family was from Oregon. Then they moved to Idaho. I was the first Jew they had ever met.” Commenting on the tense developments that seem to be getting worse every day, she says, \"If I wanted to live in a hateful society where half the people are treated unequally, I could have stayed in Israel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talmor and Gott are no strangers to the food service business. A baker and a pastry chef who met in culinary school in 1998, they have operated Savoy Events, a high-end catering company for more than a dozen years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not one to mince words, Talmor states, “It’s actually hard to hire Americans, because they generally don’t work as fast and they daydream. Probably they were coddled by their helicopter parents, ‘Oh, good job. You tied your shoes.’ The immigrants, who often grew up in large families, took on responsibilities from an early age, helping their families with laundry, cooking, taking care of younger siblings, all before they were 14. They had the personality, the drive and physical ability to walk across the desert for a better future. They have come here for the American Dream, to make a better life. And now they are excellent workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pay all of our workers well,” says Gott. “Partly because we know how expensive it is to live here. My experience is that more often than not, immigrants are working multiple jobs or longer hours, and forgo taking time off at all costs, as they want to or need to make money. On the other side of the coin, most American workers I have hired over the years are much more willing to miss work for personal reasons. It could be that they don't need the money, that they have busier personal lives or that they are not as invested in the businesses that they work for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand why some people don’t want open borders,” Talmor says. “I can relate. I am a supporter of immigration reform and I think that if it wasn’t such a polarizing issue easily manipulated by our politicians, we could have a reasonable system that addresses our labor needs and the lives and dignity of immigrant workers. Like for example, in Canada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1752px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra.jpg\" alt=\"Kasandra, who says Ba-Bite feels like her family is studying to be a nurse.\" width=\"1752\" height=\"1985\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra.jpg 1752w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-160x181.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-800x906.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-768x870.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-1020x1156.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-1180x1337.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-960x1088.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-240x272.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-375x425.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-520x589.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1752px) 100vw, 1752px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kasandra, who says Ba-Bite feels like her family is studying to be a nurse. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kasandra Molina is 23 years old and has worked at Ba-Bite almost two years. She is a food runner and cleans up tables. She came from Guadalajara, Mexico with her mother, aunt and cousins when she was 7 years old. She remembers walking in the cold, sleeping in a hotel with a bunch of strangers, waiting for the “coyote” to tell them it’s time. They were picked up by immigration authorities twice, put in chilly cells without any blankets. When they finally made it, her father was waiting in a car. They came to Oakland. She started in a bilingual school in 4th grade. “But then we had to move and the next school was only in English,\" she says. \"The teacher was mean and always mad at me. She didn’t speak any Spanish, but the other students helped me and eventually I learned.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard about the Dream Act, we went to meetings to find out about it and met with a lawyer. I had to show proof that I was here for 5 years, so we showed diplomas from school and medical records. Finally, about three years ago, I got my Social Security number and a work permit.” Kasandra is now going to college to become an RN. “I always liked medicine,” she says. “I’ve seen many babies born. It’s so amazing. And I always translate for my family in the ER.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new president scares me. [Although the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals\" target=\"_blank\">DACA program\u003c/a> is safe right now] I’m worried. Seems like he can do whatever he wants. He changes his mind from one day to another. He has our number, and our address. I spent most of my childhood here. If we have to go back to Mexico, there’s nothing there, no house to live in,\" she says. “Mica and Robert understand. This space here doesn’t feel like a workplace, it feels like home. We all get along. They care about our opinions and feelings. They don’t treat us just as employees; it’s more like a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1177px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up.jpg\" alt=\"Sign of a growing nation-wide movement.\" width=\"1177\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up.jpg 1177w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign of a growing nation-wide movement. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This restaurant is my home and my family,” says Gott. “It just happens that most of my family are immigrants. We want to be a safe place and that’s why we joined Sanctuary Restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gott also helped out a longtime employee from El Salvador whose injury from stepping on a landmine never healed properly. “We gave him time off from work and money so that he could finally have the surgery he needed,” he says. “We wanted him to be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What will we do if ICE comes?” Talmor asks herself. ”We are one. If they come for one, they come for all. If you let one group be persecuted, it’s just a matter of time until they come for us all. It’s an erosion of values when the values are what we stand for. We will close the restaurant on May 1 so we can all go to the Day without Immigrants Demonstration in San Francisco together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.BaBiteOakland.com\">\u003cstrong>Ba-Bite\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n3905 Piedmont Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/C0KJF3\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94611\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 250-9526\u003cbr>\nHours: Sun-Thu 11am-8pm, Fri-Sat 11am-8:30pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/babitepiedmont/\">Ba-Bite Piedmont\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaBiteOakland\" target=\"_blank\">@BaBiteOakland\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Immigrants are treasured employees at Ba-Bite, where it feels like family.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1493086136,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":2057},"headData":{"title":"To the Restaurant's Immigrant Workers, Ba-Bite in Oakland Feels Like Home | KQED","description":"Immigrants are treasured employees at Ba-Bite, where it feels like family.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"115577 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=115577","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/03/02/to-the-restaurants-immigrant-workers-ba-bite-in-oakland-feels-like-home/","disqusTitle":"To the Restaurant's Immigrant Workers, Ba-Bite in Oakland Feels Like Home","path":"/bayareabites/115577/to-the-restaurants-immigrant-workers-ba-bite-in-oakland-feels-like-home","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>They’ve won accolades for their silken hummus and rainbow of organic salads, but for the owners of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.BaBiteOakland.com\">Ba-Bite\u003c/a>, the most precious thing the almost two-year old restaurant can display right now may be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/table4everyone/\">Sanctuary Restaurant\u003c/a> poster on their front door. (While \u003ca href=\"http://sanctuaryrestaurants.org/\">“Sanctuary Restaurant”\u003c/a> is not a legal designation, its slogan, \"a place at the table for everyone\" signifies a growing movement for inclusion, diversity and dignity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920.jpg\" alt=\"One of Ba-Bite's colorful salads: red cabbage with mung bean sprouts, dried figs, arugula and feta and the creamiest hummus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-salad-and-hummus1920-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Ba-Bite's colorful salads: red cabbage with mung bean sprouts, dried figs, arugula and feta and the creamiest hummus. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ba-Bite is Hebrew for “at home.” Even though most of Mica Talmor and Robert Gott’s employees don’t speak Hebrew, (besides English, they speak Spanish, Maya, and Arabic) they completely understand the concept. The majority of them -- like most food service workers in the Bay Area -- are immigrants. After walking across deserts at night, being shortchanged or abused in other restaurants where they could not complain, working at Ba-Bite feels like they have found a family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Chable manages the kitchen at Ba-Bite and is responsible for set up, prepping, and cooking. He grew up in a tiny town in Mexico’s Yucatan. When he was 18, he set off alone on a journey to a new land. The oldest of 5 brothers, he was determined to make enough money to send to his parents so they could build a proper house of concrete, instead of the rickety wooden structure where they all lived. He accomplished that goal after three years working double shifts in Thai, American and Louisiana restaurants. He started as a dishwasher and worked his way up to his lead position in Ba-Bite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920.jpg\" alt=\"Russell cooks at Ba-Bite, which he says feels like a family.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-800x637.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-768x611.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-1020x812.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-1180x939.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-960x764.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-375x298.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Russell1920-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell cooks at Ba-Bite, which he says feels like a family. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After eight years away from home, Russell missed his mom. Sure, he would talk to her on the phone every week, but he wanted to see her face. So this determined young man decided to build his parents a cell tower so that he could FaceTime with his mom. Six months ago, he made contact with a man back in Mexico who outlined what would be needed: laptops, cables and a cell tower. Russell had his uncle check out the man and then sent money. Now he uses FaceTime to talk to his mom every week, and his parents have a small business renting out computer and internet time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given the recent actions of the new administration, Russell is scared and worried. He doesn’t feel welcome anymore. “When I walk on the street, I never know who is watching.” He has been working for Talmor and Gott for three years and feels like he has found another family at Ba-Bite. “Everyone cares about each other. The owners talk nicely to us. That is a different experience from the other places I worked. I feel so lucky. My message to other immigrants is ‘If you get the opportunity to come here, use it well.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115636\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920.jpg\" alt=\"A generous spread at Ba-Bite, including butternut squash and quinoa salad with cranberries and pumpkin seeds; Salad Shirazi (cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley and mint), Red Cabbage salad, Baba Ganoush, Lamb Kefta and Chicken Shishlik.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-160x117.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-800x586.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-768x562.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-1020x747.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-1180x864.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-960x703.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-240x176.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-375x275.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Ba-Bite-spread-of-salads1920-520x381.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A generous spread at Ba-Bite, including butternut squash and quinoa salad with cranberries and pumpkin seeds; Salad Shirazi (cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley and mint), Red Cabbage salad, Baba Ganoush, Lamb Kefta and Chicken Shishlik. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Co-owner Mica Talmor was born in Israel and has tried to create a family feeling among her workers. “The day after the election was hard for all of us,” she says. “The workers were frightened. They have hard lives. We want to give them a place to work that’s nice, clean, happy and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What do I tell my 90-year old Holocaust survivor grandmother who lives in Israel about what's going on in this country with the current wave of hate crimes, threats and attacks against Jewish institutions? We have collective memory. Closing the door on refugees reminds me of family members who were detained as they left Europe for Israel after World War ll. Their boats were stopped in Cypress and they were put in refugee camps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115637\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep's milk feta provides creamy center to Ba-bite's stuffed falafel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-stuffed-falafel1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheep's milk feta provides creamy center to Ba-bite's stuffed falafel. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fatima Abudamos is from Jordan and works as cashier. She also holds the distinction as Ba-Bite's best falafel shaper. As she stuffs the green balls with sheep’s milk feta, she says, “This is an amazing place, just like a family. I’ve worked here almost two years. Mica is not like a boss, she’s more like a friend. She doesn’t scream if you make a mistake; she explains things. I feel safe here; it’s my second family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115638\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920.jpg\" alt=\"Fatima appreciates her caring employers at Ba-Bite.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Mica-and-Fatima1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fatima appreciates her caring employers at Ba-Bite. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ironically, Fatima previously worked in another Middle Eastern Restaurant, but one owned by her uncle, where she did not feel appreciated. “Here, they thank me. They are nice and respectful. And,” she adds, “I love the food here; it’s organic and delicious.” Fatima’s father had lived in America previously and described it to his family before they moved here five years ago. “He told us it’s very clean. He explained about the lifestyle. You have to learn to smile at people and not stare at anyone too long. He also taught us that all people are human: white, black, Jewish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115639\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920.jpg\" alt=\"Quidsiah, an homage to this East Jerusalem (i.e. Palestinian) specialty with split, peeled, braised fava beans atop garlicky hummus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Qudsiah1920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quidsiah, an homage to this East Jerusalem (i.e. Palestinian) specialty with split, peeled, braised fava beans atop garlicky hummus. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gott points to the sign that states, “\u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/network-against-islamophobia/\">We stand with Our Muslim, Arab and Immigrant Neighbors.