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Knee-Deep in Duck
Thanksgiving Duck Some impulse purchases are more gratifying than others. This Thanksgiving was to be a small get-together; for our expansive family, an unusually restrained event. As such, we decided...
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The Spicy Hot Oil of the Gods
The Spicy Hot Oil of the Gods Sometimes I discover a new cooking technique—a little trick, long-established but new to me—and it feels like I’ve landed on a new continent, where colors are twice as...
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Food news from another land: The Chinese garlic bubble
This story, from NPR’s All Things Considered, about a Chinese “garlic bubble” reads like a children’s tale: Peasants in China’s countryside fill their garages to overflowing with garlic. With swine...
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It’s 30˚ on the Mendocino Coast! Time for Mexican Chicken Soup.
Freda's Mexican Chicken Soup It’s been unusually cold on the Mendocino Coast. It’s the kind of weather that shows on ashen lips and huddled bodies, a conversation starter that always ends with an...
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I ♥ our wood stove, or Wood stoves: good for the soul, bad for the environment?
From Ireland, with love. I spent most mornings of my childhood standing, with legs splayed like a saw horse, above an old gas floor grate furnace in my dad’s house on the Mendocino Coast. I love that...
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The new, old Fort Bragg Bakery
I wrote a sweet little piece of fluff on Fort Bragg’s new artisanal bakery and its hulking wood-burning brick oven. Normally, I’m not one for quaintness. And I especially bridle at the idea that the...
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From the World Food File: Brain Vegetable
My pops and his lovely lady are in Jamaica right now, where they’re eating something called Brain Vegetable. This just in, from the AVA’s intriguing foreign foods desk: “Akee when boiled, drained and...
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Anderson Valley Brewing Company Gets Eaten Alive (aka SOLD)
The inevitable has happened. Ken Allen, who founded Anderson Valley Brewing Company in 1987 and grew it into one of Northern California’s most beloved craft breweries, found a buyer for his little...
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Take that, Vermont!
Vermont was recently congratulated by the Brewer’s Association, a coalition of craft brew-makers, for having the largest number of breweries per capita of any state in the country. With one brewery for...
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Mendocino County Today: December 29, 2012
GARETT MATSON OF FORT BRAGG has been arrested again, this time for grand theft, receiving stolen property and embezzlement. Matson’s bail is set at a total of $75,000. He has been in trouble for years,...
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