Edible Complex

Mushroom Remix

The Big Sur Chanterelle Cook-off ain’t dead yet – just different. Plus some lady on Craigslist wants funky meat.

The foragers are canvassing the woods as I type. Ventana Chef Truman Jones has surreal tastes plotted for his plates already. “Pickled, sauteed, in soup, crusted on fish,” he says. Hippie-chic chanterelle fashion is even ...

Well Above Par

Heartfelt benefits, EcoFarm insight and hall-of-famers.

At press time, Chef Thomas Snyder didn’t know what he was going to make for the third annual Clambake for a Cure Friday. Here’s two things we do know. One, judging from the seafood stew ...

Going Fish

New Schooners Coastal Kitchen gives Monterey County what looks like a landmark seafood restaurant.

This weekend a big fish gets bigger. And fresher. Schooners Bistro on the Bay (372-2628) has long charmed visitors and locals alike with a combination of sturdy sustainable snacks, lively cocktails and on-top-of-the-ocean views of ...

Getting Fishy

Inspiring ways to turn the tide against destruction of our oceans.

Part of me thinks it’s kind of cool when I discover that, say, there’s a cheese out there worth $500 a pound – and it’s from Swedish moose cows. But when I learn that a ...

Yeah, Dog

Domingo “Dingo” Rivera leads the people to the party – and tubes of Doggie Stylez meat.

Marina resident Domingo Rivera does some things. He helps host KDON’s Morning Madhouse and helps host VIPs at top-spots like Surrender and Encore Beach in Las Vegas. He started working at Marinus by 22 and ...

What’s Cookin’

A stirring look at eight things bubbling up in the broth for 2012

There will be Prohibition-style tastings. There will star chefs who obey and those who rebel. There will be fines, loopholes, a drop in consumption and an equal surge in confusion. Or so says Michael Ginor ...

Soul’s Food

A tale of heart, grit and giving before the holidays fade from view.

This column was supposed to be about food – more specifically, what new restaurant machinations are moving this way in 2012. By the same token, Corral de Tierra resident Brian Poma’s junior and senior years ...

Turn It to ’11

Tapping a deliciously rock-star year in local food.

It’s not every day that you get to trash talk Thomas Keller. But that’s what tastemaker Robert Weakley of Coastal Luxury Management (324-0771) did last week, after San Francisco Chronicle critic Michael Bauer posted a ...

Lady Fates

Partying with the preeminent female chefs of the Peninsula, plus pork proverbs.

For the first time in history, they make up most of our work force. They still earn many more college degrees – and they’re not just smarter, they smell a hell of a lot better. ...

Flavor for Days

Shopping for six items from the Monterey County ‘grocery store’ makes for a tasty and telling week.

It might be the best way to pass time in line at the grocery store. It also provides insights into a stranger’s stomach, if not her soul. It is one of my favorite personality evaluations ...

Whatta Day

Carmel’s own octogenarian superstar, Doris Day, pours out more style, as does Terry’s Lounge.

The Oscar and Grammy honoree gave Hollywood glitter with 39 films and 26 albums, but still gave us rough-cut gems like “Any girl can look glamorous… just stand there and look stupid.” She rose to ...

Food for Thought

One amateur chef’s way to hone his game and feed a company, plus downtown Monterey developments.

It’s a modern day lemons-into-lemonade fable of foodieism in tough times: Life gave Daniel V. DeCamp fewer hours at his job translating for the courts, so DeCamp made meat loaf. And chicken satay. And wild-rice-mushroom ...

Intense Treats

Lula’s Chocolates adds new shop in the midst of the annual holiday surge.

Super fresh cream. Real butter. Himalayan sea salts. Smaller, softer macadamia nuts from Hawaii. Very spendy 10-pound bricks of Peter’s Swiss chocolate, for which the minimum order is 500 pounds. There is no shortage of ...

Passion Project

Cindy and Ted Walter tag giants; BSF&W III goes bon-bon boom.

There was no holy-mackerel moment when Cindy Walter realized she should make sustainable seafood sourcing a priority. She was born that way. So it goes when Mom is a full-blooded Native American who imprints a ...

Produce Prayer

A peek behind the farmers market curtain reveals some troubling realities for local purveyors.

An elderly woman shuffling through the closing farmers market says she will talk to God on our behalf. “Both for one [price],” she says with an accent. “I will pray for you.” Farmer Jamie Collins ...