\u003c/a>” We have gotten more pushback on this one than the Sanctuary sign. But the majority of customers have been extremely supportive. Some even apologized to one of our employees who wore a hijab, for the actions of the new administration. They hugged her, saying, ‘that doesn't represent us’\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife adds, “You only hate someone you’ve never met. The first time I met a Palestinian was here. My husband’s family was from Oregon. Then they moved to Idaho. I was the first Jew they had ever met.” Commenting on the tense developments that seem to be getting worse every day, she says, \"If I wanted to live in a hateful society where half the people are treated unequally, I could have stayed in Israel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talmor and Gott are no strangers to the food service business. A baker and a pastry chef who met in culinary school in 1998, they have operated Savoy Events, a high-end catering company for more than a dozen years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not one to mince words, Talmor states, “It’s actually hard to hire Americans, because they generally don’t work as fast and they daydream. Probably they were coddled by their helicopter parents, ‘Oh, good job. You tied your shoes.’ The immigrants, who often grew up in large families, took on responsibilities from an early age, helping their families with laundry, cooking, taking care of younger siblings, all before they were 14. They had the personality, the drive and physical ability to walk across the desert for a better future. They have come here for the American Dream, to make a better life. And now they are excellent workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pay all of our workers well,” says Gott. “Partly because we know how expensive it is to live here. My experience is that more often than not, immigrants are working multiple jobs or longer hours, and forgo taking time off at all costs, as they want to or need to make money. On the other side of the coin, most American workers I have hired over the years are much more willing to miss work for personal reasons. It could be that they don't need the money, that they have busier personal lives or that they are not as invested in the businesses that they work for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand why some people don’t want open borders,” Talmor says. “I can relate. I am a supporter of immigration reform and I think that if it wasn’t such a polarizing issue easily manipulated by our politicians, we could have a reasonable system that addresses our labor needs and the lives and dignity of immigrant workers. Like for example, in Canada.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1752px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115640\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra.jpg\" alt=\"Kasandra, who says Ba-Bite feels like her family is studying to be a nurse.\" width=\"1752\" height=\"1985\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra.jpg 1752w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-160x181.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-800x906.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-768x870.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-1020x1156.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-1180x1337.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-960x1088.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-240x272.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-375x425.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Kasandra-520x589.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1752px) 100vw, 1752px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kasandra, who says Ba-Bite feels like her family is studying to be a nurse. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kasandra Molina is 23 years old and has worked at Ba-Bite almost two years. She is a food runner and cleans up tables. She came from Guadalajara, Mexico with her mother, aunt and cousins when she was 7 years old. She remembers walking in the cold, sleeping in a hotel with a bunch of strangers, waiting for the “coyote” to tell them it’s time. They were picked up by immigration authorities twice, put in chilly cells without any blankets. When they finally made it, her father was waiting in a car. They came to Oakland. She started in a bilingual school in 4th grade. “But then we had to move and the next school was only in English,\" she says. \"The teacher was mean and always mad at me. She didn’t speak any Spanish, but the other students helped me and eventually I learned.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I heard about the Dream Act, we went to meetings to find out about it and met with a lawyer. I had to show proof that I was here for 5 years, so we showed diplomas from school and medical records. Finally, about three years ago, I got my Social Security number and a work permit.” Kasandra is now going to college to become an RN. “I always liked medicine,” she says. “I’ve seen many babies born. It’s so amazing. And I always translate for my family in the ER.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The new president scares me. [Although the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals\" target=\"_blank\">DACA program\u003c/a> is safe right now] I’m worried. Seems like he can do whatever he wants. He changes his mind from one day to another. He has our number, and our address. I spent most of my childhood here. If we have to go back to Mexico, there’s nothing there, no house to live in,\" she says. “Mica and Robert understand. This space here doesn’t feel like a workplace, it feels like home. We all get along. They care about our opinions and feelings. They don’t treat us just as employees; it’s more like a family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1177px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-115641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up.jpg\" alt=\"Sign of a growing nation-wide movement.\" width=\"1177\" height=\"1177\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up.jpg 1177w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-768x768.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-960x960.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-520x520.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-sign-close-up-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1177px) 100vw, 1177px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sign of a growing nation-wide movement. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This restaurant is my home and my family,” says Gott. “It just happens that most of my family are immigrants. We want to be a safe place and that’s why we joined Sanctuary Restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gott also helped out a longtime employee from El Salvador whose injury from stepping on a landmine never healed properly. “We gave him time off from work and money so that he could finally have the surgery he needed,” he says. “We wanted him to be here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What will we do if ICE comes?” Talmor asks herself. ”We are one. If they come for one, they come for all. If you let one group be persecuted, it’s just a matter of time until they come for us all. It’s an erosion of values when the values are what we stand for. We will close the restaurant on May 1 so we can all go to the Day without Immigrants Demonstration in San Francisco together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.BaBiteOakland.com\">\u003cstrong>Ba-Bite\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n3905 Piedmont Ave. [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/C0KJF3\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94611\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 250-9526\u003cbr>\nHours: Sun-Thu 11am-8pm, Fri-Sat 11am-8:30pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/babitepiedmont/\">Ba-Bite Piedmont\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BaBiteOakland\" target=\"_blank\">@BaBiteOakland\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/115577/to-the-restaurants-immigrant-workers-ba-bite-in-oakland-feels-like-home","authors":["5283"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_366","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_1807"],"tags":["bayareabites_15409","bayareabites_15770","bayareabites_15757","bayareabites_15771","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_15769"],"featImg":"bayareabites_115633","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_115571":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_115571","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"115571","score":null,"sort":[1488251782000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tasting-the-immigrant-experience-at-the-2017-caamfest","title":"Tasting the Immigrant Experience at the 2017 CAAMFest 35","publishDate":1488251782,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>My earliest memory of my maternal grandmother is in a kitchen that I can just barely picture. It's far too large and blurry at the walls, which are dim and milky white. The table in front of me comes into focus, along with my grandmother's hands. She is making tortillas, flattening balls of dough with a rolling pin and then quickly transferring a disc of flour and lard from hand to hand before depositing it on a hot plancha. The finished tortilla lands in front of me. My little hands bring it to my mouth as the memory fades. Before disappearing, this brief image has communicated volumes about who I am and where I come from. It is my family's immigrant experience encapsulated in a single tortilla, passed from my grandmother's hands, which repeated these gestures countless times over the decades, preparing the staple that nourished her ten children and, when we were lucky, their children as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As 88-year-old Eva Hashiguchi prepares the many dishes that populate her annual Japanese New Year party, I couldn't help but flash on the above image of my own grandmother. These rituals are about more than just the acquisition and combination of ingredients, they are a complicated dance that involves the whole body in the offering. In Matthew Hashiguchi's film, \u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>, which takes its name from the centerpiece dish of Eva's annual family celebration, this meal is the site of more than just cooking and eating. Matthew and his extended family have been sustained by their matriarch's relentless positivity, but also shaped by a defining trauma without which their family may never have come into existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Roy Choi\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Roy Choi \u003ccite>(Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodlucksoupfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is one of just a few food-related films screening at this year's 35th annual \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFest\u003c/a>, put on by the Center for Asian American Media, which runs March 9-19, 2017 and features 113 films from around the globe at various Bay Area locations. As usual, the festival is kicked off by the \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/section/caamfeast/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFeast\u003c/a>, a celebration of Asian American culinary achievement on March 4, 2017. Each year, the Feast acknowledges the contributions of a trio of chefs and food organizations. This year, alongside the Asian Chefs Association and People's Kitchen Collective, the feast honors chef Roy Choi, whose Kogi fleet of L.A.-based Korean taco trucks is credited with kicking off the current food truck phenomenon. Choi's signature Korean BBQ taco is a quintessentially Los Angeles invention, famously representing the city's diversity through taste and giving voice to a certain part of the immigration experience. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast annually celebrates the centrality of cuisine to culture and identity. This year's food-related selections elaborate the complicated issues surrounding the immigrant experience, taking on added relevance in the current political climate. The kitchen is so often the site where individual flair meets family tradition. Flavors melt but remain distinct. Immigrants may arrive and assimilate other aspects of their original cultures, but taste persists. Food defines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/azE0SSHFcmI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/good-luck-soup/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 18) begins with a startling admission; the filmmaker remembers yelling \"I don't want to be Japanese\" at his Japanese-American father. As a mixed-race kid growing up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, Hashiguchi felt intense pressure to assimilate. He and his siblings recount the constant requests for definition their looks, their culture and their name inspired. His family belonged to a tight-knit enclave of American citizens of Japanese descent that formed shortly after World War II, when they were released from the infamous internment camps. It is this trauma that worries Eva's progeny. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Good Luck Soup\" width=\"640\" height=\"953\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-800x1191.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-768x1143.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-960x1429.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-375x558.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-520x774.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Good Luck Soup\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva is an American citizen, born in Florin, CA to Japanese immigrants. She and her family lost their fruit farm and were interned by the United States government shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She spent her teenage years in the camps, where she also met her future husband. While Eva freely shares her experiences from that period, she lived her life determined not to let this deep betrayal limit or define her. If anything, the internment clarified many aspects of the American experience for Eva and redoubled her commitment to celebrate her Japanese heritage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva's three children married non-Japanese men and women. Today, her grandchildren struggle with their heritage and wonder what will happen when 88-year-old Eva no longer prepares that annual bowl of good luck soup. The film is a heartfelt and personal exploration of what it means to be American, using the preparation of an annual meal to reveal the complicated issues of immigration, race, heritage and assimilation, while exploring the lasting impact of a great injustice the U.S. government committed against a group of its own citizens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Sunday Dinner\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Sunday Dinner\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/sunday-dinner/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Sunday Dinner\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a short included in the program \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/events/eat-chinatown/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Eat Chinatown\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 11) provides an interesting contrast. The film is a loving portrait of a patriarch's prep for his weekly family sit-down. While he cooks Sunday dinner, Kwok Wai Chan briefly describes his escape from Mao's China and professes his admiration for the United States, a land where his hard work has been rewarded -- a place where he has felt free. The film calls into question much of the current rhetoric about immigration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAAMFeast honoree, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RidingShotgunLA\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Choi's\u003c/a> immigrant experience is best expressed in the flavor of his food. Both Choi's parents are from Korea, his mother from the north, his father from the south. His family arrived in California when Choi was two years old. Their entrepreneurial adventure included selling jars of his mother's homemade kimchee out of the trunk of the family car. Choi describes her as having \"flavor in her fingertips,\" a quality he obviously inherited. The family ran several businesses, including a Korean restaurant in Anaheim, CA, which launched and failed during a formative period for Choi. Later, his parents would make their fortune in the jewelry business and move into an upscale suburb in Orange County. Choi's misspent youth, which included some famous addictions -- to drugs, milkshakes, and gambling -- and time spent as a low-rider in Norwalk, is well documented in his memoir/cookbook \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/L-Son-Life-City/dp/0062202634\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He runs a fleet of food trucks and has opened several restaurants across Los Angeles, but his main accomplishment seems to be synthesizing the flavors of his Korean roots with the Mexican street foods of his youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovation is powerfully connected to diversity, which cannot be separated from the global circulation of influences and populations. The CAAMFeast is an annual reminder of how the food we eat expresses where we come from while providing fuel for the way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast is Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the San Francisco War Memorial Green Room in San Francisco. The 35th annual CAAMFest is March 9-19, 2017 at various Bay Area locations. For \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">tickets and information\u003c/a> visit caamfest.com. