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Monterey Weekly

• [dining] Julio Redux : County culinary royalty Julio Ramirez makes Edgar’s excellent at Carmel Valley’s Quail Lodge. - Monterey County Weekly March 4, 2010
  The story behind Julio Ramirez’s electric-orange “dog’s nose” habanero salsa is appropriately spicy, involving the Yucatan Peninsula, open-air markets and hot pepper seeds he imported personally. Same for the tale behind the humble Fishwife-Turtle Bay dynasty he co-founded – and the coconut-ginger-lime ceviche and Grandmamma Rosanna Québécoise meat pies he a […]
  Mark C. Anderson
• [news] Fresh & Not So Easy: Much-anticipated Seaside grocery store could be a no-go. - Monterey County Weekly March 4, 2010
  It was as if Seaside won a trip to Disney World in summer 2008, when the city announced Fresh & Easy was coming to the City Center shopping complex on Broadway Avenue and Fremont Boulevard. Officials enthused about it. Online forums buzzed. Most agreed the mainstream grocery chain, described as something between Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, was sorely n […]
  Kera Abraham
• [831] Wholly Better Half : Monterey County throws a party for International Women’s Month. - Monterey County Weekly March 4, 2010
  Women have acquired a remarkable power: We’re now allowed to fight fires, work on cars and wear baggy jeans, whereas if a man is caught wearing make-up or even dancing ballet, things do not go as smoothly for him. In that way, women have ascended from a position of extreme limitation to possessing greater freedom than men. Yet somehow, gender has a female co […]
  Micaela Quintana