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Speaker 2: Radio morees, I'm viosa. In advance of this weekend's football

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Speaker 2: festivities and the main event, the Bad Bunny Concert, we

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Speaker 2: have an interview with Reina Maldonado, the force behind Las

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Speaker 2: Guerrera's Kitchen, a family owned and women led kitchen in Oakland.

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Speaker 2: Reina shares with us her family's journey bringing Gomra Costena,

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Speaker 2: a cuisine from La Costa Rerande, Guerrero, Mexico. She shares

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Speaker 2: with us her mother's journey as a street vendor to

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Speaker 2: Rena's journey as a restaurant tour. This weekend, they celebrate

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Speaker 2: a new milestone catering the Super Bowl. Reina tells us

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Speaker 2: what it takes to cater an event of this magnitude

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Speaker 2: and why it feels so special that an immigrant business

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Speaker 2: is serving three thousand tamales and five thousand mission street

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Speaker 3: Hi everyone, I'm Brine Malonado. I'm the co founder of

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Speaker 3: Las Guerreras, a restaurant located in downtown Oakland. We are

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Speaker 3: a family owned business. We have been around for six

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Speaker 3: years now and we were born in Guerrero, Mexico and

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Speaker 3: all of our dishes are traditionally from Guerrero. When we

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Speaker 3: first migrated here, we were in San Francisco. My mom

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Speaker 3: is really the one that started everything. She was a

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Speaker 3: street vendor for fifteen years, and those fifteen years she

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Speaker 3: built a really strong community. And during that time, I

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Speaker 3: also grew up in a lot of community organizations. A

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Speaker 3: lot of them also hired my mom to be the

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Speaker 3: cater So she would bring tamales bosole to our meetings,

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Speaker 3: and it was really special because they kind of like

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Speaker 3: just knew our family. And when we first started, it

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Speaker 3: was really out of necessity. My mom had just left

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Speaker 3: a more flexible schedule. But it was also during a

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Speaker 3: time when gentrification happened in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: And so that really.

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Speaker 3: Pushed my mom to get creative and go into her

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Speaker 3: for it. A lot of her customers were mothers and

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Speaker 3: of really close to my mom and after fifteen years,

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Speaker 3: she was being harassed during that time and there was

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Speaker 3: really high policing during that time.

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Speaker 1: It was really scary because it was also like it.

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Speaker 3: Was pretty obvious that were targeting us, and so we

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Speaker 3: decided to join like Cosina, which is an incubator program

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Speaker 3: here in San Francisco that helped support women entrepreneurs to

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Speaker 3: formalize the business. And when we did that, it was

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Speaker 3: what are we going to do with the food that

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Speaker 3: my mom already provides to the community, and do we

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Speaker 3: really want to formalize our business like it's we've been

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Speaker 3: making it And we were already thinking about moving to

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Speaker 3: lot easier to stream nd And so when we joined

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Speaker 3: like Cocina, they really helped us with the process and

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Speaker 3: trying to open the restaurant was something new for us.

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Speaker 3: They were like, you're ready to go. So when we

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Speaker 3: decided to open, we were like, wait, we only offer

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Speaker 3: like the malis and posoli, what else did we do?

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Speaker 3: So we had to get creative and bring out more

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Speaker 3: become this entrepreneur and like to really highlight her dishes.

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Speaker 3: We were very honest since the very beginning that we

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Speaker 3: are an immigrant woman owned business, but on top of that,

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Speaker 3: we're also like all family. You have my dad who's

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Speaker 3: also the cosineto my mom. It's all of her dishes.

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Speaker 3: My dad had to learn how to cook her dishes.

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Speaker 3: And then my sisters also joined us, so they help

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Speaker 3: how we really wanted to make sure that we represent

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Speaker 3: La Cosa and get it on and to like really

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Speaker 3: put our heart into the ingredients and the dishes that

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Speaker 4: For our listeners who maybe are not familiar, you've mentioned

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Speaker 4: theamlas and bosole and your mom's dishes. Can you go

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Speaker 4: into further detail about what typifies Schmida costaenna, what makes

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Speaker 4: where did the recipes come from, and maybe like an

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Speaker 3: Comina Costaenna is really special because you have both the

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Speaker 3: it's very mixed. We have a dish specifically a day

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Speaker 3: specifically for whoever's so in Guerrero, whoever is where you

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Speaker 3: their habit. It's really fun. My great grandmother had a

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Speaker 3: it was really special because last year we opened a

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Speaker 3: Because Ghetto is also like the second blackest town in Mexico.

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Speaker 3: We have so many ingredients that you also get to

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Speaker 3: And so I think what makes get at all so

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Speaker 5: It's so beautiful to hear you highlight a specific region

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Speaker 5: is that you also have this opportunity to cater the

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Speaker 3: Going into the beneath the Ble really and it is

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Speaker 3: big project. We are catering the Telgate, which is a

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Speaker 1: We were like, is this real? Is this really? Is

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Speaker 3: think about your capacity. When we bid for this specific

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Speaker 3: dishes that we started to put out in our catering menu,

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Speaker 3: and then we decided let's just put dishes that we

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Speaker 3: grew up with. We started with the damales. Let's put that,

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Speaker 3: let's put you know, offer damales and let's do a

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Speaker 3: Mission street burrito. We grew up in the mission where

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Speaker 1: But also.

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Speaker 3: You know, to be an immigrant owned business taking up

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Speaker 4: Thank you for all of that background. Can you describe

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Speaker 4: What comes in and what kind of do you use?

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Speaker 4: And how big are you making these? And I'm also

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Speaker 4: bolts of preparing such a massive order for such a

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Speaker 3: So we are making over three thousand tamanas and around

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Speaker 3: five thousand mini burritos, so everything is meani.

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Speaker 1: It's like so cute. Our theaman is are bite sized

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Speaker 3: And I think what makes a mission burrito so special

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Speaker 3: I think if you at Picoao, it can I be juicy,

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Speaker 3: that's one of the things that we're really working on ourselves.

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Speaker 3: well as it's going to have sour cream and cheese.

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Speaker 3: Sure the beans are really good. We cannot add porkloard

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Speaker 1: A bomb like salsa. And we're still trying to figure

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Speaker 3: Be too spicy, also for this event specifically, so we're

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Speaker 3: Something else that made this project so special is that

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Speaker 3: good setup for all of these items because they have

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Speaker 3: the day before really early, and in order to reheat them,

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Speaker 3: we're going to speak that themala is, So they got

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Speaker 3: are the burritos going to reheat.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for sharing the nitty gritty, because food is

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Speaker 5: such a communal act, right and especially Mexican food and

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Speaker 5: the culinary tradition, the ancestral tradition, of Damales, and so

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Speaker 5: as someone who on the other side right receiving the food,

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Speaker 5: who gets to enjoy the food, may not know all

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Speaker 5: of the work that goes into not just making it,

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Speaker 3: And it was really interesting because when we say yes

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Speaker 1: And also, you know, I think it doesn't it doesn't

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Speaker 4: Football is a uniquely American sport that is really only

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Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we're back with more of

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Speaker 1: We are Las Guerritas.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Hina. This was so so insightful

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Speaker 3: I love what you guys do, and I'm so proud

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