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The annual celebration of food and film reveals the centrality of food to culture. The CAAMFeast is Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the San Francisco War Memorial Green Room in San Francisco. The 35th annual CAAMFest is March 9-19, 2017 at various Bay Area locations. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1493085727,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":1186},"headData":{"title":"Tasting the Immigrant Experience at the 2017 CAAMFest 35 | KQED","description":"The annual celebration of food and film reveals the centrality of food to culture. The CAAMFeast is Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the San Francisco War Memorial Green Room in San Francisco. The 35th annual CAAMFest is March 9-19, 2017 at various Bay Area locations. 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The finished tortilla lands in front of me. My little hands bring it to my mouth as the memory fades. Before disappearing, this brief image has communicated volumes about who I am and where I come from. It is my family's immigrant experience encapsulated in a single tortilla, passed from my grandmother's hands, which repeated these gestures countless times over the decades, preparing the staple that nourished her ten children and, when we were lucky, their children as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As 88-year-old Eva Hashiguchi prepares the many dishes that populate her annual Japanese New Year party, I couldn't help but flash on the above image of my own grandmother. These rituals are about more than just the acquisition and combination of ingredients, they are a complicated dance that involves the whole body in the offering. In Matthew Hashiguchi's film, \u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>, which takes its name from the centerpiece dish of Eva's annual family celebration, this meal is the site of more than just cooking and eating. Matthew and his extended family have been sustained by their matriarch's relentless positivity, but also shaped by a defining trauma without which their family may never have come into existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115583\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Roy Choi\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115583\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Roy-Choi-3-Photo-Credit-Travis-Jensen-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Roy Choi \u003ccite>(Travis Jensen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodlucksoupfilm.com/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is one of just a few food-related films screening at this year's 35th annual \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFest\u003c/a>, put on by the Center for Asian American Media, which runs March 9-19, 2017 and features 113 films from around the globe at various Bay Area locations. As usual, the festival is kicked off by the \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/section/caamfeast/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFeast\u003c/a>, a celebration of Asian American culinary achievement on March 4, 2017. Each year, the Feast acknowledges the contributions of a trio of chefs and food organizations. This year, alongside the Asian Chefs Association and People's Kitchen Collective, the feast honors chef Roy Choi, whose Kogi fleet of L.A.-based Korean taco trucks is credited with kicking off the current food truck phenomenon. Choi's signature Korean BBQ taco is a quintessentially Los Angeles invention, famously representing the city's diversity through taste and giving voice to a certain part of the immigration experience. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast annually celebrates the centrality of cuisine to culture and identity. This year's food-related selections elaborate the complicated issues surrounding the immigrant experience, taking on added relevance in the current political climate. The kitchen is so often the site where individual flair meets family tradition. Flavors melt but remain distinct. Immigrants may arrive and assimilate other aspects of their original cultures, but taste persists. Food defines.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/azE0SSHFcmI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/azE0SSHFcmI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/good-luck-soup/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Good Luck Soup\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 18) begins with a startling admission; the filmmaker remembers yelling \"I don't want to be Japanese\" at his Japanese-American father. As a mixed-race kid growing up in an Irish Catholic neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, Hashiguchi felt intense pressure to assimilate. He and his siblings recount the constant requests for definition their looks, their culture and their name inspired. His family belonged to a tight-knit enclave of American citizens of Japanese descent that formed shortly after World War II, when they were released from the infamous internment camps. It is this trauma that worries Eva's progeny. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115581\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Good Luck Soup\" width=\"640\" height=\"953\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-1020x1519.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-160x238.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-800x1191.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-768x1143.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-960x1429.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-240x357.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-375x558.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2-520x774.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Good_Luck_Soup_2.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Good Luck Soup\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eva is an American citizen, born in Florin, CA to Japanese immigrants. She and her family lost their fruit farm and were interned by the United States government shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She spent her teenage years in the camps, where she also met her future husband. While Eva freely shares her experiences from that period, she lived her life determined not to let this deep betrayal limit or define her. If anything, the internment clarified many aspects of the American experience for Eva and redoubled her commitment to celebrate her Japanese heritage. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva's three children married non-Japanese men and women. Today, her grandchildren struggle with their heritage and wonder what will happen when 88-year-old Eva no longer prepares that annual bowl of good luck soup. The film is a heartfelt and personal exploration of what it means to be American, using the preparation of an annual meal to reveal the complicated issues of immigration, race, heritage and assimilation, while exploring the lasting impact of a great injustice the U.S. government committed against a group of its own citizens. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Sunday Dinner\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-960x540.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-240x135.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-375x211.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/Eat_Chinatown_1-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Sunday Dinner\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/films/sunday-dinner/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Sunday Dinner\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a short included in the program \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/events/eat-chinatown/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Eat Chinatown\u003c/em>\u003c/a> (March 11) provides an interesting contrast. The film is a loving portrait of a patriarch's prep for his weekly family sit-down. While he cooks Sunday dinner, Kwok Wai Chan briefly describes his escape from Mao's China and professes his admiration for the United States, a land where his hard work has been rewarded -- a place where he has felt free. The film calls into question much of the current rhetoric about immigration in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CAAMFeast honoree, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RidingShotgunLA\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Choi's\u003c/a> immigrant experience is best expressed in the flavor of his food. Both Choi's parents are from Korea, his mother from the north, his father from the south. His family arrived in California when Choi was two years old. Their entrepreneurial adventure included selling jars of his mother's homemade kimchee out of the trunk of the family car. Choi describes her as having \"flavor in her fingertips,\" a quality he obviously inherited. The family ran several businesses, including a Korean restaurant in Anaheim, CA, which launched and failed during a formative period for Choi. Later, his parents would make their fortune in the jewelry business and move into an upscale suburb in Orange County. Choi's misspent youth, which included some famous addictions -- to drugs, milkshakes, and gambling -- and time spent as a low-rider in Norwalk, is well documented in his memoir/cookbook \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/L-Son-Life-City/dp/0062202634\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. He runs a fleet of food trucks and has opened several restaurants across Los Angeles, but his main accomplishment seems to be synthesizing the flavors of his Korean roots with the Mexican street foods of his youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Innovation is powerfully connected to diversity, which cannot be separated from the global circulation of influences and populations. The CAAMFeast is an annual reminder of how the food we eat expresses where we come from while providing fuel for the way forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CAAMFeast is Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the San Francisco War Memorial Green Room in San Francisco. The 35th annual CAAMFest is March 9-19, 2017 at various Bay Area locations. For \u003ca href=\"http://caamfest.com/2017/\" target=\"_blank\">tickets and information\u003c/a> visit caamfest.com. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/115571/tasting-the-immigrant-experience-at-the-2017-caamfest","authors":["8"],"categories":["bayareabites_2998","bayareabites_50","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_1593"],"tags":["bayareabites_11455","bayareabites_13014","bayareabites_475","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_335","bayareabites_494","bayareabites_15480"],"featImg":"bayareabites_115580","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_115417":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_115417","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"115417","score":null,"sort":[1487317334000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"las-moves-to-protect-immigrant-street-food-vendors-come-with-a-catch","title":"L.A.'s Moves to Protect Immigrant Street-Food Vendors Come With a Catch","publishDate":1487317334,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>On a sidewalk in Los Angeles' bustling piñata district, Enrique is using tongs to dip long, rosy strips of pig skin into a vat of boiling oil. When they're blistering, crispy and slightly cool, he lays the \u003cem>chicharrones\u003c/em> on the table for hungry passersby. This is the taste of his native Mexico and it is delicious. But, technically, that \u003cem>chicharrón\u003c/em> is also illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the U.S., street vending is not criminalized in New York or Chicago. Only here,\" Enrique says. \"Why?\" He and other street vendors we spoke with for this story asked that we use only their first names because of recent raids that have led to the deportations of some people in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA is the only major American city where it is against the law to sell food and merchandise on the sidewalk. Criminal charges are relatively rare — \u003ca href=\"https://economicrt.org/publication/sidewalk-stimulus/\" target=\"_blank\">of the 50,000 street vendors in LA, \u003c/a>just 22 were convicted of misdemeanors last year, according to the city attorney's office. Even so, President Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements\" target=\"_blank\">executive order\u003c/a> to speed up the deportation of undocumented immigrants has pushed local elected officials to change the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1933px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477.jpg\" alt=\"Chicharrones, or pork rinds, fry in the piñata district in Los Angeles.\" width=\"1933\" height=\"1450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477.jpg 1933w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1933px) 100vw, 1933px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicharrones, or pork rinds, fry in the piñata district in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Camellia Tse for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It does not make good economic or moral sense to criminalize Angelenos who are trying to make an honest living and support their families,\" says Mayor Eric Garcetti. \"Finding a pathway to regulate street vending is not just the right thing to do for vendors, it's also good for the public and our local tax base.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, on Wednesday, the city council voted, 13-0, to change the law regulating street vending in Los Angeles. Street vending is not yet legalized in LA; it will take months to finalize a legal permit system for sidewalk vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the council fast-tracked one part of its proposal so that vendors with unpaid fines won't be charged with misdemeanor penalties. Mayor Garcetti is expected to sign it into law by the end of the week. Now, vendors who haven't paid their tickets won't face criminal charges, arrests or risk deportation for selling tacos, \u003cem>paletas\u003c/em> and bacon-wrapped hotdogs on the streets of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council's plan to overhaul the city's street-vending law is heartening to Mario, an ice cream vendor from Puebla, Mexico, who has been making and selling 32 different flavors in the piñata district for almost a decade. \"This will help us to pay rent, all the bills, to buy clothes and shoes for our children,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street vendors occasionally receive tickets for doing business on the sidewalk. Last year, across Los Angeles, the city collected $9,880 in fines. Individual citations range from $50 to over $1,000, according to Leadership for Urban Renewal Network, a community group that has been working for years to create a legal permit system for sidewalk vendors. This can be steep for vendors like Mario, who make about $75 a day selling food. Vendors can also get their equipment confiscated by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have three children. I need to take care of them. Our rent is $1,300. All this costs money,\" says Mario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the devil is in the details. The city council's proposed street vending overhaul includes controversial changes. In commercial and industrial districts, for example, the new law would allow just two stationary vendors per block. In the piñata district, there are easily 100 vendors lining East Olympic Boulevard on the long block between Kohler and Merchant streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96.jpg\" alt=\"Merced is a vendor in the piñata district. She is worried that the city council's plan for a legal permitting system for sidewalk vendors, as proposed, will severely limit how many vendors can be on a given sidewalk, leaving many without a place to do business.