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When it comes to garlic, the saying “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” doesn’t really resonate. I know what I’ve got in garlic – the best flavor element out there, period – and I get nervous just seeing “garlic” and “gone” in the same sentence. It ties for the top spot with oli…
It wouldn’t be a lie to say that the championship-ca…
When George Edwards of the Wine Market in Pacific Gr…
INOW BOIL DOWN SEAWATER FOR SALT, survive off raw Brussels sprouts for entire afternoons and never touch tortillas. I suddenly know and admire goat farmers for unexpected reasons. I serve wait staff pop-geography quizzes and cook at odd hours so I’ll lose less weight. I drink Clear Madness M…
What has Jimmy Carter not done? This relentlessly bu…
Students at César Chávez Elementary School in Salina…
My mother, who was a young girl during World War II, is still haunted by something her father said to her during those years. In a boomerang attempt to silence any worries she might have, her father/my grandfather promised that if the Nazis ever set foot on U.S. shores, he would shoot her hi…
The local landfill deals with filthy stuff, obviousl…
Any self-respectin’ Southerner worth a sip of Tennessee sour mash knows The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” The ridiculously fun story song finds none other than Satan going head to head with a Georgian kid named Johnny in a fiddle contest. The stakes in the competit…
A double treat awaits chamber music lovers this week in Carmel. On Friday, the Carmel Music Society, presenting the Mozart Society series, hosts the Alexander String Quartet at All Saints Church. And on Saturday, Chamber Music Monterey Bay presents the St. Petersburg String Quartet at Sunset…
A massive redevelopment project proposed for east of…
Earthbound Farm knows a thing or two about damage co…
The year 1906 saw the rise of an island in Monterey, not from the sea but from the forest above it, an outcropping surrounded by nothing remotely like it then, or now. There stands a Frank Lloyd Wright house, designed from his 1905 cabin drawings done competitively against another architect …
The Monterey Peninsula’s water woes fall into two ca…
Scott McClellan’s admission that he unintentionally …
York High School’s Stephanie Johnson is not a normal 17-year-old student. For proof, look no further than her passion: opera.
According to my Webster’s dictionary, the word “potl…
Dale Hillard’s honeybees think their home is burning…
JUSTIN RODARGE |Chef instructor | Pacific Grove
Steve Mallory had never met the French couple from M…
