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The Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley, California , comprises two worker-owned -and-operated businesses: a cheese shop/bakery commonly referred to as "The Cheese Board" and a pizzeria known as "Cheese Board Pizza". Along with Peet's Coffee , the Cheese Board is known for its role in starting the North Shattuck neighborhood of Berkeley on its way to becoming famous as a culinary destination: the " Gourmet Ghetto ". The bakery brought the French baguette into vogue for Berkeley consumers, and helped spark a revolution in artisan bread.

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90-579: The Cheese Board is located at 1504 Shattuck Avenue and Cheese Board Pizza is located two doors down the street at 1512 Shattuck Avenue. In 2003, the Cheese Board Collective put together a cookbook , The Cheese Board: Collective Works . The Cheese Board was founded in 1967 as a European-inspired cheese shop by the married couple of Elizabeth Magarian Valoma and Sahag Avedisian in a small storefront at 2114 Vine Street in Berkeley. In 1971,

180-651: A deli called Pig-by-the-Tail Charcuterie. Cheese Board Pizza is unusual in that only one type of pizza (always vegetarian ) is made each day and no substitutions are allowed. Because the same product is continually being produced, customers always receive their pizza fresh from the oven without pre-ordering. Each order comes with an additional thin slice, or sliver, originally a way to compensate for uneven slicing. The Cheese Board staff tend to favor unconventional pizza toppings and use only fresh, seasonal produce. They often have special pizzas to celebrate occasions such as Bastille Day and Indian Independence Day . The pizzeria

270-473: A book of magic spells , or The Anarchist Cookbook , a set of instructions on destruction and living outside the law. O'Reilly Media publishes a series of books about computer programming named the Cookbook series , and each of these books contain hundreds of ready to use, cut and paste examples to solve a specific problem in a single programming language . Emeryville, California Emeryville

360-566: A counter-narrative of historical events or sustain a community through difficult times. The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro , published in 1958 by the National Council of Negro Women , includes recipes that illuminate histories of Black resistance, including " Nat Turner Crackling Bread." The 1976 People's Philadelphia Cookbook , published by grassroots organization The People's Fund, includes recipes from members of

450-479: A female householder with no husband present, and 70.7% were non-families. 55.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.71 and the average family size was 2.69. In the city, the population was spread out, with 11.4% under the age of 18, 13.4% from 18 to 24, 42.2% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

540-668: A live rabbit opened in Emeryville. In the early 20th century, Emeryville was as well known for its gambling houses and bordellos as it was for its booming industrial sector. Earl Warren , then Alameda County district attorney, later California governor and Chief Justice of the United States , described it as "the rottenest city on the Pacific Coast". During Prohibition and the Great Depression , Emeryville

630-481: A new shopping center, the Bay Street Shopping Center . It was to be built on the site of a defunct paint factory. But this was a historic site of an Ohlone village and burial ground . Madison Marquette developers worked with archaeologists and Ohlone tribe representatives in order to avoid disturbing the human remains. The tribe approved reinterment of some remains at an undisclosed location on

720-953: A particular cuisine or category of food. Recipes in cookbooks are organized in various ways: by course (appetizer, first course, main course, dessert), by main ingredient, by cooking technique, alphabetically, by region or country, and so on. They may include illustrations of finished dishes and preparation steps; discussions of cooking techniques, advice on kitchen equipment, ingredients, tips, and substitutions; historical and cultural notes; and so on. Cookbooks may be written by individual authors, who may be chefs, cooking teachers, or other food writers; they may be written by collectives; or they may be anonymous. They may be addressed to home cooks, to professional restaurant cooks, to institutional cooks, or to more specialized audiences. Some cookbooks are didactic, with detailed recipes addressed to beginners or people learning to cook particular dishes or cuisines; others are simple aide-memoires, which may document

810-477: A political party. Emery Unified School District serves the students in Emeryville and parts of Oakland. Its schools, both in the same site, are Anna Yates Elementary School and Emery Secondary School . The East Bay German International School (EBGIS) is a German immersion school operating located in the former Anna Yates school campus since 2017. The school was founded in 2007 in Berkeley. It reorganized as an independent school in 2018 after being operated by

