Alan Chazaro

California

Food Writer and Reporter at KQED Arts and Culture

Books: Piñata Theory; This Isn't a Frank Ocean Cover Album / prev @KQED / words @gqmagazine @npr @guardian @slamonline / professor sometimes, Maceo’s dad

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Articles

Bay Area minor league baseball reminds us what we're rooting for

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Alan Chazaro

Unless you’re a diehard baseballer, you’ve likely never been to a Stockton Ports game. Chances are, you’ve never even heard of the team. The Ports are a Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics, who drew national ire for their painfully out-of-touch 2024 decision to ditch The Town for Las Vegas, by way of Sacramento. Ever since the A’s announced their departure, the Ports have seen an increase in fans, many of whom were once loyal to the green and gold.
Ride of the Valkyries: how the WNBA finally found a home in the Bay Area

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Alan Chazaro

Purple-dyed ponytails and sequin jackets glittering in shades of black and violet. Fans are decked out in sports logos and LGBTQ rainbows while Black Box’s Everybody Everybody – a queer dance club classic – booms from the speakers. Ali Wong is playfully dancing on the Jumbotron. There’s no misinterpreting it: the WNBA has arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This growing Mexico City food trend has deep roots in California

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Alan Chazaro

A few years ago, if you asked anyone in Mexico City where to find a “smash burger,” they would’ve looked at you like an out-of-place time traveler. Though the concept isn’t novel to California eaters, it has recently exploded in popularity throughout Mexico’s capital. With its thinly pressed, juicy-crisp patties and loads of sauce, California smash burgers are the latest American food trend in the metropolis already known for its gastronomic wonders.
The unbelievable origins of Mexican baseball

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Alan Chazaro

Sports historians have long contested baseball’s alleged U.S. origins, suggesting it instead began in the United Kingdom as a sport known as rounders . For three years in the early 20th century, a commission of baseball executives and president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs deliberated the issue of the game’s beginnings. To further complicate matters, Canadians claim to have recorded the — one year before the sport supposedly debuted in Cooperstown.
The unbelievable origins of Mexican baseball

3 weeks ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Alan Chazaro

Here’s a curveball: baseball, which is said to have been born in 1839 in the pastures of Cooperstown, New York — a humble farm town in the Yankee state — isn’t as strictly American as it’s made out to be.
A day with the Diablos at Mexico City's family-friendly baseball park

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Alan Chazaro

There’s ongoing debate as to where baseball truly originated, but even Cooperstown diehards would agree that, basically from the jump, the sport went international. The game first migrated southward in 1847 during the U.S.-Mexico War, when American soldiers won a decisive battle and captured the wooden leg of future Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna, using the military general’s prosthetic limb to play what is said to be the first baseball game in Mexico at a park in Xalapa, Veracruz.
Warriors fans are fighting each other over T-shirts

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Alan Chazaro

It’s a simple concept. Every postseason, the Warriors give away thousands of T-shirts to their fans, with the unworn apparel draping every seat in the arena hours before the game starts. The shirts represent a symbolic request for each ticket holder’s participation in the ceremonious, collective sporting experience that will take place. It’s the great unifier in modern sports in which no person is above or beneath the next, making every fan appear to be of the same cloth — quite literally.
For the love of coconuts: new cafe in Xalapa goes all in on the tropical treat

1 month ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Alan Chazaro

A few weeks ago, a new food venture opened up in downtown Xalapa, in an area of the city near the university with a high concentration of delectable cafes frequented by youthful couples, students and artists. Whenever anything opens in this part of town, I’m excited to see what it’ll add to an already impressive culinary scene.
Mexico Reigns Supreme Sacramento Beer Shop Cervezalandia

1 month ago | sf.eater.com | Alan Chazaro

If you drew a wobbly timeline of Mexican beer history — beginning in the 16th century, when Spanish colonizers landed in modern day Veracruz and introduced the European libation to Mesoamerica, and through subsequent centuries, including the inception of Mexican lagers in the 1890s thanks to the development of railroad technologies, when Santiago Graf imported the proper materials and equipment needed from the United States to brew the first ever Vienna-style lager in Toluca, Mexico — you’d...
Chedraui: From Xalapa haberdashery to international supermarket

1 month ago | mexiconewsdaily.com | Alan Chazaro

For being such a compact and lightly visited city, Xalapa — the quaint capital of Veracruz — has provided the rest of Mexico with some of its most important amenities. Aside from being one of the country’s main coffee producing regions and the namesake and origin of jalapeños en escabeche, is where Chedraui began. The nation’s most profitable Mexican-owned supermarket, Chedraui currently accounts for 19.3% of national grocery market sales.