The people living in their cars, vans and campers play a game of musical chairs with the police. berkeleyside.com — A scene from before the pandemic: a Sunday brunch at Cafe Ohlone on the back patio of University Press Books. The Bay Area is renowned for its food, both global and local. Dining at Cafe Ohlone is a celebratory, communal experience, and these meals are intended to be enjoyed in the same manner—as a celebration and in the context of a sense of the larger community. After shifting our community work to a virtual model, we began to think of how to adapt Cafe Ohlone in this moment of great change. Cafe Ohlone’s combination of delicious, unique food with a history and anthropology lesson has proved popular, though the difficulties of sourcing wild foods limit how often they can open. Anna Mindess writes about food, culture, travel, and immigrants’ stories for AFAR, Fodor’s, KQED Bay Area Bites, Berkeleyside, and Oakland Magazine. COVID-19: Vaccine updates ● The numbers ● Latest news ● Pitch in for local workers | Berkeleyside is hiring | PLUS: The Oaklandside. Each keepsake box includes two complete meals. “We have a lot of obligations to keep our culture strong,” Medina said. Medina said he hopes it will be a place of art and culture, but also a launching pad for gathering trips, for meaningful dialogue and for Ohlone people to see their culture outside of their home. r/oakland • Posted by. They’ve also been leading gathering trips, cooking classes and workshops with their community, families and tribes. Aproximadamente el 24-11-20 Tweet A message from mak-'amham/Cafe Ohlone Daily Californian ; message from mak-'amham/Cafe Ohlone Reviving Indian language Chochenyo - San Francisco Chronicle. With the bookstore’s recent closure, the restaurant is looking for a … Give us your … Cafe Ohlone is a space where Ohlone culture and cuisine are respected and celebrated regularly, a place where these powerful ways can thrive. For example, we might have mineral-rich tender Indian greens, bubble gum-flavored early-growth shoots and Indian onions during the wet times of early Spring; juicy huckleberry, oak woodland blackberry, wild strawberry, earthy hazelnut, rusty red California buckwheat and oily chia seed dishes in Summer; and baked rich black oak acorn bread and caffeinated bay nut truffles during Fall's acorn harvest; as Winter comes, our dishes will get heavier and utilize more preserved ingredients, such as bay salt cured meats, dried summertime berries and umami-rich locally gathered chanterelles. The homeless encampment at Old City Hall was disbanded early Thursday morning by Berkeley officials, as first reported by Berkeleyside.. A message from mak-'amham/Cafe Ohlone - Daily Californian. No info on opening hours. On the Sunday afternoon Cafe Ohlone opened in 2018, a line of eager and attentive people packed onto the patio at University Press Books. Medina said he and Trevino often gather early in the morning and late at night because he said, “it’s not always comfortable, especially as a brown person, with people looking at you as a criminal for gathering your own food.”. Cafe Ohlone is also a place for meaningful, boundary breaking dialogue, a meeting place for protecting our sacred sites, a launching pad for gathering trips with our family and tribe, a place of dialogue about decolonization, a place where we host open mic for poetry and song in California Indian languages and organize talks from leaders in the Ohlone community about our living story. I’m sure it’s no surprise to readers of this newsletter that I’m not the world’s biggest booster of Thanksgiving. Medina started eating a mostly Ohlone diet, removing foods like corn, wheat flours, soy, dairy, white sugar, sodas and anything processed or with added sweeteners. We have commissioned fresh illustrations, maps, and Mak-’amham holds pop-up events and offers catering services to fund monthly events where they cook for the Ohlone community. 43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont. Each menu item will have it name listed in Chochenyo, and the person behind the counter taking orders (either Medina, Trevino or another member of the Ohlone community) will repeat that word and give a little more information about the food’s medical uses or cultural significance. Medina and Trevino are taking time and care to set up the cafe, because Medina said, they want to make sure it’s a sustainable venture and most importantly, that it’s filling the needs of the Ohlone community, “making sure our people are empowered by our traditional food for health and cultural reasons.”. They have gone from Harrison Street to Fourth Street to Second Street to the Marina. Many Ohlone ingredients are used in various ways in different dishes. When he took these foods out of his diet, he said felt energized, more athletically active and with a clearer mind. It’s a … Ohlone community members Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino reconnected with their native food through their work revitalizing their native languages and culture. Native American Health Center COVID-19 Community Resource Guides. It makes us more capable of fighting injustice.”