My husband gave me a local cookbook for Christmas, “Locally Delicious”, which was just published about a month ago. I’ve been talking about cooking more often (he does most of the cooking)and we’re both partisans of the idea of eating locally grown or produced food, in season. I was raised that way — my mom [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
Cooking
Posted in family, local, Personal, tagged california, food, humboldt, local, Personal, society on 5 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Foodie Shuffle
Posted in current events, local, tagged food, humboldt, local on 18 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recent news for a couple of good eating places in Humboldt: (1) Curley’s Grill, formerly in Ferndale and chased out last fall by sky-rocketing rent costs, just re-opened at 320 Main Street, Fortuna last week. (2) Cafe Nooner in Eureka just started this week will start in a few days offering breakfast items in addition [...]
Comfort food
Posted in local, Personal, tagged food, humboldt, local on 16 November, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I really love Cafe Nooner in Eureka. I think of all the comfort food available for puchase in town, theirs may be the comfortingest! I stopped there yesterday — it has become a Sunday tradition for my husband and I — and had their cream of porcini mushroom (mmm, with green onions and garlic) and [...]
Peachy keen
Posted in local, Personal, tagged california, farmers market, food, local on 24 August, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Saturday we made our weekly visit to the Arcata farmers market and among other scrumptious offering, there were organic peaches from Hunter’s Orchards in Grenada, CA (just south of Yreka). Oh, those peaches were so ripe and beautiful, we just had to get a flat. They are unbelievable; we’ve been eating them like candy. [...]
Mmmm, coffee…
Posted in local, Personal, workplace, tagged california, coffee, food, humboldt, local, Personal, workplace on 15 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I love the taste and smell of good coffee. When I was driving across the continent form Quebec to start my first job in the San Francisco, years ago, I remember being progressively more appalled by what was called coffee as I moved through the center of the continent. (This has held true on every [...]
Fun stuff tonight: A Taste of Main Street
Posted in current events, local, tagged events, food, humboldt, local, restaurants on 26 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight (March 26) is time for the 17th annual Taste of Main Street event in Old Town Eureka, featuring 23 local restaurants and food producers, including: Chapala Café Humboldt Creamery at Vanity Old Town Coffee & Chocolates Curley’s Grill at Eureka Books Bon Boniere Mad River Farm at The Linen Closet Starbuck’s Coffee Co. Hurricane [...]
Humboldt good eats
Posted in current events, local, tagged excellence, food, humboldt, local, politics on 21 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A frivolous post for today: a friend gave my husband and I a fantastic Christmas present this weekend when she bought us dinner at Larrupin Cafe in Trinidad. She’s sending us to the Inaugural Celebration dinner! If you have never been there, I have to tell you that this is one of the best restaurants [...]



