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In the wake of the ABC News reports, fast-food chains severed ties with the company, and hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/15/148685884/usda-to-give-schools-more-ground-beef-choices-after-outcry-over-pink-slime\">keep pink slime\" out of school lunches\u003c/a>. In 2012, Beef Products, Inc. brought the suit that is just now coming to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Robert Siegel discussed the case with Jane Kirtley, director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota. A transcript of their conversation follows, edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does the company, Beef Products, Inc., have to show to win a defamation judgment against ABC News?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If what they're suing under is the agricultural disparagement law in South Dakota, they have to prove that ABC News said the beef product was unsafe to consume. If it's a common, garden-variety libel case, they have to prove that what was published about them was false. Moreover, they have to show that ABC News acted with what is called actual malice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the company bringing this action under both laws?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's suing under everything under the sun – product disparagement, interference with business operations and a variety of other claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can Beef Products, Inc. argue successfully that by being the only company that was described doing this — even though it was done by many other companies — that this constituted defamation in some way?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the questions about the agricultural disparagement law is whether it deals with the company or with the product itself. BPI has claimed that essentially what ABC News has said is that the company was complicit in mislabeling or not labeling when [finely textured beef product] was included in beef that was sold to consumers in grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This case reminds me of Bismarck's line that people who want to savor either sausage or the law shouldn't watch the process of making either one. Making beef can look pretty ugly here. Is that essentially the essence of the lawsuit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC News actually did some reporting at BPI and showed what it characterized as a pristine plant with pristine processing. But the mere use of the phrase pink slime was something that captured the public imagination and I think, frankly, escalated the ick factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This case comes to trial at a time when the so-called mainstream media, which would include ABC News, are routinely attacked for purveying fake news and the president of the United States complains about lax libel laws. Could this case possibly move the standard for defamation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's only a trial decision at this point, so of course, it would have no precedential value. But I do think it's a bellwether in the sense that it raises two very critical issues. One is that BPI claims that ABC News was basically on a disinformation campaign, which is another way of saying fake news. The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them. And I think that was ABC's justification for doing this story – simply to let people know that this substance was in their ground beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR senior editor and Salt host Maria Godoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The icky name refers to cow trimmings added to ground beef to lower its fat content. In 2012 ABC News revealed the practice. 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Jury selection started Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a trial that could prove to be a measure of public attitudes toward the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2012, ABC Correspondent Jim Avila reported on a practice of a South Dakota-based company called Beef Products, Inc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To lower the fat content of its ground beef, the company added something it called finely textured beef product, made from the trimmings of the cow – lean bits derived from muscle and connective tissue — after it was butchered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seventy percent of the ground beef we buy at the supermarket contains something he calls pink slime,\" Avila said in a clip from the original reporting – using the name for the substance that former USDA scientist microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein had given it: \"pink slime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC News pointed out in its stories that the addition of \"pink slime\" was common and not unsafe to eat, but was not labelled on meat packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beef Products, Inc. says sudden public awareness of something with such an unappetizing name cost it business, leading it to close three plants and lay off more than 700 workers. In the wake of the ABC News reports, fast-food chains severed ties with the company, and hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/15/148685884/usda-to-give-schools-more-ground-beef-choices-after-outcry-over-pink-slime\">keep pink slime\" out of school lunches\u003c/a>. In 2012, Beef Products, Inc. brought the suit that is just now coming to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Robert Siegel discussed the case with Jane Kirtley, director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law at the University of Minnesota. A transcript of their conversation follows, edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What does the company, Beef Products, Inc., have to show to win a defamation judgment against ABC News?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If what they're suing under is the agricultural disparagement law in South Dakota, they have to prove that ABC News said the beef product was unsafe to consume. If it's a common, garden-variety libel case, they have to prove that what was published about them was false. Moreover, they have to show that ABC News acted with what is called actual malice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the company bringing this action under both laws?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's suing under everything under the sun – product disparagement, interference with business operations and a variety of other claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can Beef Products, Inc. argue successfully that by being the only company that was described doing this — even though it was done by many other companies — that this constituted defamation in some way?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the questions about the agricultural disparagement law is whether it deals with the company or with the product itself. BPI has claimed that essentially what ABC News has said is that the company was complicit in mislabeling or not labeling when [finely textured beef product] was included in beef that was sold to consumers in grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This case reminds me of Bismarck's line that people who want to savor either sausage or the law shouldn't watch the process of making either one. Making beef can look pretty ugly here. Is that essentially the essence of the lawsuit?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC News actually did some reporting at BPI and showed what it characterized as a pristine plant with pristine processing. But the mere use of the phrase pink slime was something that captured the public imagination and I think, frankly, escalated the ick factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This case comes to trial at a time when the so-called mainstream media, which would include ABC News, are routinely attacked for purveying fake news and the president of the United States complains about lax libel laws. Could this case possibly move the standard for defamation?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's only a trial decision at this point, so of course, it would have no precedential value. But I do think it's a bellwether in the sense that it raises two very critical issues. One is that BPI claims that ABC News was basically on a disinformation campaign, which is another way of saying fake news. The other goes at the heart of what the media are supposed to be doing, which is informing the public about things that might be matters of interest to them but which corporate America might not be interested in sharing with them. And I think that was ABC's justification for doing this story – simply to let people know that this substance was in their ground beef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR senior editor and Salt host Maria Godoy contributed to this report.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/117871/pink-slime-trial-begins-but-its-the-news-media-under-the-microscope","authors":["byline_bayareabites_117871"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_784","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_13474"],"featImg":"bayareabites_117875","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_97693":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_97693","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"97693","score":null,"sort":[1436191630000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-your-grass-fed-beef-for-real-heres-how-to-tell-and-why-it-matters","title":"Is Your Grass-Fed Beef for Real? Here’s How to Tell and Why it Matters","publishDate":1436191630,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>When you buy a pound of hamburger in the grocery store, you’re likely to be bombarded by an incredible assortment of labels. With all-natural, grass-fed, free-range, pastured, sustainably sourced, and certified organic options to choose from, it’s not easy to parse which beef is actually the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, demand for grass-fed beef has grown rapidly, thanks to the popularity of \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2015/04/16/4-things-you-should-know-about-the-paleo-diet/\">high-protein diets\u003c/a> and growing consumer awareness about the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersunion.org/news/the-overuse-of-antibiotics-in-food-animals-threatens-public-health-2/\">overuse of antibiotics on farms\u003c/a> and other related concerns. Grass-fed beef is also seen as nutritionally superior to its corn-fed counterparts, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874\">the omega-3 fatty acids that cows ingest\u003c/a> when they graze on clover and other grasses. Grass-fed burger chains are \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2015/04/01/how-a-family-of-farmers-opened-a-restaurant-and-created-their-own-supply-chain/\">popping up\u003c/a> all over the country, and even Carl’s Jr. began \u003ca href=\"http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/10/carls-jr-grass-fed-hamburgers\">offering\u003c/a> a grass-fed burger earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what exactly do we mean when we say “grass-fed”? And is all grass-fed beef the same?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s All in the Finishing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All cattle are grass-fed at one time in their life, until most end up in a feedlot where they’re finished on grain,” says Texas rancher Gerry Shudde. Indeed, most cows spend at least six months eating grass, before they are “finished,” or fattened up, with grain. \u003ca href=\"http://www.beefusa.org/uDocs/Feedlot%20finishing%20fact%20sheet%20FINAL_4%2026%2006.pdf\">The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association puts that number at 12 months\u003c/a>, but most grain-finished beef cows don’t live beyond 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to rancher and the author of \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/12/01/nicolette-niman-our-beef-shouldnt-be-with-cows/\">Defending Beef\u003c/a> Nicolette Hahn Niman, the real number likely falls somewhere in the middle. “On average, the cattle in the U.S. that is going through feedlots is slaughtered at 14-16 months,” she says. “They do grow fatter and faster if they’re being fed grain, so they’re going into feedlots at younger ages to shorten that time as much as possible.” In a feedlot environment, grain causes cows to put on about one pound for every six pounds of feed they eat. In contrast, grass-fed cows are slaughtered anywhere between 18-36 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you keep cattle on grass their whole lives, and truly have them forage for a diet that their bodies have evolved to eat, you allow them to grow at a slower pace,” says Niman. Not surprisingly, caring for the animal for so long can be expensive for ranchers and consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many informed eaters will tell you that this slower process results in a signature flavor and distinct leanness that sets it apart from its corn-fed counterpart, but the fact is that beef producers can label their product “grass-fed,” even if the animal is fed grain over the course of its lifetime. Unlike the lengthy auditing process involved in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) organic certification, the use of “grass-fed” is only regulated under the agency’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&rightNav1=GrassFedMarketingClaimStandards&topNav=&leftNav=GradingCertificationandVerfication&page=GrassFedMarketingClaims&resultType=\">marketing claim standards.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to these standards, grass-fed cows are supposed to be given continuous access to rangeland, and they cannot be fed grains or grain by-products. In the event of drought or other “adverse weather conditions,” farmers are allowed to bend these rules if the animal’s wellness is in jeopardy, but they must maintain meticulous records. Unfortunately, these regulations are, for the most part, a paper tiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missing Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Noble of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.americangrassfed.org/\">American Grassfed Association\u003c/a> argues that beef producers have little incentive to stick with those rules. “It’s a big issue, and there is a lot of misunderstanding. The Agricultural Marketing Service developed the grass-fed standard, but the Food Safety and Inspection Service actually enforces it,” says Noble. “The two organizations, even though they’re both part of the USDA, don’t communicate especially well. You see a lot of beef labeled as ‘grass-fed,’ but whether or not it actually meets that standard is questionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble’s skepticism is rooted in the fact that, for the most part, the USDA allows producers to determine whether or not their beef meets the grass-fed beef marketing claim standard. Noble says farms “self-certify” their own beef, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service generally goes along with their claim. The ubiquitous “naturally raised” label on meat \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/09/12/can-you-trust-the-natural-label/\">has no enforceable meaning either\u003c/a>, and further muddles a consumer’s ability to find beef that has been exclusively raised on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Grassfed Association, established in 2003, has far more stringent standards for its own label than the USDA, and hires third-party auditors to inspect the farms of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.americangrassfed.org/producer-profiles/\">100-plus certified producers\u003c/a> across the country each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers’ markets are also often full of vendors offering grass-fed beef from their own pastures. And the rising popularity of \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/store/meats.jsp\">meat CSAs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwild.com/products/\">whole animal buying clubs\u003c/a> is an indication of how dramatically this trend has grown in recent years. With these options, consumers can talk directly to farmers to find out how their beef was raised. Many of these producers have begun using the term “pasture raised,” another unregulated labeling term that is popular among ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Whole Foods has adopted some of this farm-to-market language in its meat sourcing standards. For example, “pasture-centered” farms score a 4 out of 5 on the grocer’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/about-our-products/quality-standards/animal-welfare-standards\">Animal Welfare Rating scale (owned by Global Animal Partnership)\u003c/a>. In reality, Niman says, these animals may not be doing much of the foraging that gives grass-fed beef its nutritional benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Whole Foods] has been encouraging this segment of beef in the marketplace where animals are roaming on a small area with vegetative cover,” says Niman. “But they’re being provided feed, and not actually getting most of their nutrition from foraging. It’s almost like a feedlot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatlikeitmatters.com/\">BN Ranch\u003c/a>, which Nicolette operates with her husband, Bill Niman, “the godfather of sustainable meat” and founder of Niman Ranch, cattle is given more time to slowly develop fat over a period of more than two years. For the Nimans, good “eating quality” in the beef is paramount. But, Nicolette says, that’s not always the case on farms where people are “doing it for philosophical reasons. They believe that grazing is ecologically superior, and that it is the right way to raise cattle. The things that are motivating them are not eating quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, grass-fed beef’s lean flavor is often seen as inferior. Some chefs, particularly in fine-dining steakhouses, still resist serving grass-fed beef in favor of corn-fed, USDA prime beef, because of its fat content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worth the Wait\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Sohocki, chef of \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurantgwendolyn.com/\">Restaurant Gwendolyn\u003c/a> in San Antonio, Texas, chooses grass-fed beef over the cheaper, richer, corn-fed cuts because he firmly believes that the process is worth the extra time and money. And his discerning diners come to his restaurant because they know the meat has been properly sourced. “When you eat stockyard beef, all of that beef is the same,” says Sohocki. “It’s done that way to guarantee its consistency. That’s what McDonald’s specializes in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sohocki calls grass-fed beef “the only trustworthy product left in this world.” He sources it from nearby \u003ca href=\"http://www.shudderanch.com/\">Shudde Ranch\u003c/a>, where Jeanne and Gerry Shudde make a point of raising a specialized cross-breed of species suited to naturally develop fat on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our [cows] are on grass when they’re with their mother. And when separated, they stay on the grass,” says Gerry Shudde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shuddes decided to go grass-fed by chance after acquiring a herd of Longhorn cattle that they planned to cross-breed with their own. The offspring did not fare well, but the Shuddes ultimately decided to keep the longhorn cows. When they butchered a six-year-old cow, which had been raised on grass for much longer than usual, Jeanne says, “It was really tender. We thought ‘gosh, this tastes better than what we get in the grocery store.