Serious Sausage
Justin Severino is an old-fashioned food maverick. The former chef - Bernardus, Manresa - is currently into handcrafted charcuterie and traditionally butchered meats. Primarily pork, which he gets from pastured, free-roaming pigs raised on TLC Ranch. What Severino...
New Italian Kitchen coming to Soquel Ave – Lillian’s
It turns out that longtime Santa Cruz foodie Dan Dickmeyer was right. There is going to be a new Italian place on Soquel Avenue, where the old Malabar was, and it's scheduled to open in July. If you're like me (and I truly doubt it) you don't immediately think...
Brownie Scout
And who isn't on the look-out for some chewy, tender, deeply rich, barely sweet chocolate brownie? Even in a field littered with killer brownies, one stands out bigtime. Yes, I do mean the heavy, yet tender, intensely dark chocolatey brownie from River Cafe (also...
Sesnon Gallery: Irwin Scholars – May 30th
Come up and see what talent, hard work, great instructors and an Irwin scholarship, can create. The annual Irwin Scholarship exhibition - opening Wednesday, May 30, 5-7pm at UCSC's Sesnon Gallery — is entirely packed with some of the best from some of the brightest....
Garden Party to Thai For!
This year's New Music Works Avant Garden Party is seasoned - both musically and culinarily - with the complex spices of Thailand. This Sunday, June 3 from 3-7pm, the mysteriously tropical island and lagoon located in a mythic corner up the upper yacht harber, will...
Inside the Flame
A book of sensory adventure: The rituals, passions and discoveries of an engaged life.