(November 30, 2023)
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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(October 23, 2023)
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...
(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...
(October 13, 2023)
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...
(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...
(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,...
(September 25, 2023)
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...
(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...
(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....
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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...
(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:...
(July 20, 2023)
Codi Nishimoto could not cook — and not in the "I can't get the perfect crust on my scallops" way. When she left Oahu to study forestry at Humboldt State...
(December 1, 2023)
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today stated that it will allow the family of an inmate who suffered “non-survivable” injuries in an apparent suicide attempt at the jail on...
(November 30, 2023)
Sequoia Park Zoo’s bears — Noni and Tule — are branching out into a larger area of their habitat at the facility, which is designed to mimic the natural...
(November 24, 2023)
The annual Gift Guide cometh! We're also talking with photographer Kait Angus about the recent Trans Day of Remembrance and how the Yurok Tribe is rebuilding food sovereignty with acorn...
