Raw Milk Recall
Claravale Farm in Paicines has issued a recall for raw milk and cream, including goat milk. Claravale voluntarily ceased distribution of its products March 19 after the California Department of Food and Agriculture reported a preliminary positive test for the bacteria Campylobacter in raw cream. Tuesday morning after the positive ...
Bacon Barn-Burner Opens Montrio's 2012 Artisan Series
Montrio Bistro’s first of three Artisan Series classes schooled 30 patron-pupils on why “Everything is Better with Bacon.”
First Whole Foods Parking Lot, Then Yoga Girl, Now Put Your Phone Away
You don't want to mess with the food blog police. This fruitful forum and all its attendant flavor is fleeting if you stray too far from food and wine talk. In other words, if your food blog isn't so much food, you're in trouble. A little inspiring beer clairvoyance here, ...
New Name, New Look For The Old Bath House
The Beach House at Lovers Point hopes to awaken a sleepy P.G. this summer.
Another Happy Pop-Up Meal at Happy Girl Kitchen
No amount of wind, rain or hail could dampen the mood inside the cozy confines of **Happy Girl Kitchen** as they unfurled their second pop-up dinner this year.
Unreal Pop-Up Restaurant/TV Show Pilot Appears at Royal Seafood
One day this fall, a Canadian started pummeling me with international calls before I work up. "You're going to get me fired" they went. "Take the blog down now." I had several reactions: One, what could be so damaging about my latest food blog? (It appears below.) Two, I don't ...
Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Ted Balestreri, Underpants and Prawns
Two of the more powerful men that you'll meet were messing with one another in front of a couple hundred other folks. This wasn't a discussion on which way to rub the antlers at the Moose Club, though, but a back-and-forth in front of a decorated, mixed assembly at 20th ...
Bernardus' Marinus Earns Lofty National Ranking
The other day Marinus Chef Cal Stamenov tapped me on the shoulder and told me he was going to do his best Vanna White. I might've told him to stick to doing what he does best, namely, what earned him our readers' votes for Best Chef in Monterey County, one ...
Two Sustainably Minded Videos: Inspired Bamboo Sushi and "Motherf***king Bike"
There's a mystery wrapped in a "Duh" that haunts a few of us at the Weekly. Here, at the world epicenter for ocean research and sustainable seafood, where fishing is as much a part of the identity as anything and Japanese culture is part of our coastal heritage, why isn't ...
Why Hot Links Make the World a Better Place: A Six Pack
Ferdi's Creole Restaurant (394-2244) is a funky, dusty, delicious Cajun spot nestled into a nondescript stretch of Broadway Avenue (/Obama Way) in Seaside that's only open for a 10am-2pm lunch and, even then, seemingly reluctantly, as the aging attendees appear to care little whether you get that fork or can ...
New Chef Sizzling at Toast Carmel Valley
Credentials won't chop a carrot or bone a chicken for you, but they don't hurt, especially when they include a name like Keller. The already impressive Toast Carmel Valley (659-8500), where both the Benedicts and housemade biscuits are beautiful, has a new young chef stirring in some impressive history. Grady ...
VIDEO: Inside the Fiery (and Somehow Fun) Hell That Is Harumi's "Sushi Challenge"
It's rare to hear your dining companion from the night before report that the raw fish dish you shared tweaked the Scoville Heat Scale of his urine. "It kind of burned when I peed," he said. The feeling came from a rather rare endeavor: The new, fiendish and deliciously evil ...
Central Texan BBQ
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