Central Coast Foodie Blog

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The Trip

Haute cuisine comes in for some gentle mocking in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Trip (2011) about a foodie road trip with adversarial traveling companions, British...

Jamie Gluck, Bell Street Farm

Welcome Bell Street Farm

When the potato salad is spiked with pancetta and the rosé is nicely dry, you know you’ve chosen the right place for lunch. In early...

Central Coast, circa 1848

Map of Oregon and upper California from the surveys of John Charles Frémont and other authorities appears in the Discovery and Exploration section of the map...

Mid-August Lunch

Having just returned from an Ohio family reunion, I particularly enjoyed this quiet but entertaining Italian film that focuses on family, flavor, and food for...

Foodie Film: Tampopo

From noodles to aphrodisiacs, from food fetishes to French food, and back again to noodles, the film Tampopo (1985) explores our common foodie humanity and our...