Sugar High
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Mani Niall Brings Sweet Bar Bakery to Uptown
Sugar High Jesse Hirsch — Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Let’s get this out of the way: Mani Niall was Michael Jackson’s personal chef for a few years in the ‘80s. It wasn’t a career-defining moment, and his other accomplishments have been a lot more substantive — starting an iconic artisan bakery, blazing trails for restricted-diet eaters, writing three cookbooks, etc. But if the King of Pop gets his name out there, he’s not complaining.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Will This Cookie Make You Horny?
Sugar High John Birdsall — Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Maybe yes, maybe no — not that Akiva Resnikoff can actually say. Resnikoff is the guy behind The Cookie Department, an Emeryville-based maker of functional cookies that launched in 2009. They’re available mostly at East Bay cafes (Fellini Coffeebar in Berkeley, for one), also gyms, and the snack counter at the Grand Lake Theater.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Opening This Week in Oakland: James and the Giant Cupcake
Sugar High John Birdsall — Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:30 PM
Nothing like cupcakes to brighten up an emerging microhood, a proposition that neighbors of Actual Café should soon be able to test. James and the Giant Cupcake’s Eurydice Manning told What the Fork her first retail shop and bakery should be ready to open this Friday, July 8, pending final inspections.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Molé Ice Cream Has Deep Roots in Jalisco
Sugar High John Birdsall — Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM
The East Bay’s most traditional ice cream maker is now churning one of its most untraditional flavors: molé.
Back in 2007, the Express discovered Fruitvale frozen dessert maker Luis Abundis, still the only guy in the Bay Area we know who’s turning out nieves de garrafa, ices made the way they were before the rise of the crank freezer, which is to say completely by hand. Abundis has a smile only slightly less impressive than his upper-body strength. Standing at his garrafa — a metal canister wedged inside a wooden bucket filled with ice and salt — he turns out multiple batches of ices every day, beating house-made mixes with a hand-held paddle till they freeze.
- John Birdsall
- Mole ice cream.
