For a simple summer dessert, strawberries Romanoff has elbow-glove style. The name hints at Russian aristocracy to which it has no actual ties, though the sketchy Old Hollywood restaurateur after whom it’s named supposedly traded on the association and lifted the recipe from the famed Escoffier. It’s kind of the perfect scammer backstory for humble […]
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Sun, Moonand Fig
It’s the still midsummer air that reminds me to check on the figs. With their deep green leaves shading them, figs are having the coolest, quietest summer of anyone. I remember many years ago my siblings and I didn’t care for them due to their odd looking insides (the flesh and seeds of the cut […]
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Humboldt’s Farm Bureau Turns 100
A crowd of dairy people – including a princess! — spent a fine afternoon in the old mill lot and field behind the Samoa Cookhouse last Saturday, celebrating the Humboldt County Farm Bureau’s 100th anniversary. In fact, Humboldt’s farm bureau was the first formed in the state (back in 1913, of course), and the second […]