900-560: A regional employment center. Emeryville has some features of an edge city ; however, it is located within the inner urban core of Oakland/the greater East Bay . It was industrialized before the First World War . Before the colonization of the area by Spain in 1776, this area was long the site of indigenous settlements. The historic Ohlone Native Americans encountered the Spaniards and later European colonists. They thrived on

990-490: A regional sewage treatment plant near the eastern terminus of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which, for the most part, cured the noxious problem. The Emeryville Mudflats became notable in the 1960s and 1970s for public art , erected (with neither permission nor compensation) from driftwood timbers and boards by professional and amateur artists and art students from local high schools, UC Berkeley ,

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1080-538: A single thoroughfare linking two sections of the new Emeryville. On the northern stretch of Shellmound Street, the Emery Marketplace and a movie multiplex were built. In 2007, the western end of Yerba Buena Avenue was linked with the northern end of the Mandela Parkway, creating a new through route between Emeryville and West Oakland. In 2001, the city contracted developer Madison Marquette to build

1170-543: A small wharf near the mouth of Temescal Creek adjacent to the shellmound. The wharf served the Peralta family's Rancho San Antonio . It was used for loading cattle hides, the principal product of the ranch, onto lighters , and transferring them to ocean-going ships, including New England–bound schooners. Cattle were a major part of the economy into the American era, when numerous meat packing plants were established along

1260-431: A well-established cook with a long-running TV show or popular restaurant, become part of extended series of books that can be released over the course of many years. Popular chef-authors throughout history include people such as Delia Smith , Julia Child , James Beard , Nigella Lawson , Edouard de Pomiane , Jeff Smith , Emeril Lagasse , Claudia Roden , Madhur Jaffrey , Katsuyo Kobayashi , and possibly even Apicius ,

1350-530: A woman in East Asia. After a long interval, the first recipe books to be compiled in Europe since Late Antiquity started to appear in the late thirteenth century. About a hundred are known to have survived, some fragmentary, from the age before printing. The earliest genuinely medieval recipes have been found in a Danish manuscript dating from around 1300, which in turn are copies of older texts that date back to

1440-503: Is De re coquinaria , written in Latin . An early version was first compiled sometime in the 1st century and has often been attributed to the Roman gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius , though this has been cast in doubt by modern research. An Apicius came to designate a book of recipes. The current text appears to have been compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century; the first print edition

1530-530: Is Hu Sihui 's " Yinshan Zhengyao " (Important Principles of Food and Drink), believed to be from 1330. Hu Sihui, Buyantu Khan 's dietitian and therapist, recorded a Chinese-inflected Central Asian cuisine as eaten by the Yuan court; his recipes were adapted from foods eaten all over the Mongol Empire . Eumsik dimibang , written around 1670, is the oldest Korean cookbook and the first cookbook written by

1620-535: Is a city located in northwest Alameda County, California , in the United States. It lies in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland , with a border on the shore of San Francisco Bay . The resident population was 12,905 as of 2020. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge , the University of California, Berkeley , and Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth. It

1710-498: Is copying commercial recipes where the original is a trade secret ). Community cookbooks (also known as compiled, regional, charitable, and fund-raising cookbooks) are a unique genre of culinary literature. Community cookbooks focus on home cooking, often documenting regional, ethnic, family, and societal traditions, as well as local history. Sondra Gotlieb , for example, wrote her cookbooks on Canadian food culture by visiting people and homes by region. She gathered recipes, observed

1800-595: Is from 1483. It records a mix of ancient Greek and Roman cuisine, but with few details on preparation and cooking. An abbreviated epitome entitled Apici Excerpta a Vinidario , a "pocket Apicius" by Vinidarius , "an illustrious man", was made in the Carolingian era. In spite of its late date it represents the last manifestation of the cuisine of Antiquity. The earliest cookbooks known in Arabic are those of al-Warraq (an early 10th-century compendium of recipes from

1890-681: Is home to about 20,000 current jobs; this number is projected to increase to about 30,000 by 2030. Emeryville has a Mediterranean climate , similar to nearby Oakland . The 2010 United States Census reported that Emeryville had a population of 10,080. The population density was 8,089.9 inhabitants per square mile (3,123.5/km ). The racial makeup of Emeryville was 4,490 (44.5%) White , 1,764 (17.5%) Black, 44 (0.4%) Native American , 2,775 (27.5%) Asian , 16 (0.2%) Pacific Islander , 348 (3.5%) from other races , and 643 (6.4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 927 persons (9.2%). The Census reported that 10,007 people (99.3% of

