Cuisine

The Dark Arts of Winter Mushroom Gardens

As the dark days of the year chase us indoors, we look for ways to stay connected to the earth.…

6 years ago

Intermittent Fasting

The New Year is often a time to contemplate one’s relationship with calories. After months of culturally sanctioned gluttony, we…

6 years ago

French Laundry Christmas

This past weekend on Dec. 13, the South Shores shopping center on 25th and Western Ave in San Pedro, was…

6 years ago

The Partial Enchilada

Winter is the season for red chile enchilada sauce. You can almost smell the piñón and juniper smoke drifting from…

6 years ago

Local Restaurants Raise Money for Child with Cancer

When Michael Saluzzi learned that his 2-year-old daughter had cancer, his whole world stopped. Everything he was used to doing…

6 years ago

Pie Times

The message of Thanksgiving is rooted in a story about a diverse group of people cooperating with one another in…

6 years ago

Birds: It’s For the Stuffing

Thanksgiving, as we observe it today, doesn’t have much in common with the original feast of 1621. The temperature of…

6 years ago

Gladstone’s Comes to San Pedro’s West Harbor

The West Harbor development — the project for the former site of San Pedro’s Ports O’ Call that was initially…

6 years ago

Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup: Depression Era Food to Take Away Your Blues

I somehow made it through childhood with minimal exposure to what I now realize was, for many, a cherished part…

6 years ago

Jewish Penicillin

It’s a simple, brothy affair with lots of dill, the kind of soup that’s popular throughout the Yiddish diaspora, often…

6 years ago