Maddelena Serra is one of my favorite chefs. She founded her namesake restaurant, Café Maddelena in Dunsmuir. She sold her restaurant, and it’s still a place I love to visit. But I do miss Maddelena Serra. This is an adaptation… Continue Reading
Original article Maddelena’s Torta a Limone 1 cube softened butter 2 ½ cups fine sugar 7 egg yolks 7 egg whites 1 cup pastry flour ½ cup lemon juice 2 tsp. grated lemon 1 cup milk 2 cups graham cracker… Continue Reading
I grew up in the small gold rush town of Angels Camp as a fifth-generation Angels Camp resident. That puts us there at the first settling of the “camp”. After a few years of college and roaming around this beautiful country, I settled in Montgomery Creek, a much smaller place. I’m a small town girl who likes to put down roots.
I’ve been blessed in my adult life to have friends from all over the world who have shared with me rich and fascinating details of life in other cultures. I’m an activist by nature. I didn’t set out to be, I just am. But try as I might, I have never figured out how to do anything about the big world. To be honest, I feel like I can’t even think about an issue like the global economy. It makes my head spin.
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You know I’m new to this blogging thing. I’m even newer to the concept of personal blogs. Sometimes I stumble across one and almost feel voyeuristic as I read someone’s personal thoughts. I recently followed the link to someone’s blog who’d visited my website. I… Continue Reading
“I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.”… Continue Reading
“Justice denied anywhere, diminishes justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr.
Among the child custody issues, domestic disputes, restraining orders and other typical family law cases, one very unusual, potentially precedent-setting free speech court hearing barely made a ripple today in the packed Shasta County Superior Court.
I was there to report the outcome of a temporary restraining order filed last month by Christy Lochrie, Record Searchlight reporter, against Beth Norby, an environmental consultant.
Norby created a satirical Web site, No Phat & Pink Chicks, about Lochrie’s very real Record Searchlight blog, Phat & Pink. Continue Reading
If a house is without power, but there’s no way to phone PG&E to report the outage, is my power still off? Yes. But we’re not alone. More than 1,000 Redding area north state homes remain powerless. And PG&E reports… Continue Reading
It was bound to happen. Food for Thought’s success recently turned the head of people inclined to post icky porn stuff. Of course, we remove the gross stuff the moment we see it, and block the blockheads from future posts.… Continue Reading
Welcome to the new Food for Thought site.
How, you might ask, is it new? I thought you’d never ask. Let me count the ways:
1. Your former Food for Thought site was basically a one-room studio that was so small that it only showed one feature per day. It might have had one of my food stories or opinion columns. Or, it might have featured one guest speaker or one Q&A expert.
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