Fifteen days of deprivation ends with deep-fried delight.
It wouldn’t be a lie to say that the championship-caliber chimichanga I ate to break my 150-mile food experiment came from the kitchen. Of course, it wouldn’t be completely true, either. Jose’s Mexican Restaurant in ...
Local Treasures
10 items that helped me through.
When it comes to garlic, the saying “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” doesn’t really resonate. I know what I’ve got in garlic – the best flavor element out there, period – ...
Rescue in a Bottle
The Wine Market sage checks the shelves for affordable wines within 150 miles.
When George Edwards of the Wine Market in Pacific Grove tastes a dish, he doesn’t sample one wine with it, he tries as many as six. That is his tried-and-true technique to decipher which wines ...
Miles to Go Before I Eat
The journey to consume local foods is fraught with fresh ingredients, inspiring insights and local stories.
This week: There are many hoops to jump through to eat food grown within 150 miles.Last week: A look at food safety versus conservation practices, and how buying locally grown food isn’t always better for ...
Serious Withdrawls
10 things it was hard to go without.
Behold the power of flour. It gives life to tortillas; it makes it possible to break bread. Alas, most domestic wheat is grown out of state. Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver, who spent a year eating ...
Issues / 2007 / Nov 29
Reservoir Hogs
Seaside and PG get creative about stormwater management.
The Monterey Peninsula’s water woes fall into two categories: how to make more of the usable stuff, and how to deal with the polluted stuff. In the big push to generate water, hopeful eyes turn ...
PublicCitizen
11|29 THURSGLOBALIZATION SUMMIT | SALINAS—The Political Science Club of Hartnell College hosts a discussion on globalization. 6-7:30pm. Performing Arts Facility at Hartnell College, 411 Central Ave., Salinas. Free. 755-6905.JERRY SMITH MEMORIAL | SEASIDE—Rosary vigil in ...
Luck of the Pot
The complete kit to navigating a holiday potluck: a sly strategy and a killer recipe.
According to my Webster’s dictionary, the word “potluck” means either 1) “the meal available to a guest for whom no special preparations have been made,” or 2) “whatever is offered or available in given circumstances ...
Missionary Man
With Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains, director Jonathan Demme exalts the ex-president.
What has Jimmy Carter not done? This relentlessly busy and straight arrow former president is a man with many missions. His causes are, to name just a few: peace in the Middle East, Guinea worm ...
High School Opera
Life as a youngster who loves the spotlight and singing in Italian.
York High School’s Stephanie Johnson is not a normal 17-year-old student. For proof, look no further than her passion: opera. “I’ve always loved telling stories—I love collecting them in my mind,” she says. “Opera is ...
The Complete On The Corner Sessions
MILES DAVIS
When On The Corner appeared in 1972 critics panned it. The brazenly thick music, tied up in revolving arrays of cyclic electronic and acoustic instrumental colors, is certainly Miles’ most difficult music to approach.For those ...
Carefully Crafted
Lovingly restored and expanded home is pure-form Frank Lloyd Wright.
The year 1906 saw the rise of an island in Monterey, not from the sea but from the forest above it, an outcropping surrounded by nothing remotely like it then, or now. There stands a ...
Squid Fry for Nov 29, 2007
Squid Fry for Nov 29, 2007
Governor’s Pick… Supervisor Jerry Smith died last weekend after battling cancer. During his career in public office – as mayor of Seaside and then as Monterey County supervisor – he frequently appeared in Squid’s column. ...
By The Nummbers
Foreclosures $449,900 Price for 4/3 on Via Linda, Castroville. $475,200 Price for 3/2 on Vaughn Avenue, Marina $559,900 Price for 3/2 on Luxton Street, Seaside. Source: Foreclosure.com
Serious Chills
The Mist somehow manages to be a thought-provoking B movie.
My mother, who was a young girl during World War II, is still haunted by something her father said to her during those years. In a boomerang attempt to silence any worries she might have, ...
Out With the Mold
After placing Salinas kids in portable classrooms, district will sue over leaky schools.
