Comstock's magazine • 30th March 2022

Lawmakers on a (California) Roll

Five state government leaders recently took a lunch break from their jobs making California laws to make California rolls.

Comstock's magazine • 14th March 2022

Women in Leadership: Sarah Hemly

Most days, you can find Sarah Hemly in a former airplane hangar deep in the Sacramento River delta. The once-abandoned building houses the fermentation equipment for Hemly Cider, her 7-year-old cider business, as well as a tasting room that opened last spring.

Global Food Safety Initiative • 8th March 2022

What the Food Industry Can Learn from Space — and Vice Versa

In 2013, Angelo Vermeulen was crew commander of a Mars mission simulation on the high slopes of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano — the first mission under NASA’s Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation project, or HI-SEAS. He and five other people lived in a geodesic habitation dome about 11 metres in diameter for four months in isolation, eating mostly freeze-dried and shelf-stable food (including a few treats like Nutella).

Comstock's magazine • 24th February 2022

Neighborhood Favorite: Every Little Thing Jamaican

The windows are dark and the steam table is empty on Saturday at Every Little Thing Jamaican, a grocery store and takeout food business in Suisun City. The owners, like about 12 percent of Jamaicans, are Seventh Day Adventists, and Saturday is their day of rest. But come Sunday the line may stretch to the door of the 1,300-square-foot space, winding through aisles stocked with canned cheese, dumpling mix and ginger beer.

Comstock's magazine • 16th February 2022

The New Fusion Food

The Capital Region has long been a blended place, home to one of the country’s most ethnically diverse populations for decades. The region’s young restaurateurs are increasingly opening concepts that reflect the experience of living and eating in a diverse place, rather than hewing to an amber-glazed idea of authenticity.

Comstock's magazine • 31st January 2022

Neighborhood Favorite: Smile Market 2

When Smile Food Market opened in north Sacramento in 1998, it was one of the few places in the region devoted to the needs of the Korean kitchen. Korean pop music and movies had yet to become blockbuster hits in the United States, bringing dishes like mandu and chapaguri into the spotlight, and mainstream supermarkets did not yet stock kimchi near the salad mix.

Comstock's magazine • 30th December 2021

Neighborhood Favorite: Chulla’s Cafe

Jambalaya always tells a story. The rice-based dish gets its name from a word meaning “mishmash” in the Occitan dialect of southern France, and it carries influences from the many groups of people who settled in Louisiana’s bayou region in the 18th and 19th centuries. That story is usually implied: The diner is left to draw his or her own conclusions about the French andouille sausage, the Spanish notes in the bell pepper base, the family resemblance to West African jollof rice.

Comstock's magazine • 23rd November 2021

Neighborhood Favorite: Kehaulani’s Cafe

At Kehaulani’s Cafe in Vallejo, the loco moco starts with short ribs braised for 12 hours.

Comstock's magazine • 28th October 2021

Neighborhood Favorite: Manchurian Indian Cuisine

The original name of Manchurian Indian Cuisine in West Sacramento was Manchurian Hakka Cuisine. The change was to avoid confusion, but both versions require some explanation.

ABS-CBN News • 13th October 2021

There’s a touching story behind this trailer carinderia in the Alaskan countryside

To get to Momma Rav’s, one of Alaska’s most memorable carinderias, you must first make it to Palmer, a small town some 70 kilometers north of Anchorage in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley.

Comstock's magazine • 6th October 2021

Following the Grapevine

Charlie and Michael Havill, the husband-and-wife founders of Bella Grace Vineyards in Amador County, wanted to be what they call “gentlemen farmers.”

ABS-CBN News • 30th September 2021

Meet the Fil-Am chefs making a splash in what might be America’s most vibrant food scene

These young women are rewriting the definition of authenticity in "the best food city in Alaska."

Comstock's magazine • 29th September 2021

New Sacramento Wine Bars Highlight the Capital Region’s Natural Winemakers

At Ro Sham Beaux, a Midtown Sacramento natural wine bar that opened in January, the shelves are stocked with a chorus line of bottles from around the world — but only a handful are available by the glass each day.

Comstock's magazine • 29th September 2021

Neighborhood Favorite: Taiwan Best Mart

The bento boxes at Taiwan Best Mart in downtown Sacramento taste like train food. That may sound like a roast from a standup routine, but for those who have traveled the rails that ring the island of Taiwan like a diadem, it’s a compliment.

Comstock's magazine • 19th August 2021

Neighborhood Favorite: Konditorei Austrian Pastry Café

Anyone who has visited the coffee houses of Vienna will see the resemblance between those venerable institutions and Konditorei Austrian Pastry Café in Davis.

ABS-CBN News • 8th August 2021

They serve 'silog' in the world’s northernmost carinderia

In Utqiagvik, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States, the Arctic Ocean forms a jagged crust of ice up to the gray sand beach. A few yards away from the beach, under polar night or midnight sun, sits a little Filipino restaurant called the 57.

AP NEWS • 24th June 2021

Now What? Key Takeaways and Conclusions from The Consumer Goods Forum's 2021 Global Summit

PARIS, June 24, 2021 /3BL Media/ - The Consumer Goods Forum’s virtual 2021 Global Summit closed this afternoon, the conclusion of four days of focused conversation around challenges and opportunities in the consumer goods industry.

Comstock's magazine • 23rd June 2021

This Food Box Helps Families and Small Farmers

In a multipurpose room at Trinity Cathedral in Sacramento last Wednesday, Mayor Darrell Steinberg, City Councilwoman Mai Vang and other local leaders gathered to pack food boxes for families in need.

Comstock's magazine • 15th June 2021

Neighborhood Favorite: Amazon Grill

Feijoada, one of the specialties of Amazon Grill in Midtown Sacramento, is a black hole of a dish, both in color and in density.

Comstock's magazine • 8th June 2021

Incubator Lab for Food and Ag Tech Startups Opens in Woodland

A century ago, the city of Woodland — surrounded by farmland, connected to the Southern Pacific Railroad and just a stop away from what was then the University of California’s experimental farm — was a hub for the cutting-edge agricultural technology of its day. Now, a startup incubator aims to bring a new generation of food and agricultural technology innovators to the Yolo County seat.