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1980-525: Is the home to Pixar Animation Studios , Peet's Coffee , the Center for Investigative Reporting , Alternative Tentacles and Clif Bar . In addition, several well-known tech and software companies are located in Emeryville: LeapFrog , Sendmail , MobiTV , Novartis (formerly Chiron before April 2006), and BigFix (now HCL). Emeryville attracts many weekday commuters due to its position as

2070-470: Is water. Named Watergate, the Emeryville marina is home to a mixed-use development, including two marinas (one public, the other private), a park, a residential condominium community known as Watergate, a business park with several office buildings, and several restaurants. At one time, the Emeryville Mudflats were famous for their stench. In the 19th and early 20th century, this was caused by

2160-692: The Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives , which has used the Cheese Board's recipes and organizational structure to launch bakeries in Oakland (1997), San Francisco (2000 and 2010), Emeryville (2003), and San Rafael (2010). All of the Arizmendi Bakeries are independently owned and operated, but share a technical support staff who provide financial, legal, and organizational services, and who are paid to continue replicating

2250-741: The Black Panther Party , The United Farm Workers , and the Gay Activist Alliance of Philadelphia. For In Memory's Kitchen , written in the 1940s by Jewish women interned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, women drew on their memories to contribute recipes. Cookbooks can also document the food of a specific chef (particularly in conjunction with a cooking show ) or restaurant. Many of these books, particularly those written by or for

2340-559: The California College of Arts and Crafts and the Free University of Berkeley . The mudflats were even featured in the 1971 film Harold and Maude . These unsanctioned works were admired by some drivers heading westbound on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge from Interstate 80. In the late 1990s, the sculptures and materials were removed in the interest of establishing a more natural and undisturbed marshland for

2430-725: The Chiron Corporation (now Novartis), a major biotechnology company, established its headquarters just south of the old junction of the SP mainline tracks and the old Berkeley branchline (Shellmound Junction) at the end of Stanford Avenue, the site of the old Shellmound trotting course. Following the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, a new Amtrak depot was built in Emeryville to replace the former 16th Street Station in West Oakland. It had been deteriorating even before it

2520-780: The Culinary Institute of America , such books go at least back to medieval times, represented then by works such as Taillevent 's Viandier and Chiquart d'Amiço's Du fait de cuisine . Single-subject books, usually dealing with a specific ingredient, technique, class of dishes or target group (e.g. for kids), are quite common as well. Jack Monroe for example features low budget recipes . Some imprints such as Chronicle Books have specialized in this sort of book, with books on dishes like curries , pizza , and simplified ethnic food . Popular subjects for narrow-subject books on technique include grilling / barbecue , baking , outdoor cooking , and even recipe cloning (Recipe cloning

2610-556: The German International School of Silicon Valley . Ex'pression College for Digital Arts was a private, for-profit college located in Emeryville from 1993 until its closure in 2022. The city uses a council–city manager system . Emeryville City Council is the main legislative body and the mayor does not hold any formal authority separate from the council. The responsibilities of the Council include adopting

2700-968: The Virginia Cookery Book was published by Mary Stuart Smith . In 1896 the American cook Fannie Farmer (1857–1915) published The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book which contained some 1,849 recipes. Cookbooks that serve as basic kitchen references (sometimes known as "kitchen bibles") began to appear in the early modern period . They provided not just recipes but overall instruction for both kitchen technique and household management. Such books were written primarily for housewives and occasionally domestic servants as opposed to professional cooks, and at times books such as The Joy of Cooking ( USA ), La bonne cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange ( France ), The Art of Cookery ( UK , USA), Il cucchiaio d'argento ( Italy ), and A Gift to Young Housewives ( Russia ) have served as references of record for national cuisines. Cookbooks also tell stories of

2790-449: The baguette for U.S. customers. Bread now accounts for a significant portion of the store's business. As the sale of bakery products grew, so did the variety of breads, pastries, and other baked goods offered. While waiting to be served, customers take a playing card instead of a number. The store began offering pizza in 1985 as a sideline during an economic downturn and in 1990 opened the semi-autonomous Cheese Board Pizza in what had been

