Now you can add one of the “big boys” to that list – the New York Times (hat tip: Algemeiner). And you know immediately you are going to get a puff (pastry) piece with the title: An Arab Bakery in Oakland Full of California Love (although I guess I had you at New York Times). Before she embarked on a baking career, Reem Assil grew up in a Palestinian-Syrian household and spent a decade as a community organizer. Both of these things are evident at Reem’s California, the bright, bustling Arab bakery Ms. Assil opened in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood in May. “It was really scary,” Ms. Assil said of the experience, but added that it won her new allies.