While the South Bay may not have the same amount of breweries per capita as other regions, there are still many good micro breweries in the area.
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The science world is buzzing about the new Earth-like planet discovered Monday. The planet, Kepler 22b, is more than twice the size of Earth and circles a star that is supposedly similar in size and warmth to our solar system’s sun. What has NASA nerds so interested in the planet, however, is the 72-degree average temperature.
San Jose’s dining scene is forever evolving. Trends come and go and the economy rises and falls, but through it all these restaurants have endured.
As the sun sets outside the gothic Tower Hall on San Jose State University’s campus, Mohammad Qayoumi sits at a board table in his office, looking every bit the politician with his crisp shirt and tie, gray hair parted neatly to the right. He doesn’t spend much time talking about himself, even when the questions pertain to the uncomfortable political role Qayoumi is currently being forced to play. The president of SJSU—who was born in Afghanistan and previously presided over Cal-State East Bay—is being pulled in two different directions.
I’m thankful that I get to write about food, a passion of mine for the past 30 years. It’s a privilege to do what I do. For me, that means it’s my responsibility to write about more than meals good and bad. While I want to continue sharing my restaurant discoveries with you, I think it’s my duty to also report about the ills of a food system gone off the rails and point out solutions wherever they may be.
Bones make soup, and soup is the soul of Polish cooking. It comes in two categories: clear meat-based simmers including cabbages and beets, or mushroom soup with a cream base. A cabbage or beet soup should have a rich hearty core and mouth feel but no obvious meat, with a depth imparted by a healthy fat content, as when a home cook would use the ration’s quota of bones.
The Progressive International Motorcycle Show rolled into the San Mateo Expo Center a couple weeks ago. The conference halls were filled with the usual suspects: Harley, Ducati, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda and Triumph. You could almost hear Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” playing in everyone’s head at the Harley exhibit.
For both well-established and emerging businesses, the struggle to set themselves apart and create an image that portrays what they represent has always been a key ingredient to future success. Finding this creativity doesn’t typically come easy, and it takes a certain kind of individual to be able to pinpoint that creative spark to get things off the ground and set ideas into motion. Alfredo Muccino does this for a living.
A good restaurant bar offers the best of both worlds: good food and good drink under one roof.
Roughly 2.3 million Californians receive financial help in getting enough food to eat, but it’s the nearly 3 million others who don’t take advantage of the federal food stamp program who are costing themselves—and California.
