Eating out Guide to the Culinarily Timid

Forgive me Pollan for I have sinned. I’ve driven through, super-sized and made plenty of runs to the Border. My glass house has seen too many Carl’s Junior wrappers for me to cast any greasy napkins at anyone else. Fast food is convenient, cheap and easy. A lot can be said for consistency as well.  […]

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Cyrus takes top honors at Beard Awards

Cyrus Restaurant Chef Douglas Keane of Healdsburg has won Best Chef: Pacific at the James Beard Awards, held Monday night in New York. The awards are considered the Oscars of the food world. The event is being Twittered live. Other nominees from the Pacific Category (which includes California and Hawaii) included Jeremy Fox of Napa’s […]

31 cent scoop night at Baskin-Robbins (April 29)

Don’t forget that tonight, Wed. April 29 is 31 cent scoop night at Baskin-Robbins throughout the country. From 5pm on, the ice cream shops will roll back the price of a single scoop to .31. The event benefits America’s firefighters with a $100,000 donation to the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) National Junior Firefighter Program […]

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