(July 27, 2017)
When I invited Janet Czarnecki, farmer and owner of Redwood Roots Farm, to contribute a recipe to my Farmers' Favorites series, she answered without hesitation: "Grilled little gems with cheese,...
A simple, exotic delight that you can only make at home
(July 20, 2017)
It was 1994, and I was 10 years old and hungry. It's not as if there was no food in camp. We definitely had hot dogs and beans and such,...
(July 13, 2017)
The first time someone offered me a shandy — and explained the ingredients — I thought it sounded disgusting. I ordered one anyway, because what's the point of walking into...
(July 6, 2017)
Doughnuts Rising Sit-down doughnut options are too few and far between. And yet the doughnut should be a legitimate breakfast option alongside bacon and eggs, pancakes and waffles. Drive-thru doughnut...
(June 29, 2017)
Want to start a fight at a barbecue? Two words: potato salad. Googling settles most quibbling over when to flip a burger or how long the chicken should cook. However,...
(June 22, 2017)
After nearly four hours on lockdown at Mazzotti's, judges for the Arcata Bay Oyster Festival handed in our score sheets for head Oystress Rachel Marrella and her team to tally...
(June 15, 2017)
They're not like salt crystals, exactly. They're longer, like white bugle beads from a glamorous 1920s dress. In a pile, they sparkle like dreamy snow in a stop-motion Christmas movie....
(June 8, 2017)
Mussel Bound Put away your clam diggers — domoic acid has put the local clam digging party on hold and mid-calf pants are hard to pull off anyway. But this...
(June 1, 2017)
I've got a lot of feelings about bagels. They came home in paper bags on my mother's commute home from New York City: glossy pumpernickel, onion, poppy. When she moved...
(May 25, 2017)
Sushi was not always such high-brow cuisine. In the 1800s, sushi street vendors were the taco trucks of Edo (now Tokyo), hawking fish and rice preserved with the vinegar from...
(May 18, 2017)
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, shopping "locally" was a real problem. I made the effort to eat organically and locally, but it proved prohibitively difficult. There was no supermarket...
(May 11, 2017)
Deep Dish Diplomacy Hey, Australia. Are we good? We had a weird phone call followed by a weird meeting and now it's awkward. But look, we made your favorite: meat...
(May 4, 2017)
We're stronger together. Families know it, unions know it and, in Crescent City, the brewers swear by it. After swiftly raising their local brewery count from zero to two, Crescent...
(April 27, 2017)
Two years with my kamado grill and I'm still in love. For those not familiar with the kamado style grill, it's usually ceramic and shaped like a big egg standing...
(April 20, 2017)
I learned as much about growing cabbage, corn and zucchini as I did about my neighbors while volunteering at the Happy Forever Community Garden in Berkeley 10 years ago. Calling...
(April 13, 2017)
Short of a meal with an old friend, cooking a recipe from an old friend is the next best thing. A couple of weeks ago, I called Hoa, whom...
