Summer Salads Get Dressed Up
Summer is here and so are salads. We eat them year ’round but this is a special time for salads. We grow gourmet...
Read MoreRecipe: Garlic-Broccoli Pasta with Italian Vinegar
Featuring Chaparral Gardens Artisan Vinegars’ savory Italian vinegar, this recipe for garlic-broccoli pasta is fast and...
Read MoreA Toast to Vinegar, Food as Medicine
Whether added to mixed vegetables or a mixed drink, “Vinegar’s the Zamboni for the tongue,” says one vinegar proponent...
Read MoreChaparral Gardens and Winter Squash
“We grow 120 different varieties of pumpkins and winter squash,” says Becky Barlogio of Jack Creek Farms on Highway 46 halfway...
Read MoreArtisan Vinegars, Secret Ingredients
It started with a gift of golden raspberries. “You can have them all,” said Craig and Cari Clark’s neighbor who had...
Read MoreChaparral Gardens Artisan Vinegars
“There’s the Mother,” says Cari Clark as she gently plucks a strand of diaphanous material that clings to the raised lid of the...
Read MoreHow to Make Vinegar
by Craig Clark Take any fermenting alcohol liquid and expose it to oxygen. This creates the formation of a cellulose and acetobacter...
Read MoreCentral Coast Olive Oil & Vinegars
36 Degrees, Paso Robles Alta Cresta Olive Orchard, Paso Robles Belle Olive Oil, Watsonville Carriage Estate, Templeton Casa Pau Hana...
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