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As much as we all appreciate the Davis dining scene, sometimes we need to shake things up. Now is the perfect time — Dine Downtown Restaurant Week in Sacramento is running for ten days. That means 29 restaurants are offering special three-course, fixed-price dinner menus for an extremely reasonable $30 per person. Yes, it’s not […]

Alright, you left the giblets out of your Thanksgiving gravy so that your vegan cousin Megan could eat something at your family dinner. Smooth move, my friend, especially since we both know she gives the best Christmas gifts. But now that December is here you’re expected to bake for people too, and you can’t just […]

Every foodie at UC Davis knows, and cringes at the fact, that the Michael Pollan is chilling at UC Berkeley, lecturing and stuff on a regular basis. It’s so close, and yet so far. To make matters even worse, the Alice Waters — famed chef/owner of Chez Panisse and American pioneer of seasonal, sustainable cooking practices […]

My favorite thing about food is that there are countless combinations you can create and never be bored. In most cases, you can literally put two of your favorite things together and make something amazing… and that’s exactly what I did here. Put a Caprese salad in front of me and it will be gone […]

As Katie Morris mentioned earlier this month in her blog post about slow cooker minestrone, dropping temperatures and encroaching finals mean ‘tis the season for soup. And lots of it. Soup appeals to my cooking sensibilities, as it requires no measuring of ingredients, can be made with virtually whatever you have on hand.  What’s more, […]

As reported in today’s California Aggie, our city’s very own Davis Farmers Market Cookbook has won national honors. Authors Ann M. Evans and Georgeanne Brennan received $1,000 and the cookbook, placing first in the non-fiction category of the 2012 Writer’s Digest contest for self-published books, will be featured in the March 2013 issue of Writer’s […]

There are plenty of reasons for James Bond to hate his job. In the old novels by Ian Fleming, his love interests, loved ones and even casual acquaintances often met untimely deaths. His targets were always ego-maniacal, creepy eccentrics who knew how to tax him to his breaking point (if never quite managing to finish […]

When my friend Alyssa went vegan last fall, her parents had a hard time understanding just what that entailed. While she was at school they were just bewildered from afar, unsure as to why or even how someone would limit their food options like that. How little they understood the concept became abundantly clear, however, […]

Thanksgiving is only a week away, and I bet people are starting to look forward to the massive amounts of food they are going to consume. I picked baked Brie this week because, not only is it one of my favorite snacks, it is also versatile enough to go with any seasonal meal. I adapted […]

The Aggies caught a bit of “road-rage” this weekend against Cal Poly and Santa Barbara as they went on to sweep both opponents back to back. UC Davis hit the ground running Friday night, displaying one of their most dominant performances of the year against Cal Poly, trouncing the Mustangs 25-10, 25-23, 29-27. The Aggies […]

One of my first quintessentially “Davis” experiences occurred early my freshman year as I overheard one homeless man say to another, “I only eat local, vegan and organic.” Honestly, this struck me as incredibly bourgeois at the time. I remember thinking, “I’ll eat whatever I can afford” as I contemplated just how many CalPIRG meetings […]

We may have had some unseasonably warm and sunny days in the past two weeks, but the days of cloudy skies and chilling rain storms that we all know and love here in Davis are just around the corner. We are also about to hit the ever-dreaded, end-of-the-quarter home stretch of nothing but papers, midterms […]