Mark Anderson

1 week ago | ediblemontereybay.com | Mark Anderson

May 9, 2025—Indigenous foods “chieftess” Christina Lonewolf Martinez claims some high-powered kitchen cred after apprenticing at Sierra Mar in Big Sur and helping open Stokes Adobe and Cella Restaurant & Bar in Monterey. But for her, the most compelling place she’s cooked, and continues to cook, doubles as her favorite: On native Esselen land down the South Coast, ideally accompanied by post-meal storytelling by Little Bear around the fire and children like her own toddler roaming about.

2 weeks ago | ediblemontereybay.com | Mark Anderson

May 2, 2025—The shock is so sudden a neck injury nearly results. I do a double take at the dish in front of me and wonder, “I made that?”The breakfast dish was about as simple as it gets, essentially a two-ingredient omelet, whipped eggs and dry Jack Vella cheese, with a squirt of backyard lemon and some Pezzini Farms Artichoke Seasoning. Hence my surprise when I detected a mild, elegant but indulgent element of dill that made me wish my omelets were bigger. Then the coffee kicks in.

2 weeks ago | ediblemontereybay.com | Mark Anderson

April 29, 2025—Talk about an impactful exchange student experience. Céline Molière—co-owner of brand-new Emilie and the Frenchies, which soft-opened last weekend—came to Santa Cruz as a high school student, from Nice, France, three decades ago.

3 weeks ago | ediblemontereybay.com | Mark Anderson

April 25, 2025—The reaction felt abrupt, but fair: “Doesn’t everyone already know California avocados are awesome?”That’s my most trusted confidant (and fellow avocado enthusiast) talking, as she wonders what a press junket to Camarillo, California, hosted by the California Avocado Commission, could prove, beyond the self-evident. She has a point. California avocado awesomeness isn’t exactly new to me either.

3 weeks ago | ediblemontereybay.com | Mark Anderson

April 22, 2025—So much happens in the sphere of mushrooms—seen and unseen, dramatic and subtle, delicious and deadly—that it approaches otherworldly. At least that’s how Dr. Gordon Walter, sees it, no psilocybin needed. He wrote the book on mushrooms, literally, with his forthcoming Passport to Kingdom Fungi. (More on that in a moment.) “Fungi are the glue that hold this planet together, and I observe something there about interconnectedness,” he says.