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Green Tea and Honey Jun

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 Thomas Andersen

Crafting a Maui Inspired Kombucha Style Beverage By Tom Andersen Yes indeed you can make a kombucha style beverage with green tea and honey as the sugar. It’s called “Jun,” possibly derived from the Chinese word for pure, some say Tibetan origins. Unfortunately, as I discovered, honey is a pretty good antiseptic and antimicrobial. Needless to say, it killed one… Read More

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Gram’s Apple Cake

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 Robin Horn

By Robin Marie Horn Have you ever been on a culinary quest that lasted for years? Trying to find an elusive recipe that you tasted once or enjoyed as a child, trying to recreate that recipe but not getting it quite right year after year? Giving up, then recommitting, looking at old cookbooks, hoping for divine intervention and, when all… Read More

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Wild Blackberry Pie

September 28, 2025October 10, 2025 Robin Horn

By Robin Marie Horn It’s the end of blackberry season here in California. No more berries at the farmers markets, but they’re still ripening along fences and in fields here and there. There are fewer blackberries than in summer, but most berry pickers have forgotten about them. So it’s the perfect time for the last blackberry pie of the year.… Read More

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Spicy Fermented Honey

August 23, 2025August 30, 2025 Thomas Andersen

By Thomas Andersen Of course most of us think of the Viking mead when there is mention of fermented honey. Mead, if you have never had it, is a little sweet and quite complex in flavor because honey itself is as varied as the pollen from which it is made. It can also be quite potent, beyond 15% alcohol even.… Read More

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Tae’s Edo Sushi Celebrates Dedicated Following

August 9, 2025August 17, 2025 slvpost.com

Santa Cruz Mountains Dining Treasure By Julie Horner Longtime sushi chef and food and beverage professional Tae Song has anchored Edo Sushi in Boulder Creek for more than 11 years. An elevated dining treasure among the burgers and tacos in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Tae honors his original sushi chef Jay Ham, and his hard working staff, as well as… Read More

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Loquat Wine

July 20, 2025August 2, 2025 Thomas Andersenwine

By Tom Andersen The loquats are out and they won’t last long. In my neighborhood it’s the squirrels vs. man – that being me, although this year they are also taking on my cats. The cats crouching behind the screen door, squirrels sitting in the loquat tree confident that the door is latched, taking one small bite and throwing the… Read More

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MEHKOs: The Future of Homegrown Food Entrepreneurship

May 14, 2025May 15, 2025 Penny Ellis

By Penny Ellis Imagine a world where food, health, and wellness are prioritized. A world where meals are prepared with care, pride, and a deep sense of community. Picture the joy of sitting down with others and sharing the flavors of a home-cooked meal, knowing it’s been crafted with intention. There’s something undeniably special about a well-prepared homemade dish, whether… Read More

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Fermented Cabbage

March 15, 2025March 29, 2025 Thomas Andersen

By Tom Andersen Cabbage is arguably one of the most humble of all the vegetables but with a rich history and some awesome fun facts. Here are a few of them: They have been cultivated for over 4000 years; 1000 years ago they cured baldness (wish I knew what happened to that strain); children, of course, come from a cabbage… Read More

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Cranberry Pistachio Dark Chocolate Bark

February 20, 2025March 2, 2025 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

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Fermentation: A Brief History and a Little Science

February 2, 2025February 6, 2025 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