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2880-614: The 1880s, was an early writer on the subject, and has recently been called "one of the most well-known cookbook collectors in the world". Much of her collection eventually went to the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress . Held alongside hers are the thousands of gastronomic volumes donated by food chemist Katherine Bitting ; their collections were evaluated in tandem in Two Loaf-Givers , by one of

2970-613: The 1990s, the former tracts of the Santa Fe and Key System yards were redeveloped as a large shopping and residential area, as was the Shellmound corridor. Development of these areas included major roadwork, with the extension of 40th Street. The work included construction of a large overpass across the Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) railroad tracks; it connected 40th Street to an extension of Shellmound Street, creating

3060-498: The 9th and 10th centuries) and al-Baghdadi (13th century). Manasollasa from India contains recipes of vegetarian and non-vegetarian cuisines . While the text is not the first among Indian books to describe fermented foods, it contains a range of cuisines based on fermentation of cereals and flours. Chinese recipe books are known from the Tang dynasty , but most were lost. One of the earliest surviving Chinese-language cookbooks

3150-428: The Cheese Board began to experiment with baking bread, originally in small quantities as an informal, impromptu sideline to cheese. The bread sales marked a shift from a purely mercantile business model of buying and selling cheese to a mixed model that combines on-site, artisanal hand-production with domestic and import retail. The sale of baked goods grew rapidly, the baguette in particular. The Cheese Board popularized

3240-624: The Cheese Board contributed money and labor to a Bay Area cooperative network known as the Intercollective, a precursor to the present-day Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives . Through the Intercollective it funded the printing of a directory, map, and essays about local collectives, as well as a 1981 conference. In the mid-1990s, after creating the Cheese Board Pizza, the collective continued its pattern of incubating new businesses, rather than expanding, by helping to create

3330-663: The Earth". It was a familiar sight to eastbound motorists on the Bay Bridge. For decades the city was also the location of Shell Development, the research arm of Shell Oil Company ; it relocated in 1972 to Houston , Texas. A large scrap metal yard (part of the Judson Steel mill) and its distinctive neon "Judson Steel" sign were visible for decades from the Eastshore Freeway until the mid-1980s. A large facility of

3420-486: The English language". Modern Cookery long survived her, remaining in print until 1914 and available more recently in facsimile reprint. Acton's work was an important influence on Isabella Beeton , who published Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in 24 monthly parts between 1857 and 1861. The book was a guide to running a Victorian household, with advice on fashion, child care , animal husbandry , poisons,

3510-473: The LOC's curators; a digital version is available. The term cookbook is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to any book containing a straightforward set of already tried and tested " recipes " or instructions for a specific field or activity, presented in detail so that the users who are not necessarily expert in the field can produce workable results. Examples include a set of circuit designs in electronics ,

3600-585: The Pacific Intermountain Express (PIE) trucking firm was also visible. A heavy truck manufacturing division of what was formerly International Harvester , later Navistar , was located in Emeryville. One of its more popular over-the-road semi-truck models, the International DCO-405, became commonly and affectionately known as an "Emeryville". By the late 1960s, industries were beginning to move away from Emeryville. With

3690-571: The Venetian mid-14th century Libro per Cuoco , with its 135 recipes alphabetically arranged. The printed De honesta voluptate et valetudine ("On honourable pleasure"), first published in 1475, is one of the first cookbooks based on Renaissance ideals, and, though it is as much a series of moral essays as a cookbook, has been described as "the anthology that closed the book on medieval Italian cooking". Medieval English cookbooks include The Forme of Cury and Utilis Coquinario , both written in

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3780-403: The bayshore in Emeryville between 67th and 63rd streets, in an area called "Butchertown". The cattle processed here were raised in nearby ranches and farms, and brought in by rail or barge. The odors from the corrals and slaughterhouses were notorious and often mentioned in local newspapers of the 19th and early 20th century. Emeryville's first post office opened in 1884. The Town of Emeryville

3870-684: The bayshore) and east across the Sierra Nevada to the gold mining town of Bodie, California . From Bodie the railroad would extend east through Nevada to a connection with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad . Despite these goals, the railroad was completed only from Oakland to Orinda . Its right-of-way was sold to the Santa Fe Railway . The Santa Fe constructed a rail yard and passenger depot below San Pablo between 41st Street and Yerba Buena Avenue. Although located in Emeryville, when