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the Shuddes developed their own, new breed of grass-fed cattle. They were already raising cows without antibiotics or hormones, and their farm eventually evolved into a completely grass-fed operation by 2002. Still, they had to find the right cow to produce the quality of beef that they desired. “Most of the animals that you find today have been genetically selected to do well in a feedlot environment,” says Jeanne. “If you take them and put them on grass and think they will [taste good], I’d say maybe, maybe not. But if you take an animal that is genetically survival-oriented, it will become well-marbled on grass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their own cows are now a cross between that original herd of Longhorn cattle and a heritage Devon bull. “Our belief is that if they eat what they evolved to eat, and live in the way that they have evolved to, the nutrition for the animal’s survival will be there,” says Jeanne. “If the nutrition is there, humans will get that nutrition when we eat the meat.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As demand for grass-fed beef explodes, a range of practices and labels (and a lack of regulation) persists. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1436191630,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1591},"headData":{"title":"Is Your Grass-Fed Beef for Real? Here’s How to Tell and Why it Matters | KQED","description":"As demand for grass-fed beef explodes, a range of practices and labels (and a lack of regulation) persists. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Is Your Grass-Fed Beef for Real? Here’s How to Tell and Why it Matters","datePublished":"2015-07-06T14:07:10.000Z","dateModified":"2015-07-06T14:07:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"97693 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=97693","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/07/06/is-your-grass-fed-beef-for-real-heres-how-to-tell-and-why-it-matters/","disqusTitle":"Is Your Grass-Fed Beef for Real? Here’s How to Tell and Why it Matters","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/author/amccarthy/\"> Amy McCarthy\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/civileat/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/97693/is-your-grass-fed-beef-for-real-heres-how-to-tell-and-why-it-matters","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you buy a pound of hamburger in the grocery store, you’re likely to be bombarded by an incredible assortment of labels. With all-natural, grass-fed, free-range, pastured, sustainably sourced, and certified organic options to choose from, it’s not easy to parse which beef is actually the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, demand for grass-fed beef has grown rapidly, thanks to the popularity of \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2015/04/16/4-things-you-should-know-about-the-paleo-diet/\">high-protein diets\u003c/a> and growing consumer awareness about the \u003ca href=\"https://consumersunion.org/news/the-overuse-of-antibiotics-in-food-animals-threatens-public-health-2/\">overuse of antibiotics on farms\u003c/a> and other related concerns. Grass-fed beef is also seen as nutritionally superior to its corn-fed counterparts, thanks to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874\">the omega-3 fatty acids that cows ingest\u003c/a> when they graze on clover and other grasses. Grass-fed burger chains are \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2015/04/01/how-a-family-of-farmers-opened-a-restaurant-and-created-their-own-supply-chain/\">popping up\u003c/a> all over the country, and even Carl’s Jr. began \u003ca href=\"http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/10/carls-jr-grass-fed-hamburgers\">offering\u003c/a> a grass-fed burger earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what exactly do we mean when we say “grass-fed”? And is all grass-fed beef the same?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It’s All in the Finishing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All cattle are grass-fed at one time in their life, until most end up in a feedlot where they’re finished on grain,” says Texas rancher Gerry Shudde. Indeed, most cows spend at least six months eating grass, before they are “finished,” or fattened up, with grain. \u003ca href=\"http://www.beefusa.org/uDocs/Feedlot%20finishing%20fact%20sheet%20FINAL_4%2026%2006.pdf\">The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association puts that number at 12 months\u003c/a>, but most grain-finished beef cows don’t live beyond 18 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to rancher and the author of \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/12/01/nicolette-niman-our-beef-shouldnt-be-with-cows/\">Defending Beef\u003c/a> Nicolette Hahn Niman, the real number likely falls somewhere in the middle. “On average, the cattle in the U.S. that is going through feedlots is slaughtered at 14-16 months,” she says. “They do grow fatter and faster if they’re being fed grain, so they’re going into feedlots at younger ages to shorten that time as much as possible.” In a feedlot environment, grain causes cows to put on about one pound for every six pounds of feed they eat. In contrast, grass-fed cows are slaughtered anywhere between 18-36 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you keep cattle on grass their whole lives, and truly have them forage for a diet that their bodies have evolved to eat, you allow them to grow at a slower pace,” says Niman. Not surprisingly, caring for the animal for so long can be expensive for ranchers and consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many informed eaters will tell you that this slower process results in a signature flavor and distinct leanness that sets it apart from its corn-fed counterpart, but the fact is that beef producers can label their product “grass-fed,” even if the animal is fed grain over the course of its lifetime. Unlike the lengthy auditing process involved in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) organic certification, the use of “grass-fed” is only regulated under the agency’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/ams.fetchTemplateData.do?template=TemplateN&rightNav1=GrassFedMarketingClaimStandards&topNav=&leftNav=GradingCertificationandVerfication&page=GrassFedMarketingClaims&resultType=\">marketing claim standards.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to these standards, grass-fed cows are supposed to be given continuous access to rangeland, and they cannot be fed grains or grain by-products. In the event of drought or other “adverse weather conditions,” farmers are allowed to bend these rules if the animal’s wellness is in jeopardy, but they must maintain meticulous records. Unfortunately, these regulations are, for the most part, a paper tiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Missing Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marilyn Noble of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.americangrassfed.org/\">American Grassfed Association\u003c/a> argues that beef producers have little incentive to stick with those rules. “It’s a big issue, and there is a lot of misunderstanding. The Agricultural Marketing Service developed the grass-fed standard, but the Food Safety and Inspection Service actually enforces it,” says Noble. “The two organizations, even though they’re both part of the USDA, don’t communicate especially well. You see a lot of beef labeled as ‘grass-fed,’ but whether or not it actually meets that standard is questionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble’s skepticism is rooted in the fact that, for the most part, the USDA allows producers to determine whether or not their beef meets the grass-fed beef marketing claim standard. Noble says farms “self-certify” their own beef, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service generally goes along with their claim. The ubiquitous “naturally raised” label on meat \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/09/12/can-you-trust-the-natural-label/\">has no enforceable meaning either\u003c/a>, and further muddles a consumer’s ability to find beef that has been exclusively raised on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Grassfed Association, established in 2003, has far more stringent standards for its own label than the USDA, and hires third-party auditors to inspect the farms of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.americangrassfed.org/producer-profiles/\">100-plus certified producers\u003c/a> across the country each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers’ markets are also often full of vendors offering grass-fed beef from their own pastures. And the rising popularity of \u003ca href=\"http://www.localharvest.org/store/meats.jsp\">meat CSAs\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatwild.com/products/\">whole animal buying clubs\u003c/a> is an indication of how dramatically this trend has grown in recent years. With these options, consumers can talk directly to farmers to find out how their beef was raised. Many of these producers have begun using the term “pasture raised,” another unregulated labeling term that is popular among ranchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Whole Foods has adopted some of this farm-to-market language in its meat sourcing standards. For example, “pasture-centered” farms score a 4 out of 5 on the grocer’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/about-our-products/quality-standards/animal-welfare-standards\">Animal Welfare Rating scale (owned by Global Animal Partnership)\u003c/a>. In reality, Niman says, these animals may not be doing much of the foraging that gives grass-fed beef its nutritional benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Whole Foods] has been encouraging this segment of beef in the marketplace where animals are roaming on a small area with vegetative cover,” says Niman. “But they’re being provided feed, and not actually getting most of their nutrition from foraging. It’s almost like a feedlot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatlikeitmatters.com/\">BN Ranch\u003c/a>, which Nicolette operates with her husband, Bill Niman, “the godfather of sustainable meat” and founder of Niman Ranch, cattle is given more time to slowly develop fat over a period of more than two years. For the Nimans, good “eating quality” in the beef is paramount. But, Nicolette says, that’s not always the case on farms where people are “doing it for philosophical reasons. They believe that grazing is ecologically superior, and that it is the right way to raise cattle. The things that are motivating them are not eating quality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, grass-fed beef’s lean flavor is often seen as inferior. Some chefs, particularly in fine-dining steakhouses, still resist serving grass-fed beef in favor of corn-fed, USDA prime beef, because of its fat content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worth the Wait\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Sohocki, chef of \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurantgwendolyn.com/\">Restaurant Gwendolyn\u003c/a> in San Antonio, Texas, chooses grass-fed beef over the cheaper, richer, corn-fed cuts because he firmly believes that the process is worth the extra time and money. And his discerning diners come to his restaurant because they know the meat has been properly sourced. “When you eat stockyard beef, all of that beef is the same,” says Sohocki. “It’s done that way to guarantee its consistency. That’s what McDonald’s specializes in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sohocki calls grass-fed beef “the only trustworthy product left in this world.” He sources it from nearby \u003ca href=\"http://www.shudderanch.com/\">Shudde Ranch\u003c/a>, where Jeanne and Gerry Shudde make a point of raising a specialized cross-breed of species suited to naturally develop fat on pasture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our [cows] are on grass when they’re with their mother. And when separated, they stay on the grass,” says Gerry Shudde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Shuddes decided to go grass-fed by chance after acquiring a herd of Longhorn cattle that they planned to cross-breed with their own. The offspring did not fare well, but the Shuddes ultimately decided to keep the longhorn cows. When they butchered a six-year-old cow, which had been raised on grass for much longer than usual, Jeanne says, “It was really tender. We thought ‘gosh, this tastes better than what we get in the grocery store.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the Shuddes developed their own, new breed of grass-fed cattle. They were already raising cows without antibiotics or hormones, and their farm eventually evolved into a completely grass-fed operation by 2002. Still, they had to find the right cow to produce the quality of beef that they desired. “Most of the animals that you find today have been genetically selected to do well in a feedlot environment,” says Jeanne. “If you take them and put them on grass and think they will [taste good], I’d say maybe, maybe not. But if you take an animal that is genetically survival-oriented, it will become well-marbled on grass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their own cows are now a cross between that original herd of Longhorn cattle and a heritage Devon bull. “Our belief is that if they eat what they evolved to eat, and live in the way that they have evolved to, the nutrition for the animal’s survival will be there,” says Jeanne. “If the nutrition is there, humans will get that nutrition when we eat the meat.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/97693/is-your-grass-fed-beef-for-real-heres-how-to-tell-and-why-it-matters","authors":["byline_bayareabites_97693"],"categories":["bayareabites_13718","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_12555","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_14609","bayareabites_620","bayareabites_1852","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_10774","bayareabites_243","bayareabites_14610","bayareabites_9699"],"featImg":"bayareabites_97698","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_88860":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_88860","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"88860","score":null,"sort":[1413481492000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-really-in-a-big-mac-mcdonalds-says-its-ready-to-tell-all","title":"What's Really In A Big Mac? McDonald's Says It's Ready To Tell All","publishDate":1413481492,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/mcdonalds-burger-4d92bc88f77d8605c93677461b06bce934fc91ba-e1413481350784.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/mcdonalds-burger-4d92bc88f77d8605c93677461b06bce934fc91ba-e1413481350784.jpg\" alt=\"McDonald's still won't reveal the recipe for its secret sauce, but it will show you how that Big Mac patty gets made. Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88861\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McDonald's still won't reveal the recipe for its secret sauce, but it will show you how that Big Mac patty gets made. Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/14/356115015/what-s-really-in-that-big-mac-mcdonald-s-is-ready-to-tell-almost-all\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/14/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you hear the one about the McDonald's hamburger that \u003ca href=\"http://oldesthamburger.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-pictures-of-oldest-hamburger.html\">still hadn't decomposed\u003c/a> after 14 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \"pink slime\" — how much goes into McDonald's beef?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, fast-food behemoth McDonald's has faced some pretty disturbing questions about the ingredients that go into its meals. And lately, its North American sales have been slumping. That may have something to do with the growing ranks of consumers asking pesky questions about what Big Food is feeding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps it's not so surprising that this week, McDonald's USA decided to tell the public, all right, we're throwing open the doors. On Monday, the company launched \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdonalds.com/content/us/en/your_questions/our_food.html\">Your Questions, Our Food\u003c/a>,\" a new advertising blitz aimed at dispelling the rumors and convincing consumers it has nothing to hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new tell-all, social media-based approach\u003cstrong> — \u003c/strong>\"in many ways, it's the way the world is going,\" Ben Stringfellow, vice president of communications for McDonald's USA, \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a8951f4b99d749ebba8986cd192b450e/mcdonalds-invites-questions-about-its-food\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that effort, the company is inviting questions via Facebook and Twitter. And it has enlisted the help of Grant Imahara, former co-host of the Discovery Channel's \u003cem>Mythbusters,\u003c/em> to help address some of the most persistent concerns. In a video posted on the company's website, Imahara tours a factory in Fresno, Calif., run by Cargill, which supplies the beef used in McD's burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the tour, we learn that no, there are no eyeballs or lips in the meat and no, there's no ammonia or lean, finely textured beef (the so-called pink slime), either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beef in and beef out — nothing else is added,\" one Cargill worker tells Imahara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgSnUmhdws]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the video fails to mention is that yes, McDonald's burgers at one point did contain lean, finely textured beef, though the company phased it out in 2011. The company does acknowledge this in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/burgers-and-sandwiches.html\">longer Q&A\u003c/a> on its website, which addresses other unsavory issues, like the fact that most of its beef comes from cattle treated with hormones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new campaign follows similar efforts to pull back the curtain at McDonald's Australian and Canadian divisions, which released a highly publicized video that let us \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272112028/oh-so-thats-what-goes-into-a-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnugget\">witness the birth of a chicken McNugget\u003c/a> earlier this year. (Perhaps the most illuminating bit of information from that video was that the iconic chicken lumps are made in four shapes — the bell, ball, bow tie and boot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift in tone also comes as McDonald's sales falter at its U.S. stores. Same-store sales slipped 1.5 percent during the most recent fiscal quarter, and the company is having a tough time appealing to millennials. Since 2011, the number of 19- to 21-year-olds who visited a McDonald's each month has dropped by 12.9 percentage points, as the demographic flocks to fast-casual chains like Chipotle and Five Guys, according to \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-faces-millennial-challenge-1408928743\">data\u003c/a> the restaurant consulting group Technomic gathered for \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal. \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While consumers may welcome McDonald's move toward more transparency, some critics say what's really needed is a change in its core menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people simply don't think of McDonald's as a healthy place to eat, despite its efforts to offer more menu choices,\" Civil Eats co-founder Naomi Starkman\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/10/13/how-mcdonalds-could-serve-up-a-happier-meal/\"> writes\u003c/a>. In a world where farm-to-table increasingly dominates eating ethos, McDonald's is still essentially serving up \"factory farm-to-table,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is,\" she writes, \"McDonald's is facing a marketplace where people no longer want fast food, but good food served fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adds Sriram Madhusoodanan of Corporate Accountability International, an advocacy group that has called on McDonald's to stop marketing to kids, \"Instead of addressing people's concerns with the corporation's marketing practices and food quality, McDonald's continues to double-down on advertising that simply won't make its problems go away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of things that won't go away, remember that burger-that-never ages we mentioned? Yeah, it's scientifically possible, McDonald's has \u003ca href=\"http://news.mcdonalds.com/US/Media-Statements/Response-to-Happy-Meal-Food--Experiment-\">previously acknowledged\u003c/a>, if you stored the thing in superdry conditions where bacteria and mold can't form. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Pink slime? Eyeballs? Rumors about what goes into McD's food have dogged it for years. As U.S. sales falter, the firm's new ad campaign aims to tackle those concerns by inviting consumers' questions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1413481633,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":750},"headData":{"title":"What's Really In A Big Mac? 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McDonald's Says It's Ready To Tell All","nprByline":"Maria Godoy","nprStoryId":"356115015","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=356115015&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/14/356115015/what-s-really-in-that-big-mac-mcdonald-s-is-ready-to-tell-almost-all?ft=3&f=356115015","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:58:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:27:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:20:23 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/88860/whats-really-in-a-big-mac-mcdonalds-says-its-ready-to-tell-all","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/mcdonalds-burger-4d92bc88f77d8605c93677461b06bce934fc91ba-e1413481350784.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/mcdonalds-burger-4d92bc88f77d8605c93677461b06bce934fc91ba-e1413481350784.jpg\" alt=\"McDonald's still won't reveal the recipe for its secret sauce, but it will show you how that Big Mac patty gets made. Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88861\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">McDonald's still won't reveal the recipe for its secret sauce, but it will show you how that Big Mac patty gets made. Photo: Keith Srakocic/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Maria Godoy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/14/356115015/what-s-really-in-that-big-mac-mcdonald-s-is-ready-to-tell-almost-all\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/14/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you hear the one about the McDonald's hamburger that \u003ca href=\"http://oldesthamburger.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-pictures-of-oldest-hamburger.html\">still hadn't decomposed\u003c/a> after 14 years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \"pink slime\" — how much goes into McDonald's beef?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, fast-food behemoth McDonald's has faced some pretty disturbing questions about the ingredients that go into its meals. And lately, its North American sales have been slumping. That may have something to do with the growing ranks of consumers asking pesky questions about what Big Food is feeding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So perhaps it's not so surprising that this week, McDonald's USA decided to tell the public, all right, we're throwing open the doors. On Monday, the company launched \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdonalds.com/content/us/en/your_questions/our_food.html\">Your Questions, Our Food\u003c/a>,\" a new advertising blitz aimed at dispelling the rumors and convincing consumers it has nothing to hide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new tell-all, social media-based approach\u003cstrong> — \u003c/strong>\"in many ways, it's the way the world is going,\" Ben Stringfellow, vice president of communications for McDonald's USA, \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a8951f4b99d749ebba8986cd192b450e/mcdonalds-invites-questions-about-its-food\">told the Associated Press\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of that effort, the company is inviting questions via Facebook and Twitter. And it has enlisted the help of Grant Imahara, former co-host of the Discovery Channel's \u003cem>Mythbusters,\u003c/em> to help address some of the most persistent concerns. In a video posted on the company's website, Imahara tours a factory in Fresno, Calif., run by Cargill, which supplies the beef used in McD's burgers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the tour, we learn that no, there are no eyeballs or lips in the meat and no, there's no ammonia or lean, finely textured beef (the so-called pink slime), either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Beef in and beef out — nothing else is added,\" one Cargill worker tells Imahara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wXgSnUmhdws'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wXgSnUmhdws'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the video fails to mention is that yes, McDonald's burgers at one point did contain lean, finely textured beef, though the company phased it out in 2011. The company does acknowledge this in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/burgers-and-sandwiches.html\">longer Q&A\u003c/a> on its website, which addresses other unsavory issues, like the fact that most of its beef comes from cattle treated with hormones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new campaign follows similar efforts to pull back the curtain at McDonald's Australian and Canadian divisions, which released a highly publicized video that let us \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272112028/oh-so-thats-what-goes-into-a-mcdonalds-chicken-mcnugget\">witness the birth of a chicken McNugget\u003c/a> earlier this year. (Perhaps the most illuminating bit of information from that video was that the iconic chicken lumps are made in four shapes — the bell, ball, bow tie and boot.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift in tone also comes as McDonald's sales falter at its U.S. stores. Same-store sales slipped 1.5 percent during the most recent fiscal quarter, and the company is having a tough time appealing to millennials. Since 2011, the number of 19- to 21-year-olds who visited a McDonald's each month has dropped by 12.9 percentage points, as the demographic flocks to fast-casual chains like Chipotle and Five Guys, according to \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-faces-millennial-challenge-1408928743\">data\u003c/a> the restaurant consulting group Technomic gathered for \u003cem>The Wall Street Journal. \u003c/em>\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While consumers may welcome McDonald's move toward more transparency, some critics say what's really needed is a change in its core menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people simply don't think of McDonald's as a healthy place to eat, despite its efforts to offer more menu choices,\" Civil Eats co-founder Naomi Starkman\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2014/10/13/how-mcdonalds-could-serve-up-a-happier-meal/\"> writes\u003c/a>. In a world where farm-to-table increasingly dominates eating ethos, McDonald's is still essentially serving up \"factory farm-to-table,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth is,\" she writes, \"McDonald's is facing a marketplace where people no longer want fast food, but good food served fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adds Sriram Madhusoodanan of Corporate Accountability International, an advocacy group that has called on McDonald's to stop marketing to kids, \"Instead of addressing people's concerns with the corporation's marketing practices and food quality, McDonald's continues to double-down on advertising that simply won't make its problems go away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking of things that won't go away, remember that burger-that-never ages we mentioned? Yeah, it's scientifically possible, McDonald's has \u003ca href=\"http://news.mcdonalds.com/US/Media-Statements/Response-to-Happy-Meal-Food--Experiment-\">previously acknowledged\u003c/a>, if you stored the thing in superdry conditions where bacteria and mold can't form. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/88860/whats-really-in-a-big-mac-mcdonalds-says-its-ready-to-tell-all","authors":["byline_bayareabites_88860"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_9101","bayareabites_13474","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_88861","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_83639":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_83639","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"83639","score":null,"sort":[1403048420000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pink-slime-is-making-a-comeback-do-you-have-a-beef-with-that","title":"'Pink Slime' Is Making A Comeback. Do You Have A Beef With That?","publishDate":1403048420,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83640\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1599px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/pink-slime-a9e69e959359b9b9d6d46aa581f0f2be8cf28a68.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/pink-slime-a9e69e959359b9b9d6d46aa581f0f2be8cf28a68.jpg\" alt=\"South Dakota-based meat processor Beef Products Inc. shows a sample of its lean, finely textured beef in September 2012. Photo: AP\" width=\"1599\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83640\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Dakota-based meat processor Beef Products Inc. shows a sample of its lean, finely textured beef in September 2012. Photo: AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/17/322911060/pink-slime-is-making-a-comeback-do-you-have-a-beef-with-that\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/06/20140617_atc_pink_slime_is_making_a_comeback_do_you_have_a_beef_with_that.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Joyce Russell, \u003ca href=\"http://iowapublicradio.org/\">WOI\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/17/322911060/pink-slime-is-making-a-comeback-do-you-have-a-beef-with-that\">The Salt on NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/17/14) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much-maligned beef product that was once frequently added to hamburger is making a comeback. Two years ago, beef processors cut back sharply on producing what they call \"lean, finely textured beef\" after the nasty nickname for it, \"pink slime,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/09/148298678/is-it-safe-to-eat-pink-slime\">caught on\u003c/a> in the media. Now, higher beef prices are leading to increased demand for the product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare, grocery stores and beef processors are getting ready for a new round of questions from consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cargill spokesman Mike Martin says the product is 100 percent lean beef trimmings treated with citric acid to kill bacteria. In early 2012, unappetizing pictures made the rounds on social media after ABC News did an investigative report that the processors say frightened consumers into thinking the product was unsafe. And Martin says the reaction was swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately what happened is consumers contacted retailers. So by the end of March 2012, Cargill's finely textured beef had incurred an 80 percent decrease in volume. We ultimately were forced to close down two of the production sites out of the five we had operating that produced finely textured beef,\" he says. Beef Products International closed down three plants and laid off more than 700 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Cargill says, sales of the product are up as beef prices are rising. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says in 2010, the cost of ground beef averaged $2.25 a pound. Now it's nearly $4 a pound. So grocery stores and food processors, like the makers of lasagna and pasta sauce, are buying more ground beef with the cheaper beef product mixed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone's on board. Supermarket chains Kroger and Supervalu took it off their shelves two years ago, and they say lean, finely textured beef won't return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Fareway grocery store in Ames, Iowa, Craig Rieckein is picking up a few items. He says he quit buying hamburger at this store at the height of the scare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the 'pink slime' episode, we really thought that was deceptive for them to be adding something to a product we thought was just the meat,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he switched to another store to buy his hamburger, where he can pick out steak and have it ground right there. That's even though Fareway never sold ground beef with the product in it and still doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another customer, Joyce Birkestrand, didn't boycott ground beef, even though she says the beef trimmings looked awful on television. \"I don't know if it changed my shopping much because I like to eat meat. I wish that it wouldn't look quite so bad on TV.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crisis communications experts say that as consumers return to eating lean, finely textured beef, the industry should get out in front this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Des Moines-based public relations consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanser.com/who-we-are/core-management-team/ronald-hanser-apr/\">Ronald Hanser\u003c/a> advises his commercial clients to lean toward overdisclosure. \"If it's about how a product is treated with a chemical, then be prepared to talk about that. The beef industry wasn't prepared to do that in the earlier cycle. Hopefully they are much better prepared now,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bad publicity two years ago, Cargill started labeling products with the added ingredient. So did Hy-Vee stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the courts may decide whether the media are liable for spreading the derogatory term \"pink slime.\" As we reported, in September 2012 BPI filed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/13/161064306/beef-products-inc-sues-abc-over-repeated-attacks-on-pink-slime\">defamation suit\u003c/a> against ABC News for its coverage, saying it led to plant closures and layoffs because it misled consumers into believing the product was unsafe. South Dakota's Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/22/court-pink-slime/9468233/\">recently ruled\u003c/a> the lawsuit can proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.iowapublicradio.org\">Iowa Public Radio\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Since beef prices are going up, food processors are once again looking at cheap \"lean, finely textured beef.\" But this time, they're preparing for consumers' concerns.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1403048420,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":672},"headData":{"title":"'Pink Slime' Is Making A Comeback. Do You Have A Beef With That? | KQED","description":"Since beef prices are going up, food processors are once again looking at cheap "lean, finely textured beef." 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Photo: AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/17/322911060/pink-slime-is-making-a-comeback-do-you-have-a-beef-with-that\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/06/20140617_atc_pink_slime_is_making_a_comeback_do_you_have_a_beef_with_that.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Joyce Russell, \u003ca href=\"http://iowapublicradio.org/\">WOI\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/17/322911060/pink-slime-is-making-a-comeback-do-you-have-a-beef-with-that\">The Salt on NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/17/14) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much-maligned beef product that was once frequently added to hamburger is making a comeback. Two years ago, beef processors cut back sharply on producing what they call \"lean, finely textured beef\" after the nasty nickname for it, \"pink slime,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/09/148298678/is-it-safe-to-eat-pink-slime\">caught on\u003c/a> in the media. Now, higher beef prices are leading to increased demand for the product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prepare, grocery stores and beef processors are getting ready for a new round of questions from consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cargill spokesman Mike Martin says the product is 100 percent lean beef trimmings treated with citric acid to kill bacteria. In early 2012, unappetizing pictures made the rounds on social media after ABC News did an investigative report that the processors say frightened consumers into thinking the product was unsafe. And Martin says the reaction was swift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ultimately what happened is consumers contacted retailers. So by the end of March 2012, Cargill's finely textured beef had incurred an 80 percent decrease in volume. We ultimately were forced to close down two of the production sites out of the five we had operating that produced finely textured beef,\" he says. Beef Products International closed down three plants and laid off more than 700 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Cargill says, sales of the product are up as beef prices are rising. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says in 2010, the cost of ground beef averaged $2.25 a pound. Now it's nearly $4 a pound. So grocery stores and food processors, like the makers of lasagna and pasta sauce, are buying more ground beef with the cheaper beef product mixed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone's on board. Supermarket chains Kroger and Supervalu took it off their shelves two years ago, and they say lean, finely textured beef won't return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Fareway grocery store in Ames, Iowa, Craig Rieckein is picking up a few items. He says he quit buying hamburger at this store at the height of the scare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the 'pink slime' episode, we really thought that was deceptive for them to be adding something to a product we thought was just the meat,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he switched to another store to buy his hamburger, where he can pick out steak and have it ground right there. That's even though Fareway never sold ground beef with the product in it and still doesn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another customer, Joyce Birkestrand, didn't boycott ground beef, even though she says the beef trimmings looked awful on television. \"I don't know if it changed my shopping much because I like to eat meat. I wish that it wouldn't look quite so bad on TV.