\" width=\"1952\" height=\"1464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced is a vendor in the piñata district. She is worried that the city council's plan for a legal permitting system for sidewalk vendors, as proposed, will severely limit how many vendors can be on a given sidewalk, leaving many without a place to do business. \u003ccite>(Camellia Tse for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Where will the other 98 go?\" asks Merced. She's selling sunglasses at the market for $5 a pair and is urging vendors to voice their concerns in subsequent public city council meetings. Perhaps the piñata district can be excluded from the two-vendor measure in the new law, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some LA communities don't want any vendors on their blocks. \"In Westwood, we have an abundance of food and retail and we would like ... to be able to opt out of a street vending program,\" says Andrew Thomas, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewestwoodvillage.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Westwood Village Improvement Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norm Langer, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.langersdeli.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Langer's Deli\u003c/a>, one of the go-to spots for tourists and hungry Angelenos to get their pastrami fix, says there are already too many vendors working the block where his restaurant is located at Alvarado and 7th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am OK with the vendors as long as they do what the city council will propose, and that's two people on every city block,\" says Langer. \"But who is going to enforce all this? The city council says the permit fees will cover it. No, they won't. There are health department issues. There's no visible sign of sanitation. Some of these people are selling food and there's no place for them to wash their hands. They're grilling hot dogs with bacon and flies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakul Mahendro doesn't want a hot dog stand to set up shop in front of his hip Indian restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.badmaashla.com/\">Badmaash\u003c/a>, in downtown LA. But he is a big fan of street food and fears his favorite vendors down the pike will go out of business from high fees for health department and business permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The licensing fees that vendors will have to pay will take time to hash out. \"It's important that we decriminalize street vending so that it can be regulated by the city and the health department. Just don't change anything about \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/ave-26-taco-stand-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Avenue 26 Tacos\u003c/a>,\" says Mahendro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Joe Buscaino has been one of the lead local officials pushing to change the law. He is confident that all concerns from brick-and-mortar restaurants will be addressed when the permitting system is finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Los Angeles is a diverse city, and it is difficult to create a one-size fits all solution, which is why this proposal allows community members to customize the regulations to fit their unique neighborhood,\" says Buscaino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile in the piñata district, tensions are high. Last week, 160 people were detained by immigration enforcement agents in Southern California, and Trump is expected to sign a new executive order related to immigration this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We came to the U.S. to succeed and live a better life. We don't want to bother anyone. We aren't committing crimes,\" says the \u003cem>chicharrón\u003c/em> man, Enrique. Choking back tears, he says: \"I've always agreed that those who commit crimes should be deported to their home countries. But people who haven't done anything? What have we done wrong?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Abbie Fentress Swanson is a journalist based in Los Angeles. She covers agriculture, food production, science, health and the environment.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"L.A. is the only major U.S. city where selling food on the sidewalk is illegal. President Trump's immigration policies have pushed the City Council to change the law. But the devil is in the details.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1487355220,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1197},"headData":{"title":"L.A.'s Moves to Protect Immigrant Street-Food Vendors Come With a Catch | KQED","description":"L.A. is the only major U.S. city where selling food on the sidewalk is illegal. President Trump's immigration policies have pushed the City Council to change the law. But the devil is in the details.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"115417 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=115417","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/02/16/las-moves-to-protect-immigrant-street-food-vendors-come-with-a-catch/","disqusTitle":"L.A.'s Moves to Protect Immigrant Street-Food Vendors Come With a Catch","nprByline":"Abbie Fentress Swanson, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Camellia Tse for NPR","nprStoryId":"515257761","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=515257761&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/16/515257761/las-moves-to-protect-immigrant-street-food-vendors-come-with-a-catch?ft=nprml&f=515257761","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:49:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 16 Feb 2017 06:00:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 16 Feb 2017 11:49:00 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/115417/las-moves-to-protect-immigrant-street-food-vendors-come-with-a-catch","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a sidewalk in Los Angeles' bustling piñata district, Enrique is using tongs to dip long, rosy strips of pig skin into a vat of boiling oil. When they're blistering, crispy and slightly cool, he lays the \u003cem>chicharrones\u003c/em> on the table for hungry passersby. This is the taste of his native Mexico and it is delicious. But, technically, that \u003cem>chicharrón\u003c/em> is also illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the U.S., street vending is not criminalized in New York or Chicago. Only here,\" Enrique says. \"Why?\" He and other street vendors we spoke with for this story asked that we use only their first names because of recent raids that have led to the deportations of some people in the country illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LA is the only major American city where it is against the law to sell food and merchandise on the sidewalk. Criminal charges are relatively rare — \u003ca href=\"https://economicrt.org/publication/sidewalk-stimulus/\" target=\"_blank\">of the 50,000 street vendors in LA, \u003c/a>just 22 were convicted of misdemeanors last year, according to the city attorney's office. Even so, President Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements\" target=\"_blank\">executive order\u003c/a> to speed up the deportation of undocumented immigrants has pushed local elected officials to change the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1933px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477.jpg\" alt=\"Chicharrones, or pork rinds, fry in the piñata district in Los Angeles.\" width=\"1933\" height=\"1450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477.jpg 1933w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/fried-chicharro-nes1-ae828cd396265a6f3bc51be144058aac1ed62477-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1933px) 100vw, 1933px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicharrones, or pork rinds, fry in the piñata district in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Camellia Tse for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It does not make good economic or moral sense to criminalize Angelenos who are trying to make an honest living and support their families,\" says Mayor Eric Garcetti. \"Finding a pathway to regulate street vending is not just the right thing to do for vendors, it's also good for the public and our local tax base.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, on Wednesday, the city council voted, 13-0, to change the law regulating street vending in Los Angeles. Street vending is not yet legalized in LA; it will take months to finalize a legal permit system for sidewalk vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the council fast-tracked one part of its proposal so that vendors with unpaid fines won't be charged with misdemeanor penalties. Mayor Garcetti is expected to sign it into law by the end of the week. Now, vendors who haven't paid their tickets won't face criminal charges, arrests or risk deportation for selling tacos, \u003cem>paletas\u003c/em> and bacon-wrapped hotdogs on the streets of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council's plan to overhaul the city's street-vending law is heartening to Mario, an ice cream vendor from Puebla, Mexico, who has been making and selling 32 different flavors in the piñata district for almost a decade. \"This will help us to pay rent, all the bills, to buy clothes and shoes for our children,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street vendors occasionally receive tickets for doing business on the sidewalk. Last year, across Los Angeles, the city collected $9,880 in fines. Individual citations range from $50 to over $1,000, according to Leadership for Urban Renewal Network, a community group that has been working for years to create a legal permit system for sidewalk vendors. This can be steep for vendors like Mario, who make about $75 a day selling food. Vendors can also get their equipment confiscated by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have three children. I need to take care of them. Our rent is $1,300. All this costs money,\" says Mario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the devil is in the details. The city council's proposed street vending overhaul includes controversial changes. In commercial and industrial districts, for example, the new law would allow just two stationary vendors per block. In the piñata district, there are easily 100 vendors lining East Olympic Boulevard on the long block between Kohler and Merchant streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115420\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96.jpg\" alt=\"Merced is a vendor in the piñata district. She is worried that the city council's plan for a legal permitting system for sidewalk vendors, as proposed, will severely limit how many vendors can be on a given sidewalk, leaving many without a place to do business.\" width=\"1952\" height=\"1464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/merced1-f830e9705a466019c5ea1d5a0006d27478b9ed96-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merced is a vendor in the piñata district. She is worried that the city council's plan for a legal permitting system for sidewalk vendors, as proposed, will severely limit how many vendors can be on a given sidewalk, leaving many without a place to do business. \u003ccite>(Camellia Tse for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Where will the other 98 go?\" asks Merced. She's selling sunglasses at the market for $5 a pair and is urging vendors to voice their concerns in subsequent public city council meetings. Perhaps the piñata district can be excluded from the two-vendor measure in the new law, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some LA communities don't want any vendors on their blocks. \"In Westwood, we have an abundance of food and retail and we would like ... to be able to opt out of a street vending program,\" says Andrew Thomas, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thewestwoodvillage.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Westwood Village Improvement Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norm Langer, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.langersdeli.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Langer's Deli\u003c/a>, one of the go-to spots for tourists and hungry Angelenos to get their pastrami fix, says there are already too many vendors working the block where his restaurant is located at Alvarado and 7th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am OK with the vendors as long as they do what the city council will propose, and that's two people on every city block,\" says Langer. \"But who is going to enforce all this? The city council says the permit fees will cover it. No, they won't. There are health department issues. There's no visible sign of sanitation. Some of these people are selling food and there's no place for them to wash their hands. They're grilling hot dogs with bacon and flies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nakul Mahendro doesn't want a hot dog stand to set up shop in front of his hip Indian restaurant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.badmaashla.com/\">Badmaash\u003c/a>, in downtown LA. But he is a big fan of street food and fears his favorite vendors down the pike will go out of business from high fees for health department and business permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The licensing fees that vendors will have to pay will take time to hash out. \"It's important that we decriminalize street vending so that it can be regulated by the city and the health department. Just don't change anything about \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/ave-26-taco-stand-los-angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Avenue 26 Tacos\u003c/a>,\" says Mahendro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Joe Buscaino has been one of the lead local officials pushing to change the law. He is confident that all concerns from brick-and-mortar restaurants will be addressed when the permitting system is finalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Los Angeles is a diverse city, and it is difficult to create a one-size fits all solution, which is why this proposal allows community members to customize the regulations to fit their unique neighborhood,\" says Buscaino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile in the piñata district, tensions are high. Last week, 160 people were detained by immigration enforcement agents in Southern California, and Trump is expected to sign a new executive order related to immigration this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We came to the U.S. to succeed and live a better life. We don't want to bother anyone. We aren't committing crimes,\" says the \u003cem>chicharrón\u003c/em> man, Enrique. Choking back tears, he says: \"I've always agreed that those who commit crimes should be deported to their home countries. But people who haven't done anything? What have we done wrong?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Abbie Fentress Swanson is a journalist based in Los Angeles. She covers agriculture, food production, science, health and the environment.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/115417/las-moves-to-protect-immigrant-street-food-vendors-come-with-a-catch","authors":["byline_bayareabites_115417"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_452","bayareabites_182","bayareabites_15762","bayareabites_15697"],"featImg":"bayareabites_115418","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_115265":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_115265","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"115265","score":null,"sort":[1487113395000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"refugees-life-stories-deepen-the-brew-at-1951-coffee-company","title":"Refugees’ Life Stories Deepen the Brew at 1951 Coffee Company","publishDate":1487113395,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When baristas hand over your low-fat latte, you probably don’t consider the paths that brought them to stand across the counter from you. But at 1951 Coffee Company, the Berkeley café that opened in January and is staffed entirely by refugees, the baristas’ life journeys are actually the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000.jpg\" alt=\"1951 Coffee Company is named for the date the UN set up protections for refugees.