Yellow neon letters curl in the window above bright café chairs outside Jersey Scoops in Loleta (348 Main St.). Inside, there are more rainbow-colored chairs and barstools, shelves and refrigerators packed with local jams and snacks, and a refrigerator case stuffed with beef and eggs from Ferndale’s Foggy Bottoms Boys Farm. On a barnwood wall […]
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La Flor Mixteca grows in Freshwater Driving in the early dark past Three Corners Market at the intersection of Freshwater Road and Myrtle Avenue (5945 Myrtle Ave., Eureka), the brightly lit logo of the Flor Mixteca truck glows like a winter mirage. Since the name references a region in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, […]
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Classic Oatmeal Cookies Revisited
Winter has arrived, so far carrying buckets of rain. Spreading a sweet aroma around the house by baking cookies is an excellent antidote to seasonal claustrophobia, when I start feeling caged within the walls of short, wet days. Guided on one hand by my Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies (“What-if Cookies,” Jan. 13, 2022) and […]
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A Second Chance at Wok In Wok Out
On April 18, the day before his wife, Kommaly’s birthday, Ronnie Worasen, then owner and chef at Hunan Restaurant, was driving his sister-in-law and 4-year-old son to Safeway in Eureka to buy a cake. At the intersection of Harris and Dolbeer streets, a speeding red Ford truck ran them into a telephone pole and sent […]
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Benedicts at the Burger Joint
When T’s Café North closed up shop, Arcata’s roster of brunch spots took a blow. Not to worry. Since August, the stacks of stuffed French toast and the roster of champagne cocktails served in Mason jars have migrated the few blocks to Burger Joint, run by the same owner, Halleh Paymard. Happily, you needn’t wait […]
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Fieldbrook Market Closes … for Now
When Lisa Springer approached her neighbors Ross and Kelly Costa about the Fieldbrook Market & Eatery three years ago, it was to rent space for making ramen. Springer had tried the Japanese take on Chinese noodle soup in San Francisco and gotten hooked. “Every city I go to, the first thing I do is look […]
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The Power of the Trans Power Potluck
The evening before Thanksgiving, the Labor Temple on Eureka’s E Street is mostly dark from the street. It’s not clear this is the right place until Sister Gaia T steps into the light in the hallway. “Welcome!” she calls, waving a willowy arm. She’s without her zinc white “sister-face” makeup and regalia, instead wearing a […]
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Acorn Gathering for Yurok Sovereignty
Annelia Hillman, food village coordinator for the Yurok Tribe’s Food Sovereignty Program, loves her job. “I get to be outside and connect with the land and I’m learning so much more about food and processing,” she says. “It’s really good for the mind and the soul to not be behind a computer all day.” About […]
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Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant?
Local real estate listings are offering a broad menu these days with a bevy of restaurants and food businesses up for sale. After its sudden closure early this year, Fernbridge’s Angelina Inn is available for $1.9 million and the up-and-running Gill’s by the Bay has a price tag of $2.5 million for the property and […]
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Guatemalan Flavor Comes to Eureka
Do not underestimate the humble chuchito, a modest fist of masa wrapped in corn husk, its name meaning “little dog.” According to Astrid Calderón, owner of the newly opened GuateMayan Yum Yum (534 Fifth St., Eureka), “Chuchito and atole should hold you over until lunch.” Served with a coral red tomato sauce and queso fresco, […]
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Grandpa’s Gifts
As the autumn wind quietly flies by and the leaves slowly drift down, the ground looks like a fall blanket. Fall is the season of nostalgia. It brings me back to my childhood in China. I can still see the endless golden rice fields and the sweat of hardworking villagers, and hear the laughter of […]
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What the Candy You Steal from Children on Halloween Says About You
There are three kinds of adult Halloween candy theft. There is snatching, the outright reaching into a bag/plastic Jack O’Lantern/pillowcase or sorting pile — sometimes this is done in a brazen smash and grab, sometimes surreptitiously with an offer of, “I’ll hold your cauldron.” Next there is the con, telling a child their candy will […]