3960-437: The city as of 2010 is 40.2% non-Hispanic White , 27.3% Asian , 17.2% non-Hispanic Black or African American , 0.2% Native American , 0.2% Pacific Islander , 5.2% from two or more races, and 0.4% from other races . 9.2% of the population are Hispanics or Latinos of any race. There were 3,975 households, out of which 10.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 18.0% were married couples living together, 8.3% had

4050-461: The city budget and setting city policy. Every year, one mayor and one vice mayor are chosen from and by the members of the council. As of July 1, 2019, businesses with 55 or fewer employees working within the geographic boundaries of the city must pay each employee at least $ 16.30 per hour. Large businesses with 56 or more employees must pay the same rate (previously the rate differed based on employee count). Many businesses have set up headquarters in

4140-431: The city's 2022 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: The Emeryville Amtrak station was completed in 1994 and serves four intercity rail lines: Emeryville is the primary San Francisco Bay Area station/stop for the two interstate lines, serving approximately 500,000 passengers annually; it replaced a station in West Oakland that was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and

4230-443: The city. Companies based in Emeryville include: As part of an urban renewal project, several shopping centers opened in the late 1990s next to the intersection of Interstate highways 80 and 580, capitalizing on Emeryville's access to San Francisco as well as to East Bay customers. A new retail and residential development named Bay Street Emeryville now sits along Highway 80 and is home to many stores and restaurants. According to

4320-501: The composition of a dish or even precise measurements, but not detailed techniques. Not all cultures left written records of their culinary practices, but some examples have survived, notably three Akkadian tablets from Ancient Mesopotamia, dating to about 1700 BC, large fragments from Archestratus , the Latin Apicius and some texts from the Tang dynasty . The earliest collection of recipes that has survived in Europe

4410-624: The contract to operate the Swallow Collective Cafe in the Berkeley Art Museum , which was initially staffed by Cheese Board members but eventually became its own cooperative business with as many as 30 members. In 1975 it funded and launched the Juice Bar Collective before similarly spinning off this operation. In 1976 the Cheese Board helped a member begin a cheese store on Donner Pass. In the 1980s,

4500-777: The current, one-story commercial building housing several chain businesses. During World War II, Emeryville was the southern terminus of the Shipyard Railway , a specially constructed electric rail line operated by the Key System to transport defense workers to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond . The station was on the west side of San Pablo Avenue on the Key's yard property. The tracks led to San Pablo Avenue, where they were merged into existing streetcar tracks. From

4590-477: The depot opened in 1902, it was called "Oakland" after the larger community. The Key System , a local transit company, acquired the general offices of the California and Nevada and its nascent pier into San Francisco Bay. Key developed the pier to reach nearly to Yerba Buena Island . The Key System established its main rail yard adjacent to the yard of the Santa Fe in a large tract west of San Pablo Avenue. It

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4680-471: The development of the area into the " Gourmet Ghetto " it has become. Alice Waters , the founder of Chez Panisse , wrote in a foreword to the collective's cookbook that she chose to locate her restaurant in North Berkeley "so the Cheese Board would be nearby, because I knew I would be among friends". The Cheese Board has helped launch other cooperatives throughout its history. In 1971 it bid and won

4770-455: The early 13th century or perhaps earlier. Low and High German manuscripts are among the most numerous. Among them is Daz buch von guter spise ("The Book of Good Food") written c. 1350 in Würzberg and Kuchenmeysterey ("Kitchen Mastery"), the first printed German cookbook from 1485. Two French collections are probably the most famous: Le Viandier ("The Provisioner") was compiled in

4860-500: The effluent from the "Butchertown" area, where several meat-packing plants operated along the bayshore. They also dumped stripped carcasses in the bay here. Later, untreated sewage from Emeryville, Oakland, and Berkeley flowed directly into the bay over the mudflats, producing hydrogen sulfide gas, particularly noticeable on warm days. In the 1950s the East Bay Municipal Utility District constructed