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115348\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-800x576.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-768x553.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-1180x850.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-960x691.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1951 Coffee Company is named for the date the UN set up protections for refugees. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A tall gentleman with an intense gaze and a quiet voice, David [not his real name] takes orders for coffee, tea and muffins from the line of morning customers. David left his home in Uganda when he feared persecution under his country’s repressive policies. The former lawyer escaped to Nairobi, Kenya, where he waited in a refugee camp for two years until the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) found a spot to resettle him in the U.S. But first, he had to successfully complete the vetting process, a subject he wants Americans to understand. “It breaks my heart,” he says, “that people think it is so easy to come into this country. It is very hard; it is definitely an ‘extreme vetting process,’ which can take many years and requires interviews by agents from the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000.jpg\" alt=\"1951 Coffee's T shirt reaffirms their mission.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115351\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-800x859.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-768x825.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-1020x1095.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-1180x1267.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-960x1031.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-240x258.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-375x403.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-520x558.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1951 Coffee's T shirt reaffirms their mission. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time he was hired at 1951 Coffee, David had almost given up hope of landing the job he so badly needed. He had already used up some of his limited funds to pay for clothes and transportation to 16 entry-level job interviews at hotels, nursing homes, and businesses. All turned him down, which left him deeply discouraged. He assumed that the combination of his skin color and accent led him to be judged and feared rather than given a chance. He now works at the café five days a week and is actively looking for a second job for the night shift to make ends meet. “As a refugee and a person of color in the Bay Area,” David adds, “I tremble all the time, worrying about my safety everyday. “But,” he adds, “I love this country and look forward to serving it in some way to thank you for giving me this opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Taber and Doug Hewitt, co-founders of 1951 Coffee Company.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-800x638.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-768x612.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-1020x813.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-1180x940.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-960x765.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-375x299.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Taber and Doug Hewitt, co-founders of 1951 Coffee Company. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before founding 1951 Coffee Company with Rachel Taber, Doug Hewitt’s job as an employment specialist at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), included preparing refugees for job interviews. He repeatedly witnessed a disheartening pattern: on the way to the interview, the refugees would chat with him personably. “But when prospective employers started asking them questions, they would get nervous,” explains Hewitt. “Their English would become even more ‘broken.’” They also might lose points for the way they answered typical American job interview questions, such as “Where do you see yourself in five years?” While this sounds like a simple query, an honest reply is not necessarily what the employer is looking for. Digital barriers add even more challenges today, as most applications must be completed online. When it asks for previous job experience, the location can only be selected from a list of the 50 states. There is no field to enter international job experience and without the conventional list of references, most prospective employers just don’t want to take the risk of hiring a refugee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hewitt would discuss these concerns with Taber, a co-worker at IRC, over a cup of coffee. Their shared love for the caffeinated beverage led to charts listing their ratings of nearby coffee spots and a jointly owned espresso machine for their office. “Okay, you can call it an obsession,” says Taber, smiling. They began to envision a place where refugees could be trained and supported while gaining the experience that could further their work lives. Hewitt, who had experience working as a coffee roaster, imagined many opportunities this field could offer refugees. They agreed that refugees + café seemed like a winning combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000.jpg\" alt=\"The colorful stripes on the cafe's floor suggest the long journey to resettlement.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-1180x1574.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The colorful stripes on the cafe's floor suggest the long journey to resettlement. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taber, whose background is in fundraising, saw the Bay Area as the perfect place for this kind of social entrepreneurism, with its longtime support for immigrants and refugees coupled with an appreciation of high-end coffee culture. Though they faced numerous hurdles, many organizations and individuals (including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fpcberkeley.org/\">First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\u003c/a>, who owned the space where their restaurant is housed and the \u003ca href=\"http://montaag.com/\">Montaag\u003c/a> design firm) appeared --almost miraculously-- to offer support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year 1951 in the café’s name refers to a convention held by the UNHCR in Geneva in 1951. During that convention, the word “refugee” and the guidelines for protecting them were first defined. That fact and many other details about the long arduous journey that refugees face are illustrated with artwork that lines the walls of the café. “We want this to be a space for education and for starting dialogues, says Taber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Nazira was a journalist in Afghanistan. She has just begun a new life here.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-768x550.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-1020x731.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazira was a journalist in Afghanistan. She has just begun a new life here. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another employee is slowly and carefully steaming milk. Nazira has a shy smile and a workable command of English, even though she has only been in the U.S. for two months. Before she left Afghanistan, she was a journalist for TV, radio and newspapers and also worked with the AJSC, an organization in Afghanistan that advocates for female journalists who face a special set of challenges. Her husband had applied for and received a Special Immigrant Visa, which is usually given to those who have provided valuable service to the United States Government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although in her job as journalist, Nazira spent one month traveling around the U.S. in 2014 to report on our midterm elections, that exposure did not prevent the difficulties she has had in adjusting. Leaving her home and family and the ensuing culture shock made her ill for the first three weeks she was here. She felt physically safe but mentally upset and cried often. The stress was extreme. “We had nothing here, “Nazira says. “I had so many things in my heart but no one to talk to about them.” She went to IRC for help and found Hewitt and Taber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Nazira works with Batool, a Syrian refugee who was interviewed on The California Report. See link below to hear her family's story.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazira works with Batool, a Syrian refugee who was interviewed on The California Report. \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201702031630/b\">Listen to her family's story\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I needed a job. I wanted to get out of the house and stand on my own two feet. When I met Rachel, she was so kind. I didn’t know anything about coffee, but she hired me.” Nazira learned how to prepare coffee plus the cultural code of American customer service. But she still finds many challenges in her new home, including transportation. “We wait such a long time for the bus every day. Why don’t the citizens try to do something about this?” Nazira asks. She wants to go to college, but cannot afford to do so until she has been a resident for one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people here are good, they have been so supportive to me,” says Nazira, “but not the system. In my country, we may be poor, but education is free. I don’t understand why the media doesn’t report on this, as well as need for better public transportation and health care. At home, we used to have as high as 85% illiteracy, but people still listened to the radio and were involved with the issues that affected their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000.jpg\" alt=\"This diorama aims to educate patrons about the many steps and uncertainties faced by refugees.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This diorama aims to educate patrons about the many steps and uncertainties faced by refugees. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The large diorama on the wall shows the refugee’s long path to resettlement, which can take from 5 to 20 years. That latter number was the case for 1951 Coffee’s senior barista, Meg, who is in a constant state of motion around the cafe, supporting other employees, checking the bathroom, making sure everything is running smoothly. When Meg was 2 years old, his family fled Bhutan and spent the next 20 years in a massive Nepali refugee camp with 1,400 other families. Life was hard: they were only allotted rice and a few vegetables and had to cover their flimsy huts with plastic to withstand the summer rains. In 2007, after a fire quickly spread through the thatched bamboo-covered huts in the camp, his family had to live in the jungle for two months. Meg went to school in the camp and became a teacher of English, math, and science. He probably never imagined that eventually, he would be teaching other refugees about coffee culture in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Senior barista Meg shares his experience by training new employees.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1448\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-375x272.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior barista Meg shares his experience by training new employees. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Long before the birth of the 1951 Coffee concept, when Doug Hewitt was just volunteering with IRC, he hired Meg to occasionally package the coffee he was roasting for his job at \u003ca href=\"https://bootcoffee.com/\">Boot Coffee Consulting\u003c/a> in Marin. He also saw how Meg tried to get steady work but was repeatedly turned down for his lack of skills. Finally, \u003ca href=\"http://careers-blog.chipotle.com/irc/\">Chipotle\u003c/a>, who had a relationship with IRC, decided to open several new restaurants, including one at 50 California in San Francisco. Since it was a new location they gave all their new hires, including Meg, a week of training. He became one of Chipotle’s best workers and was eventually offered a management position. Witnessing the way that training made all the difference, Hewitt asked Meg if he could recreate that experience for the refugees at IRC. Hewitt set up a volunteer “food service training” program at IRC, which only happened on intermittent Fridays. While he and other volunteers offered English classes, Meg handled the hands on training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chipotle offered him a job as a manager, Meg had to turn it down because the long days required would not have allowed him to fulfill his other obligations, which included volunteering at IRC to help newly arrived refugees. He was also attending Laney College, taking classes in English, math and business, taking care of his parents and playing soccer. He recently married Indira, a woman he knew from the camp. But Indira lives in Vancouver, where she takes care of her parents, while Meg and his parents live here. The couple meets in Seattle when they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg’s goal is to open a restaurant or a non-profit that combines food service and refugees. In September 2016, he became an American citizen in an emotional ceremony with 1000 other new Americans at Oakland’s Paramount Theater. “It’s a blessing. I am so proud.” His message to other refugees is: “You have to believe in yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some groups try to raise money for refugees by only highlighting their vulnerabilities,” says Hewitt. “We were inspired by these amazing people, their resilience and determination to work through challenges together as a team.” He and Taber hope this model can be replicated across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Listen to two stories on the California Report about 1951 Coffee Company:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201702031630/a\">An overview of 1951 Coffee Company\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201702031630/b\">Interviews with Batool and her family\u003c/a>, Syrian refugees, who have been here 2 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://1951coffee.com\">\u003cstrong>1951 Coffee Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2410 Channing Way [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/vPYTRr\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94704\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 280-6171\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri 7am-7pm, Sat-Sun 8am-7pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/1951coffee/\">1951 Coffee Company\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/1951Coffee\">@1951coffee\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/1951coffee/\">1951coffee\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The stories of the refugee baristas' journeys to work at 1951 Coffee Company can enrich your cup of java.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1546991348,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":1971},"headData":{"title":"Refugees’ Life Stories Deepen the Brew at 1951 Coffee Company | KQED","description":"The stories of the refugee baristas' journeys to work at 1951 Coffee Company can enrich your cup of java.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"115265 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=115265","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/02/14/refugees-life-stories-deepen-the-brew-at-1951-coffee-company/","disqusTitle":"Refugees’ Life Stories Deepen the Brew at 1951 Coffee Company","source":"Politics, Activism, Food Safety","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/politics-activism-food-safety/","path":"/bayareabites/115265/refugees-life-stories-deepen-the-brew-at-1951-coffee-company","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When baristas hand over your low-fat latte, you probably don’t consider the paths that brought them to stand across the counter from you. But at 1951 Coffee Company, the Berkeley café that opened in January and is staffed entirely by refugees, the baristas’ life journeys are actually the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000.jpg\" alt=\"1951 Coffee Company is named for the date the UN set up protections for refugees.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115348\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-800x576.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-768x553.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-1020x734.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-1180x850.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-960x691.