Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad – NYTimes.com: Can things get worse for the dairy biz? Yes. This piece does not mention the troubles of Humboldt’s dairymen, but highlights systemic problems that must be touching locals who went
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Journal columnist in New Yorker
Midnight Moon The current issue of the New Yorker is all about food. In connection with it, today’s online New Yorker includes a short food related piece by occasional Journal food columnist Jada Brotman . As you might recall, Jada is a cheesemonger in an upscale Brooklyn establishment called Provisions . Apparently her literate cheese […]
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Live Blogging from Blogger’s Picnic!
We’re down here in Rio Dell at the Blogger’s Picnic , and since the city is famously wireless , we’ve managed to find a hot spot for live blogging. Heraldo showed up in full chef regalia and has fired up his very cool grill to cook up some gourmet dogs: Heraldo's hemi-powered grill Meanwhile Carson […]
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Test-Driving Barack’s Chili
Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama’s recipe for chili has been the #1 story on northcoastjournal.com almost from the moment it was slapped up there. Now Ian Froeb, “Gut Check” columnist for our sister paper in St. Louie, answers the question we’ve all been asking ourselves: Can the man make a decent pot of chili? Click […]
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Loaded for bear
We like to kill bears in Humboldt County. The Daily Triplicate tells us that Humboldt ranks fifth among California counties for bear kills (117 were 86’d by hunters last year), while noting that its own county — Del Norte — has felt a diminishing appetite for bear over the years (just 29 killed last year, down […]
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Rot from the Head
Sushi and chilés — they were the weapons of our courtship; dinner was the battlefield where we challenged each other’s culinary valor and food the forge on which our relationship was tempered. I was already verging into the more intense flavors that would define "Pacific Rim" cuisine. She had the most highly developed sense of […]
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Edible Braille
Tired of being thwarted in your quest for a dignified meal in a restaurant because you can’t read the damned menu? Well, the LightHouse of the North Coast wants you to know that it has teamed up with the Humboldt Council of the Blind and other groups to provide free Braille and large-print menus to three […]
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Bigfoot’s Boring
You remember Tom Biscardi, the guy who scrapped, most unfortunately, with Coast to Coast AM’s George Noory in the fall of 2005 after claiming he had a Bigfoot in captivity in Stagecoach, Nev.? (You can read the synopsis of all that fun nonsense here .) Well, the man’s temporarily gone off Bigfoot — such a […]
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Pan Bagna
It wasn’t what you typically expect at a birthday party for a 5-year-old. Sure there were hot dogs on the grill for the kids, but there was also an absolutely scrumptious spread of food aimed at the parents in attendance. Among the morsels prepared in advance by Diane, a marvelous cook (and the mother of […]
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Rocciata
From time to time, I bump into a memory kind of violently. For a while I am stunned not knowing what has hit me and from where. This rough awakening sometimes occurs with food memories, a possible side effect of my writing about edible things. When it happens, I try to make the memory come […]