(June 20, 2024)
By 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, June 15, chefs, staffers and volunteers were pushing through the doors of the former Mazzotti's, carrying platters of oysters on drifts of white salt,...
(June 13, 2024)
If each of the more than 12,000 people in attendance at Arcata Bay Oyster Festival restrained themselves to only two orders of grilled Pacifics served with disposable forks, 24,000 sets...
(June 6, 2024)
The first Friday Night Market of the season crossed light sabers with the Forest Moon Festival on May 31, packing Old Town's closed streets with vendors and Vaders, buskers and...
(May 30, 2024)
Soup's on at St. Vincent de Paul Veteran restaurant cook and ceramicist Mark Campbell has found his niche in the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser for St. Vincent de Paul's free...
(May 23, 2024)
Earlier in the day, there was some dispute as to how much Pabst Blue Ribbon to add to the cast iron pan of linguiça chunks Ariel Peugh is stirring. Given...
(May 16, 2024)
As someone who travels almost weekly between Northern and Southern Humboldt, I can tell you that, to the naked eye, it may seem like somewhat of a food desert. You...
(May 9, 2024)
Willow Creek Thai in Eureka Willow Creek has long drawn campers, hikers, rafters and Bigfoot hunters. And if, when you pull off the cartoonishly winding, cliff-hugging State Route 299, you...
(May 2, 2024)
Before Mary Ann Hytken found space to hold classes and establish the local nonprofit English Express, she says, she made do in Mexican markets. "I had a little folding chair...
(April 18, 2024)
Thanks to months rich in rainfall, everywhere I look is green: our yard, pastures, parks. My plate is also green, partly because I eat a large green salad every day...
Stocking shelves and the ocean with seaweed and kelp
(April 11, 2024)
While at then Humboldt State University, Torre Polizzi and Leslie Booher were part of a team surveying seaweed along the North Coast, documenting the mass die offs of sea stars...
(April 4, 2024)
On the Jamwagon Bandwagon You can't miss the bright blue Jamwagon food truck with its red lettering announcing pitas, gyros, hummus, falafel and fries (1631 Central Ave., McKinleyville; updates on...
(March 21, 2024)
Pangnou Vang's face is mostly hidden under the bill of her ballcap as she works, angling the blade of her long, wooden handled knife horizontally along a block of...
(March 14, 2024)
The evolution of a concept can yield such an interesting timeline. Cannabis starts to become legalized in many states and suddenly we have a new beverage option hitting the...
(March 7, 2024)
Cut in sturdy rectangles and topped with waves of whipped cream, Adela Rodriguez's tres leches cake takes a full day soaking in whole, condensed and evaporated milks. It's a bit...
(February 29, 2024)
The bright flags staked around the Taqueria Martinez truck parked beside A&L Feed at 2314 Central Ave. in McKinleyville advertise tacos and burritos. So does the truck itself, emblazoned with...