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some crisis communications experts say that as consumers return to eating lean, finely textured beef, the industry should get out in front this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Des Moines-based public relations consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.hanser.com/who-we-are/core-management-team/ronald-hanser-apr/\">Ronald Hanser\u003c/a> advises his commercial clients to lean toward overdisclosure. \"If it's about how a product is treated with a chemical, then be prepared to talk about that. The beef industry wasn't prepared to do that in the earlier cycle. Hopefully they are much better prepared now,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bad publicity two years ago, Cargill started labeling products with the added ingredient. So did Hy-Vee stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the courts may decide whether the media are liable for spreading the derogatory term \"pink slime.\" As we reported, in September 2012 BPI filed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/13/161064306/beef-products-inc-sues-abc-over-repeated-attacks-on-pink-slime\">defamation suit\u003c/a> against ABC News for its coverage, saying it led to plant closures and layoffs because it misled consumers into believing the product was unsafe. South Dakota's Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/22/court-pink-slime/9468233/\">recently ruled\u003c/a> the lawsuit can proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.iowapublicradio.org\">Iowa Public Radio\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/83639/pink-slime-is-making-a-comeback-do-you-have-a-beef-with-that","authors":["byline_bayareabites_83639"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_8959","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_13474","bayareabites_13475"],"featImg":"bayareabites_83640","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_67631":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_67631","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"67631","score":null,"sort":[1375734173000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"long-awaited-lab-grown-burger-is-unveiled-in-london","title":"Long Awaited Lab-Grown Burger Is Unveiled In London","publishDate":1375734173,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/culture-beef-large.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/culture-beef-large.jpg\" alt=\"The burger developed by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67638\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burger developed by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/05/209163204/long-awaited-lab-grown-burger-is-unveiled-in-london\">The Salt, NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/5/2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three months, $330,000 and a high-profile media blitz, the world's first hamburger grown in a lab made its worldwide debut Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unveiling of \"\u003ca href=\"http://culturedbeef.net/\">cultured beef\u003c/a>,\" as the burger is branded, was a production worthy of the Food Network era, complete with chatty host, live-streamed video, hand-picked taste testers, a top London chef and an eager audience (made up mostly of journalists). Rarely has a single food gotten such star treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this was no ordinary food launch, of course. The burger, which began as just a few stem cells extracted from a cow's shoulder, represents a technology potentially so disruptive that it has attracted the support of Google co-founder Sergei Brin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes a new technology comes along and it has the capability to transform how we view the world,\" Brin says in a promotional video released Monday, the same day he was unmasked as the anonymous donor who ponied up money to grow the burger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took three months to culture the 20,000 individual muscle fibers that make up one single patty. But the technology behind this burger builds upon a decade of research by Dutch scientists, who applied some of the same techniques used to develop \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/04/198110553/scientists-grow-simple-human-liver-in-a-petri-dish\">artificial livers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137770068/windpipe-grown-from-stem-cells-implanted-in-man\">windpipes\u003c/a>. In the last few years, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fys.unimaas.nl/post.html\">Mark Post\u003c/a>, a vascular physiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has taken the lead. And it was Post who presented the burger at the launch event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/cultured-beed2-large.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/cultured-beed2-large.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists say commercial production of cultured beef could begin within 10 to 20 years. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists say commercial production of cultured beef could begin within 10 to 20 years. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chosen tasters, who appeared to be supportive of the technology, were Austrian food scientist \u003ca href=\"http://www.futurefoodstudio.at/index_en.html\">Hanni Rützler\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.joshschonwald.com/\">Josh Schonwald\u003c/a>, a Chicago-based journalist and author of \u003cem>The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From The Future of Food\u003c/em>. No one on stage seemed to see the technology as \"inherently creepy,\" as New Yorker writer Michael Specter \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat\">called it\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chef Richard McGeown of London's \u003ca href=\"http://www.couchspolperro.com/\">Couch's\u003c/a> Great House Restaurant praised the burger's nice color as he browned it in sunflower oil and butter. It was up to Rützler and Schonwald to describe the taste of this burger, composed entirely of muscle and served without salt, pepper or condiments. The verdict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has the texture, the mouthfeel like meat,\" Schonwald put it. \"But the absence is fat. The bite feels like a conventional hamburger, but it's kind of an unnatural experience, because fat is a big part of what makes it juicy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rützler agreed the burger was edible, but not delectable. \"It has quite an intense texture, very close to meat,\" she said. \"I thought it would be softer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But flavor, at this stage, is almost beside the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's demonstration was really more of a proof of concept that meat can indeed be grown in a petri dish. The idea that humans might one day be able to produce large quantities of meat from very few animals is potentially game-changing, especially for those deeply worried about the environmental and animal welfare costs of industrial meat production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our current meat production is at a maximum and it's not going to be sustainable,\" Post said. \"We need to come up with an alternative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create his alternative, Post first removed tissue from a cow with a syringe. Then he separated out the stem cells that specifically make new muscle when the cow is injured. He put those stem cells in a growth medium with antibiotics (to prevent contamination from bacteria). Over time, the cells divide, and with the help of some scaffolding provided by the researchers, \"the cells will self-organize into muscle fibers,\" Post explains in the promo video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was no small feat. As synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis pointed out in a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/04/24/steak-of-the-art-the-fatal-flaws-of-in-vitro-meat/#.Uf_LnqwaHka\">blog post\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Discover\u003c/em> in 2012, \"Cell culture is one of the most expensive and resource-intensive techniques in modern biology. Keeping the cells warm, healthy, well-fed, and free of contamination takes incredible labor and energy, even when scaled to the 10,000-liter vats that biotech companies use.\" Hence this burger's hefty pricetag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the technique for growing cow cells avoids animal slaughter, it still requires animal inputs that \u003ca href=\"http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/vet/2006-0816-200033/valk_04_thehumanecollection.pdf\">raise ethical concerns\u003c/a>. As Agapakis notes, the burger cells are grown in a medium \"supplemented with fetal bovine serum—literally the blood of unborn cows.\" Post says he is working on a non-animal based growth medium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be a longtime yet before the average consumer gets to sample an in vitro burger. First, Post says he has to bring down the pricetag — currently about $154 a pound – as well as the time it takes to grow one burger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to show that we can make it more efficient,\" he says, \"but we think we can have a more affordable price and have this in supermarkets in 10 to 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, Post and his colleagues will need more research funding – they're hoping to attract the interest of food companies. Agapakis is among those who question how scalable the technology can really be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's another major hurdle: Researchers are still figuring out how to grow fat to mix in with the muscle to improve the flavor and texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So will an in vitro steak also be on the menu? Post says it's theoretically possible, but even more technically challenging than a burger and not a priority for the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also not on Post's to-do list: in vitro chicken, pork or fish – he's focusing on replacing conventional beef because \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters\">it requires more resources\u003c/a> than any other meat to produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, science alone can't address what is possibly the biggest hurdle facing in vitro meat: the perception that food grown in a petri dish is gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Post and others are betting that as consumers becomes more aware of meat production practices, they'll be more open to trying an alternative with fewer ethical or environmental strings attached. In vitro meat advocates like to say, \"If you visited a slaughterhouse and visited a lab, the cultured meat would be the obvious choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Brin of Google seems to think that some opposition to a new idea is natural, and even encouraging. \"If some people don't see this as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think? Would you try or buy a lab-grown hamburger if you could?\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Rarely has a single food gotten such star treatment as the hamburger that made its debut in London on Monday. 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Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67638\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The burger developed by Professor Mark Post of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/05/209163204/long-awaited-lab-grown-burger-is-unveiled-in-london\">The Salt, NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/5/2013)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After three months, $330,000 and a high-profile media blitz, the world's first hamburger grown in a lab made its worldwide debut Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unveiling of \"\u003ca href=\"http://culturedbeef.net/\">cultured beef\u003c/a>,\" as the burger is branded, was a production worthy of the Food Network era, complete with chatty host, live-streamed video, hand-picked taste testers, a top London chef and an eager audience (made up mostly of journalists). Rarely has a single food gotten such star treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this was no ordinary food launch, of course. The burger, which began as just a few stem cells extracted from a cow's shoulder, represents a technology potentially so disruptive that it has attracted the support of Google co-founder Sergei Brin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes a new technology comes along and it has the capability to transform how we view the world,\" Brin says in a promotional video released Monday, the same day he was unmasked as the anonymous donor who ponied up money to grow the burger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took three months to culture the 20,000 individual muscle fibers that make up one single patty. But the technology behind this burger builds upon a decade of research by Dutch scientists, who applied some of the same techniques used to develop \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/04/198110553/scientists-grow-simple-human-liver-in-a-petri-dish\">artificial livers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137770068/windpipe-grown-from-stem-cells-implanted-in-man\">windpipes\u003c/a>. In the last few years, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fys.unimaas.nl/post.html\">Mark Post\u003c/a>, a vascular physiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, has taken the lead. And it was Post who presented the burger at the launch event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_67639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/cultured-beed2-large.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/cultured-beed2-large.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists say commercial production of cultured beef could begin within 10 to 20 years. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67639\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scientists say commercial production of cultured beef could begin within 10 to 20 years. Photo: David Parry / PA Wire\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chosen tasters, who appeared to be supportive of the technology, were Austrian food scientist \u003ca href=\"http://www.futurefoodstudio.at/index_en.html\">Hanni Rützler\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.joshschonwald.com/\">Josh Schonwald\u003c/a>, a Chicago-based journalist and author of \u003cem>The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches From The Future of Food\u003c/em>. No one on stage seemed to see the technology as \"inherently creepy,\" as New Yorker writer Michael Specter \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/08/30/139786731/tube-burgers-the-world-of-in-vitro-meat\">called it\u003c/a> on \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em> in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chef Richard McGeown of London's \u003ca href=\"http://www.couchspolperro.com/\">Couch's\u003c/a> Great House Restaurant praised the burger's nice color as he browned it in sunflower oil and butter. It was up to Rützler and Schonwald to describe the taste of this burger, composed entirely of muscle and served without salt, pepper or condiments. The verdict?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It has the texture, the mouthfeel like meat,\" Schonwald put it. \"But the absence is fat. The bite feels like a conventional hamburger, but it's kind of an unnatural experience, because fat is a big part of what makes it juicy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rützler agreed the burger was edible, but not delectable. \"It has quite an intense texture, very close to meat,\" she said. \"I thought it would be softer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But flavor, at this stage, is almost beside the point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's demonstration was really more of a proof of concept that meat can indeed be grown in a petri dish. The idea that humans might one day be able to produce large quantities of meat from very few animals is potentially game-changing, especially for those deeply worried about the environmental and animal welfare costs of industrial meat production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our current meat production is at a maximum and it's not going to be sustainable,\" Post said. \"We need to come up with an alternative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To create his alternative, Post first removed tissue from a cow with a syringe. Then he separated out the stem cells that specifically make new muscle when the cow is injured. He put those stem cells in a growth medium with antibiotics (to prevent contamination from bacteria). Over time, the cells divide, and with the help of some scaffolding provided by the researchers, \"the cells will self-organize into muscle fibers,\" Post explains in the promo video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was no small feat. As synthetic biologist Christina Agapakis pointed out in a \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/04/24/steak-of-the-art-the-fatal-flaws-of-in-vitro-meat/#.Uf_LnqwaHka\">blog post\u003c/a> for \u003cem>Discover\u003c/em> in 2012, \"Cell culture is one of the most expensive and resource-intensive techniques in modern biology. Keeping the cells warm, healthy, well-fed, and free of contamination takes incredible labor and energy, even when scaled to the 10,000-liter vats that biotech companies use.\" Hence this burger's hefty pricetag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the technique for growing cow cells avoids animal slaughter, it still requires animal inputs that \u003ca href=\"http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/vet/2006-0816-200033/valk_04_thehumanecollection.pdf\">raise ethical concerns\u003c/a>. As Agapakis notes, the burger cells are grown in a medium \"supplemented with fetal bovine serum—literally the blood of unborn cows.