Hipsters, pack your bags. Eureka might be too mainstream for you now. The July-August issue of the American Automobile Association’s Via magazine features seven highlights from the “vibrant Northern California seaport, famed for teeming fisheries and towering redwood forests.” Carson Mansion, the Hikshari’ Trail, Samoa Cookhouse, Sequoia Park Zoo, Living the Dream Ice Cream, Humboldt […]
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the managing editor of the North Coast Journal. She won the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2020 Best Food Writing Award and the 2019 California News Publisher's Association award for Best Writing.
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Hum Plate Roundup
Does a baby really need candy? Of course not. So what’s wrong with taking it? Go ahead and order off the kids’ menu. Little Devils You know that deviled egg recipe your aunt is so stingy with? Nobody wants it anymore. Instead we’ll be trying to recreate the one at Humboldt Smokehouse (310 Fifth St., […]
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Little Devils
You know that deviled egg recipe your aunt is so stingy with? Nobody wants it anymore. Instead we’ll be trying to recreate the ones at Humboldt Smokehouse (310 Fifth St., Eureka), topped with house-smoked bacon or pork belly, barbecue sauce and green onions ($1, $1.50). They have the tiniest bits of tart pickle to balance […]
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Shell Shock
It was a rough room. At both ends of the long table in the window at Mazzotti’s on the Arcata Plaza, judges were bemoaning an entry with over-seasoned and undercooked bread and wondering aloud who would plate up closed clams for a competition. The annual competition for best raw and cooked oyster, as well as […]
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Pop Roast
Even amid sea changes in family and gender roles, with parents sharing more equally in childrearing and wage-earning duties, Father’s Day continues to kind of suck rocks. More and more dads are changing diapers and making dinner, so where are the brunches and spa days? Where is the birthstone-encrusted man jewelry? One mother I know, […]
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Three Squares
Breakfast Use this magazine to stake out a sidewalk table at Cafe Brio (791 G St., Arcata), then line up inside to place your order at the counter. Think you know what you want? Your time peering at the sweet options in the pastry case will test your resolve. The quiche is old-school bistro richness […]
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Breaking the Mold
Are you hitting the Open Studios circuit this weekend? Like the Magic Kingdom, it’s nigh impossible to see it all (peruse the guide in this week’s Journal — it’s daunting). Put glass artist George Bucquet’s workspace at 1485 L St. in Arcata at the top of your list. For one thing, he’ll be demonstrating the […]
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Team Cilantro
Cilantro is the Adam Sandler of the herb world: You love it or you hate it. Apparently, whether it tastes like the joyful rush of summer or something you’d use to get engine oil off your hands is at least partly genetic. One hopes that, along with curing cancer, scientists will one day find a […]
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We Are the Champions
All over the county and beyond, men and women are wired with caffeine, hunched in backyards and garages, frantically welding and painting the finishing touches on their human-powered sculptures for the Kinetic Grand Championship race this weekend. View the strange fruit of their labor on Saturday, May 24 at around 10 a.m., when the parade […]
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Mad Funny
This weekend is all about wacky people in a madcap race around the county. Set the mood on Friday, May 23 at the Eureka Theater with a big-screen showing of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at 7 p.m. ($5). Hard to fathom how the same director who chiseled out Judgment at Nuremberg rediscovered […]
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Fresh Meat
The Journal’s new Menu of Menus, our annual listing of places to nibble, nosh, taste wine and sample brews, is plated and served up on newsstands. (This edition also features Linda Stansberry’s inspiring egg, cheese and carb odyssey, “Morning, Noon and Night.”) And since last summer, the roster of restaurants in Humboldt has changed like […]
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Paddle Up
Up a creek lately? Humboldt State University’s Center Activities has got your paddle. Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, grab a few of your nearest and dearest for Family Fun Day Paddles ($20, free for kids under 18, 50 pound minimum). Choose a kayak and let folks at […]