Fruits and vegetables are in the recipes at a new downtown brewery. Read More
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Raise a glass to these Silicon Valley breweries and taphouses. Read More
The bygone era of Cupertino’s shopping districts. Read More
The vegetarian thali dinner at Chaat House in Cupertino looked like a cosmic mandala. Circles within circles. I will never forget it. Every time I invaded the Oaks Shopping Center, I would eat at Chaat House. It was cheap. Dirt cheap. Yes, it was a…
Felipe Bravo and Wendy Neff are on the verge of opening their first brewery in downtown San Jose, Fox Tale Fermentation Project, a specialty nanobrewery on E. Santa Clara Street. “We’re going to have a rotating selection of small batch beers, but the six that…
“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire,” said nature writer David Rains Wallace. And the Silicon Valley is full of breweries and taphouses where one can ponder the question over unique, locally made pilsners, ales, wheat beers and stouts. But the beer scene,…
Despite a recent study, the crazies are still wrong. Read More
In the weeks after lockdowns began as Covid-19 took hold in the United States, a bunch of crazies and charlatans began declaring that cannabis could “cure” Covid. I wrote a cover story about them for the East Bay Express in May 2020. Some were just…
When a 70-year-old restaurant was presidential. Read More
The Secret Slav Restaurant Society of fin-de-siècle San Jose has been revealed. It all began as I hunted for ghosts along the downtrodden block of Santa Clara Street between First and Second. The grand sweep of history would not leave me alone, especially now that…