4950-561: The emergence of cookery writing in its modern form. In 1796, the first known American cookbook titled, American Cookery , written by Amelia Simmons, was published in Hartford, Connecticut . Until then, the cookbooks printed and used in the Thirteen Colonies were British. The first modern cookery writer and compiler of recipes for the home was Eliza Acton . Her pioneering cookbook, Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845),

5040-410: The foodways, observed the people and their traditions of each region by being in their own homes. Gotlieb did this so that she could put together a comprehensive cookbook based on the communities and individuals that make up Canada. Gooseberry Patch has been publishing community-style cookbooks since 1992 and built their brand on this community. Community cookbooks have sometimes been created to offer

5130-563: The fourteenth century. The Forme of Cury is a cookbook authored by the chefs of Richard II . Utilis Coquinario is a similar cookbook though written by an unknown author. Another English manuscript (1390s) includes the earliest recorded recipe for ravioli, even though ravioli did not originate in England. With the advent of the printing press in the 16th and 17th centuries, numerous books were written on how to manage households and prepare food. In Holland and England competition grew between

5220-596: The late 14th century by Guillaume Tirel , master chef for two French kings; and Le Menagier de Paris ("The Householder of Paris"), a household book written by an anonymous middle class Parisian in the 1390s. Du fait de cuisine is another Medieval French cookbook, written in 1420. From Southern Europe there is the 14th century Valencian manuscript Llibre de Sent Soví (1324), the Catalan Llibre de totes maneres de potatges de menjar ("The book of all recipes of dishes") and several Italian collections, notably

5310-608: The late 19th into the early 20th century, Emeryville continued development as an industrial city. Joining the meat-packing plants were the Judson Iron Works and the Sherwin-Williams paint company. From 1939 until the 1970s, the Sherwin-Williams plant roof featured a massive animated neon sign showing a can of red paint tilting, spilling, and covering a globe of the earth — with the slogan "Cover

5400-501: The loss of jobs, the city declines. This began to change in the mid-1970s starting with the development of the marina section of Emeryville. The Judson steel mill abruptly shut down in the fall of 1986, after more than 100 years of operation, in the wake of declining profits and contentious labor negotiations. By the late 1980s, a large shopping area had begun to develop north and south of the Powell Street corridor. Additionally,

5490-403: The main ingredient of the dishes, Japanese cookbooks usually group them by cooking techniques (e.g., fried foods, steamed foods, and grilled foods). Both styles of cookbook have additional recipe groupings such as soups or sweets . International and ethnic cookbooks fall into two categories: the kitchen references of other cultures, translated into other languages; and books translating

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5580-430: The management of servants , science, religion, and industrialism. Despite its title, most of the text consisted of recipes, such that another popular name for the volume is Mrs Beeton's Cookbook . Most of the recipes were illustrated with coloured engravings, and it was the first book to show recipes in a format that is still used today. Many of the recipes were plagiarised from earlier writers, including Acton. In 1885

5670-600: The model; all have won a local newspaper "Best Bakery" award. The Cheese Board is an active member of the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives and the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives . 37°52′48″N 122°16′10″W  /  37.87995°N 122.2694°W  / 37.87995; -122.2694 Cookbook A cookbook or cookery book is a kitchen reference containing recipes . Cookbooks may be general, or may specialize in

5760-470: The noble families as to who could prepare the most lavish banquet. By the 1660s, cookery had progressed to an art form and good cooks were in demand. Many of them published their own books detailing their recipes in competition with their rivals. Many of these books have now been translated and are available online. By the 19th century, the Victorian preoccupation for domestic respectability brought about

5850-411: The nurturing of wildlife. This process continues around the bay in many other wetlands, former diked grazing fields, and salt production evaporation ponds. Historically, Emeryville had been the location of a number of heavy industrial uses such as Judson Steel, whose properties were developed by bringing in waste and construction debris fill from San Francisco in the early 1900s. Correspondingly much of

5940-478: The owners converted their business from a conventional privately owned firm to an egalitarian worker-owned collective by distributing shares in the business equally between themselves and their six employees and equalizing the wages of all of the new worker/owners. The collective have annual beach parties and New Year's celebrations and own land in Mendocino County on which they built a cabin. By 1975,

