Wednesday Seven: Retrace the History of Coffee With Blue Bottle and Port of Mokha

General Mills Recalls 10 Million Pounds of Flour Over E.Coli
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Retracing the Historic Route of Coffee with Blue BottleBlue Bottle Coffee"s James Freeman and Mokhtar Alkhanshali, founder of the social justice project Port of Mokha, will team up this Sunday, June 5 from 6-8 p.m. at Blue Bottle Palo Alto ( 456 University Ave.) to discuss the origins of the "Turkish wine." Retracing the Historic Route of Coffeewill discuss coffee beans" origins in the now-beleaguered nation of Yemen, via Europe"s first documented coffeehouse, Die Blaue Flasche (or The Blue Bottle). There will be coffee and Yemeni food.B&B Kitchen & Wine Bar Now Open in Downtown BerkeleyHaving nabbed Executive Chef Damien Jones (who"s worked at Yoshi"s the the Hotel Whitcomb in S.F., as well as Silverado Country Club and Bourbon & Beef), Abraham Masarweh and Julia Joslyn"s B&B Kitchen & Wine Bar is serving grilled octopus, a coffee-braised beef short rib, and truffle mac "n" cheese at 2116 Shattuck in Berkeley. With 40 seats inside plus an outdoor patio for 12, it"s also conveniently right next to BART.

Perdition Smokehouse to Become Berkeley Social ClubInside Scoop reports that after the sudden closure of Perdition Smokehouse, the space at 2050 University Avenue will become Berkeley Social Club sometime in August. Expect breakfast and lunch, a Korean-inflected dinner menu, and microbrewery beers flowing from about half of Perdition"s 44 taps.

Jack"s Oyster Bar Releases Rotating Friday Night Prix FixeChef Rick Hackett of Jack"s Oyster Bar & Fish House (336 Water, Oakland) has rolled out a family-style, Friday night menu that will change every two months. For $25 a person, you"ll get a spiced wild salmon fish fry with kimchee cole slaw and fried fennel (June and July), a New England lobster bake with corn-on-the-cob and potatoes (August and September), and a Cajun Shrimp Boil with fennel and tomato sofrito plus summer squash (October and November.)

Selling Ice Cream Is More Than Just a Hustle"You will never see a Mister Softee truck in Midtown, he continued. If you do, there will be problems, and you wont see him there very long. Apparently, turf wars among ice cream trucks in Midtown Manhattan get violent: Every truck has a bat, one vendor tells the New York Times.

And Eddie Huang Hustles Pretty Hard, TooA year after the Fresh Off the Boat debacle, Eddie Huang is palling around with Bourdain and he"s got a new memoir out: Double Cup Love. It was was "originally proposed as a book in which Mr. Huang would travel to China to try cooking for locals, but it turned into a memoir about love. Neither of his books is really about food "its all window dressing," he said."

Gold Medal Flour Recalled for Possible E. ColiDid you buy Gold Medal Flour between December and May? If so, dump it. General Mills is issuing a widespread recall, but does anyone really schlep flour back to the manufacturer? Mailing a large quantity of white powder to get your $4 back feels like a questionable risk-to-reward ratio.

Source: http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2016/06/01/wednesday-seven-retrace-the-history-of-coffee-with-blue-bottle-and-port-of-mokha