Editor’s note: Looking for a new way to prepare that fresh crab the North Coast is blessed with this time of year? Wendy Chan has you covered with her Crab Foo Yung recipe from the Journal’s achieves, a dish inspired by all those times her sons watched SpongeBob SquarePants while growing up. The Krabby Patty […]
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NCJ Preview: Overcoming Childhood Trauma and the Limits of Stress Cooking
This week’s cover story is about how childhood stress and trauma connect to serious health issues in adulthood, like addiction and even cancer. But it’s not hopeless, as a program addressing adverse childhood experiences here in Humboldt shows — even amid the added stresses of a pandemic. Speaking of which, we’re also talking about the […]
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Comfort Food When There is No Comfort
I made too much Japanese curry last weekend. I chopped the onions, carrots, mushrooms and potatoes while talking on the phone with a friend who is struggling with whether to fly across the country to visit her ailing father. She was calculating the risk of traveling, how she’d manage quarantining before going near her parents, […]