\" Post says he is working on a non-animal based growth medium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be a longtime yet before the average consumer gets to sample an in vitro burger. First, Post says he has to bring down the pricetag — currently about $154 a pound – as well as the time it takes to grow one burger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to show that we can make it more efficient,\" he says, \"but we think we can have a more affordable price and have this in supermarkets in 10 to 20 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For that, Post and his colleagues will need more research funding – they're hoping to attract the interest of food companies. Agapakis is among those who question how scalable the technology can really be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's another major hurdle: Researchers are still figuring out how to grow fat to mix in with the muscle to improve the flavor and texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So will an in vitro steak also be on the menu? Post says it's theoretically possible, but even more technically challenging than a burger and not a priority for the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also not on Post's to-do list: in vitro chicken, pork or fish – he's focusing on replacing conventional beef because \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/visualizing-a-nation-of-meat-eaters\">it requires more resources\u003c/a> than any other meat to produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, science alone can't address what is possibly the biggest hurdle facing in vitro meat: the perception that food grown in a petri dish is gross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, Post and others are betting that as consumers becomes more aware of meat production practices, they'll be more open to trying an alternative with fewer ethical or environmental strings attached. In vitro meat advocates like to say, \"If you visited a slaughterhouse and visited a lab, the cultured meat would be the obvious choice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Brin of Google seems to think that some opposition to a new idea is natural, and even encouraging. \"If some people don't see this as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think? Would you try or buy a lab-grown hamburger if you could?\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/67631/long-awaited-lab-grown-burger-is-unveiled-in-london","authors":["byline_bayareabites_67631"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_60","bayareabites_61"],"tags":["bayareabites_620","bayareabites_12170","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_12173","bayareabites_12172","bayareabites_11955","bayareabites_12171"],"featImg":"bayareabites_67637","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_62285":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_62285","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"62285","score":null,"sort":[1369415372000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"burger-bonanza-in-the-east-bay","title":"Burger Bonanza in the East Bay","publishDate":1369415372,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger2.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62532\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it seems like there's a new burger joint firing up a grill in the Bay Area every month. While there's three restaurants I consider my personal favorites -- \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/10/31/check-please-bay-area-reviews-roti-indian-bistro-chop-bar-park-tavern/\" target=\"_blank\">Chop Bar\u003c/a>'s at the top of my list, followed by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/04/15/true-burger/\">Trueburger\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/29/actual-cafes-sal-bednarz-kickstarts-a-new-venture-victory-burger/\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Burger\u003c/a> -- I recently checked out some of the latest arrivals to see if there were any promising new additions to the East Bay burger scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxysign.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxysign.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy sign\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62531\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://moxybeergarden.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Moxy Beer Garden\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n3136 Sacramento Street, Berkeley, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/qpB3l\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 510.547.6699\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moxy/347734152001996\" target=\"_blank\">Moxy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Kitchen: 11:30am - 9:30pm; Bar: 11:30am - 11:30pm; Closed Mondays\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open since late April, Berkeley's Moxy Beer Garden has transformed the old Casa Vino wine bar into a spacious venue with plenty of seating for groups in their covered outdoor patio or near the main bar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxypatio.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxypatio.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy patio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62530\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybar.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy bar\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62535\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They offer a wide selection of beers on tap from Drake's, Black Diamond, Thirsty Bear, 21st Amendment and several other local breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybeer.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybeer.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy beer\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62526\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of their beef is sourced from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificpastures.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Pastures Farm\u003c/a> in Hydesville, CA, and bears the requisite imprimatur of quality meat: free-range, 100% grass-fed, hormone and antibiotic-free. Burgers are cooked medium rare unless you ask otherwise (and it's a nice touch when this is the default method of preparation.) \"The Burger\" ($9) comes with butter lettuce, ketchup, pickles and red onion on a soft bun with your choice of cheese -- I opted for Tillamook cheddar -- and it was excellent. Free from any extraneous garnishes and toppings, it was just a simple, juicy burger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62527\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small order of house-cut garlic fries ($3.50) is plenty for two people and comes with a side of chipotle aioli; these were perfectly crispy and garlicky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxygarlicfries.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxygarlicfries.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy garlic fries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62528\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their Moroccan lamb burger ($10) with pickled red onion & feta mustard aioli was a wonderful combination of savory flavors (and the server assured us the lamb came from sustainable source as well, although I don't recall seeing it listed on the menu.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxylambburger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxylambburger.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy lamb burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62529\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With great service, an appealing menu and equipped with their own private parking lot, I predict this will be a popular spot when summertime rolls around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://thebureau510.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bureau 510\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5800 Hollis Street #150, Emeryville, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/Ncsvn\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 510.595.1000\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theBureau510\" target=\"_blank\">TheBureau510\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Mon - Fri 11am–2:30pm; 4:30pm–10:00pm; Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 11am–3pm\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the same owner of the sleek \u003ca href=\"http://summersummerthai.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Summer Thai\u003c/a> restaurant located right across Hollis Street in Emeryville, The Bureau 510 began serving its Niman Ranch beef burgers last December. With the menu designed by chef \u003ca href=\"http://sf.eater.com/archives/2012/12/17/four_seasons_chef_does_burgers_at_the_bureau_510.php\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Higgins of Quattro at the Four Seasons\u003c/a>, its eclectic dishes reflect a fusion of classic Americana and Asian flavors. There's the Louisiana-inspired catfish fillet, \"The Bayou,\" ($9) with creole remoulade; the \"Chips n' Salsa,\" ($9.50) with jalapeño, tortilla chips, roasted tomato salsa, cilantro, butter lettuce and nacho cheese on Acme sesame bun; and the \"Tempura\" ($9.50), a fried rock shrimp patty seasoned with wasabi mayo, seaweed slaw and a 'bun' crafted out of pressed fried rice -- just to name a few of their offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their creamy Caesar salad ($7) is topped with marinated anchovies and tossed with a liberal helping of homemade croutons (I'm taking an educated guess here and believe they were made with toasted bits of Acme's herb slab).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62386\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau3.jpg\" alt=\"Caesar Salad\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"Nostalgia\" burger ($7.50) is a throwback to the basic burgers of drive-in diner days. Dressed with fresh butter lettuce, tomato, grilled onion and American cheese on an Acme bun, the Nostalgia burgers arrived with a side of housemade dill pickles and a piquant apple-poppy coleslaw. Overall the burgers were good, although there was more a bit more bun than burger; it took me a few bites before I reached the meat itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62387\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau4.jpg\" alt=\"Nostalgia\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For another $2 you can add a crispy bucket of fries to your order; it's a generous helping that can easily accomodate 2-3 people and comes with a side of Sriracha mayonnaise. Or you can spring for the more decadent Parmesan fries for $3.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau5.jpg\" alt=\"Fries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its spacious, modern interior and an outdoor patio for dining in warm weather, it's a fine spot for casual eats in Emeryville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau1.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau 510 interior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62385\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau2.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau 510 interio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://grazzyburgers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Grazzy Burgers\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n747 San Pablo Avenue, Albany, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/wTJCE\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 510.526.2999\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/GrazzyBurgers\" target=\"_blank\">GrazzyBurgers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Mon - Thurs & Sun: 11am - 10pm; Fri & Sat: 11am - 11pm\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grazzy Burgers debuted this past March and prides itself on using ingredients from Bay Area farms, including \"100% grass-fed, corn-free diet, locally-sourced and pasture-raised beef\" for their burgers. (You can also order bison, lamb, chicken and salmon as non-red meat options.) So while I was impressed by their earnest mission statement, the food wasn't nearly as stellar as their intentions. The \"Grazzy Classic\" ($7.50) made with a 100% grass-fed beef patty, butter leaf lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, housemade pickles and aioli on an Acme bun was a tad dry -- even with the addition of Swiss cheese -- and not as flavorful as I'd hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62287\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger2.jpg\" alt=\"Grazzy Classic Burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chicken Katsu Japanese-style breaded chicken breast sandwich ($8.75) was overwhelmed by its Asian slaw, roasted tomato and red onion toppings, although the chicken itself and the Thai basil aioli dressing were delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62288\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger3.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken Katsu Burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hand-cut fries ($3.50, and you can top them with garlic, herbs or parmesan for an additional charge) were tasty, but the server brought them to me well after the burgers arrived. Unfortunately, service was somewhat uneven throughout the night, but hopefully they've smoothed out the glitches with their waitstaff since my visit in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger4.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-cut fries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grazzy Burgers is still a notch above your average bar fare and is adjacent to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.albanytaproom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Albany Tap Room\u003c/a>, which has a diverse selection of beers on tap and for sale. You can order your food directly from one of the bar's servers while enjoying a Belgian blonde ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62286\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger1.jpg\" alt=\"The beer selection at Albany Tap Room\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Moxy Burger, The Bureau 510 and Grazzy Burgers are several of the latest arrivals to the East Bay burger scene.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1412095328,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":988},"headData":{"title":"Burger Bonanza in the East Bay | KQED","description":"Moxy Burger, The Bureau 510 and Grazzy Burgers are several of the latest arrivals to the East Bay burger scene.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Burger Bonanza in the East Bay","datePublished":"2013-05-24T17:09:32.000Z","dateModified":"2014-09-30T16:42:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"62285 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=62285","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/24/burger-bonanza-in-the-east-bay/","disqusTitle":"Burger Bonanza in the East Bay","path":"/bayareabites/62285/burger-bonanza-in-the-east-bay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger2.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62532\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it seems like there's a new burger joint firing up a grill in the Bay Area every month. While there's three restaurants I consider my personal favorites -- \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/10/31/check-please-bay-area-reviews-roti-indian-bistro-chop-bar-park-tavern/\" target=\"_blank\">Chop Bar\u003c/a>'s at the top of my list, followed by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/04/15/true-burger/\">Trueburger\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/29/actual-cafes-sal-bednarz-kickstarts-a-new-venture-victory-burger/\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Burger\u003c/a> -- I recently checked out some of the latest arrivals to see if there were any promising new additions to the East Bay burger scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxysign.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxysign.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy sign\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62531\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://moxybeergarden.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Moxy Beer Garden\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n3136 Sacramento Street, Berkeley, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/qpB3l\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 510.547.6699\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moxy/347734152001996\" target=\"_blank\">Moxy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Kitchen: 11:30am - 9:30pm; Bar: 11:30am - 11:30pm; Closed Mondays\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Open since late April, Berkeley's Moxy Beer Garden has transformed the old Casa Vino wine bar into a spacious venue with plenty of seating for groups in their covered outdoor patio or near the main bar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxypatio.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxypatio.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy patio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62530\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybar.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybar.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy bar\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62535\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They offer a wide selection of beers on tap from Drake's, Black Diamond, Thirsty Bear, 21st Amendment and several other local breweries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybeer.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxybeer.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy beer\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62526\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of their beef is sourced from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificpastures.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Pastures Farm\u003c/a> in Hydesville, CA, and bears the requisite imprimatur of quality meat: free-range, 100% grass-fed, hormone and antibiotic-free. Burgers are cooked medium rare unless you ask otherwise (and it's a nice touch when this is the default method of preparation.) \"The Burger\" ($9) comes with butter lettuce, ketchup, pickles and red onion on a soft bun with your choice of cheese -- I opted for Tillamook cheddar -- and it was excellent. Free from any extraneous garnishes and toppings, it was just a simple, juicy burger. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxyburger.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62527\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small order of house-cut garlic fries ($3.50) is plenty for two people and comes with a side of chipotle aioli; these were perfectly crispy and garlicky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxygarlicfries.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxygarlicfries.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy garlic fries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62528\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their Moroccan lamb burger ($10) with pickled red onion & feta mustard aioli was a wonderful combination of savory flavors (and the server assured us the lamb came from sustainable source as well, although I don't recall seeing it listed on the menu.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxylambburger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/moxylambburger.jpg\" alt=\"Moxy lamb burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62529\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With great service, an appealing menu and equipped with their own private parking lot, I predict this will be a popular spot when summertime rolls around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://thebureau510.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bureau 510\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n5800 Hollis Street #150, Emeryville, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/Ncsvn\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 510.595.1000\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/theBureau510\" target=\"_blank\">TheBureau510\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Mon - Fri 11am–2:30pm; 4:30pm–10:00pm; Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 11am–3pm\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the same owner of the sleek \u003ca href=\"http://summersummerthai.