• La Tiendita Highlights Latina Chefs & Bakers Through Pop-Ups,Amelia Rodriguez

    La Tiendita Highlights Latina Chefs & Bakers Through Pop-Ups

    Grassroots collectives, pop-ups, cottage kitchens, and other types of indie endeavors don’t usually get the mainstream recognition of splashy concepts tailor-made for Instagram or with enormous PR budgets. But their permeating influence and unbridled creativity arguably define local gastronomic econ

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  • Weevils Are Coming—CA’s Date Industry is at Risk,Amelia Rodriguez

    Weevils Are Coming—CA’s Date Industry is at Risk

    Mark Hoddle lifts the top off a hanging trap and points down at about 20 wriggling, hefty, snout-nosed, black weevils. “They are charismatic-looking,” he says.His job is to destroy them.Hoddle is an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside. We are standing in the middle of the Sweetwa

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  • Restaurant Review: Cellar Hand,Cole Novak

    Restaurant Review: Cellar Hand

    The Perfect Order: Chicken Liver Pate | Summer Squash | Berkshire PorkSure, when starting any venture—business, family, cult—many would prefer a lovingly restored Victorian home, nuzzled between always-blooming jacarandas and a pint-sized lending library. We want our dream restaurant in a structure

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