AltWeeklies Wire
The Fine Art of Homemade Hoochnew
The easy art of fermenting alcohol at home.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jamie Collins |
10-24-2011 |
Food+Drink
Dynasty Restaurant Pours Good Chinese on Pacific Grovenew
I eschew glow-in-the-dark sweet and sour pork and disdain the way-too-sweet General Tso’s chicken in many Chinese-American restaurants, so you can’t blame me for not rushing to try every Chinese restaurant on the Monterey Peninsula. But I wish I’d tried Pacific Grove’s Dynasty Restaurant sooner.
Monterey County Weekly |
Pat Tanumihardja |
01-21-2010 |
Food+Drink
Entrepreneurs and Scientists Team Up to Produce a Prettier, Healthier Abalonenew
For the abalone, this is life. For the Monterey Abalone Company, this is business. And for Suskiewicz, this is science: His two-and-a-half-year experiment as a grad student at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories produced a farmed abalone with a pretty red color and rich flavor.
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
02-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Sommelier Horror Storiesnew
And the strategies to avoid starring in them.
Monterey County Weekly |
Paul Wetterau |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Buzzworthy Napa Valley Bottlesnew
hese wines have several things in common. Like Chesebro’s Vermentino, they are just starting to get noticed. Two, they don’t need forever to mature.
Monterey County Weekly |
Paul Wetterau |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
The Spectacular Pebble Beach Food and Winenew
"This all came about with The Masters leaving – and us wanting to continue the event," Rob Weakley says. "The biggest thing we all looked forward to at The Highlands every year was The Masters; we were wondering how we could continue giving something like that to our community."
Monterey County Weekly |
Raymond Napolitano |
01-31-2008 |
Food+Drink
Snubbing Wine Snobberynew
Ashamed of that cheap wine you're buying? Maybe that's because wine writers don't take either of you seriously. They should.
Monterey County Weekly |
Staff |
12-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
Jumping Through Hoops to Become a Locavorenew
The journey to consume local foods is fraught with fresh ingredients, inspiring insights and local stories.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
11-29-2007 |
Food+Drink
Wine & Cattle Ranching Industries Coming Up Drynew
Consider what the lack of rainfall throughout the previous year has wrought on Monterey County's multimillion dollar wine grape growing and cattle ranching industries -- a big financial hit, the size of which won't be known until next year.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mary Duan |
10-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
You Don't Know (Monterey) Jacknew
The story of the country's proudest cheese has all the trappings of a great Steinbeck novel: migrant families, a rich land baron, tensions between ranchers and workers, struggle, injury and loss. It is wrought with mystery and intrigue -- and offers no definitive truth.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jessica Lyons |
10-04-2007 |
Food+Drink
Taco Trucks in Court?new
Attorney says a California city's planned ban on "stationary catering and produce wagons" is illegal.
Monterey County Weekly |
Zachary Stahl |
06-28-2007 |
Food+Drink
Beefy Securitynew
Will buffer zones between cows and veggies prevent another E. coli outbreak?
Monterey County Weekly |
Traci Hukill |
02-01-2007 |
Food+Drink
Family of Winesnew
Cima Collina's winemaker and cellarmaster pay attention to the details.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
02-01-2007 |
Food+Drink
Organic Evolutionnew
In its remarkable new cookbook, Food To Live By, Earthbound Farm takes heathy cooking one step further.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mark C. Anderson |
02-01-2007 |
Food+Drink
Old Friendsnew
Heirloom apples make a triumphant return.
Monterey County Weekly |
Traci Hukill |
10-05-2006 |
Food+Drink
