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My colleague Nathaniel Popper, who covers finance and tech from the Bay Area, wrote this dispatch about what’s in a neighborhood name:

The Gourmet Ghetto has been at the heart of the Bay Area’s culinary culture for decades.

It was from this little strip of north Berkeley that Alice Waters started a local food revolution back in the 1970s with Chez Panisse, just before the area’s name was adopted.

But now Berkeley’s famous politics are catching up with the area and its memorable moniker.

Nick Cho, the owner of a new coffee shop — with the suitable name Wrecking Ball Coffee Roasters — told the local news site Berkeleyside, that the area’s use of the word ghetto is racially insensitive and should be done away with.

Ms. Waters herself chimed in, in support of Mr. Cho, spurring a debate among local businesses, and on social media.