After working in the kitchens of various bistros and restaurants, Jeffrey Nguyen, the 21-year-old owner and chef of Le Bon de Cuisine food truck, sought to do something more. Lacking the capital to open his own restaurant, he invested his savings instead in a beat-up, yet functional, food truck.
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Blood dishes are associated with immigrant communities and often evoke a sense of nostalgia and comfort for modern eaters. Most cuisines have some vehicle for using the protein-rich slaughter byproduct, but often the dish is dressed with salt, onions and garlic, similar to liver. Blood exists in a medium: a soup or porridge, or soaked into rice and noodles then stuffed into sausage.
Chasing Water, judged the Best Short Mountain Film of the 2011 Banff Film Festival and screening on March 10 in Los Altos, didn’t begin as a film at all. The original idea was to shoot writer Jonathan Waterman’s paddling trip down the length of the Colorado River. “Then I was like, ‘This is too dear to my heart,’ and I thought maybe we could get a book, and then sponsors showed up.”
The people behind San Pedro Square Market promised great things and I think they delivered. The food and big bright spaces are a boon to downtown’s dining scene.
Roger Springall first brought the San Francisco-based regional cafe chain Caffe Trieste to San Jose in 2008. Last August, he transformed it into Caffe Frascati, an authentic Italian-style cafe named after a small town in Italy where Springall used to live.
Jacquelyn Damon spends her time with a powerful crime-fighting tool at the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. It doesn’t fire projectiles of any sort or turn concrete transparent from helicopter heights. The process, known as predictive policing, uses mathematical formulas to prevent burglaries and thefts before they occur.
Co-author and star Molly Bell shines in musical ‘Becoming Britney’ at the Retro Dome in San Jose
San Jose Stage Company’s new production does justice to Sam Shepard’s dark, surreal and often hilarious family drama ‘Buried Child’
Jeremy Lin, a graduate of Palo Alto High School, is giving South Bay hoops some credibility.
Chances are that fans of Indian food in Silicon Valley have eaten Sachin Chopra’s food. He’s had a hand in several of the South Bay’s most successful modern South Asian restaurants.
