After a rocky start, the Food Forward Road Trip is finally underway. Finances aren’t fully in place, there are repairs still needed on our Airstream, one of the beds keeps collapsing and the trailer needs new tires, but my family and I are officially out of our house and living in the trailer full time.
Articles by Stett Holbrook
In addition to the research, interviews, blogs and video content, I’ll be writing about my experiences for Live Feed. I can’t wait. I’ve written about the environmental consequences of what we eat many times before but it’s been as an office-bound observer from afar. Now I can go out into the farms, ranches, restaurants and fishing boats and see for myself what’s wrong and what’s right with the way we eat.
If you are a Mexican-food purist, Aqui Cal-Mex will feel sacrilegious. Tofu ranchero? Hummus and chips? Carnitas vindaloo? But the inclusion of “Cal” into the restaurant’s name gives it creative license to cross several culinary borders and take more than a few liberties. So relax.
Massimo Chisessi, IAHF’s culinary program curator, will teach a one-night course on how to make limoncello, a lemon-infused liqueur. Participants will go home with one of Chisessi’s liqueurs in a decorative bottle. Chinessi came up with the idea for the culinary series as a way to learn more about his Italian heritage and to connect with a wider Silicon Valley audience. “I saw it is a way of reaching out to the community at large,
An izakaya serves Japanese bar food—lots of grilled and fried food made to go well with beer and sake. I visited Dan as part of my professional commitment to sample the wares of every izakaya in Silicon Valley. Dan comes in somewhere in the middle of the pack.
E & O Trading Co. has called it quits after 11 years on South First Street in San Jose. But unlike most restaurant closures, this one has a happy ending, at least for the new tenant. Nick Tsigaris, owner of the-always packed Flames Eatery and Bar, has leased the building from owner Barry Swenson Builder.
The food here is nothing fancy, but that’s part of the appeal: Naglee serves the kind of food you could cook if you had the skills and a big restaurant stove to play with.
In Los Gatos, Double D’s Sports Grille dominates the sports-bar category with its 20 flat-screen TVs and crowd-pleasing menu. But there’s a newcomer in town: the Los Gatos Bar and Grill.
The steakhouse was a popular stopover for movie stars traveling between San Francisco and the Monterey peninsula. John Wayne, Clark Gable, Will Rogers and others dined there back in the days before Highway 101 was built, and there was just the Monterey Highway. For locals, it was a classy but unpretentious place to go out to eat that they called the “hotel.”
To first-timers, Sweet Shop, a gingerbread-house-like building with brown shingles, looks a little out of place. What’s a store doing in the middle of an upscale residential neighborhood in Los Altos? It’s the only retail space around. But for more than 40 years, the location has held a sweet spot for the community.