. Until now. As many of you are aware, Cafe Ohlone closed preemptively on March 14th to stay safe and protect community from the spread of COVID-19. Café Ohlone founders share ancestral wisdom to help us through the pandemic While Café Ohlone, California's first Indigenous restaurant, is shuttered as we shelter in place, co-founders, Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino, take comfort in the fact that the protective measures we are all following have been practiced for many generations by their ancestors, the first inhabitants of this land. Settlement, Geoarchaeology … In Berkeley, Cafe Ohlone is serving only Indigenous foods common to the area. We always recognize and acknowledge that it is our ancestors and our elders who guide this work and teach us how to gather, prepare and eat our Indigenous foods. Critics question impacts of ‘Spenger’s parking lot’ project on Berkeley Fourth Street, Ohlone heritage, Berkeleyside, March 14, 2016. Crossposted by. Given that the old Cafe Ohlone would likely have remained closed until a COVID-19 vaccine was available, Medina says they plan on taking their time to fundraise and to find a new site. Although this is a lot, for those who want to pop in and have a cup of hummingbird sage tea and an acorn flour brownie while sitting alone and simply experiencing our cuisine — Cafe Ohlone is that place too. Berkeleyside: Café Ohlone founders share ancestral wisdom to help us through the pandemic. Medina said that although the space will not be completely set up, he hopes these events will be educational, to “let people understand what’s happening and what we’re building up to. Some of our traditional meats that we prepare are venison, quail, salmon, elk, duck, rabbit, clams and mussels. And, Medina noticed, there was a lot about food. Ohlone food will be served at a new Berkeley cafe. Sarah Han is Nosh editor at Berkeleyside. For Medina, this story is a strong reminder of how his family has always stood up for their culture in even the most difficult times. Café Ohlone gives a taste of the East Bay's first, most local food. 0. Yerba buena (čawrišim), which belongs to the mint family, is used as an herb to flavor dishes and an ingredient for tea. 3/14/2016 Berkeleyside: Critics question impacts of ‘Spenger’s parking lot’ project on Fourth Street, Ohlone heritage; 5/11/2015 Berkeleyside: Housing, restaurant, garage planned at Spenger’s lot; Video clips. Yet the 2-year-old pop-up is just one facet of the work that Medina and Trevino do through their organization, mak-’amham. “It’s a reminder of how hard these things hit us. Here Ohlone people can see our culture and cuisine reflected in the public and people outside the Ohlone community can experience the richness of our traditional food while seeing the vibrancy of contemporary Ohlone identity. Cafe Ohlone is named for the Ohlone tribe indigenous to Northern California’s East Bay. Add to wishlist Add to compare Share #24 of 580 cafes in Berkeley #80 of 784 restaurants in Berkeley #185 of 323 coffeehouses in Berkeley . Two weeks ago, the world’s only Ohlone restaurant lost its home when Berkeley’s 46-year-old University Press Books closed its doors. For the Academics: “Why Here? Cafe Ohlone will be open three days a week, most likely 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. The truth is, we also come from powerful and strong people who survived this difficulty that still exists today.”, Cafe Ohlone by Mak-‘amham will be inside University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way (between Dana and Telegraph), Berkeley. Settlement, … Other ingredients, like duck (šaakani) and quail eggs (‘attuš-heksen), can’t be gathered. This summer, Medina and Trevino have been busy. At these meals, the food inspires the community to talk, not only about foods they remember, but family history and larger hopes for the community’s future. Claim. preserve the site of a 5,000-year-old Ohlone fishing village, widely considered to be the earliest human habitation on the shores of San Francisco Bay. Every story from Bay Nature magazine is the product of a team of people dedicated to connecting our readers to the world around them and increasing environmental literacy. eastbayexpress.com — click to enlarge Photo Courtesy of Adam Sings in the Timber CURATED COOKING: Part of Louis Trevino’s (pictured) vision with partner and co-founder Vincent Medina was to bring ‘indigenous food sovereignty back to the East Bay.’ On the Sunday afternoon Cafe Ohlone opened in 2018, a line of eager and attentive people packed onto the patio at University Press Books. The East Bay’s first and most local cuisine will soon be served at a new cafe in Berkeley run by members of the Muwekma Ohlone tribe. To get a better idea of some of our dishes, please visit our menu page. As an immersive experience, please prepare to cook remaining dishes for up to an hour and a half to ensure peak freshness and quality.. - MetroWest Daily News It was through reconnecting with his native tongue that he reconnected with Ohlone food. Louis and Vincent, I want to thank you for taking time out of your day and joining us today. Even Cafe Ohlone, a place built on cultural celebration, often evokes mixed feelings. Here is last information associated with davidson college Medina recently joined his tribal council, Trevino has been doing extensive work with basketry and