


Tom Colicchio’s movie about hunger: A Place at the Table

Fiction for foodies: Baking Cakes in Kigali

The edible cell

Old school backyard foodie: Oysters Rockefeller
The oysters smelled like the air on still, foggy mornings when the tide is low and kelp is heaped on the sand and the only footprints are from marauding nighttime snails – an ancient smell of brine and salty tears.

Pike Market, Seattle

Retro gourmet at Craft & Commerce
Dorito loco taco, or taco asqueroso

Hoffsicle or Hasselpop?
In addition to bragging righs as actor/producer/singer/reality television star, David Hasselhoff now can say he’s got the ability to help strangers bond on Sunday morning in Santa Cruz. Here’s how:

Maker Faire 2011: a field trip
Urban farming

A Big Sur Thanksgiving, 1939
Knowing how to brine a perfect turkey is not as important as the ability to remember what, exactly, to give thanks for. Here is novelist Lillian Bos Ross’ description of her 1939 Big Sur Thanksgiving meal. Lillian Bos is one of my heroes; read on to find out more about her.