Cali Coast Wine Country
Spring | New roots. Spring brings them every year, along with some delicacies that can only be enjoyed during these warming days…like fresh fava beans. Spring is the time these legumes behave, and taste, more like fresh new peas than later in the year after they mature, when they firmly join the bean clan (mostly …
Summer’s Don’t-Miss Dish in Edible Santa Barbara Magazine Note: Chef Robbie Wilson was running the restaurant at Mattei’s Tavern in Los Olivos when this was published in 2015. He’s now cooking in Northern California, but this dish is still just as delicious when made at home! Want the Summer Tomato Gazpacho recipe? Get it here. What …
Industrial Eats owner/Chef Jeff Olsson has been cooking from locally sourced, organic ingredients long before “farm-to-table” was born. In the late 80s, deep in Amish farming country in Pennsylvania, Tuscarora Organic Growers co-operative took root, supplying restaurants in the Washington D.C. area with locally grown, organic produce. This co-op helped keep small farms afloat by coordinating crop production …
Spring | At the helm of Plenty on Bell is long-time Los Alamos chef Jesper Johansson, who has cooked on this street since 1999. A native of Sweden, he’s gained a large local following with his down-to-earth dishes and scrumptious breakfasts. At Plenty on Bell, Johansson focuses on local, farm-to-table comfort food. Dishes on the …
As Chef Tim Veatch hunches carefully over a great, beautiful slab of chocolate torte layered with rhubarb mousse, slicing it into perfect rectangles for serving, he’s interrupted by a knock on the door. He looks up, then his voice bellows across the kitchen to greet farmer Bill Spencer with a huge smile. Spencer, the grandfatherly …
After you finally find the place, at the very end of the lone thoroughfare in a one-stop-sign-town between Santa Maria and Santa Barbara, you climb the steps of the painted porch and a home-cooked smell wafts through the old-fashioned window. You could be on your grandmother’s porch, if only it weren’t attached to a production …