both participated in a language conference at UC Berkeley with the focus on reviving Ohlone languages. Reserve your box today! Medina said the repetition of ingredients has a purpose. We are proud to be a part of bringing back something we have been lacking for too long — our food. Vincent "Vince" Medina (born 6 October 1986) is a Chochenyo Ohlone indigenous rights, language, and food activist.He is a member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and serves on the tribal council, and co-founded Cafe Ohlone, an Ohlone restaurant in Berkeley, California which serves indigenous cuisine made with native ingredients sourced from the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas. Native culture is present in ways that include the food served at Cafe Ohlone by Ohlone tribal members, in Tommy Orange’s novel There There about Oakland’s Native community, in Berkeley’s Indigenous People’s Day, which this year occurs on October 12 th, and in the Native California Indian Arts and Culture Festival that you will see in Ohlone Park between McGee and Grant streets this afternoon. Donate to Berkeleyside and support independent local journalism. These boxes are packed with intention: imagine opening a sustainably and locally harvested redwood box embossed with the Cafe Ohlone’s crow-and-quail logo to fragrant gathered Ohlone herbs, such as minty yerba buena, California rose, manzanita blossoms, artemisia and California lilac. “When we take out these foods that don’t mesh with our system, then we can actually improve our community’s health collectively. Photographs of our family and some of the heroes of the Ohlone community are on display, and a fire pit provides traditional warmth on chilly East Bay nights. Café Ohlone Offers Indigenous Foods for All to Share By Anna Mindess | Photos by Cynthia Matzger Vincent Medina’s ancestors have long gathered shellfish, salt, and pickleweed in the salt marsh along this east shore stretch of their homeland on the San Francisco Bay. That gave me so much motivation to keep this going.”. Cafe Ohlone by mak-'amham is in the terraced back patio and kitchen space of University Press Books and Musical Offering Cafe at 2430 Bancroft Ave., xučyun (Berkeley). It’s a small backyard restaurant serving up big flavors with even bigger dreams. Underneath seasonal herbs is each component of a seasonal meal we might share at Cafe Ohlone under the stars, with most components to be prepared at home, with detailed instructions. This is a recipe Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino drew from archival notes recorded by their community in … UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project. CAFE OHLONE. We are excited to have deep involvement from Chochenyo Ohlone community from the East Bay that co-founder Vince Medina belongs to, and for the collaboration of family members and elders from co-founder Louis Trevino's Rumsen Ohlone community, allowing us to have a dynamic Ohlone-run space that reflects our Indigenous identity. Many of us are worried, trying our best to stay positive, doing constructive projects around the… Close. “Just seeing the look on their faces, the responses they had from eating something so culturally significant. United States, Berkeley. Cafe Ohlone is a pop-up that began in the late fall of 2018, the passion project of Medina and his partner Louis Trevino, a fellow activist and member of the Rumsen Ohlone community. Resource guides are from the Alameda Health Consortium and the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium. Ohlone human remains found in trench in West Berkeley, Berkeleyside, April 8, 2016. With the bookstore’s recent closure, the restaurant looks for a new home. We decided to create curated dinner boxes as the most effective way to stay safe and healthy while also sharing our rich Ohlone foods and continuing to make visible our beautiful culture. Cafe Ohlone will roll out the new takeout program in three stages. Want ultra news made by berkeleyside.com? In these boxes, think of seeing dried rosehip and stinging nettle tea, with instructions on how to brew; local mussels and clams to be roasted with salty pickleweed and scallions in a gathered, kombu broth; all the complex components of an Ohlone salad separated, served with our blackberry and bay laurel sauce on the side; seasonal umami-heavy chanterelles to be caramelized in your home oven; bespeckled waxy quail eggs; dried strawberries, delicate California hazelnut and onion biscuits, and buttery Indian potatoes as seasonal components, packed as reminders of our abundant way of eating; black oak acorn soup prepared by us in a traditional way to complete the meal; decadent Ohlone sweets such as hazelnut milk chia porridge, and—always—Louis’s now-famous hazelnut flour and Bay salt brownies. 