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Summer Thai\u003c/a> restaurant located right across Hollis Street in Emeryville, The Bureau 510 began serving its Niman Ranch beef burgers last December. With the menu designed by chef \u003ca href=\"http://sf.eater.com/archives/2012/12/17/four_seasons_chef_does_burgers_at_the_bureau_510.php\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Higgins of Quattro at the Four Seasons\u003c/a>, its eclectic dishes reflect a fusion of classic Americana and Asian flavors. There's the Louisiana-inspired catfish fillet, \"The Bayou,\" ($9) with creole remoulade; the \"Chips n' Salsa,\" ($9.50) with jalapeño, tortilla chips, roasted tomato salsa, cilantro, butter lettuce and nacho cheese on Acme sesame bun; and the \"Tempura\" ($9.50), a fried rock shrimp patty seasoned with wasabi mayo, seaweed slaw and a 'bun' crafted out of pressed fried rice -- just to name a few of their offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their creamy Caesar salad ($7) is topped with marinated anchovies and tossed with a liberal helping of homemade croutons (I'm taking an educated guess here and believe they were made with toasted bits of Acme's herb slab).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62386\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau3.jpg\" alt=\"Caesar Salad\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"Nostalgia\" burger ($7.50) is a throwback to the basic burgers of drive-in diner days. Dressed with fresh butter lettuce, tomato, grilled onion and American cheese on an Acme bun, the Nostalgia burgers arrived with a side of housemade dill pickles and a piquant apple-poppy coleslaw. Overall the burgers were good, although there was more a bit more bun than burger; it took me a few bites before I reached the meat itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62387\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau4.jpg\" alt=\"Nostalgia\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For another $2 you can add a crispy bucket of fries to your order; it's a generous helping that can easily accomodate 2-3 people and comes with a side of Sriracha mayonnaise. Or you can spring for the more decadent Parmesan fries for $3.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau5.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau5.jpg\" alt=\"Fries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its spacious, modern interior and an outdoor patio for dining in warm weather, it's a fine spot for casual eats in Emeryville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau1.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau 510 interior\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62385\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/bureau2.jpg\" alt=\"Bureau 510 interio\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://grazzyburgers.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Grazzy Burgers\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n747 San Pablo Avenue, Albany, CA [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/maps/wTJCE\" target=\"_blank\">map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Phone:\u003c/strong> 510.526.2999\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/GrazzyBurgers\" target=\"_blank\">GrazzyBurgers\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong> Mon - Thurs & Sun: 11am - 10pm; Fri & Sat: 11am - 11pm\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grazzy Burgers debuted this past March and prides itself on using ingredients from Bay Area farms, including \"100% grass-fed, corn-free diet, locally-sourced and pasture-raised beef\" for their burgers. (You can also order bison, lamb, chicken and salmon as non-red meat options.) So while I was impressed by their earnest mission statement, the food wasn't nearly as stellar as their intentions. The \"Grazzy Classic\" ($7.50) made with a 100% grass-fed beef patty, butter leaf lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, housemade pickles and aioli on an Acme bun was a tad dry -- even with the addition of Swiss cheese -- and not as flavorful as I'd hoped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62287\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger2.jpg\" alt=\"Grazzy Classic Burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chicken Katsu Japanese-style breaded chicken breast sandwich ($8.75) was overwhelmed by its Asian slaw, roasted tomato and red onion toppings, although the chicken itself and the Thai basil aioli dressing were delicious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62288\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger3.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken Katsu Burger\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hand-cut fries ($3.50, and you can top them with garlic, herbs or parmesan for an additional charge) were tasty, but the server brought them to me well after the burgers arrived. Unfortunately, service was somewhat uneven throughout the night, but hopefully they've smoothed out the glitches with their waitstaff since my visit in early April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62289\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger4.jpg\" alt=\"Hand-cut fries\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grazzy Burgers is still a notch above your average bar fare and is adjacent to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.albanytaproom.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Albany Tap Room\u003c/a>, which has a diverse selection of beers on tap and for sale. You can order your food directly from one of the bar's servers while enjoying a Belgian blonde ale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62286\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/05/albanyburger1.jpg\" alt=\"The beer selection at Albany Tap Room\" width=\"1000\" height=\"561\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/62285/burger-bonanza-in-the-east-bay","authors":["2100"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_10851","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_10"],"tags":["bayareabites_11754","bayareabites_14751","bayareabites_11759","bayareabites_1964","bayareabites_14773","bayareabites_11753","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_2198","bayareabites_11760","bayareabites_14757"],"featImg":"bayareabites_62563","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_43650":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_43650","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"43650","score":null,"sort":[1338309432000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"actual-cafes-sal-bednarz-kickstarts-a-new-venture-victory-burger","title":"Actual Cafe's Sal Bednarz Kickstarts a New Venture: Victory Burger","publishDate":1338309432,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger-3.jpg\" alt=\"burger\" title=\"burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43820\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first met Sal Bednarz, the owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.actualcafe.com\">Actual Cafe\u003c/a> and his fiancée, Gail Lillian, this past winter at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.289702664398900.59225.112743085428193&type=3\">charity benefit\u003c/a> for a Cambodian children's cycling organization held at our friends' bike shop, \u003ca href=\"http://www.missinglink.org/\">Missing Link Bicycle Cooperative\u003c/a>. My husband and I were hanging out and chatting with friends about one of our favorite topics: where to find the best burgers in the East Bay. Sal's ears perked up when he heard the subject of our conversation and enthusiastically jumped right in. As we compared notes on our likes and dislikes of various local offerings over the next hour, I could tell he was pretty opinionated on this subject. And apparently he wasn't satisfied with just sounding off on what he was looking for in a burger; he revealed to us that he was planning on opening up his own restaurant in the near future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to the spring of this year: Sal emailed me to let me know that he had launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/401016102/victory-burger?ref=live\">Kickstarter campaign\u003c/a> to get his dream burger project, \u003ca href=\"http://victoryburger.com/\">Victory Burger\u003c/a>, off the ground. He's hoping to raise $25,000 in the next 9 days, and he and Gail held a Memorial Day cookout with a free tasting of some of the future menu items in order to promote their new enterprise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/memorial-day-e1338265056416.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/memorial-day-e1338265056416.jpg\" alt=\"memorial day\" title=\"memorial day\" width=\"314\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43859\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrons packed the sidewalk in front of the future space -- conveniently located right next door to Actual Cafe -- as the small crew dished out Victory Burger samples, pickled vegetables and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arepa\">arepas\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sign.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sign.jpg\" alt=\"sign\" title=\"sign\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43840\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-4.jpg\" alt=\"victory burger\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43843\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger.jpg\" alt=\"victory burger\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43844\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Victory Burgers, sandwiched between a toasted Acme sesame bun with lettuce, grilled onions and housemade ketchup, were juicy and delicious. The \u003cem>arepas\u003c/em> -- cut in half, filled with a crunchy jicama slaw and corn salad, then slathered with a housemade Romesco sauce and avocado dressing -- were fantastic. And I predict the colorful assortment of pickled vegetables, with strong coriander flavors, will be a popular favorite. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what prompted Sal to launch a sister business? Here's more of the backstory behind his next venture from the man himself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You've already got a lot on your plate as the owner of the successful Actual Cafe and there's a lot of burger establishments in the Bay Area. What inspired you to start Victory Burger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, to start with, I love to build things. I thrive on complex projects. Running Actual Cafe is still a challenging day job, but it requires less of my own skill as we mature and my staff takes on more responsibility. It's important for me to mention that there's no way Actual Cafe could be what it is, or that I could be building a new place, without a really solid crew here. I'm lucky to have been able to attract and retain a group of hard-working, creative, personable, and interesting people to the cafe -- they make my job a whole lot easier. I've also got a great manager, and I just hired a great sous chef who's working on Victory Burger, and also contributing great new ideas to the cafe's food operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal.jpg\" alt=\"sal\" title=\"sal\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43839\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Actual Cafe owner Sal Bednarz serves up a Victory Burger.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This neighborhood has so little in the way of good food options -- aside from Actual Cafe, there are a couple other coffee shops (\u003ca href=\"http://www.farleyscoffee.com/\">Farley\u003c/a>'s, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafetribu.com/\">Tribu\u003c/a>), a taqueria, a McDonald's, and a Giant Burger. Even looking farther, the closest really interesting food is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/12/26/two-step-on-over-to-b-side-bbq/\">B-Side BBQ\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seasaltrestaurant.com/\">Sea Salt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://paisanberkeley.com/\">Paisan\u003c/a>, and the Temescal row. Most of these places are also fairly expensive, and this neighborhood is not dripping with money, so I thought a simple menu based on not screwing up really good ingredients and presenting them with minimal fuss like other street food experiences was the right way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, although there are a lot of burger places around, there aren't that many good ones, especially if you don't want to spend $20 or more on your meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers-2.jpg\" alt=\"burgers\" title=\"burgers\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43822\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the overall idea behind Victory Burger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's street food: simple presentation of well-prepared, excellent ingredients. I'm inspired by modern food trucks who have demonstrated that a really small menu of simple but delicious things presented in a really casual way works. Incidentally, my fiancée Gail owns \u003ca href=\"http://libasf.com/\">Liba Falafel Truck\u003c/a> so I'm pretty well immersed in the travails of delicious food trucks (so much so that I know I never want to own one myself!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're drawing on flavor combinations from other cuisines that I really appreciate. We've got some Southern food influences (fried pickled okra, cooked greens), Latin American (arepas, fresh chilies), Vietnamese (banh mi), but all drawn together with common presentation and flavor elements so it doesn't feel like a collection of random menu items. Opening an 'American' restaurant allows us to do this -- all the food we consider American was stolen from somewhere and we're not bound by a single set of recipes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal-pickles-e1338264334478.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal-pickles-e1338264334478.jpg\" alt=\"sal pickles\" title=\"sal pickles\" width=\"314\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43835\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From an aesthetic standpoint, we're going for old industrial/shipyard (but modern) interiors and facade: lots of concrete, big chunky metal and old wood. The decor and the marketing materials for Victory Burger draw on the World War II era during which this neighborhood was populated as workers came from around the country to work in shipyards and factories. It also recalls a time when we all recognized that doing difficult things required that we all do our part: making Victory gardens, buying war bonds, recycling and conserving and women leaving home and family to work. I think there are good lessons there for modern times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-2.jpg\" alt=\"victory burger\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43841\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will make Victory Burger unique?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our menu will be delicious, and we'll be aggressive about setting our prices to make them accessible. We'll be doing several vegan and gluten-free options: a delicious and unique veggie burger; arepas in both veggie and meat varieties; lots of pickled veggies (including fried pickled vegetables). Our customers demand this, and we're putting a lot of energy into accommodating these requests in unique ways, rather than just doing it because we have to. In the end, our vegan and gluten-free options will just be delicious food that happens to have those attributes, not something trying to be something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-3.jpg\" alt=\"arepas\" title=\"arepas\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43815\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-4.jpg\" alt=\"arepas\" title=\"arepas\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43816\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas.jpg\" alt=\"arepas\" title=\"arepas\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43817\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our facade will be unlike other places in this neighborhood and unique across our city. We're trying to blur the distinction between inside and outside by opening much of the front of the restaurant, having seating indoors, on the sidewalk, patio and in the parklet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll continue with our existing local focus by buying from local purveyors/producers/distributors, hiring local crew and keeping our dollars circulating in our local economy as much as we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What makes a great burger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meat that you can actually taste.\u003c/strong> This requires that the patty be thick enough that we can properly control cooking temperature. It also requires that the patty be cooked over high heat on a flame grill -- the sear that we achieve through grilling as opposed to frying on a griddle brings out the complexity of the meat flavors. We're using \u003ca href=\"http://www.fivedotranch.com/\">Five Dot Ranch\u003c/a> meat, which is the best I've tasted for burgers. It's got the right fattiness, the right flavor (Five Dot cattle feed on pasture grass supplemented with grain -- no corn), and it's from a local ranch that's been in the same family for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/grill-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/grill-2.jpg\" alt=\"grill\" title=\"grill\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43826\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting the meat temperature right.\u003c/strong> For me, that's medium-rare to medium, depending on my mood. The biggest mistake most burger places make is to overcook the meat. I hate ordering a medium-rare burger and getting one cooked medium-well and this happens a lot, no matter how much you pay for the burger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger-2.jpg\" alt=\"burger\" title=\"burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43819\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not overwhelming the meat with other junk.\u003c/strong> Do we really need another teriyaki/sprout/nacho cheese/fried-chicken-on-top burger? If the burger doesn't work with just a patty on a bun and a little veg and sauce, it doesn't work. Adding more crap is just an attempt to cover up a basically flawed start. We'll offer some add-ons (avocado, bacon, fried egg, a couple others), but not try to disguise the fact that we're actually serving hamburgers under there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers.jpg\" alt=\"burgers\" title=\"burgers\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43823\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/ketchup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/ketchup.jpg\" alt=\"Housemade ketchup and Romesco sauce\" title=\"Housemade ketchup and Romesco sauce\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43828\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Housemade ketchup and Romesco sauce.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting the bun right.