Students at César Chávez Elementary School in Salinas came back from Thanksgiving break to find their former classrooms off limits. The Alisal Union School District had closed the classrooms so it can remove mold growing ...
Raising Sand
ROBERT PLANT&ALISON KRAUSS
If Robert Plant and singer-fiddler Alison Krauss seem an unlikely duo, remember: The roots of Led Zeppelin and bluegrass grow from the ancient drone of Anglo-Celtic folk music. T-Bone Burnett produced Raising Sand, embellishing the ...
Twice As Nice
Chamber music lovers have two exceptional options in Carmel.
A double treat awaits chamber music lovers this week in Carmel. On Friday, the Carmel Music Society, presenting the Mozart Society series, hosts the Alexander String Quartet at All Saints Church. And on Saturday, Chamber ...
Plan Bee
Local bees and beekeepers dodge disease, thieves and vicious varroa mites.
Dale Hillard’s honeybees think their home is burning. In fact, they think the whole forest is on fire. So they do the only logical thing, a reaction hardwired into their tiny bee brains: They start ...
Heirloom Apple Battle Gets Its Day In Court
Judge will decide whether Earthbound must stop selling rare fruit.
Earthbound Farm knows a thing or two about damage control. If the Carmel Valley organic giant never hears or sees the term “E. coli” and its name mentioned in the same sentence again, it will ...
The Devil Details
Charlie Daniels Band caps a busy year with a show at the Fox.
Any self-respectin’ Southerner worth a sip of Tennessee sour mash knows The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” The ridiculously fun story song finds none other than Satan going head to head ...
George Bush’s John Dean?
Bush, Cheney implicated in Valerie Plame case.
Scott McClellan’s admission that he unintentionally made false statements denying the involvement of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby in the Bush-Cheney administration’s plot to discredit former Ambassador Joe Wilson, along with his revelation that Vice ...
Stretch Out
Foodchain
Serious Celebration… We are officially in the stretch run between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. I have already been visited by 2,000 Santas, elves, reindeer and other Christmas aberrations imploring me to buy, buy, buy. ...
Locals explore the world by way of their couches.
Steve Mallory had never met the French couple from Martinique before he found them standing in his doorway in New Monterey, blankets and luggage in hand. But Mallory let them sleep on his living room ...
Salinas City Council gives thumbs up to planned redevelopment project.
A massive redevelopment project proposed for east of Salinas’ downtown could unite Oldtown and east Salinas, and reinvigorate the city’s economy, City Council members said this week. The council’s welcoming comments came after a presentation ...
Which beverage would be the hardest to give up?
Which Food Would Be The Hardest For You To Give Up?
JUSTIN RODARGE |Chef instructor | Pacific Grove A: Bones. If someone took bones away from me, I’d fall apart. It’s essential for the culinary arts. They’re used to extract flavor for various stocks. It’s the ...
Rubble Trouble
Monterey County District Attorney makes landfill sweat about asbestos screening.
The local landfill deals with filthy stuff, obviously. But while some kinds of trash are simply slimy, others are downright dangerous. State and federal laws require landfill workers to separate hazardous materials such as fluorescent ...
Letters to the Editor for Nov 29, 2007
Letters to the Editor for Nov 29, 2007
Editor’s note: This week, our letters section is devoted to reader comments posted on our recently revamped website, montereycountyweekly.com. MEXICAN-AMERICAN DREAM How a local immigrant became an honored friend and host to Vicente Fox [Nov. ...
ArtListings for Nov 29, 2007
ArtListings for Nov 29, 2007
OPENING THIS WEEK Carmel Art association Annual Miniature Show: featuring small paintings and miniatures in various media and styles. Holiday open house and reception, 12/1, 6-8pm. Dolores between Fifth and Sixth, Carmel. 624-6176 or carmelart.org. ...
I’m Not There Original Soundtrack
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Even before the masses knew Bob Dylan’s nasal voice and elusive persona, they knew his songs from covers by the likes of Peter, Paul & Mary and Joan Baez. Over the last 45 years, singers ...
