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Going Green in Black and Yellow
Orange County Restaurants Enter the Beekeeping Community
When sustainability is on par with taste, it shows. From sourcing responsibly to utilizing local organics, a dish created with a conscience speaks volumes to not only a restaurant’s ethics, but its ability to form an elevated experience for guests. These days, everything matters—even how and where you get your honey. For this reason, Orange County restaurants have called in some help from their cohorts in black and yellow.
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Building Bonds Over Breaking Bread
An Intimate Look Behind the Scenes at Taco Maria's Staff Meal
Whatever the name—staff or family meal, Saturday or Sunday Supper—a shared meal on one table unites a restaurant. At Taco Maria, family and work life converge and a comfortable intimacy flows into the preparation of each dish; heightening the radishes’ crispness and exalting the blue-gray of the blue corn tortillas.
Every day, before the restaurant opens for dinner, the staff shares a meal prepared by their own. During the week, a chef may create a meal inspired by various, cultural cuisines or, perhaps, from his or her own heritage. Saturdays are reserved for Mexican-based cooking; utilizing the quality, Alta California ingredients Taco Maria is famous for.
Chef Carlos Salgado says that anyone versed in the soul of Mexican food is familiar with the generous spread that shapes family meals: grilled and braised meats; the stapes: rice and beans; a variety of condiments and salsas; and hand-pressed tortillas for making tacos.
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Building an Empire
A Look at Multiple Concept Restaurants
For those whose entrepreneurial hunger cannot be satiated with a single unit, multiple restaurant concepts can be a very rewarding endeavor. With such a condensed market within the OC restaurant scene, opening several brands under a single corporation can have its advantages. Read More >>
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Chef Zach Geerson
“IT ONLY TAKES 30 SECONDS OF CRAZY THOUGHTS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE,” Chef Zach J. Geerson says with raised brows, a decided smile across his face.
It’s a quote from a movie that’s stuck with him—one of the many quotes he’s used to frame his life so far.
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A Marbled Marvel
DRY-AGED BEEF IS SAID TO BE ONE OF THE MOST LUSCIOUS STEAKS, enhancing hidden flavors in the meat, such as its nutty and earthy aromas—some have even been reported to produce hints of strawberries and so tender, it hardly needs a knife. As opposed to what most consumers have come to know as wet-aged beef, dry-aged beef remains, in some way, superior in quality and taste—but all of that depends on who’s doing the chewing...Read More >>
CSU News
I've already made my picket sign
The unfolding battle between the California Faculty Association and California State University began as a blip in my peripheral vision last year. Now, as I continue to investigate the Fight for Five’s progress, the more I learn, the more I can’t keep my mouth shut...Read More>>
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CFA ratifies tentative agreement
The California Faculty Association members approved the tentative agreement with the California State University system, with 97 percent of those who voted in favor of the deal.
The ballot was held online April 22–29. Of the 23,000 CFA members...Read More >>
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Long Beach medical marijuana initiative couldn't deliver
The days when you could go from doing yoga on the bluff, ride your bike to pick up homemade hummus from the Farmer’s Market at Cherry Park and swing by one of the 10 marijuana dispensaries lining Broadway before heading back to your studio apartment in the East Village are gone. Now, Long Beach locals must travel to Compton, Torrance or Huntington Beach to purchase medical marijuana in lieu of the ease of that green era. Read More >>
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Last living "Big Six" civil rights leader, John Lewis, assembles troops for change
Over 1,000 activists cheered on civil rights pioneer Congressman John Lewis in his address at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Breakfast in Los Angeles Jan. 23.
The congressman spoke out against the racial disparities raging within the labor force and advocated for the disruption of the present system, calling upon the peaceful demonstrations of the ‘60s that paved the way for socioeconomic justice.
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CFA: What to expect if CSULB professors strike
In the event of the looming California Faculty Association strike, Cal State Long Beach says the campus will operate as usual; the CFA says the campus will be completely vacant; students say they still don’t know what to expect; and many are still widely unaware of the strike’s existence or its potential impact upon them.
Although the campus will remain open and administrative services will be available, it is unclear if students will be able to access the campus...Read More >>
