Eats

Lasagna is my favorite food in the world.It’s like a pie, but with pasta and cheese and meat and tomato sauce instead of”well”pie stuff. And as far as I’m concerned, a bite of lasagna is the closest thing there is to taste bud heaven. So I take this subject very seriously.I spent three days in […]

Hey guys. I’ve got some bad news: Summer is one-third over. If you’re anything like me, that news brings to mind a flurry of panic: But my body’s still not summer ready! or But I still haven’t started on that summer reading list! or But what happened to all that wine tasting I was going […]

I’m a privileged social media-addicted millennial, and as such I often find myself doing stuff for basically no reason except that I keep seeing other people doing it on Instagram. I wear high-waisted pants and I use Snapchat and I eat acai bowls and I drink kombucha and sometimes I say “v.” instead of “very”—why? […]

This week’s Eats idea—an exploration of Mexican pastries—came at the suggestion of my editor. But you, my dear reader, deserve full disclosure: I know close to nothing about Mexican baked goods, and though I did my best, I’m not sure I can provide you with the most cultured analysis of them (hence this article’s title). […]

Good news: Nipomo’s got its own local pub now—and according to the business it has attracted in its first month open, the town’s residents really wanted one. “They’re actually telling me they were waiting for a place like this,” Old Town Brew Owner Daniel Reyes said. He enjoyed a crowd of 75 at the pub’s […]

Once upon a time, a young journalist divided between her food column and her low-carb diet decided to venture from the warm, safe embrace of her calorie counting app and into the unpredictable, risky world of baked goods. Her destination: Crumbles Café and Bake Shop. The place opened up just shy of two months ago […]

It’s 5 p.m. and you just got off work. You wish it was Friday but it’s not. This week just keeps on freaking going. And you know you should go to the gym and then go home and make dinner and maaaybe cap off the night with a glass of red wine and an episode […]

A few weeks ago, my colleague, Dave, came into the office with a weirdly happy expression on his face and a foam take-out box in hand. He sat at his desk and flipped open the box’s lid and exclaimed: “Hawaiian barbecue!” And I thought, “Well, there’s something I haven’t written about for Eats yet.” So […]

It started on packing trips in the backcountry. Billy Ruiz would lead groups through ranchland in the Santa Ynez Valley, stopping at night to camp and barbecue. He’d introduce his customers to cowboy-style cooking in Dutch ovens. “We barbecued like we did at home,” Ruiz said. “Santa Maria-style meat. Good seasoning. We mixed our own […]

This week’s review is more than that. It’s a story. But first, take note: I approach this food column not as a platform to showcase the pretentious musings of a food and wine connoisseur (being that I know nothing about food), but rather as an excuse to experience as many types of food and drink […]

Obsessed with wine? Maybe you should make some. Because as it turns out, that’s actually a thing normal people do. They realize they’ve got nothing to put in that ol’ drainage basin that’s just sitting on their property, so they decide to grow a bunch of grapes in it. And then they use those grapes […]