We sipped native teas from black sage and rose hips and Yerba buena from the San Lorenzo area. A trio of San Francisco detectives and a local FBI officer must hunt down the killer. (I was hoping to hear that they’d downed a deer with a spear in the Berkeley Hills but no, it came from a trusted provider.)ĭessert was a chia porridge with hazelnut milk and spices from the Kitchen Collective topped with native berries and crushed hazelnuts. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area - Malcolm Margolin - Google Books The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area Malcolm Margolin. The novel opens four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor when an assassin shoots the German American president of the isolationist group America First. Venison meatballs cooked with huckleberries and ground porcini and popped amaranth were chewy and remarkably un-gamey. That mush-like dish they call “ aha-tole,” taken from “atole” made with valley oak acorn flour that came from the east side of the Berkeley Hills where Vincent’s great great great grandfather was born, as well as hazelnut flour and chia flour and agave nectar. Or maybe I mis-heard and just want to believe that. Pickle weed and purslane along with freshly toasted hazelnuts and watercress, topped with edible flowers and soft boiled quail eggs, made for a fresh and interesting salad.Īs someone who happens to have California native sifting baskets, used over the centuries to separate seeds from other plant material, it was exciting to hear about the little huckleberries having been separated in such a way. What little salt seasoned our food had been gathered from salt marshes in San Francisco. START HERE: Food Business Tips & Trends.My Oakland Airbnb – Central to the Bay Area Food Scene.

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