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-240x173.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-375x270.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/2-wall-info-2000-520x374.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1951 Coffee Company is named for the date the UN set up protections for refugees. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A tall gentleman with an intense gaze and a quiet voice, David [not his real name] takes orders for coffee, tea and muffins from the line of morning customers. David left his home in Uganda when he feared persecution under his country’s repressive policies. The former lawyer escaped to Nairobi, Kenya, where he waited in a refugee camp for two years until the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) found a spot to resettle him in the U.S. But first, he had to successfully complete the vetting process, a subject he wants Americans to understand. “It breaks my heart,” he says, “that people think it is so easy to come into this country. It is very hard; it is definitely an ‘extreme vetting process,’ which can take many years and requires interviews by agents from the FBI, CIA and the Department of Justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000.jpg\" alt=\"1951 Coffee's T shirt reaffirms their mission.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115351\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-800x859.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-768x825.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-1020x1095.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-1180x1267.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-960x1031.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-240x258.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-375x403.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/3-Tshirt-2000-520x558.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1951 Coffee's T shirt reaffirms their mission. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the time he was hired at 1951 Coffee, David had almost given up hope of landing the job he so badly needed. He had already used up some of his limited funds to pay for clothes and transportation to 16 entry-level job interviews at hotels, nursing homes, and businesses. All turned him down, which left him deeply discouraged. He assumed that the combination of his skin color and accent led him to be judged and feared rather than given a chance. He now works at the café five days a week and is actively looking for a second job for the night shift to make ends meet. “As a refugee and a person of color in the Bay Area,” David adds, “I tremble all the time, worrying about my safety everyday. “But,” he adds, “I love this country and look forward to serving it in some way to thank you for giving me this opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Taber and Doug Hewitt, co-founders of 1951 Coffee Company.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1594\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-800x638.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-768x612.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-1020x813.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-1180x940.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-960x765.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-240x191.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-375x299.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/4-Doug-and-Rachel-2000-520x414.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Taber and Doug Hewitt, co-founders of 1951 Coffee Company. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Before founding 1951 Coffee Company with Rachel Taber, Doug Hewitt’s job as an employment specialist at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), included preparing refugees for job interviews. He repeatedly witnessed a disheartening pattern: on the way to the interview, the refugees would chat with him personably. “But when prospective employers started asking them questions, they would get nervous,” explains Hewitt. “Their English would become even more ‘broken.’” They also might lose points for the way they answered typical American job interview questions, such as “Where do you see yourself in five years?” While this sounds like a simple query, an honest reply is not necessarily what the employer is looking for. Digital barriers add even more challenges today, as most applications must be completed online. When it asks for previous job experience, the location can only be selected from a list of the 50 states. There is no field to enter international job experience and without the conventional list of references, most prospective employers just don’t want to take the risk of hiring a refugee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hewitt would discuss these concerns with Taber, a co-worker at IRC, over a cup of coffee. Their shared love for the caffeinated beverage led to charts listing their ratings of nearby coffee spots and a jointly owned espresso machine for their office. “Okay, you can call it an obsession,” says Taber, smiling. They began to envision a place where refugees could be trained and supported while gaining the experience that could further their work lives. Hewitt, who had experience working as a coffee roaster, imagined many opportunities this field could offer refugees. They agreed that refugees + café seemed like a winning combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000.jpg\" alt=\"The colorful stripes on the cafe's floor suggest the long journey to resettlement.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-1180x1574.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/5-lines-on-floor-2000-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The colorful stripes on the cafe's floor suggest the long journey to resettlement. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taber, whose background is in fundraising, saw the Bay Area as the perfect place for this kind of social entrepreneurism, with its longtime support for immigrants and refugees coupled with an appreciation of high-end coffee culture. Though they faced numerous hurdles, many organizations and individuals (including the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fpcberkeley.org/\">First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\u003c/a>, who owned the space where their restaurant is housed and the \u003ca href=\"http://montaag.com/\">Montaag\u003c/a> design firm) appeared --almost miraculously-- to offer support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year 1951 in the café’s name refers to a convention held by the UNHCR in Geneva in 1951. During that convention, the word “refugee” and the guidelines for protecting them were first defined. That fact and many other details about the long arduous journey that refugees face are illustrated with artwork that lines the walls of the café. “We want this to be a space for education and for starting dialogues, says Taber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Nazira was a journalist in Afghanistan. She has just begun a new life here.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115353\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-768x550.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-1020x731.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/6-Nazira-2000-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazira was a journalist in Afghanistan. She has just begun a new life here. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another employee is slowly and carefully steaming milk. Nazira has a shy smile and a workable command of English, even though she has only been in the U.S. for two months. Before she left Afghanistan, she was a journalist for TV, radio and newspapers and also worked with the AJSC, an organization in Afghanistan that advocates for female journalists who face a special set of challenges. Her husband had applied for and received a Special Immigrant Visa, which is usually given to those who have provided valuable service to the United States Government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although in her job as journalist, Nazira spent one month traveling around the U.S. in 2014 to report on our midterm elections, that exposure did not prevent the difficulties she has had in adjusting. Leaving her home and family and the ensuing culture shock made her ill for the first three weeks she was here. She felt physically safe but mentally upset and cried often. The stress was extreme. “We had nothing here, “Nazira says. “I had so many things in my heart but no one to talk to about them.” She went to IRC for help and found Hewitt and Taber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115354\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Nazira works with Batool, a Syrian refugee who was interviewed on The California Report. See link below to hear her family's story.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115354\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/7-Nazira-and-Batool-2000-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nazira works with Batool, a Syrian refugee who was interviewed on The California Report. \u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201702031630/b\">Listen to her family's story\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I needed a job. I wanted to get out of the house and stand on my own two feet. When I met Rachel, she was so kind. I didn’t know anything about coffee, but she hired me.” Nazira learned how to prepare coffee plus the cultural code of American customer service. But she still finds many challenges in her new home, including transportation. “We wait such a long time for the bus every day. Why don’t the citizens try to do something about this?” Nazira asks. She wants to go to college, but cannot afford to do so until she has been a resident for one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people here are good, they have been so supportive to me,” says Nazira, “but not the system. In my country, we may be poor, but education is free. I don’t understand why the media doesn’t report on this, as well as need for better public transportation and health care. At home, we used to have as high as 85% illiteracy, but people still listened to the radio and were involved with the issues that affected their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000.jpg\" alt=\"This diorama aims to educate patrons about the many steps and uncertainties faced by refugees.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115355\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/8-Diorama-2000-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This diorama aims to educate patrons about the many steps and uncertainties faced by refugees. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The large diorama on the wall shows the refugee’s long path to resettlement, which can take from 5 to 20 years. That latter number was the case for 1951 Coffee’s senior barista, Meg, who is in a constant state of motion around the cafe, supporting other employees, checking the bathroom, making sure everything is running smoothly. When Meg was 2 years old, his family fled Bhutan and spent the next 20 years in a massive Nepali refugee camp with 1,400 other families. Life was hard: they were only allotted rice and a few vegetables and had to cover their flimsy huts with plastic to withstand the summer rains. In 2007, after a fire quickly spread through the thatched bamboo-covered huts in the camp, his family had to live in the jungle for two months. Meg went to school in the camp and became a teacher of English, math, and science. He probably never imagined that eventually, he would be teaching other refugees about coffee culture in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_115356\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000.jpg\" alt=\"Senior barista Meg shares his experience by training new employees.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1448\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-800x579.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-768x556.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-1180x854.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-960x695.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-240x174.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-375x272.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2017/02/9-Meg-2000-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior barista Meg shares his experience by training new employees. \u003ccite>(Anna Mindess)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Long before the birth of the 1951 Coffee concept, when Doug Hewitt was just volunteering with IRC, he hired Meg to occasionally package the coffee he was roasting for his job at \u003ca href=\"https://bootcoffee.com/\">Boot Coffee Consulting\u003c/a> in Marin. He also saw how Meg tried to get steady work but was repeatedly turned down for his lack of skills. Finally, \u003ca href=\"http://careers-blog.chipotle.com/irc/\">Chipotle\u003c/a>, who had a relationship with IRC, decided to open several new restaurants, including one at 50 California in San Francisco. Since it was a new location they gave all their new hires, including Meg, a week of training. He became one of Chipotle’s best workers and was eventually offered a management position. Witnessing the way that training made all the difference, Hewitt asked Meg if he could recreate that experience for the refugees at IRC. Hewitt set up a volunteer “food service training” program at IRC, which only happened on intermittent Fridays. While he and other volunteers offered English classes, Meg handled the hands on training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chipotle offered him a job as a manager, Meg had to turn it down because the long days required would not have allowed him to fulfill his other obligations, which included volunteering at IRC to help newly arrived refugees. He was also attending Laney College, taking classes in English, math and business, taking care of his parents and playing soccer. He recently married Indira, a woman he knew from the camp. But Indira lives in Vancouver, where she takes care of her parents, while Meg and his parents live here. The couple meets in Seattle when they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meg’s goal is to open a restaurant or a non-profit that combines food service and refugees. In September 2016, he became an American citizen in an emotional ceremony with 1000 other new Americans at Oakland’s Paramount Theater. “It’s a blessing. I am so proud.” His message to other refugees is: “You have to believe in yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some groups try to raise money for refugees by only highlighting their vulnerabilities,” says Hewitt. “We were inspired by these amazing people, their resilience and determination to work through challenges together as a team.” He and Taber hope this model can be replicated across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Listen to two stories on the California Report about 1951 Coffee Company:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201702031630/a\">An overview of 1951 Coffee Company\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://audio.californiareport.org/archive/R201702031630/b\">Interviews with Batool and her family\u003c/a>, Syrian refugees, who have been here 2 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://1951coffee.com\">\u003cstrong>1951 Coffee Company\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2410 Channing Way [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/vPYTRr\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nBerkeley, CA 94704\u003cbr>\nPh: (510) 280-6171\u003cbr>\nHours: Mon-Fri 7am-7pm, Sat-Sun 8am-7pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/1951coffee/\">1951 Coffee Company\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/1951Coffee\">@1951coffee\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nInstagram: \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/1951coffee/\">1951coffee\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/115265/refugees-life-stories-deepen-the-brew-at-1951-coffee-company","authors":["5283"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_264","bayareabites_13306","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_1248"],"tags":["bayareabites_14751","bayareabites_16270","bayareabites_16263","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_2243"],"featImg":"bayareabites_115350","label":"source_bayareabites_115265"},"bayareabites_115273":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_115273","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"115273","score":null,"sort":[1487002454000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cheap-eats-cheap-labor-the-hidden-human-costs-of-those-lists","title":"Cheap