Batik Cafe: The Prequel
Just returned from lunch at the new Batik Cafe - and while I had a few issues, the cafe is only a few weeks old so there's lots of time for fine-tuning. Sabrina - an Indonesian cuisine veteran- and I worked our way through several plates of traditional items involving...
Gabriella Gets Fresh
Chef Sean Baker is mad for tomatoes this time of year, and who can blame him? Especially since he's gotten down and dirty, so to speak, with the growers of Lindencroft Farm who create exciting fresh veggies and herbs for Baker's experimental menus. The garden gurus of...
World’s Greatest Cookie?
Yes, this just might be the world's greatest cookie - right here - at The Buttery. It's the mighty, two-fisted Pecan Sandie. Buttery shortbread cookie, three inches in diameter, rimmed with crushed pecans and topped with the most sinful rosette of chocolate ganache in...
The Doors of Perception
Side by Side: New Work by Jenny and Geoff Morten — opening September 7, at the Santa Cruz County Bank, 325 Soquel Avenue. The Mortens, Jenny - she's the porcelain sculptor - and Geoff - he's the painter, came to California from their native England just a few years...
Journey to the East
Here's what you're looking at. A wine label written in Chinese. That's interesting all by itself. But what's even more interesting is that this is the back label on a bottle of River Run Vintners 2005 Carignane. Blond, bearded and eternally boyish winemaker...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.