6030-459: The pier, and later, to the Bay Bridge, ran in a subway below Beach Street and the Southern Pacific mainline near the power plant. That subway survives. Today it is used as a private entrance to the main sewage treatment plant of East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD, the water utility serving Oakland and many surrounding cities). In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after the Santa Fe spun off its real estate development arm, this company acquired

6120-635: The population) lived in households, 73 (0.7%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 5,694 households, out of which 692 (12.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1,240 (21.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 435 (7.6%) had a female householder with no husband present, 160 (2.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 481 (8.4%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 119 (2.1%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . 2,871 households (50.4%) were made up of individuals, and 530 (9.3%) had someone living alone who

6210-519: The poverty line, including 4.5% of those under age 18 and 8.0% of those age 65 or over. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 Population Estimates, 9,866 people resided in Emeryville in 2009. According to the California Secretary of State , as of February 10, 2019, Emeryville has 6,654 registered voters. Of those, 4,152 (62.4%) are registered Democrats , 306 (4.6%) are registered Republicans , and 1,914 (28.8%) have declined to state

6300-520: The rail yards and shops of the Key System and Santa Fe. This real estate was redeveloped by what was called the Catellus Development Corporation , as a shopping center and multi-unit residential district. In the late 19th century, the city developed a large park around the shellmound. This included two dance pavilions, one of which was built on top of the shellmound. The Oakland Trotting Park, for Standardbred horse racing,

6390-494: The recipes of another culture into the languages, techniques, and ingredients of a new audience. The latter style often doubles as a sort of culinary travelogue, giving background and context to a recipe that the first type of book would assume its audience is already familiar with. Popular Puerto Rican cookbook, Cocina Criolla, written by Carmen Aboy Valldejuli, includes recipes that are typically of traditional Puerto Rican cuisine such as mofongo and pasteles . Valldejuli's cookbook

6480-560: The rich resources of the bayside location: gathered clams from the mudflats, oysters from the rocky areas, caught fish, and hunted a variety of game. In addition, women gathered acorns from the local oak trees, roots, and fruit. The Ohlone discarded clam and oyster shells in a single place, over time creating a huge mound, now known as the Emeryville Shellmound . During the Spanish and Mexican eras, colonists constructed

6570-507: The semi-pseudonymous author of the Roman cookbook De re coquinaria , who shared a name with at least one other famous food figure of the ancient world. Famous cookbooks from the past, in chronological order, include: Several libraries have extensive collections of cookbooks. Some individuals are notable for their collections of cookbooks, or their scholarly interest therein. Elizabeth Robins Pennell , an American critic in London from

6660-521: The site. The completed mall displays photographs of the historic shellmound, but it does not mention the burial grounds. An Ohlone representative said they believed the information would make shoppers there uncomfortable. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km ), of which 1.2 square miles (3.1 km ) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km ) of it (38.02%)

6750-403: The underlying soil contained heavy metals , hydrocarbons and other soil contaminants. Much of this contamination was removed in the 1980s when the considerable wave of redevelopment occurred. The population had increased to almost 7,000 by the year 2000. Since then, the population has continued to grow and is estimated by General Plan projects a population of 16,600 by 2030. In addition, the city

6840-512: The use of working chefs and culinary students and sometimes double as textbooks for culinary schools. Such books deal not only in recipes and techniques, but often service and kitchen workflow matters. Many such books deal in substantially larger quantities than home cookbooks, such as making sauces by the liter or preparing dishes for large numbers of people in a catering setting. While the most famous of such books today are books like Le guide culinaire by Escoffier or The Professional Chef by

6930-649: The writers themselves and reflect upon the era in which they are written. They often reveal notions of social, political, environmental or economic contexts. For example, during the era of industrialization, convenience foods were brought into many households and were integrated and present in cookbooks written in this time. Related to this class are instructional cookbooks, which combine recipes with in-depth, step-by-step recipes to teach beginning cooks basic concepts and techniques. In vernacular literature, people may collect traditional recipes in family cookbooks . While western cookbooks usually group recipes for main courses by

7020-467: Was 10.2%. 3,365 people (33.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 6,642 people (65.9%) lived in rental housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 6,882 people, 3,975 households, and 1,164 families residing in the city. The population density was 5,646.2 inhabitants per square mile (2,180.0/km ). There were 4,274 housing units at an average density of 3,506.5 units per square mile (1,353.9 units/km ). The racial makeup of

