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Stories like Spices

“Yeah,” I said, “It’s the Chile de arbol in the dashi, cayenne in the charcuterie. I’ve got to say that I’m pretty impressed with your palette. They have a similar heat.  To be able to catch that amongst the other spices, including the habanero that was with the chickpea puree… impressive.” What I liked was that he investigated the spices on his tongue, and didn’t lump them into one large category of “hot”.  I paused as he gave a slight smile.  “We get a number of heirloom varietals of chilies from Lindencroft farm in Ben Lomand. It’s outside of Santa Cruz, about an hour and a half from here. “What followed was a gentle back and forth about food and farms in Northern California.

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Mangalitsa Pig

We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get one-half of a Mangalitsa pig.

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Fermentation

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
-Albert Einstein

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Home-Grown Fruit

When I was growing up, there was a certain reverence in my household for olive oil. Nothing particularly demonstrative that set this oil apart but hundreds of small gestures and anecdotes that intimated its status. Being 3rd generation Syrian, on my mother’s side, olive oil was used when she made her family recipes — hummus, tabouleh, cracked wheat or kibbeh. It was used for more than food, too.

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