Treasure Map: A Carmel-Carmel Valley Wine Guide Debuts, Scores
The two young winemakers looked at one another with the same eyebrows-up way of communicating Whoah without saying a word. Robert Karlsen and Russell Joyce ...
Legends of the Foie: A Local Party Celebrates Foie Gras' Farewell—With Lots of Foie Gras
If you want to host a nice fiesty dinner party, have your gourmand gang over, introduce them to your animal-rights amigos and steer the conversation ...
More CFS 2011: Chris Cosentino on Bloggers (Hates 'Em) and Marinated Sardines (Loves 'Em)
The other day in a meeting Weekly Editor Mary Duan seemed shocked that I noticed a colleague purportedly known for his fashion had rocked the ...
More CFS 2011: Ted Turner Goes Off on Bombs, Bison and Monterey Bay
It's fitting that Ted Turner talked so much about bombs during his appearance at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Cooking for Solutions—"When's the last time you ...
More CFS 2011: Asparagus Croquette Recipe from Sustainable Superstar Jesse Ziff Cool
One of the perennial personalities at Cooking for Solutions—which, three days later, still has at least this guy's stomach longing and mind flying—is Jesse Ziff ...
Three Great Events, One Day and 25,000 Big Macs
Every day, a 59-year-old former prison guard named Don Gorske eats a Big Mac. OK—not every day. He didn't have one on eight different days ...
CFS 2011: The Hidden Cost of Foods
Navigate a conversation around food justice and it should eventually travel to the concept of our food system's hidden costs. Weekly ag reporter Sara Rubin ...
CFS 2011: Deciphering Eco-Labels on Food
Weekly enviro-scribe Kera Abraham starred a Sustainability Institute panel as a must-view. Here's a look at what she prioritized and what she pulled from it: ...
CFS 2011: The Land-Sea Connection
Maybe because Cooking for Solutions is designed to inform awareness for a year's worth of sustainable eating (and reporting), or because life is short (and ...
Report from Cooking for Solutions Sustainability Institute: Hope and Headaches
It's scarcely 11am at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Cooking for Solutions' Sustainability Institute—the issues-and-policy mini-college for journalists and food-and-wine industry players that precedes the ...
The Vivacious Life and Troubling Death of Mushrooms
I feel bad for the toll booth attendees who have to choke down several giant clouds of exhaust as part of their daily intake, but ...
A Monday Buffet of Foodie News, Including the Official Opening of Craft Beer House Post No Bills and Rich Pepe's Vesuvio
• Post No Bills, the craft beer house-to-be in Sand City's Design Center, appears on track to open on time Monday, June 6, at 3pm—hallelujah—which ...
A School Kitchen to Believe In—and a Tasty Way to Help Out (Starring Cal Stamenov)
The first time I made it out to what was then called the Hilton Bialek Habitat (624-2785 x162)—to observe a Carmel Middle School "ecoliteracy" class—it ...
Phood Fotos: One Local's Way to Redeem Her Diet
Michelle Arnold (above) knew she had a situation on her hands when the Jack in the Box drive-through staff knew her order (grilled chicken strips) ...
Food Justice Event Shares a Huge Harvest of Promising Projects
Local organic farmer Jamie Collins of Serendipity Farms has pioneered the local community-supported agriculture movement, tried her hand at raising free-range chickens for her own ...
Two Strategically Located Seasonal Farmers Markets Return This Week
Carmel-by-the-Sea creatures don't have to trek quite so far to nab the tastiest farm-fresh foods, at least for a few months: The Barnyard Farmers Market ...
Three New Carmel Valley Nibbles: A Tasting Room, a Winemaker Series and a Little Kitchen
In case folks were looking for an excuse beyond the golden afternoons to abscond to Carmel Valley, I've got a few: • A cute little ...
Clean Taco Truck Takes Grease Out of the Game (Really)
Here come words that rank right up there with "I would love another Big Mac": "I had a torta from a roach coach without grease ...
PBF&W Aftertaste: Grand Tasting Highlight Reel
It's like going to the Basketball Hall of Fame and getting to run the fast break with with the inductees—and take pictures with them. It's ...
"In Your Dish": A Video Spotlight on Esteban
I see no better inspiration for some Iberian Peninsula-style tastes and accompanying sangria than a sunny Monterey Peninsula afternoon. That's because tapas hub Esteban in ...
PBF&W Aftertaste: A Grand Tastings Debrief, Including a Vegetarian's Meaty Saturday
Between the bacon-wrapped bacon and the bacon chocolate chip cookies, the foie gras pot stickers and the foie gras soup… …the Grand Tastings threw a ...
PBF&W Aftertaste: Bold and Beautiful Bordeaux
In the perpetual effort to keep the "wow" factor activated, this year the Pebble Beach Food & Wine braintrust deployed no shortage of dramatic party ...
PBF&W Aftertaste: Guy Fieri on Hong Kong Noodles and His Stolen Lamborghini
There were bigger and flashier news outlets than the Weekly at 2011's Fourth Annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine, but you can bet your last ...