7110-412: Was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 45,359, and the median income for a family was $ 57,063. Males had a median income of $ 49,333 versus $ 39,527 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 33,260. About 6.3% of families and 13.2% of the population were below

7200-416: Was 35.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.8 males. There were 6,646 housing units at an average density of 3,306.7 units per square mile (1,276.7 units/km ), of which 5,694 were occupied, of which 2,013 (35.4%) were owner-occupied, and 3,681 (64.6%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 9.3%; the rental vacancy rate

7290-418: Was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.76. There were 1,835 families (32.2% of all households); the average family size was 2.61. The population was spread out, with 1,031 people (10.2%) under the age of 18, 1,064 people (10.6%) aged 18 to 24, 4,675 people (46.4%) aged 25 to 44, 2,304 people (22.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,006 people (10.0%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

7380-498: Was a site of numerous speakeasies, racetracks and brothels; it became known as a somewhat lawless red light center. Today's popular local restaurant, The Townhouse, was operated as a speakeasy during Prohibition. The Oaks Room Card Club operates today as a legal gambling establishment on San Pablo Avenue . Emeryville was the site of Oaks Park , the home turf of the Pacific Coast League 's Oakland Oaks . The ballpark

7470-457: Was aimed at the domestic reader rather than the professional cook or chef. This was an immensely influential book, and it established the format for modern writing about cookery. The publication introduced the now-universal practice of listing the ingredients and suggested cooking times with each recipe. It included the first recipe for Brussels sprouts . Contemporary chef Delia Smith is quoted as having called Acton "the best writer of recipes in

7560-592: Was built nearby at the junction of the Berkeley Branch line with the mainline of the Southern Pacific. The old Emeryville Arena was torn down in February 1920, to make way for a new idea for a new venue to revive the sport of dog racing, but using what the Oakland Tribune described as an "automatic rabbit". On May 29, 1920, the first greyhound racing track to employ a mechanical lure in place of

7650-484: Was in the vicinity of Yerba Buena Avenue (so named because the island was visible in line with the thoroughfare). The Key System's main power plant, used to drive its electric streetcars and commuter trains, was constructed adjacent to the city limits with Oakland. The immense smokestack was a local landmark for decades, surviving until being damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. It was demolished for safety reasons shortly thereafter. The old Key System mainline to

7740-546: Was incorporated December 2, 1896. It was named after Joseph Stickney Emery, who came during the California Gold Rush and acquired large tracts of land in what became known as "Emery's". In 1884, Emery was president of a narrow-gauge railroad called the California and Nevada Railroad . The railroad was originally intended to extend from Oakland, through Emery's (at the time, an unincorporated settlement along

7830-407: Was located on the block bounded by San Pablo, 45th Street and Park Street (the fourth side was Watts Street). The site is now partly empty and fenced off. It is overlapped by Pixar Studios. Pixar's main gate (on Park Street) lies directly on the old segment of Watts Street. The stadium did not front directly on San Pablo, where a strip of various small commercial buildings stood. They were replaced by

7920-443: Was not only important to Puerto Ricans, but also very popular in the United States where her original cookbook has since been published in several editions, including English versions. These include The Art of Caribbean Cookery - Doubleday, 1957; Puerto Rican Cookery - Pelican Publishing, 1983; and, Juntos en la Cocina (co-authored with her husband, Luis F. Valldejuli) - Pelican Publishing, 1986. Professional cookbooks are designed for

8010-490: Was renovated in 2000 and wood-framed windows were added that open the dining room to the sidewalk dining area. In the mid-2000s, the restaurant was doubled in size by expanding into the former hardware store next door. The restaurant still has a piano and reserves floor space for the small jazz groups that often perform during peak hours. The Cheese Board was one of the first gourmet establishments in north Berkeley (along with Peet's Coffee ) and its success contributed greatly to

8100-545: Was seriously damaged by the quake. The Emeryville station serves Amtrak's California Zephyr , Coast Starlight , San Joaquin , and Capitol Corridor trains. The California Zephyr originates here with service daily to Chicago, Illinois via Salt Lake City , Utah and Denver , Colorado. Buses link the station with San Francisco. In the late 1980s the Emeryville Public Market opened; this farmers' market also features up to twenty restaurants. By

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