Eats, Cheap Labor: The Hidden Human Costs Of Those Lists","publishDate":1487002454,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>Everyone loves a cheap eats list. A treasure map to $1 tacos! $4 banh mi! $6 pad Thai! More often than not, the Xs that mark the cheap spots are in the city's immigrant enclaves. Indeed, food media is never so diverse as when it runs these lists, its pages fill with names of restaurateurs and chefs of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These lists infuriate me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I became a restaurant owner, I spent my childhood in my relatives' pho restaurants. Because of that, I have deep compassion for and understanding of the pressures facing immigrant restaurateurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched my aunts and uncles work 16-hour days, only to charge cut-rate prices for their food. And I also witnessed the grueling hours that their employees put in, also at cut-rate wages. It is a cruel reality that immigrant enterprise is powered by the cheap labor of fellow immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant workers are already among the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/publication/restaurant-workers/\">lowest paid workers\u003c/a> in America. Many full-time workers rely on public assistance to make ends meet. Often enough, restaurant workers could not afford to eat at the restaurants where they work. And at the bottom of this system are the employees of the restaurants on these cheap eats list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American enterprise has long been a gateway to the American dream for many immigrants. But much of it was also \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/\">built on exploited labor\u003c/a>. Enslaved African-Americans built Southern plantations. Chinese immigrant workers built the railroads. Latino migrant farm workers are the backbone that turned California into America's agricultural powerhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This view of people of color as sources of \"cheap\" labor bleeds into our restaurant culture: Immigrant food is often expected to be cheap, because, implicitly, the labor that produces it is expected to be cheap, because that labor has historically been cheap. And so pulling together a \"cheap eats\" list rather than, say, an \"affordable eats\" list both invokes that history and reinforces it by prioritizing price at the expense of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At my restaurant, an appetizer of spring rolls is $7. A chicken banh mi with house-made mayo and a side of fries or slaw is $12. A chicken pho is $11. I use sustainably grown chickens; the vegetables are from the farmers market. My staff are paid well over minimum wage. Generally, though, my prices are compared not to other restaurants that use sustainable ingredients and work towards paying their workers a living wage, but to Vietnamese restaurants where bowls of pho run $7, banh mis are $3 (or you can buy two and get one free). And because of that focus on price above all else, I've been criticized for being too expensive. I've been told flatly by Yelpers, customers and food reviewers that my restaurant is too expensive \"for Vietnamese food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm fully aware of the irony here: My family and I came to the U.S. as refugees in the 1970s and '80s. My relatives, like so many immigrant entrepreneurs, did what they had to do with their restaurant to survive and created a business model that worked for their time. That business model became the dominant model. It continues to be the dominant model. That business model is the one the ultimately traps the entrepreneur who would like to break out of this mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have worked hard to combat the underlying racism that drives so much of the \"celebration\" of \"cheap eats,\" and I believe that consumers and food media can play a large part in this fight. We need to rethink the very idea behind cheap eats lists. We need to recognize that the narratives we tell ourselves about immigrant resourcefulness and tenacity also makes us willfully blind to the human cost that makes the $3 banh mi possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These lists are part of a broader restaurant culture that devalues labor and ignores the consequences of that devaluation. And these lists make it difficult for immigrant businesses — and I include my own here — to break out of the trope that equates communities of color with cheap food and cheap labor. I don't see treasure in cheap eats. Restaurants where workers are paid fairly and the food respected? That's the true treasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Diep Tran is the chef and owner of Good Girl Dinette, a popular Los Angeles diner serving local, seasonal Vietnamese comfort food.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was crafted in response to a summit on racism and difference in food, staged at \u003ca href=\"http://rivendellwriterscolony.org/\">Rivendell Writers Colony\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://www.southernfoodways.org/\">The Southern Foodways Alliance \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://tonitiptonmartin.com/foundation/\">Soul Summit\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Those all-too-common lists of cheap places to eat are part of a broader restaurant culture that devalues immigrant labor and ignores the consequences, says commentator and restaurateur Diep Tran.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1487002454,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":758},"headData":{"title":"Cheap Eats, Cheap Labor: The Hidden Human Costs Of Those Lists | KQED","description":"Those all-too-common lists of cheap places to eat are part of a broader restaurant culture that devalues immigrant labor and ignores the consequences, says commentator and restaurateur Diep Tran.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"115273 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=115273","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/02/13/cheap-eats-cheap-labor-the-hidden-human-costs-of-those-lists/","disqusTitle":"Cheap Eats, Cheap Labor: The Hidden Human Costs Of Those Lists","nprByline":"Diep Tran, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Alex Reynolds/NPR","nprStoryId":"512905725","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=512905725&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/12/512905725/cheap-eats-cheap-labor-the-hidden-human-costs-of-those-lists?ft=nprml&f=512905725","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:00:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:00:03 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:00:03 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/115273/cheap-eats-cheap-labor-the-hidden-human-costs-of-those-lists","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Everyone loves a cheap eats list. A treasure map to $1 tacos! $4 banh mi! $6 pad Thai! More often than not, the Xs that mark the cheap spots are in the city's immigrant enclaves. Indeed, food media is never so diverse as when it runs these lists, its pages fill with names of restaurateurs and chefs of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These lists infuriate me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before I became a restaurant owner, I spent my childhood in my relatives' pho restaurants. Because of that, I have deep compassion for and understanding of the pressures facing immigrant restaurateurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched my aunts and uncles work 16-hour days, only to charge cut-rate prices for their food. And I also witnessed the grueling hours that their employees put in, also at cut-rate wages. It is a cruel reality that immigrant enterprise is powered by the cheap labor of fellow immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant workers are already among the \u003ca href=\"http://www.epi.org/publication/restaurant-workers/\">lowest paid workers\u003c/a> in America. Many full-time workers rely on public assistance to make ends meet. Often enough, restaurant workers could not afford to eat at the restaurants where they work. And at the bottom of this system are the employees of the restaurants on these cheap eats list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American enterprise has long been a gateway to the American dream for many immigrants. But much of it was also \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/indentured-servants-in-the-us/\">built on exploited labor\u003c/a>. Enslaved African-Americans built Southern plantations. Chinese immigrant workers built the railroads. Latino migrant farm workers are the backbone that turned California into America's agricultural powerhouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This view of people of color as sources of \"cheap\" labor bleeds into our restaurant culture: Immigrant food is often expected to be cheap, because, implicitly, the labor that produces it is expected to be cheap, because that labor has historically been cheap. And so pulling together a \"cheap eats\" list rather than, say, an \"affordable eats\" list both invokes that history and reinforces it by prioritizing price at the expense of labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At my restaurant, an appetizer of spring rolls is $7. A chicken banh mi with house-made mayo and a side of fries or slaw is $12. A chicken pho is $11. I use sustainably grown chickens; the vegetables are from the farmers market. My staff are paid well over minimum wage. Generally, though, my prices are compared not to other restaurants that use sustainable ingredients and work towards paying their workers a living wage, but to Vietnamese restaurants where bowls of pho run $7, banh mis are $3 (or you can buy two and get one free). And because of that focus on price above all else, I've been criticized for being too expensive. I've been told flatly by Yelpers, customers and food reviewers that my restaurant is too expensive \"for Vietnamese food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm fully aware of the irony here: My family and I came to the U.S. as refugees in the 1970s and '80s. My relatives, like so many immigrant entrepreneurs, did what they had to do with their restaurant to survive and created a business model that worked for their time. That business model became the dominant model. It continues to be the dominant model. That business model is the one the ultimately traps the entrepreneur who would like to break out of this mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have worked hard to combat the underlying racism that drives so much of the \"celebration\" of \"cheap eats,\" and I believe that consumers and food media can play a large part in this fight. We need to rethink the very idea behind cheap eats lists. We need to recognize that the narratives we tell ourselves about immigrant resourcefulness and tenacity also makes us willfully blind to the human cost that makes the $3 banh mi possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These lists are part of a broader restaurant culture that devalues labor and ignores the consequences of that devaluation. And these lists make it difficult for immigrant businesses — and I include my own here — to break out of the trope that equates communities of color with cheap food and cheap labor. I don't see treasure in cheap eats. Restaurants where workers are paid fairly and the food respected? That's the true treasure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Diep Tran is the chef and owner of Good Girl Dinette, a popular Los Angeles diner serving local, seasonal Vietnamese comfort food.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This essay was crafted in response to a summit on racism and difference in food, staged at \u003ca href=\"http://rivendellwriterscolony.org/\">Rivendell Writers Colony\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://www.southernfoodways.org/\">The Southern Foodways Alliance \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://tonitiptonmartin.com/foundation/\">Soul Summit\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/115273/cheap-eats-cheap-labor-the-hidden-human-costs-of-those-lists","authors":["byline_bayareabites_115273"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_452","bayareabites_14947"],"featImg":"bayareabites_115274","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_93569":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_93569","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"93569","score":null,"sort":[1424977943000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"farmers-fear-legal-status-for-workers-would-lead-them-off-the-farm","title":"Farmers Fear Legal Status For Workers Would Lead Them Off The Farm","publishDate":1424977943,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2.jpg\" alt=\"Nahun Villagomez Sanchez washes freshly dug Red LaSoda potatoes at T&D Willey Farms near Madera, Calif. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nahun Villagomez Sanchez washes freshly dug Red LaSoda potatoes at T&D Willey Farms near Madera, Calif. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/02/20150226_me_do_your_veggies_depend_on_workers_who_lack_legal_rights.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/26/387698016/do-your-veggies-depend-on-workers-who-lack-legal-rights\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/26/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political battle over immigration, now provoking a confrontation between Congress and the White House, touches all of us in one very direct way: our food. That salad mix, and those apples, may well have been harvested by workers who arrived here in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmworkerjustice.org/sites/default/files/NAWS%20data%20factsht%201-13-15FINAL.pdf\">surveys\u003c/a>, about half of all farm workers in the country lack legitimate documents, and live in what's often described as a \"shadow world,\" without legal rights. The farmers who employ those workers, meanwhile, are deeply ambivalent about this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They present bona fide documents that show that they're a legal worker. Do I believe that they're 100 percent correct? No,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.westsideproduce.com/index.php/our-team/85-people/111-stephen-patricio\">Stephen Patricio\u003c/a>, president of Westside Produce, a big melon packer in California's Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricio is frustrated with federal immigration policies that make life difficult for his workers. Those feelings are partly rooted in self-interest because he needs them. But they're mixed with sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're just trying to feed their families,\" he says. \"And to punish people for seeking a better life, which we've held up as our mantra throughout the world, is wrong!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So one part of Patricio was happy when, last fall, President Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963/obama-will-announce-relief-for-up-to-5-million-immigrants\">promised\u003c/a> more protection for millions of immigrants, such those who have children who are U.S. citizens. This executive action probably covers hundreds of thousands of farm workers — but it is now in limbo, because a federal judge in Texas has \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/17/386905806/federal-judge-blocks-obama-s-executive-actions-on-immigration\">blocked\u003c/a> it, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricio, however, also has another reaction, one that illustrates deeper conflicts over U.S. immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that giving more legal rights to those workers is probably bad for his business. He believes that some of these workers are in the Central Valley, working in agriculture, because it's a good place to hide from the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If those workers gain legal status, \"that pressure is off. Now they can go to the cities and look for construction jobs, or manufacturing jobs,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s, millions of immigrants gained legal status. Patricio believes that, as a result, many left agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back then, employers had an alternative. The border was more porous than it is now, and employers were able turn to a fresh wave of immigrants. That flow has now slowed to a trickle, and Patricio says this has created a real shortage of farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traveling around the Central Valley, I heard same argument from several different employers. Among the most vocal was Manuel Cunha, Jr., who is president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/index.htm\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a>, based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers who get legal protections \"are going to go find full-time jobs, because now they're safe,\" Cunha said. \"And I have nothing to replace them with. Nothing!