2123 Dwinelle Hall, MC #2550 Berkeley, CA 94720 ucbhssp@berkeley.edu. Please note meals come with some dishes prepared, and others to be prepared in home kitchens with detailed instructions. As a kid, Medina didn’t know anything about traditional Ohlone foods. Traditionally, our meats would be cooked for hours at a low temperature in a subterranean earth oven; while earth ovens are still used in the Ohlone community, we use a contemporary wood smoker. Aug 22, 2014 - Explore Sunny K Merry's board "Berkeley Cafe", followed by 256 people on Pinterest. Café Ohlone’s central vision is to promote Ohlone cuisine in its original, decolonized form. “It can be very isolating when you’re Ohlone,” said Medina. Another event will happen the following week, but details are still to come. (Wendy Kenin/Berkeleyside) Construction workers have uncovered what appear to be “pre-contact” Indian remains while working on a commercial development project in Berkeley's Fourth Street neighborhood. Sometimes we offer meat smoked in oak, manzanita or bay laurel wood that cooks slowly and fills the space with the rooted aromatic smells and flavors of Ohlone cooking. Native American news, happenings, cultures, politics, arts, community, and thought. “Dairy, things like corn, they were never something that was good for our people,” he said. support our community work and construction. It will serve small bites, local coffee mixed with bay nuts and pinon nuts (and served with nut milk), native teas made with plants gathered at the beginning of each week, and smoked meats. venison backstrap with Ohlone herbs + local mushrooms and Indian potatoes with bay-infused blackberry dipping sauce. OHLONE COLLEGE "Winter Dance Showcase," through Dec. 4, 8 p.m. Ohlone students showcase the variety of dance styles taught at the college. The cafe would highlight foods indigenous to the Ohlone Indians — a blanket term that encompasses many tribes that lived from the East Bay to Carmel — food that would have been available centuries ago, prepared in the traditional ways. However, Cafe Ohlone, and our deep community work through mak-’amham, is bigger than any one physical location; with the hope, visibility and tangible change this work has created, we are certain that Cafe Ohlone will transcend. A mural near the park, … Berkeley’s Cafe Ohlone is gone, long live Cafe Ohlone The Bay Area's first and only Ohlone food pop-up has shuttered following the permanent closure of its host, University Press Books in Berkeley, last month. “By keeping the story as a hopeful one, we ask people to reframe how they think about our culture, to associate our culture more with victory and not with defeat.” Part of the reason hours will be limited is because the two founders are committed to so many other community obligations, but also because ingredients take a full two days a week to gather. Cafe Ohlone in Berkeley, CA closes; meal kits, next restaurant to come - Berkeleyside takanadalagi.blogspot.com A scene from before the pandemic: a Sunday brunch at Cafe Ohlone on the back patio of University Press Books. To keep the intentionality and focus on Ohlone culture, and to include our message in the meal, we share a password-protected Vimeo with each curated box that is made for the monthly meal, describing the menu described, along with community voices present to teach the public about our beautiful, living culture. Medina didn’t make the connection until years later when he taught himself to speak Chochenyo, the oldest language of the East Bay. “It was the first time in quite a long time that our community was eating acorn, venison, mushrooms, native teas. There are encampments of homeless at Willard Park and Ohlone Park, and many other city parks. Café Ohlone gives a taste of the East Bay's first, most local food. Cafe Ohlone in Berkeley, CA closes; meal kits, next restaurant to come . Most of the ingredients have been gathered in traditional ways on their native lands. All described, of course, is depending on availability of seasonal ingredients. To get little bits of information and tastes of what’s coming.”, “Food is such a good way to have intercultural dialogue,” he said. Cafe Ohlone will reopen once the pandemic is over, but to let the imagination remember the beauty created in that space, we are leaving the text below for the time being. The only Ohlone restaurant looks for a new location in East Bay, will sell takeout meal kit boxes with Indigenous local foods this summer. Cafe Ohlone, a small restaurant behind a bookstore in Berkeley, serves the updated native foods of the Bay Area, along with some history. Café Ohlone founders share ancestral wisdom to help us through the pandemic. Cafe Ohlone, a new cafe featuring native Ohlone cuisine, has been hosting preview tastings inside University Press Books near the UC Berkeley campus, as it moves toward regular hours and a grand opening later this fall. Berkeleyside: Café Ohlone founders share ancestral wisdom to help us through the pandemic. heapevents.info presents sorted news on 2020-08-31 from over the world. At this time, the space is still a work in progress, with a grand opening slated for August. Louis Trevino (Rumsen Ohlone community) is a co-founder of mak-'amham, the Cafe Ohlone. Restaurant menu. For instance, Medina recalls his great-grandmother, Mary Archuleta, whenever he speaks of purslane. $10-$12. The Mak-’amham menu changes with the season, based on what’s available to be gathered in the East Bay hills and Carmel Valley. Look at these sources: berkeleyside.com, berkeleyside.com, and so on. We're dreaming big things with a small space. Cafe Ohlone prepares small bites that will change every week based on seasonality. Vincent Medina (Muwekma Ohlone Tribe) is a co-founder of mak-'amham, the Cafe Ohlone. Oct 14, 2018 - Two activists will open Cafe Ohlone to serve contemporary takes on traditional Indigenous cuisine using gathered ingredients native to their ancestors. It wasn’t until Medina was in his early 20s that he made a breakthrough. “It’s hard to disrespect a culture when you sit down and eat their food, especially when you enjoy it and you’re around the people, when you’re having a positive experience.”, “A major misconception is we’re extinct. Native American Health Center COVID-19 Community Resource Guides. “Why can you get any kind of food from any different part of the world in the Bay Area, but you can’t get the food of this place anywhere?”