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 […]
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UPDATE: Belly Up to the Salsa Bar
UPDATE: In sad salsa-related news, Paco’s Tacos, the Eureka Mexican restaurant that briefly dazzled us with its array of salsas, has closed. When contacted by the Journal, the owners responded that the partnership “didn’t work out,” but they are hopeful that they’ll be able to open elsewhere down the road. PREVIOUSLY: The revolving door spot […]
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Say Skol to Norseman Mead
Somewhere during the Neolithic period, or likely in a few somewheres across the globe, people figured out how to make mead. Traces of the simple fermented honey drink are found in pottery from all over the ancient world. But the mead you might sample from the fellow with braided hair, Renaissance fair vibes and leather […]
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Shutting Down the Ritz
After a short run of less than eight months, the latest incarnation of the Ritz in Old Town is closing. Owners Concha Alvarado, José Licona and Fernando Licona, formerly of Calico’s in Garberville, opened the Mexican-Italian-burger restaurant in the storied corner location Feb. 28, and they plan to close their doors today or Saturday, and sell […]
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BYO Takeout Container
Over three years of pandemic-era takeout, we’ve reused the plastic containers from curries and quesabirria tacos to share leftovers, distribute cookies and trap the occasional errant spider. But we needn’t have accumulated quite so many of them. In July of 2019, Assembly Bill 619 passed, updating California Retail Food Code to allow businesses to fill […]
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What’s Good
Carriage House readies to open Over the phone, chef Rochelle Burgess says she wasn’t looking for a restaurant gig after the abrupt closure of her former post, the Angelina Inn, in Fernbridge. Her work as a personal chef was going well enough and she wasn’t eager to work for someone else again. But after a […]
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Carriage House to Open in Arcata
Over the phone, chef Rochelle Burgess says she wasn’t looking for a restaurant gig after the abrupt closure of her former post, the Angelina Inn, in Fernbridge. Her work as a personal chef was going well enough and she wasn’t eager to work for someone else again. But after a friend tipped her off to […]