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Cranberry Pistachio Dark Chocolate Bark Columns Food & Drink 

Cranberry Pistachio Dark Chocolate Bark

Robin Horn
By Robin Horn It’s Bark!! And according to Kaiser, my health care provider, it’s “food for health.” They’re the experts, right? They offered a version of this healthy-ish treat on their website recently. I tweaked the recipe, by simplifying the process and upping the proportion of chocolate. While it’s not entirely keto-friendly, it is vegan and gluten-free. So it’s a… Read More
foxglove february gardening Column: Josh Reilly Columns Gardening 

February Gardening in the Santa Cruz Mountains

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By Josh Reilly It’s February and garden columnists, gurus and boosters are telling us it’s no time to slow down. We are to plan vigorously, catalog our successes and failures, take photos of our gardens and mark them up with colored ink markers (as you might, when willing a hurricane to go where you want, rather than where it’s going).  We’re… Read More
Fermentation history and science Columns Food & Drink 

Fermentation: A Brief History and a Little Science

Thomas Andersen
By Tom Andersen A Brief History By many accounts, fermentation was “discovered” about 12,000 years ago with the natural fermentation of dairy products in the sweltering heat of North Africa. A few thousand years later, the Chinese were fermenting rice and honey and in a couple thousand more years, Egyptians were turning out some fine loaves of sourdough bread and… Read More
Butternut Squash Sage Soup Columns Food & Drink 

Butternut Sage Soup

Robin Horn
By Robin Horn Several years ago, I attended a music workshop in chilly (to Californians) Whidbey Island, WA. Not only did Ruzivo — a traditional Zimbabwean and contemporary Afropop ensemble — teach us three songs for 8-piece marimba ensembles in less than 48 hours, each band member was also responsible for feeding us a delicious meal. This warming soup hit… Read More