Lookout’s “Keeping It Local” gift guide continues with Lily Belli’s suggestions for chocolate and honey to charcuterie and beyond. She and Wallace Baine are taking turns this week on various guides, so stay tuned!
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Keeping It Local: Get your loved ones toasting with Santa Cruz’s quaffable best
Lookout’s “ Keeping It Local” gift guide continues with Lily Belli’s list of drinkables from spirits, wine and beer to coffee. Lily and Wallace Baine will be taking turns this week on various guides, from art to food to clothing, so stay tuned!
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Lower Pacific gets a sweet new addition: Santa Cruz Waffle Shop sets up shop at Metro station
Is it a waffle or is it a donut? You can have that discourse with the newest tenant at the Metro station, located on the center island behind El Huarache taqueria. “It’s cake batter, cooked in a waffle iron and decorated like a donut, sometimes like a pie,” says waffle creator and Waffle Shop co-owner Brian Tong.
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EATERS DIGEST: Rethinking holiday menus, fungi for dessert & preaching a Buy Local mantra
Lily Belli talks possible substitutes for Christmas Eve crab, candy cap mushroom cookies, chili crisp bliss that isn’t over the top and a ton more in this week’s roundup. Stay tuned for the kickoff of our Buy Local series on Sunday.
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Inside Lookout: Celebrating our first birthday and moving boldly into 2022
In this month’s newsletter from CEO and Founder Ken Doctor, get a preview of Lookout’s ambitious student access…
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EATERS DIGEST: Pretty Good Advice pays it forward, Birichino has some fun & Laili is back — phew
A walkout by about half of Cafe Gratitude’s staff earlier this month does not appear to have been successful. Four…
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Crab season delayed again; fisheries, markets, restaurants learning to adjust
After five years of delays in the commercial crabbing season, shortages of Dungeness crab have essentially become a foregone conclusion. This holds consequences for retail, restaurants and fishermen in Santa Cruz County, and it could soon change the way fishing operates both recreationally and commercially.
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Cafe Gratitude update: Reduced hours, jobs not restored
A walkout by about half of Cafe Gratitude’s staff earlier this month does not appear to have been successful. Four workers refused to come into work, seeking an explanation as to why a fellow employee had been fired. Ownership let them go in response, and the cafe is now open one fewer day per week.
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Combating holiday hunger & food insecurity: Local organizations making difference
These four local Santa Cruz County nonprofits make it their mission year-round to empower youth, fight hunger, and support women and families in need. Read what they cooking when it comes to impactful holiday-time partnerships you can help support.
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A Santa Cruz superfood, superhero-approved: Wonder Woman endorses Goodles’ new mac & cheese
Santa Cruz-based Goodles launched on Tuesday with a new boxed mac & cheese product in four varieties. The founding team includes actor Gal Gadot and former execs at Annie’s and Kraft.