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35.jpg\" alt=\"Farm worker Lorena Hernandez (right) with her daughter Luzliliana. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm worker Lorena Hernandez (right) with her daughter Luzliliana. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At first, I was surprised to hear this argument. It seemed self-incriminating for employers to suggest that their workers are trapped in these jobs by their lack of legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a political and historical background to Cunha's argument. Cunha, along with many farm leaders, wants to resurrect some form of the guest worker program that they relied on in the 1950s and the 1960s. This program brought in large numbers of farm workers for seasonal work, but did not promise citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups representing farm employers have been lobbying Congress for a new guest worker program, so far without success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there's debate over whether farm workers do, in fact, stay in agriculture because they lack legal status. Many farm workers themselves deny it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Lorena Hernandez, who lives in Madera, Calif. She came to the U.S. from Mexico eight years ago. Since then, she married and now has a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that daughter, who is an American citizen, Hernandez and her husband would be covered by the Obama Administration's executive action; if it went into effect, she'd be able to work legally — at least for the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Hernandez before the recent court decision that put this on hold. So it looked at that time as though she would soon be able to get a real social security card. It would change a lot of things for her, she said, but not her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still going to be working in the fields,\" she told me. \"I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friends and co-workers feel the same way, she says. \"I was talking to them about it, and it seems like they're not interested in any other work. They're just interested in working in the fields.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Mines, who ran a national survey of farm workers for the Department of Labor during the 1980s and 90s, says those surveys also \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2013/02/in-immigration-reform-debate-is-agribusiness-crying-wolf.php\">show\u003c/a> that workers who gain legal status are no more likely to leave farm work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers do leave agriculture, says, and many employers believe that legalization is the reason. But in reality, Mines says, \"those farm workers leave because they can't make a living at it. And whether or not they're legal is not that relevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Willey grows a big variety of organic vegetables near Madera, Calif., and employs about 50 people year-round. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Willey grows a big variety of organic vegetables near Madera, Calif., and employs about 50 people year-round. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mines also is not a fan of a new guest worker program. Such programs have been criticized for abusing workers in the past. And according to Mines, many of the workers end up violating the rules and staying in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mines says that farmers simply will need to adapt to the closed border and compete for the workers who are here. This could mean paying workers more, or adapting farm operations so that workers have jobs year-round. The shortage of workers, in fact, has been one factor behind California's shift to almond growing, which is much more mechanized and requires less labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vegetable farmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.abundantharvestorganics.com/farmers/tom-denesse-willey/\">Tom Willey\u003c/a>, meanwhile, tries to attract and keep workers by offering them better working conditions. He and his wife Denesse are among the pioneers of organic farming in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They \u003ca href=\"http://www.tdwilleyfarms.com/frwho.html\">grow\u003c/a> a huge variety of vegetables, in part so that they can offer year-round work and develop a more stable, cohesive team. \"Creating that sense of community, in which people feel that they're working in a non-coercive environment, is something that I focus a great deal on,\" says Willey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Willey doesn't pretend that he's solved all the problems. He still can't pay very much. As it is, 70 percent of his farm's revenue goes to paying the workers. And they're competing with other farms, not just in California, but also in Mexico and Central America, where workers earn \u003ca href=\"http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/\">even less\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We may be allowing fewer people to cross the border, Willey points out, but imports of vegetables from Mexico are way up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Produce growers often rely on workers who are in the U.S. illegally. Some farmers worry that if those workers gain legal status, they will leave agriculture. But some workers say they would stay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1424977962,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1217},"headData":{"title":"Farmers Fear Legal Status For Workers Would Lead Them Off The Farm | KQED","description":"Produce growers often rely on workers who are in the U.S. illegally. Some farmers worry that if those workers gain legal status, they will leave agriculture. 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Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-3_enl-0c2c1c37ed632b8d2e1ccacb82be04aca34011f2-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nahun Villagomez Sanchez washes freshly dug Red LaSoda potatoes at T&D Willey Farms near Madera, Calif. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/02/20150226_me_do_your_veggies_depend_on_workers_who_lack_legal_rights.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/26/387698016/do-your-veggies-depend-on-workers-who-lack-legal-rights\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/26/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political battle over immigration, now provoking a confrontation between Congress and the White House, touches all of us in one very direct way: our food. That salad mix, and those apples, may well have been harvested by workers who arrived here in the U.S. illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmworkerjustice.org/sites/default/files/NAWS%20data%20factsht%201-13-15FINAL.pdf\">surveys\u003c/a>, about half of all farm workers in the country lack legitimate documents, and live in what's often described as a \"shadow world,\" without legal rights. The farmers who employ those workers, meanwhile, are deeply ambivalent about this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They present bona fide documents that show that they're a legal worker. Do I believe that they're 100 percent correct? No,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.westsideproduce.com/index.php/our-team/85-people/111-stephen-patricio\">Stephen Patricio\u003c/a>, president of Westside Produce, a big melon packer in California's Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricio is frustrated with federal immigration policies that make life difficult for his workers. Those feelings are partly rooted in self-interest because he needs them. But they're mixed with sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're just trying to feed their families,\" he says. \"And to punish people for seeking a better life, which we've held up as our mantra throughout the world, is wrong!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So one part of Patricio was happy when, last fall, President Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963/obama-will-announce-relief-for-up-to-5-million-immigrants\">promised\u003c/a> more protection for millions of immigrants, such those who have children who are U.S. citizens. This executive action probably covers hundreds of thousands of farm workers — but it is now in limbo, because a federal judge in Texas has \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/17/386905806/federal-judge-blocks-obama-s-executive-actions-on-immigration\">blocked\u003c/a> it, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricio, however, also has another reaction, one that illustrates deeper conflicts over U.S. immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says that giving more legal rights to those workers is probably bad for his business. He believes that some of these workers are in the Central Valley, working in agriculture, because it's a good place to hide from the authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If those workers gain legal status, \"that pressure is off. Now they can go to the cities and look for construction jobs, or manufacturing jobs,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s, millions of immigrants gained legal status. Patricio believes that, as a result, many left agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back then, employers had an alternative. The border was more porous than it is now, and employers were able turn to a fresh wave of immigrants. That flow has now slowed to a trickle, and Patricio says this has created a real shortage of farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traveling around the Central Valley, I heard same argument from several different employers. Among the most vocal was Manuel Cunha, Jr., who is president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.niseifarmersleague.com/index.htm\">Nisei Farmers League\u003c/a>, based in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers who get legal protections \"are going to go find full-time jobs, because now they're safe,\" Cunha said. \"And I have nothing to replace them with. Nothing!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35.jpg\" alt=\"Farm worker Lorena Hernandez (right) with her daughter Luzliliana. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-2_enl-51e4233938c735c8ae25134d98cbcfa5bc7afa35-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm worker Lorena Hernandez (right) with her daughter Luzliliana. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At first, I was surprised to hear this argument. It seemed self-incriminating for employers to suggest that their workers are trapped in these jobs by their lack of legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a political and historical background to Cunha's argument. Cunha, along with many farm leaders, wants to resurrect some form of the guest worker program that they relied on in the 1950s and the 1960s. This program brought in large numbers of farm workers for seasonal work, but did not promise citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups representing farm employers have been lobbying Congress for a new guest worker program, so far without success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there's debate over whether farm workers do, in fact, stay in agriculture because they lack legal status. Many farm workers themselves deny it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Lorena Hernandez, who lives in Madera, Calif. She came to the U.S. from Mexico eight years ago. Since then, she married and now has a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of that daughter, who is an American citizen, Hernandez and her husband would be covered by the Obama Administration's executive action; if it went into effect, she'd be able to work legally — at least for the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Hernandez before the recent court decision that put this on hold. So it looked at that time as though she would soon be able to get a real social security card. It would change a lot of things for her, she said, but not her job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still going to be working in the fields,\" she told me. \"I like it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her friends and co-workers feel the same way, she says. \"I was talking to them about it, and it seems like they're not interested in any other work. They're just interested in working in the fields.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Mines, who ran a national survey of farm workers for the Department of Labor during the 1980s and 90s, says those surveys also \u003ca href=\"http://newamericamedia.org/2013/02/in-immigration-reform-debate-is-agribusiness-crying-wolf.php\">show\u003c/a> that workers who gain legal status are no more likely to leave farm work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many workers do leave agriculture, says, and many employers believe that legalization is the reason. But in reality, Mines says, \"those farm workers leave because they can't make a living at it. And whether or not they're legal is not that relevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Willey grows a big variety of organic vegetables near Madera, Calif., and employs about 50 people year-round. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR \" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93572\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/farmers-1_enl-698ceb4d58428fb28b9b76910c4170580018253c-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Willey grows a big variety of organic vegetables near Madera, Calif., and employs about 50 people year-round. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mines also is not a fan of a new guest worker program. Such programs have been criticized for abusing workers in the past. And according to Mines, many of the workers end up violating the rules and staying in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mines says that farmers simply will need to adapt to the closed border and compete for the workers who are here. This could mean paying workers more, or adapting farm operations so that workers have jobs year-round. The shortage of workers, in fact, has been one factor behind California's shift to almond growing, which is much more mechanized and requires less labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vegetable farmer \u003ca href=\"http://www.abundantharvestorganics.com/farmers/tom-denesse-willey/\">Tom Willey\u003c/a>, meanwhile, tries to attract and keep workers by offering them better working conditions. He and his wife Denesse are among the pioneers of organic farming in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They \u003ca href=\"http://www.tdwilleyfarms.com/frwho.html\">grow\u003c/a> a huge variety of vegetables, in part so that they can offer year-round work and develop a more stable, cohesive team. \"Creating that sense of community, in which people feel that they're working in a non-coercive environment, is something that I focus a great deal on,\" says Willey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Willey doesn't pretend that he's solved all the problems. He still can't pay very much. As it is, 70 percent of his farm's revenue goes to paying the workers. And they're competing with other farms, not just in California, but also in Mexico and Central America, where workers earn \u003ca href=\"http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/\">even less\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We may be allowing fewer people to cross the border, Willey points out, but imports of vegetables from Mexico are way up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/93569/farmers-fear-legal-status-for-workers-would-lead-them-off-the-farm","authors":["byline_bayareabites_93569"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_250","bayareabites_10503","bayareabites_452","bayareabites_14177","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_93570","label":"bayareabites"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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