\u003c/strong> Different strokes for different folks here, but the bun needs to be properly matched to the burger: size, thickness, and texture. The crust and crumb of the bread have to be tough enough to hold up to the juiciness of the patty (the patty is juicy, right?), but not so tough that you can't easily bite through them, even with soft ingredients inside. Buns need to be cut and toasted to bring out the flavors of the bread and to give sauces a place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger.jpg\" alt=\"burger\" title=\"burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43821\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pickle on the side.\u003c/strong> A burger is rich. Some bites of sour pickle help break up the experience. We'll be serving pickles made from things other than cucumber (okra, whole pea pods, celery, chilies, and other fun stuff).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/pickles-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/pickles-2.jpg\" alt=\"pickles\" title=\"pickles\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43830\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, this all boils down to starting with great ingredients and not screwing them up, which is my general philosophy on cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When will Victory Burger open its doors?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring catastrophe, [we'll open] later this year. We expect to have permits in the next couple weeks and building the place won't take more than a couple months. If everything goes perfectly, this means we're opening in early fall. It's likely that not everything will go perfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-3.jpg\" alt=\"future victory burger space\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43842\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The future Victory Burger space.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/blueprints.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/blueprints.jpg\" alt=\"blueprints\" title=\"blueprints\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43818\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Blueprints for the future Victory Burger space.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Victory Burger, the new venture from Actual Cafe's Sal Bednarz, hopes to opens its later this year with the help of a Kickstarter campaign that's currently underway. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1338309432,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":1609},"headData":{"title":"Actual Cafe's Sal Bednarz Kickstarts a New Venture: Victory Burger | KQED","description":"Victory Burger, the new venture from Actual Cafe's Sal Bednarz, hopes to opens its later this year with the help of a Kickstarter campaign that's currently underway. 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My husband and I were hanging out and chatting with friends about one of our favorite topics: where to find the best burgers in the East Bay. Sal's ears perked up when he heard the subject of our conversation and enthusiastically jumped right in. As we compared notes on our likes and dislikes of various local offerings over the next hour, I could tell he was pretty opinionated on this subject. And apparently he wasn't satisfied with just sounding off on what he was looking for in a burger; he revealed to us that he was planning on opening up his own restaurant in the near future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut to the spring of this year: Sal emailed me to let me know that he had launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/401016102/victory-burger?ref=live\">Kickstarter campaign\u003c/a> to get his dream burger project, \u003ca href=\"http://victoryburger.com/\">Victory Burger\u003c/a>, off the ground. He's hoping to raise $25,000 in the next 9 days, and he and Gail held a Memorial Day cookout with a free tasting of some of the future menu items in order to promote their new enterprise. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/memorial-day-e1338265056416.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/memorial-day-e1338265056416.jpg\" alt=\"memorial day\" title=\"memorial day\" width=\"314\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43859\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrons packed the sidewalk in front of the future space -- conveniently located right next door to Actual Cafe -- as the small crew dished out Victory Burger samples, pickled vegetables and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arepa\">arepas\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sign.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sign.jpg\" alt=\"sign\" title=\"sign\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43840\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-4.jpg\" alt=\"victory burger\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43843\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger.jpg\" alt=\"victory burger\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43844\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Victory Burgers, sandwiched between a toasted Acme sesame bun with lettuce, grilled onions and housemade ketchup, were juicy and delicious. The \u003cem>arepas\u003c/em> -- cut in half, filled with a crunchy jicama slaw and corn salad, then slathered with a housemade Romesco sauce and avocado dressing -- were fantastic. And I predict the colorful assortment of pickled vegetables, with strong coriander flavors, will be a popular favorite. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what prompted Sal to launch a sister business? Here's more of the backstory behind his next venture from the man himself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You've already got a lot on your plate as the owner of the successful Actual Cafe and there's a lot of burger establishments in the Bay Area. What inspired you to start Victory Burger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, to start with, I love to build things. I thrive on complex projects. Running Actual Cafe is still a challenging day job, but it requires less of my own skill as we mature and my staff takes on more responsibility. It's important for me to mention that there's no way Actual Cafe could be what it is, or that I could be building a new place, without a really solid crew here. I'm lucky to have been able to attract and retain a group of hard-working, creative, personable, and interesting people to the cafe -- they make my job a whole lot easier. I've also got a great manager, and I just hired a great sous chef who's working on Victory Burger, and also contributing great new ideas to the cafe's food operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal.jpg\" alt=\"sal\" title=\"sal\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43839\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Actual Cafe owner Sal Bednarz serves up a Victory Burger.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This neighborhood has so little in the way of good food options -- aside from Actual Cafe, there are a couple other coffee shops (\u003ca href=\"http://www.farleyscoffee.com/\">Farley\u003c/a>'s, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafetribu.com/\">Tribu\u003c/a>), a taqueria, a McDonald's, and a Giant Burger. Even looking farther, the closest really interesting food is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/12/26/two-step-on-over-to-b-side-bbq/\">B-Side BBQ\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seasaltrestaurant.com/\">Sea Salt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://paisanberkeley.com/\">Paisan\u003c/a>, and the Temescal row. Most of these places are also fairly expensive, and this neighborhood is not dripping with money, so I thought a simple menu based on not screwing up really good ingredients and presenting them with minimal fuss like other street food experiences was the right way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, although there are a lot of burger places around, there aren't that many good ones, especially if you don't want to spend $20 or more on your meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers-2.jpg\" alt=\"burgers\" title=\"burgers\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43822\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the overall idea behind Victory Burger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's street food: simple presentation of well-prepared, excellent ingredients. I'm inspired by modern food trucks who have demonstrated that a really small menu of simple but delicious things presented in a really casual way works. Incidentally, my fiancée Gail owns \u003ca href=\"http://libasf.com/\">Liba Falafel Truck\u003c/a> so I'm pretty well immersed in the travails of delicious food trucks (so much so that I know I never want to own one myself!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're drawing on flavor combinations from other cuisines that I really appreciate. We've got some Southern food influences (fried pickled okra, cooked greens), Latin American (arepas, fresh chilies), Vietnamese (banh mi), but all drawn together with common presentation and flavor elements so it doesn't feel like a collection of random menu items. Opening an 'American' restaurant allows us to do this -- all the food we consider American was stolen from somewhere and we're not bound by a single set of recipes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal-pickles-e1338264334478.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/sal-pickles-e1338264334478.jpg\" alt=\"sal pickles\" title=\"sal pickles\" width=\"314\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43835\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From an aesthetic standpoint, we're going for old industrial/shipyard (but modern) interiors and facade: lots of concrete, big chunky metal and old wood. The decor and the marketing materials for Victory Burger draw on the World War II era during which this neighborhood was populated as workers came from around the country to work in shipyards and factories. It also recalls a time when we all recognized that doing difficult things required that we all do our part: making Victory gardens, buying war bonds, recycling and conserving and women leaving home and family to work. I think there are good lessons there for modern times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-2.jpg\" alt=\"victory burger\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43841\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will make Victory Burger unique?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our menu will be delicious, and we'll be aggressive about setting our prices to make them accessible. We'll be doing several vegan and gluten-free options: a delicious and unique veggie burger; arepas in both veggie and meat varieties; lots of pickled veggies (including fried pickled vegetables). Our customers demand this, and we're putting a lot of energy into accommodating these requests in unique ways, rather than just doing it because we have to. In the end, our vegan and gluten-free options will just be delicious food that happens to have those attributes, not something trying to be something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-3.jpg\" alt=\"arepas\" title=\"arepas\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43815\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas-4.jpg\" alt=\"arepas\" title=\"arepas\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43816\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/arepas.jpg\" alt=\"arepas\" title=\"arepas\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43817\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our facade will be unlike other places in this neighborhood and unique across our city. We're trying to blur the distinction between inside and outside by opening much of the front of the restaurant, having seating indoors, on the sidewalk, patio and in the parklet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll continue with our existing local focus by buying from local purveyors/producers/distributors, hiring local crew and keeping our dollars circulating in our local economy as much as we can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What makes a great burger?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meat that you can actually taste.\u003c/strong> This requires that the patty be thick enough that we can properly control cooking temperature. It also requires that the patty be cooked over high heat on a flame grill -- the sear that we achieve through grilling as opposed to frying on a griddle brings out the complexity of the meat flavors. We're using \u003ca href=\"http://www.fivedotranch.com/\">Five Dot Ranch\u003c/a> meat, which is the best I've tasted for burgers. It's got the right fattiness, the right flavor (Five Dot cattle feed on pasture grass supplemented with grain -- no corn), and it's from a local ranch that's been in the same family for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/grill-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/grill-2.jpg\" alt=\"grill\" title=\"grill\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43826\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting the meat temperature right.\u003c/strong> For me, that's medium-rare to medium, depending on my mood. The biggest mistake most burger places make is to overcook the meat. I hate ordering a medium-rare burger and getting one cooked medium-well and this happens a lot, no matter how much you pay for the burger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger-2.jpg\" alt=\"burger\" title=\"burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43819\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not overwhelming the meat with other junk.\u003c/strong> Do we really need another teriyaki/sprout/nacho cheese/fried-chicken-on-top burger? If the burger doesn't work with just a patty on a bun and a little veg and sauce, it doesn't work. Adding more crap is just an attempt to cover up a basically flawed start. We'll offer some add-ons (avocado, bacon, fried egg, a couple others), but not try to disguise the fact that we're actually serving hamburgers under there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burgers.jpg\" alt=\"burgers\" title=\"burgers\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43823\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/ketchup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/ketchup.jpg\" alt=\"Housemade ketchup and Romesco sauce\" title=\"Housemade ketchup and Romesco sauce\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43828\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Housemade ketchup and Romesco sauce.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting the bun right.\u003c/strong> Different strokes for different folks here, but the bun needs to be properly matched to the burger: size, thickness, and texture. The crust and crumb of the bread have to be tough enough to hold up to the juiciness of the patty (the patty is juicy, right?), but not so tough that you can't easily bite through them, even with soft ingredients inside. Buns need to be cut and toasted to bring out the flavors of the bread and to give sauces a place to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/burger.jpg\" alt=\"burger\" title=\"burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43821\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pickle on the side.\u003c/strong> A burger is rich. Some bites of sour pickle help break up the experience. We'll be serving pickles made from things other than cucumber (okra, whole pea pods, celery, chilies, and other fun stuff).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/pickles-2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/pickles-2.jpg\" alt=\"pickles\" title=\"pickles\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43830\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, this all boils down to starting with great ingredients and not screwing them up, which is my general philosophy on cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When will Victory Burger open its doors?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barring catastrophe, [we'll open] later this year. We expect to have permits in the next couple weeks and building the place won't take more than a couple months. If everything goes perfectly, this means we're opening in early fall. It's likely that not everything will go perfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/victory-burger-3.jpg\" alt=\"future victory burger space\" title=\"victory burger\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43842\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The future Victory Burger space.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/blueprints.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/05/blueprints.jpg\" alt=\"blueprints\" title=\"blueprints\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43818\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Blueprints for the future Victory Burger space.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/43650/actual-cafes-sal-bednarz-kickstarts-a-new-venture-victory-burger","authors":["2100"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_10","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_10350","bayareabites_401","bayareabites_14773","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_10344","bayareabites_2198","bayareabites_14757","bayareabites_9525","bayareabites_10467","bayareabites_10466"],"featImg":"bayareabites_43820","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_34233":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_34233","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"34233","score":null,"sort":[1319042760000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"umami-burger-comes-to-the-bay-area","title":"Umami Burger Comes To The Bay Area","publishDate":1319042760,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150273.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150273-e1318697977247.jpg\" alt=\"umami burger restaurant\" title=\"umami burger restaurant\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34273\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it's a beautiful, summer-like Friday night in October, it's probably one of the most challenging times to try and get a table anywhere in the Marina without a reservation. But while some folks are willing to stand in line and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG32kf_ttnk\" title=\"iPhone 4S\">wait for hours for the new iPhone 4S\u003c/a>, I was committed to getting into the new location of \u003ca href=\"http://umamiburger.com/menu/#6Union-SF\" title=\"Umami Burger\">Umami Burger\u003c/a>, the famed mini-empire from Los Angeles. As I'd never had the opportunity to try one of their much-ballyhooed burgers down in SoCal, I was looking forward to finally sampling their fare. They had opened their doors on October 7, much to the delight of the Bay Area foodie crowd which has already packed \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/umami-burger-san-francisco?rpp=40&sort_by=relevance_desc\">Yelp\u003c/a> with their reviews with its first week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I rounded up some fellow colleagues from KQED (one who jokingly refers to herself as a \"meatoutatarian,\" which means she'll only eat red meat when out dining) to join me in line. I'm glad I had the company of my colleagues as the wait was long: over an hour and a half long. Granted, as mentioned before, it was Friday night and the hype factor was in full effect, but some seating snafus at the front of the house had our party of three overlooked and not called when we were next in line. The hostesses were cheerful for the most part -- as cheerful as they could be while wrangling the horde milling about the front door -- and we were finally seated in the back of the restaurant. (If you're a lucky duo, you'll get one of the sidewalk tables that's out front while this lovely weather lasts.