California Food Journalism and News 2020 [SF Bay Area, Los Angeles and the rest of California]

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Adding to the list of Oakland Guatemalan restaurants in this post. There are now two more:
Guatemaya Cafe and Parra’s Restaurant (Oaxaqueno, Guatemalan and Salvadoreno) on International Blvd.

Oakland news and notes 2018

Very interesting. I hadn’t heard of the Mam language before. Many years ago in my much younger days, I spent a month in a Guatemalan town called Quetzaltenango, short for Xela in Mayan. According to Wikipedia, ‘Mam is a Mayan language with half a million speakers in the Guatemalan departments of Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango, San Marcos, and Retalhuleu, and 10,000 in the Mexican state of Chiapas. There are also thousands more in Oakland, California[3] and Washington, D.C., in the United State…