On the Table

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Acorn Gathering for Yurok Sovereignty

(November 23, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant?

(November 16, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Guatemalan Flavor Comes to Eureka

(November 9, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Wendy Chan

Grandpa's Gifts

Pork-filled dai bao

(November 2, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

What the Candy You Steal from Children on Halloween Says About You

(October 26, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Say Skol to Norseman Mead

(October 19, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

BYO Takeout Container

(October 12, 2023) 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...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

What's Good

Eclectic plates and new brews in Arcata

(September 28, 2023) 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,...

On the Table / By Erin Young

Snapshot in a Glass

Miles Garrett's natural wines

(September 14, 2023) How in the world can something so divine, ancient, romantic, soul-soothing and downright delicious not be good for you? Wine hangovers and headaches, seem a cruel joke in the universe's...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

What's Good

From salsas to sushi in Eureka

(September 7, 2023) Belly Up to the Salsa Bar The revolving-door that is the spot on Eureka's Fifth Street that formerly housed Los Sinaloenses and its marvelous white menudo occupied has flipped again....

On the Table / By Simona Carini

Fermentation Tales of Koji and Miso

(August 31, 2023) "You may be interested in trying this," Richard Wagner told me one Saturday morning in April while I was looking at the produce he had brought to the Arcata...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Gluten for Punishment

Judging county fair baked goods

(August 24, 2023) The night before the fair officially opens, the food stalls are up, signs ablaze with corn dogs and funnel cakes, but none of the fryers are going. Tonight, the treats...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

Carrying the Fire

Gal's Firepit Pizza comes to Hoopa

(August 17, 2023) Patrick and Audrey Ramer were planning to get a water truck, not a food truck. They would sell their home in Sacramento and return to Humboldt to work fire seasons...

On the Table / By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill

What's Good: Burgers and Arepas

(August 10, 2023) A Cherry Burger You can't miss the shiny black Cap's Food Shack truck, partly because it's covered in neon-style icons that make it look like a rolling bar. It's...

On the Table / By Simona Carini

A Simple Carrot Salad

(July 27, 2023) On a recent evening, while grating a carrot for my usual salad ("Take Time for Salad," March 23, 2023), I thought how much I like them. And it shows:...