Myles Burks of Concord Tap House, DeReath Times of San Jose’s DeeLee Cakes and Maurice Dissels of Pleasanton’s Oyo talk struggle, success and making their marks.
Less than three years have passed since we faced one of our country’s most significant civil rights movements of the past half-century. In 2020, publications like ours crafted and have since maintainedand other food and drink businesses to support throughout the Bay Area, not just during Black History Month but all year round.
Cage passed away in 2005, but her legacy lives on in the dense, buttery cakes Times bakes and sells in and around the South Bay. The pandemic lockdown sent her into the kitchen in March 2020. By May, with the help of friends and her son, Times was selling her Bundt pan cakes, which start at $40 and come in flavors like sweet potato and red velvet, to friends of friends.
“You rarely meet someone who doesn’t like pound cake or have a grandmother who made it for them,” she says. “It reminds people of down-home Sunday dinners and Southern barbecues.” You might say Concord’s Myles Burks grew up in the business. He was all of 9 when he started working alongside his dad, Keith, making Louisiana-style barbecue at BJK’s Rib Factory in Bethel Island and catering for the 49ers and Raiders.and Frickin’ Fried, a soul food and fry house, also in Concord. “The mentality of working came easy. My father implemented that in me.”
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