Alice Kahn

Alice Joyce Kahn (an haife ta a shekara ta 1943 )ma’aikaciyar jinya ce Ba’amurke kuma mai ba da dariya wacce ta yada kalmar" yuppie",tana kwatanta ƙwararrun ƙwararrun ƙwararrun birane, da kuma kalmar" Gourmet Ghetto",tana mai suna wani yanki mai tasiri na Berkeley.,California. Kahn ya kasance mai ba da gudummawa na yau da kullun zuwa Gabas Bay Express,marubuci a San Francisco Chronicle,kuma mai rubutun ra'ayi a Los Angeles Times.Ta kuma rubuta wa mujallar Mother Jones da San Jose Mercury News.Wata mace mai suna "sit-down comic" da aka lura da ita don "wasan yahudawa-Amurka", an kwatanta irin wasan barkwancinta da na Erma Bombeck. Mai karatu na Chicago yayi sharhi game da ra'ayinta na siyasa mai sassaucin ra'ayi,yana rubuta cewa ita " Joan Rivers ce da lamiri na zamantakewa."

Rayuwar farko da aiki

An haifi Kahn Alice Joyce Nelson kuma ya girma a West Side,Chicago,a unguwar Lawndale.Mahaifinta mai barin gado shine Herman Nelson,kuma mahaifiyarta ita ce tsohuwar Idelle Avonovitch,wata matashiya mai kwatankwacin matsuguni daga shtetl a yankin Suwałki na Poland.Kahn yana da 'yar'uwa ɗaya mai suna Myrna Lou Nelson.Iyayen Kahn Yahudawa ne na Orthodox amma sun shawarci 'yan matan su da su bi wasu halaye na zamani. Ta halarci makarantar sakandare ta Senn,inda ta sadu da Edward Paul Kahn,mijinta na gaba.Ta yi rajista a cikin 1961 a Jami'ar Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Bayan shekaru biyu,ta canza zuwa Jami'ar Columbia a New York,inda ta sami digiri a rubuce a 1965. Edward ya ce yana tafiya yamma zuwa UC Berkeley don karatun digiri a fannin tattalin arziki,kuma ta haɗu da shi a Berkeley,ta yi rajista a jihar San Francisco don samun takardar shaidar koyarwa. Sun yi aure a watan Agusta 1966.

Kahn ya koyar da Ingilishi na sakandare na tsawon shekaru uku a San Lorenzo.A cikin 1969,ta yi murabus kafin a kore ta saboda rage girman gundumomi.Ta fara aiki a asibitin Kyauta na Berkeley,kuma an ƙarfafa ta ta zama ma'aikaciyar jinya. A cikin 1973 ta shiga Jami'ar Jihar California,Hayward,don zama ma'aikaciyar jinya mai rijista,tana aiki tare da Sashen Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a na Alameda County.Ta koma Jihar SF don samun digiri na aikin jinya a 1976,kuma ta ɗauki matsayi a ƙungiyar likitoci a Berkeley.

Writing

Kahn wrote an article using the "Gourmet Ghetto" moniker to describe the influential retail neighborhood of Berkeley previously called North Berkeley. The area was known as a hotbed for fine foods beginning in the 1970s because it held the first Peet's Coffee location, the Cheese Board Collective, a Berkeley Food Co-op grocery store, Chez Panisse restaurant, and other specialty food shops. In 1975, the Cheese Board began selling fresh-baked bread, bringing more customers to the neighborhood. Kahn shopped at the Cheese Board, and she wrote an article that popularized the term "Gourmet Ghetto". Various origin stories exist for the term "gourmet ghetto": Kahn said that she did not coin the term. One apocryphal story is that columnist Herb Caen used the term, but if so, he did not write it down. Cheese Board employee–co-owner L. John Harris remembers that a fellow collectivist named Darryl Henriques used "gourmet ghetto" in a comedy routine he delivered with his street theater troupe East Bay Sharks at The Freight and Salvage in the 1970s; Harris guesses that Kahn heard Henriques use the term before she used it herself in her writings. (Henriques later moved to Los Angeles to act in comedies, and played a gun salesman in the 1995 film Jumanji.) By 1980 the nickname was widely established: writer and editor Sandra Rosenzweig wrote about Northern California restaurants for Clay Felker's New West magazine based in Los Angeles, saying that Rosenthal's deli was "Located in the heart of Berkeley's gourmet ghetto – next door to Cocolat and half a block from Chez Panisse".

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Kahn ya sami wahayi daga 1983 Roz Chast mai ban dariya "Harin ƙwararrun Matasa!"

A farkon 1983,Kahn ya fara rubuta labarin game da ƙwararrun ƙwararrun birane masu suna Dirk da Brie,nazarin faux-sociology na satirical.Ta ƙirƙira kalmar "yuppie" don labarin,ta dogara da kalmar "yups" da ke bayyana a cikin Chicago Reader,da kuma a kan wani zane mai ban dariya na New Yorker na Roz Chast mai suna "Attack of the Young Professionals!", An buga a Afrilu 1983.Ba ta san an yi amfani da kalmar yuppie a baya ba. Ta buga labarin satirical a cikin East Bay Express a ranar 10 ga Yuni,1983,kimanin makonni goma bayan Bob Greene ya sanya kalmar a cikin shafi na Chicago Tribune a ranar 23 ga Maris Sashin Kahn ya kasance cikakken kwatanci,mafi mahimmanci,kuma bayan wasu wallafe-wallafen sun sake buga shi, ya yi aiki don haɓaka kalmar zuwa babban mataki.

Bayan karbar tayin tikitin kyauta don ganin Matattu Mai Godiya a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Girka a Berkeley,Kahn ya sake nazarin kide-kiden su na Yuli 1984,yana rubutawa a Gabashin Bay Express yadda ta zana Jerry Garcia a matsayin "mai dusar ƙanƙara mai ƙazanta hippie". Garcia ya ji daɗin bitar ta kuma ya nemi Kahn ya zo gidansa da ke San Rafael don yin hira da shi,a lokaci guda kuma ya ƙi amincewa da buƙatar hira daga shirin Yau. Kahn ta isa ta sami Garcia sosai a kan wani abu (wani yanayin da ta iya gane shi cikin sauƙi daga horar da ma'aikatan jinya) kuma ta yi tunanin zai zama mummunan batun hira.Ya kasance mai daidaituwa,duk da haka,kuma Kahn ya rubuta hirar a kan kaset,tare da Garcia yana magana game da yarinta da sha'awar kiɗa.Kahn ya gyara hirar kuma ya buga yanki a mujallar <i id="mwlg">Yamma</i> a ƙarshen 1984:"Jerry Garcia da Kira na Weird".Kahn ta karbi dala 1200 daga Yamma amma ta ba da kusan duka ga Dennis McNally,mai tallata Matattu na Godiya,saboda ta yi kuskure da lalata motarsa da nata yayin da ta bar gidan Garcia. An sake buga guntun Kahn sau da yawa,yana bayyana a cikin littattafai game da Garcia da Matattu masu godiya.A cikin 2019,an ƙirƙira kaset ɗin kaset don yawo akan layi don magoya baya su ji cikakkiyar hirar a karon farko.