When it comes to cooking, Tom Pagano is a homerun hitter. He not only helped start Ramone’s Café & Bakery and the Plaza Grill, he’s also built a local food distribution empire that keeps dozens of food enterprises on shelves all over Humboldt County. But when it comes to finding a successor to own and […]
Steven Saint
Steven Saint is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Time Magazine, the LA Weekly and the Denver Post.
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Quinoa’s Boom and Bust
Let’s say you first heard of quinoa reading about the winner of a local recipe contest and you decide to try making the new dish for dinner. They call quinoa an “ancient grain” but you only started hearing about it a couple years ago — a healthy, gluten-free rice substitute. Not as heavy as rice, […]
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Deco Redux
It was another one of those gilded ages, when Americans were lifting themselves out of economic depression and getting on with prosperity and excess. In 1939 Streamline Art Moderne designers rolled out the art deco New York World’s Fair, the aerodynamic GM Futurliner and the soaring rounded towers of Emerald City in The Wizard of […]
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Deco Redux
It was another one of those gilded ages, when Americans were lifting themselves out of economic depression and getting on with prosperity and excess. In 1939 Streamline Art Moderne designers rolled out the art deco New York World’s Fair, the aerodynamic GM Futurliner and the soaring rounded towers of Emerald City in The Wizard of […]
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Alchemists launch eco-friendly whiskey
Making a shot of whiskey is a tough job. There are lots of rules laid down by the federal government to make sure “American whiskey” is precisely what the world expects it to be: at least 51 percent fermented grain (corn if you want to call it Bourbon), distilled to no more than 80 percent […]