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Police Log Ride
A review of Seaside’s police reports from 2012 charts part of a community’s character.
The city of Seaside keeps a journal, and it’s called “The Monday Report.” The extended memo from the city manager to the mayor and City Council includes everything from local house-sale trends to updates on ...
Chowder Heading
Chris Shake, Calamari Fest and Cooking for Solutions take a savvy and savory tact: smart seafood.
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Dear Chefs: Save Us.
Dear Chefs: Save Us.
Food stamps. Lawsuits. Stage plays. These are not the typical kitchen tools. Then again, the chefs deploying those devices aren’t your typical tastemakers. They are some of the best and most progressive chefs in the ...
Spicy Thoughts
Lokal plates buzz-worthy grub worth waiting around for, plus so much more.
You never see it on menus, but you feel it when you look at the right ones. You can’t buy it at the flyest farmers markets, but it’s an ingredient in all the best dishes. ...
Ale Tales
Carmel Valley ‘Beer Geek’ publishes Teachings From the Tap: Life Lessons From Our Year in Beer.
The Geeks had it good. Carmel Valley’s Merideth Canham-Nelson and Chris Nelson had mastered the complicated equation of finances, travel tables, buzz management and day jobs – as a clinical social worker and beer-tender/web designer, ...
Mother Lode
What and where to eat to best honor the best mamas in Monterey County.
I am not this way because the first thing that ever happened to me – after I was born, unbreathing – was a fat slap on my spanker. I am not this way because I ...
Chain Reaction
Braving three on-fire Salinas franchise restaurants that opened in the last month and a half.
Part of it is the 5-foot-4-inch pink pig mascot hamming it up in the entryway at Famous Dave’s. Part of it is the wait for a table at BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse: Even though the ...
The Long View
The 30th Wildflower Triathlon defines endurance, inspiration and effort.
“Long” is an elastic term. Case in point: Seventy-plus miles of swimming, biking and running – covering about the distance between Monterey and San Jose – is not long for some, since it’s the kiddie ...
Lookin’, Cookin’
A Chef of the Year tale made for Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Cooking for Solutions.
When 2012 Cooking for Solutions Chef of the Year Michel Nischan got his first ever chef job (in 1981), he went looking for local farms like his late grandfather’s in the surrounding area. Only outside ...
’Choke Artists
Wildly creative home artichoke recipes – from chips to cakes – and a peek at the passion behind them.
They email things like “I am infatuated with the ritual of dressing up and then gradually undressing a beautiful artichoke, devouring it layer by layer.” They say things like, “They’re fresh, they’re here, they’re happening.” ...
