Jan 31, 2023
Dontaye
Ball has brought gumbo to San Francisco. Now, he's
doing everything he can to make it this country's national
dish.
In this episode, we meet Dontaye. Born and raised in The City,
Dontaye has lived with gumbo just about his entire life. Often
served at big family meals, he remembers fondly that
while...
Jan 24, 2023
We start Part 2 talking, briefly,
about the 2016 election. Then we move on to COVID and how the
pandemic affected Thee Parkside. In a word, it
was devastating, but Malia and her crew rose to the challenge. They
had opened La Lucha coffee from the front window of the joint in
2015, and were able to keep that going.
Jan 17, 2023
​San Francisco is about to get its first new LGBTQ bar in a long, long time, y'all.
In this episode, we'll meet Malia Spanyol. Currently, Malia owns Thee Parkside. She was born in Honolulu and went to ASU in Tempe, Arizona. But she hated it and came to San Francisco in 1989 just before the big earthquake that...
Jan 10, 2023
In Part 2, we pick up our
conversation with Cody about Rainbow's bulk section. There's even
talk of "The Bulk Section at Rainbow" as a spinoff
podcast. Then we move on to the cheese department.
Gordon
Edgar is a name you should know if you even remotely
tolerate cheese. With Gordon at the helm, Rainbow
has won many,...
Jan 3, 2023
In this episode, we kick off the
new year by resuming our series on
San Francisco co-ops.
This one is all about
Rainbow Grocery
Cooperative. To guide us, we'll meet Cody
Frost, a marketing and creative strategist at Rainbow for
the last three-and-a-half years. Cody has been a worker/owner at
Rainbow for almost 16...