Celebrate this summer with innovative cocktail recipes or old favorites in beautiful glassware — sipped through reusable straws, of course. Plaza Arcata has everything you need to mix and serve like a master from recipe books, shakers, jiggers, mixing spoons, copper straws and decanters to just right glasses for mocktails and cocktails. Mix and match […]
Eureka Natural Foods, McKinleyville
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Shipwrecks, Rivers and Railroads
Picnicking is an old-timey pleasure that never goes out of fashion. Perhaps that’s because enjoying a meal upon a cheerful blanket is a must-have image in any couple’s romantic montage. Picnics also appeal in the later stages of the relationship, when the new parents discover the exhaustion of wrangling children into restaurant booths. Not that […]
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Blues, Loops, Peyote Rock and Soulgrass
Thursday Bluegrass returns to the menu at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room this evening around 6 p.m. courtesy of the Compost Mountain Boys. As usual, this is a free show, but that doesn’t mean you can’t throw a few shekels toward the band. The Old Steeple in Ferndale is starting off its season with […]
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Local Flavor
Humboldt’s spice rack is stocked with rubs, salts and seasonings for everything from barbecue to Bloody Marys (just add tomato juice and vodka). You need only decide whether you’re going to share the wealth or make them your new secret ingredients. Find them at Eureka Natural Foods, North Coast Co-op, Wildberries and other local markets. […]