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Union Street location of Umami Burger is housed in the former location of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/jovino-san-francisco\">Jovino\u003c/a>. (According to one of my KQED colleagues who lives in the neighborhood and had dined their regularly, they were also known for their excellent burgers during its run.) The interior space itself has a spare, Asian aesthetic with wood accents and muted colors. The noise isn't overpowering, even when packed to full capacity was it was tonight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150277.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150277-e1318698032413.jpg\" alt=\"umami burger menu\" title=\"umami burger menu\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34279\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After we settled in, our server asked if this was our first time dining at the restaurant, then gave us an explanation of the meaning of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami\" title=\"umami\">\"umami\"\u003c/a> and their mission statement. We ordered an array of burgers to share: the Greenbird ($12), the Umami Burger ($11), and their priciest, most decadent item, the Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Burger ($15, topped with crispy pork belly and only available at this location). I was curious about their Cali Burger and its \"house-made American cheese,\" and apparently there's some cheese alchemy involved as they create their own special blend of cheeses in the kitchen (which are not made from scratch). Sides are ordered separately, and during our wait I had spotted other diners eating tater tots. Our server explained that these \"cheesy tater tots\" were now a secret menu item since they often sold out but were available for the asking. We ordered those along with a side of truffled cheese fries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fried items arrived first, and we dipped them into the Asian soup spoon filled with their house-made Umami ketchup. They were both delicious, especially the tater tots, which were crispy on the outside and the texture and flavor of creamy mashed potatoes on the inside. Later on we also asked for their complimentary jalapeño ranch sauce (which wasn't really appealing to any of us as it was reminiscent of cheap nacho chips) and the garlic aioli (fantastic). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150280-e1318698076482.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150280-e1318698115860.jpg\" alt=\"cheesy tater tots\" title=\"cheesy tater tots\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150283.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150283-e1318698151820.jpg\" alt=\"truffled fries\" title=\"truffled fries\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34274\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150290.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150290-e1318698185191.jpg\" alt=\"umami condiments\" title=\"umami condiments\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the burgers came shortly thereafter, and they were impressively plated on large white dishes with a \"U\" stamped on top of their brioche-like buns. The medium-rare, juicy Umami Burger was definitely our favorite, as the shiitake mushrooms, caramelized onions, roasted tomato, parmesan crisp, and umami ketchup toppings delivered a wonderfully savory combination as promised. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34277\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150289.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150289-e1318698237585.jpg\" alt=\"bacon-wrapped scallop and umami burgers\" title=\"bacon-wrapped scallop and umami burgers\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cem>Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Burger on the left, Umami Burger on the right.\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was partial to the Greenbird next; the Shelton Farms turkey had been seasoned with a blend of spices that made it taste unlike any other I'd ever had. It was truly original and delicious, and accompanied with avocado, green cheese (more house-made cheese magic from the kitchen), butter lettuce, green goddess dressing and sprouts. My colleague was curious about these sprouts as they had had black seeds; our server had assumed they were alfalfa sprouts, but after some inquiries were made to the kitchen it was determined they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsco.com.au/products-onion.html\" title=\"onion sprouts\">onion sprouts\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150287-e1318698271896.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150287-e1318698271896.jpg\" alt=\"greenbird burger\" title=\"greenbird burger\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, I wasn't as impressed with the Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Burger, which had two lean slices of somewhat tough pork belly dressed with a sweet chili sauce and yuzu-garlic aioli on top of the scallop patty (which reminded me more of a fried egg than scallops). The blend of flavors just didn't match up to the Umami Burger and I was disappointed with the quality of the pork belly; I'll have to try it again in the future to see if it holds up on another occasion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150284.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150284-e1318698390292.jpg\" alt=\"bacon-wrapped scallop burger\" title=\"bacon-wrapped scallop burger\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34275\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although we were stuffed, we ended our meal with one of their house-made ice cream sandwiches as the peanut-butter cookie made with salt-and-pepper ice cream (the flavor of that day which are rotated regularly) piqued our curiosity. The cookies were quite crisp and thus made it difficult to share (I think it's better as a solo dessert) and the ice cream had a vinegar tang to it instead of a peppery quality we were expecting. Not outstanding, but definitely not the main draw of the restaurant, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150293.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150293-e1318698425185.jpg\" alt=\"peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich\" title=\"peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34276\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did I find it to be worth the wait? Yes, although I probably won't head back anytime soon unless it's during the presumably quieter hours of the weekday. And our bill ended up at $34 each (we'd also ordered one drink apiece), so it's not like a cheap run to \u003ca href=\"http://www.in-n-out.com/\" title=\"In-N-Out\">In-N-Out\u003c/a>. But I'd love to try some of their other items off the menu, especially the Cali and Veggie Burgers, which are only available at the Union Street location. If you don't have the stomach to wait for too long, walk up to the bar and order to-go. We saw one lucky resident who lived right next door walk in, pick up his order and slipped right back upstairs for private dining in his apartment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://umamiburger.com/menu/#6Union-SF\">Umami Burger\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2184 Union St at Fillmore \u003ca href=\"http://g.co/maps/vtw55\" title=\"map\">map\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n415-440-UMAMI\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/UmamiBurgerSF\">@UmamiBurgerSF\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Umamiburger\">Umami Burger\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSun-Thurs: 11AM-10PM\u003cbr>\nFri and Sat: 11AM-10PM\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While some folks are willing to stand in line and wait for hours for the new iPhone 4s, I was committed to getting into the new location of Umami Burger, the famed mini-empire from Los Angeles.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1319042760,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1107},"headData":{"title":"Umami Burger Comes To The Bay Area | KQED","description":"While some folks are willing to stand in line and wait for hours for the new iPhone 4s, I was committed to getting into the new location of Umami Burger, the famed mini-empire from Los Angeles.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Umami Burger Comes To The Bay Area","datePublished":"2011-10-19T16:46:00.000Z","dateModified":"2011-10-19T16:46:00.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"34233 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=34233","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/10/19/umami-burger-comes-to-the-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"Umami Burger Comes To The Bay Area","path":"/bayareabites/34233/umami-burger-comes-to-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150273.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150273-e1318697977247.jpg\" alt=\"umami burger restaurant\" title=\"umami burger restaurant\" width=\"549\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34273\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it's a beautiful, summer-like Friday night in October, it's probably one of the most challenging times to try and get a table anywhere in the Marina without a reservation. But while some folks are willing to stand in line and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG32kf_ttnk\" title=\"iPhone 4S\">wait for hours for the new iPhone 4S\u003c/a>, I was committed to getting into the new location of \u003ca href=\"http://umamiburger.com/menu/#6Union-SF\" title=\"Umami Burger\">Umami Burger\u003c/a>, the famed mini-empire from Los Angeles. As I'd never had the opportunity to try one of their much-ballyhooed burgers down in SoCal, I was looking forward to finally sampling their fare. They had opened their doors on October 7, much to the delight of the Bay Area foodie crowd which has already packed \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/umami-burger-san-francisco?rpp=40&sort_by=relevance_desc\">Yelp\u003c/a> with their reviews with its first week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I rounded up some fellow colleagues from KQED (one who jokingly refers to herself as a \"meatoutatarian,\" which means she'll only eat red meat when out dining) to join me in line. I'm glad I had the company of my colleagues as the wait was long: over an hour and a half long. Granted, as mentioned before, it was Friday night and the hype factor was in full effect, but some seating snafus at the front of the house had our party of three overlooked and not called when we were next in line. The hostesses were cheerful for the most part -- as cheerful as they could be while wrangling the horde milling about the front door -- and we were finally seated in the back of the restaurant. (If you're a lucky duo, you'll get one of the sidewalk tables that's out front while this lovely weather lasts.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Union Street location of Umami Burger is housed in the former location of \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/jovino-san-francisco\">Jovino\u003c/a>. (According to one of my KQED colleagues who lives in the neighborhood and had dined their regularly, they were also known for their excellent burgers during its run.) The interior space itself has a spare, Asian aesthetic with wood accents and muted colors. The noise isn't overpowering, even when packed to full capacity was it was tonight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150277.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150277-e1318698032413.jpg\" alt=\"umami burger menu\" title=\"umami burger menu\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34279\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After we settled in, our server asked if this was our first time dining at the restaurant, then gave us an explanation of the meaning of \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami\" title=\"umami\">\"umami\"\u003c/a> and their mission statement. We ordered an array of burgers to share: the Greenbird ($12), the Umami Burger ($11), and their priciest, most decadent item, the Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Burger ($15, topped with crispy pork belly and only available at this location). I was curious about their Cali Burger and its \"house-made American cheese,\" and apparently there's some cheese alchemy involved as they create their own special blend of cheeses in the kitchen (which are not made from scratch). Sides are ordered separately, and during our wait I had spotted other diners eating tater tots. Our server explained that these \"cheesy tater tots\" were now a secret menu item since they often sold out but were available for the asking. We ordered those along with a side of truffled cheese fries. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fried items arrived first, and we dipped them into the Asian soup spoon filled with their house-made Umami ketchup. They were both delicious, especially the tater tots, which were crispy on the outside and the texture and flavor of creamy mashed potatoes on the inside. Later on we also asked for their complimentary jalapeño ranch sauce (which wasn't really appealing to any of us as it was reminiscent of cheap nacho chips) and the garlic aioli (fantastic). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150280-e1318698076482.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150280-e1318698115860.jpg\" alt=\"cheesy tater tots\" title=\"cheesy tater tots\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34278\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150283.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150283-e1318698151820.jpg\" alt=\"truffled fries\" title=\"truffled fries\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34274\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150290.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150290-e1318698185191.jpg\" alt=\"umami condiments\" title=\"umami condiments\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the burgers came shortly thereafter, and they were impressively plated on large white dishes with a \"U\" stamped on top of their brioche-like buns. The medium-rare, juicy Umami Burger was definitely our favorite, as the shiitake mushrooms, caramelized onions, roasted tomato, parmesan crisp, and umami ketchup toppings delivered a wonderfully savory combination as promised. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_34277\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 550px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150289.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150289-e1318698237585.jpg\" alt=\"bacon-wrapped scallop and umami burgers\" title=\"bacon-wrapped scallop and umami burgers\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34277\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cem>Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Burger on the left, Umami Burger on the right.\u003c/em>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I was partial to the Greenbird next; the Shelton Farms turkey had been seasoned with a blend of spices that made it taste unlike any other I'd ever had. It was truly original and delicious, and accompanied with avocado, green cheese (more house-made cheese magic from the kitchen), butter lettuce, green goddess dressing and sprouts. My colleague was curious about these sprouts as they had had black seeds; our server had assumed they were alfalfa sprouts, but after some inquiries were made to the kitchen it was determined they were \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsco.com.au/products-onion.html\" title=\"onion sprouts\">onion sprouts\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150287-e1318698271896.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150287-e1318698271896.jpg\" alt=\"greenbird burger\" title=\"greenbird burger\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34280\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly, I wasn't as impressed with the Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Burger, which had two lean slices of somewhat tough pork belly dressed with a sweet chili sauce and yuzu-garlic aioli on top of the scallop patty (which reminded me more of a fried egg than scallops). The blend of flavors just didn't match up to the Umami Burger and I was disappointed with the quality of the pork belly; I'll have to try it again in the future to see if it holds up on another occasion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150284.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150284-e1318698390292.jpg\" alt=\"bacon-wrapped scallop burger\" title=\"bacon-wrapped scallop burger\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34275\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although we were stuffed, we ended our meal with one of their house-made ice cream sandwiches as the peanut-butter cookie made with salt-and-pepper ice cream (the flavor of that day which are rotated regularly) piqued our curiosity. The cookies were quite crisp and thus made it difficult to share (I think it's better as a solo dessert) and the ice cream had a vinegar tang to it instead of a peppery quality we were expecting. Not outstanding, but definitely not the main draw of the restaurant, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150293.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/10/P1150293-e1318698425185.jpg\" alt=\"peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich\" title=\"peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34276\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So did I find it to be worth the wait? Yes, although I probably won't head back anytime soon unless it's during the presumably quieter hours of the weekday. And our bill ended up at $34 each (we'd also ordered one drink apiece), so it's not like a cheap run to \u003ca href=\"http://www.in-n-out.com/\" title=\"In-N-Out\">In-N-Out\u003c/a>. But I'd love to try some of their other items off the menu, especially the Cali and Veggie Burgers, which are only available at the Union Street location. If you don't have the stomach to wait for too long, walk up to the bar and order to-go. We saw one lucky resident who lived right next door walk in, pick up his order and slipped right back upstairs for private dining in his apartment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://umamiburger.com/menu/#6Union-SF\">Umami Burger\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n2184 Union St at Fillmore \u003ca href=\"http://g.co/maps/vtw55\" title=\"map\">map\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n415-440-UMAMI\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/#!/UmamiBurgerSF\">@UmamiBurgerSF\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Umamiburger\">Umami Burger\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Hours:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSun-Thurs: 11AM-10PM\u003cbr>\nFri and Sat: 11AM-10PM\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/34233/umami-burger-comes-to-the-bay-area","authors":["2100"],"categories":["bayareabites_752","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_10","bayareabites_90"],"tags":["bayareabites_1964","bayareabites_9807","bayareabites_373","bayareabites_9525","bayareabites_14745","bayareabites_9806"],"featImg":"bayareabites_34277","label":"bayareabites"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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