![]() It’s comfort food, baked from scratch every day to give students a few bites of warmth before class on dry, frigid Concord mornings. Diablo Unified School District’s director of food and nutrition services. ![]() The recipe has been tweaked over the decades to make them healthier and to account for changes to the state’s nutrition guidelines, says Dominic Machi, Mt. RELATED: 'SNL' star Will Forte talks Bay Area childhood, mall pranks and his spooky new film The next step was crucial, as it separated the Concord zombie from a similarly named (but inferior, more sandwich-like) baked good native to the Yakima Valley. Concord zombies had to be sealed off so as to not allow the cheese to seep out of the fragile bun, so they crimped the edges of each roll with a special tool to ensure they’d stay tightly closed. ![]() After the dough rested, the bakers would stretch it to fit baking pans, and layer it with cheese, and then another layer of dough. If Concord ever had a signature food, this is it.Īs lore dictates, after zombies first caught on with the kids, Phillips and Ballock would arrive early to work each day and roll out sprawling sheets of white doughy fluff to meet daily demand. Early that decade, Mount Diablo High School bakers Decla Phillips and Helen Ballock improvised the breakfast treat in the school’s cafeteria kitchen, reportedly riffing on Ballock's husband's recipe for Piroshki. Mount Diablo Unified School District students like me have been buying these things since the ‘60s. They were immaculate and nutritionally dubious, made flawless in memory. I recall zombies clearly from my days at Concord High School in the mid-aughts: bready white cloud puffs containing globs of melted American cheese, brushed with a sheen of salted butter. It’s one of the most populous cities in the Bay Area, credited with gifting the world Tom Hanks, Dave Brubeck, at least two of the Workaholics, Waterworld (or whatever it's called now) and the area’s great culinary contribution, the cheese zombie. It's far removed from the bustling vainglory of San Francisco, the excessive hipness of Oakland and the poshness of the North Bay.Ĭoncord is just Concord, your friendly neighborhood suburb, simple but replete with land and history and families. ![]() The deep East Bay locale, 30 miles from the city, has a different air. ![]()
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