Chef Mona Leena Michael joins us from Oakland.
She’s a Palestinian-American chef who has worked for over a decade at some of the best restaurants in San Francisco.
She brings those skills to the kitchen & creates a modern twist when it comes to Palestinian cuisine.
- At the start of 2020 Chef Mona was working at Dyafa.
- Due to COVID the restaurant closed.
- Chef Mona took action by starting https://themanaeeshlady.com/
- Despite battling the health department about her pop-up she continues to move forward, determined to make the best of 2020.
- We discuss:
- The Bay Area’s latest lockdown & restrictions.
- What’s currently happening in Bay Area’s food scene
- As an industry do we need to reform pop-ups on some level in order to make them easier & accessible for everyone to make a livable wage?
- It’s not just Southern California, some Bay Area restaurants are already defying the ban…
- Undocumented chefs are struggling on a whole other level during COVID
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