. This is a way that our culture become cemented and solidified in our identities.”. A month later, Medina and Trevino started Mak-’amham (“our food” in Chochenyo), a “guerrilla restaurant” that makes contemporary Ohlone cuisine using only ingredients that their indigenous ancestors ate before contact with outside cultures. Imagine walking through the rushed, urban cityscape of modern Berkeley and entering University Press Books, a charming, iconic bookstore. Vincent Medina, a member of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and the co-founder of a new Ohlone-run cafe in Berkeley, grew up in San Lorenzo, on the very land his ancestors have always lived on. The cafe will be completely Ohlone-run, serving only pre-colonial, pre-contact foods. Vincent and Louis interviewed their elders and studied Ohlonw recipes from the early nineteen-hundreds, and they created Cafe Ohlone, which is a pop-up restaurant in Berkeley, California, which has now moved online since the spread of COVID 19. “When we make these foods, our elders who haven’t had these foods in 70 years or so, they get the chance to eat them a second time. On Wednesday, July 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Cafe Ohlone will take part in the 44th anniversary party for University Press Books and the Musical Offering Cafe, offering light snacks and native teas. Many of us now share the common experiences of travel bans, hand washing, masks, quarantine, job loss or working from home, and economic uncertainty. When it comes to the best takeout New Year’s Eve parties in the East Bay, Spicy Hideaway is definitely the place to go. berkeleyside.com Award For A Covid Hero Highlights Street Medicines Team Approach For Unhoused In The East Bay. Imagine walking through the rushed, urban cityscape of modern Berkeley and entering University Press Books, a charming, iconic bookstore. Donate to help us continue to provide you with reliable, independent reporting. u/VoinaYMir. Once upon a time, Berkeley wasn’t Berkeley at all—but the sacred, uncolonized land of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe. IFH is putting out a SOFAST campaign call - to “Support Our Families and … “We handle all parts of your cocktail party,” owner Noel Crist told Berkeleyside of Spicy Hideaway’s Chinatown location, which is closed for the holidays. 7/17/2019: An Ohlone … Then there is the long-awaited Cafe Ohlone (“mak-‘amham”), tucked on the avocado tree-shaded patio of University Press Books on Bancroft, across from the UC Berkeley campus (profiled in depth by Berkeleyside). berkeleyside.com. Credit: makamham / Instagram Cafe Ohlone is named for the Ohlone tribe indigenous to Northern California’s East Bay. And the encampment by the Gilman Street underpass and the frontage road nearby seems permanent. Cafe Ohlone. 34.6k members in the IndianCountry community. Restaurant menu. “At one point there were a hundred surviving people in our community, down from thousands and thousands of people before, back in the early 1900s,” he says. And of course, we eat. The only Ohlone restaurant looks for a new location in East Bay, will sell takeout meal kit boxes with Indigenous local foods this summer. “We’re stripping away the layers imposed on our community to return to what was ours,” says Medina. Delving through wax cylinder recordings made in the 1920s and ‘30s of the last fluent Chochenyo speakers, Medina realized there was enough documentation to fully reconstruct the language. Medina said they may eventually expand hours, depending on the public’s response. Berkeleyside relies on reader support so we can remain free to access for everyone in our community. Aproximadamente el 23-11-12 Tweet Reviving Indian language Chochenyo San Francisco Chronicle ; Reviving Indian language Chochenyo … With the help of the larger Ohlone community, and especially in conjunction with Louis Trevino, another indigenous activist who is doing similar work revitalizing the Rumsen Ohlone language from Carmel Valley, Medina became actively interested in reviving the traditional Ohlone diet as a means of cultural revival. Our community is doing quite well today. Natural ingredients that we gather of salt, Indian teas, acorns and walnuts are shown in respectful ways as reminders that our food is always sourced from our land. The COVID-19 pandemic is uniting our planet as well as dividing it in powerful ways. We are so grateful. Enjoy its book-filled corridors as you reach the back garden, where Cafe Ohlone is located. It gave me a lot of hope,” said Medina. 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