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Bites by the Sea
Like the oceanside hamlet it resides in, Jenner by the Sea, Café Aquatica is both a rest stop and a destination. Regardless of her customers’ travel plans, however, owner Rachel Kulinski makes it feel like home to all. A self-described transplant from the Midwest, she moved to West County 10 years ago. “I was looking…
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Slice, Slice, Baby: Pie Shops Worth Your Time
Slice, Slice, Baby Three new(ish) places to snag some of the best pie in the county by Ursa Born, Mark Fernquest, and Jess D. Taylor Psychic Pie Sebastopol by Ursa Born Spring has sprung at Psychic Pie, as evidenced by this week’s creative specials, which feature ingredients like green garlic, thinly shaved radishes, Meyer lemon,…
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Locavore: Sheila Shupe Makes Preserved Lemons
Confessions of a Germophile: Sheila Shupe Makes Preserved Lemons Photos by Tammy Horton Lemon trees are the zucchini plant of fruit trees. You get so many lemons you have to freeze juice by the gallon, turn them to marmalade, give them to every member of your family (even the ones you don’t like), and you…
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Mix Master Morales
How The College Confectionista baked her way through U.C. Berkeley and into a promising career. Photos by Paige Green Photography Anamaria Morales keeps a mock acceptance letter from U.C. Berkeley framed in her bedroom. The dean’s signature is so expertly photocopied onto it that you’d never know it’s not real. The straight-A student sent herself…
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Locavore: Sheila Shupe Makes Overnight Baked Oatmeal
Confessions of a Germophile: Sheila Shupe Makes Overnight Baked Oatmeal Photos by Tammy Horton I’ll admit it. I don’t like porridge. For the granddaughter of a Scottish immigrant, it’s hard for me to even type those words. Like many of us, I grew up in the shadow of the food pyramid. It ain’t easy cramming…
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Feature Eat Local — “A Tale of Two Asian Stores”
A Tale of Two Asian Stores: 1 “Asia Mart” by Jess D Taylor At Asia Mart on Guerneville Road, you will not find milk, butter, or bread, but you will find Lay’s potato chips imported from China in flavors like grilled squid, Texas barbecue, black truffle, cucumber, salmon chili lime, and my personal favorite, spicy…
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Eat Gift Guide
Little Chef’s First 100 Words by Tenisha Bernal by Jess D. Taylor In August of 2020, Rohnert Park resident Tenisha Bernal was sitting on her book-strewn living room floor with her infant son, Diego. She decided she wanted to find one of those first 100 words books of kitchen items, since as a kid she…
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Eat Local Short — “A Flash of Heat”
A Flash of Heat: Big Spoon Sauce Co. introduces a regional chili crisp that’ll put fire in your belly By Leilani Clark When Lani Chan and Nathan Bender left New York City for California in 2020, they had already perfected the art of building a delicious sauce. It all started after they met at Columbia…
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Eat Local – “Fire! Food! Friends!”
Barbecue, like so many American traditions, is rooted in Indigenous and West African cultures and practices—from the salting and seasoning that helped preserve large cuts of meat to the practice of cooking whole or parts of animals low and slow using green wood over indirect flames. Countless regional iterations have ensued, leading to debates over…
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Eat Local – “Humpday Hedonism”
Before I’d ever set foot in Sonoma County, I’d heard about the Wednesday Night Market from my soon-to-be housemate, who was a fan of the beloved downtown Santa Rosa street fair. Soon enough, so was I. Romances and jobs came and went, but the market remained. Like many of you, I’m thrilled that after a…