(October 3, 2024)
I grew up in Southern China, where watercress was a familiar vegetable in my youth. My mom often used them when making soup with herbs. According to Chinese folk remedies,...
(September 26, 2024)
Chef Gori Igarashi wears a tall ballcap with a cannabis leaf embroidered on it and a thin towel tied around his neck as he hunches over a burner, tossing fried...
(September 19, 2024)
Like every year, I planted a few zucchini starters at the beginning of summer. Like every year, I mismanaged the plants and harvested nothing. An exuberant growth of leaf lettuce...
(September 12, 2024)
On Monday afternoon, Gaby Long, owner of A Taste of Bim (613 Third St., Eureka) and its auxiliary food truck, is still recovering from a long day and night of...
(September 5, 2024)
Arcata to Get Wild Hare Tavern The darkened windows of the Jam may not be dark for too much longer. Her purchase of the business from owner Mike Munson is...
(August 29, 2024)
A drizzly day isn't great for fair attendance but it does lend itself to sampling steaming cups of chili. Five competing teams that had been cooking under tents by the...
(August 22, 2024)
I hope you are relishing tomatoes in all their glorious varieties, from sun-sweetened cherry tomatoes to larger, juicy heirloom ones. Every year, I imagine the arrival of tomato season...
(August 15, 2024)
At roughly 8,500 square feet, the newly opened Asia's Best grocery store in Fortuna (727 S. Fortuna Blvd.) can be a little overwhelming in a county accustomed to small Asian...
(August 8, 2024)
In the open kitchen of the former Angelo's Pizza and, more recently, Overtime Pizza and Bar (215 W Seventh St., Eureka), chef Dlbir Singh swirls a ladle of sauce onto...
(July 25, 2024)
I believe the best cocktails come out of summer. I'm sure the outdoor drinking weather helps with this, but truly it is the access to fresh fruit and herbs that...
(July 18, 2024)
The first time I drove along Hiller Road looking for the Sea Goat Farmstand (1450 Hiller Road), finally parking near its sign, what I saw reminded me of a fireworks booth, one of...
(July 11, 2024)
Il Forno, Fortuna The people of Fortuna have evidently mastered manifestation, perhaps connecting with their namesake goddess. One can only assume this from the imminent opening of a larger branch...
(July 4, 2024)
A low chalkboard sign with the words "falafel" and "open" is the only warning before you miss the turn into the recently opened Falafelove's little parking lot in King Salmon...
(June 20, 2024)
By 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, June 15, chefs, staffers and volunteers were pushing through the doors of the former Mazzotti's, carrying platters of oysters on drifts of white salt,...
(June 13, 2024)
If each of the more than 12,000 people in attendance at Arcata Bay Oyster Festival restrained themselves to only two orders of grilled Pacifics served with disposable forks, 24,000 sets...
(June 6, 2024)
The first Friday Night Market of the season crossed light sabers with the Forest Moon Festival on May 31, packing Old Town's closed streets with vendors and Vaders, buskers and...
