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Nasturtium Saag Paneer

Nasturtium Saag Paneer

Peppery nasturtium greens make a perfect substitute for mustard greens in this traditionally-styled Punjabi dish...

Easy, Cheesy Fresh Pea Crostini

Easy, Cheesy Fresh Pea Crostini

Delicious & Easy Easy, Cheesy Fresh Pea Crostini Peak-season peas, peppery pecorino, cooling mint and...

ENDIVE AND FRISEE SALAD WITH CITRUS AND BALSAMIC

ENDIVE AND FRISEE SALAD WITH CITRUS AND BALSAMIC

Ingredients for ENDIVE AND FRISEE SALAD WITH CITRUS AND BALSAMIC Dressing ¼ cup balsamic vinegar...

Cherry, Vanilla, Chocolate Cauliflower Ice Cream Sandwich

Cherry, Vanilla, Chocolate Cauliflower Ice Cream Sandwich

Delicious & Easy Cherry, Vanilla, Chocolate Cauliflower Ice Cream Sandwich Yes, it says cauliflower ice...

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Nasturtium Saag Paneer

Nasturtium Saag Paneer

Peppery nasturtium greens make a perfect substitute for mustard greens in this traditionally-styled Punjabi dish...

Easy, Cheesy Fresh Pea Crostini

Easy, Cheesy Fresh Pea Crostini

Delicious & Easy Easy, Cheesy Fresh Pea Crostini Peak-season peas, peppery pecorino, cooling mint and...

ENDIVE AND FRISEE SALAD WITH CITRUS AND BALSAMIC

ENDIVE AND FRISEE SALAD WITH CITRUS AND BALSAMIC

Ingredients for ENDIVE AND FRISEE SALAD WITH CITRUS AND BALSAMIC Dressing ¼ cup balsamic vinegar...

Cherry, Vanilla, Chocolate Cauliflower Ice Cream Sandwich

Cherry, Vanilla, Chocolate Cauliflower Ice Cream Sandwich

Delicious & Easy Cherry, Vanilla, Chocolate Cauliflower Ice Cream Sandwich Yes, it says cauliflower ice...

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A Delicious Celebration of Craft & Community: The Cheese & Libation Expo 2025

A Delicious Celebration of Craft & Community: The Cheese & Libation Expo 2025

Image courtesy of Cheese & Libation Expo.San Diego’s most flavorful event is back! The Cheese...

Spring Cookbook Club 2025

Spring Cookbook Club 2025

I lost my mother a few months ago, suddenly. It's strange to experience this extremely...

Seasonal Cooking Tips for Spring

Seasonal Cooking Tips for Spring

Are you looking to expand your culinary skills? Blending expert techniques with peak seasonal ingredients...

Cooking Together: Spring 2025

Cooking Together: Spring 2025

This season, we launch a new initiative: Cooking Together. And here it begins.For 17 years,...

Unapologetically Blaxican: A Culinary Journey of Family, Culture, and Comfort

Unapologetically Blaxican: A Culinary Journey of Family, Culture, and Comfort

In San Diego’s Barrio Logan, Julia Velez-Hernandez serves more than comfort food, her dishes are...

Wildly refreshing

Wildly refreshing

Botanicals might seem like a trendy buzzword in health and wellness circles, but that doesn’t...

Food Forestry

Food Forestry

When CJ Andrews first stepped on the property she would later buy in Valley Center,...

Preserving Citrus

Preserving Citrus

As winter envelops Southern California, the region’s orchards burst with a kaleidoscope of citrus fruits,...

Intentionally Regenerative

Intentionally Regenerative

Anyone who has taken enough time and endured the eyestrain of reading the 0.2 type...

Can Agritourism Save the Family Farm?

Can Agritourism Save the Family Farm?

SPECIAL PARTNER FEATURE‍Ramona Ranch Winery is San Diego’s first and only certified sustainable vineyard and winery.At a...

Gadgets and Gifts for the Thrifty Kitchen

Gadgets and Gifts for the Thrifty Kitchen

Flex your buying power for a noble cause this winter and head to the Kitchens...

The  Makings of a Meal

The Makings of a Meal

While our country may feel polarized at times, food remains a place people can come...

Your Stay-Cation Guide to Valley Center

Your Stay-Cation Guide to Valley Center

European excursions and far-off bucket list adventures are great, but it’s also worth exploring the...

A Many-Splendored Thing

A Many-Splendored Thing

I fell hard for persimmons at an intense time of my life. Against many odds...

A Living Landscape

A Living Landscape

Cresting a hill east of Escondido, it’s common to see large birds flying high above...

Three Keepsake Recipes

Three Keepsake Recipes

‍ Behind the scenes: ingredients and recipes staged for cooking to begin. Image by Becka...

You’re Invited to a Fall Party at City Farmers Nursery

You’re Invited to a Fall Party at City Farmers Nursery

The beauty and delectable comforts of San Diego’s fall season is a cause for celebration—and...

Restoring Water Ways

Restoring Water Ways

Participants from Kumeyaay Community College and Native Like Water crew a large ha kwaiyo (tule...

Market Explorer: City Farmers Nursery

Market Explorer: City Farmers Nursery

Perhaps it’s the unique charm of a small-scale, family-owned and-operated businesses or the intrigue of...

Hurry Up and Wait

Hurry Up and Wait

Predawn on a foggy morning, I found myself driving on a quiet country road. Sprawling...

Seafood City: San Diego’s Fishing History

Seafood City: San Diego’s Fishing History

Image: Courtesy of San Diego Maritime Museum.Today’s tourists visiting San Diego Harbor would not know...

What’s Growing at Fred’s Urban Farm

What’s Growing at Fred’s Urban Farm

Robin Kanzius (left) and son Kellen Kanzius started farming with 10 trays of microgreens.‍The story...

Finding Fromage in San Diego

Finding Fromage in San Diego

While San Diego may not be known as a cheese destination, passionate cheesemongers across the...

How to Have a Delicious Summer

How to Have a Delicious Summer

Becoming an Agritourist might be one of the best ways to taste the wonderful foods...

Collaborative Conservation

Collaborative Conservation

Ben Naman and Alli Adams work with medicinal plant species in greenhouses at the San...

The Appellations of San Diego Wine Country

The Appellations of San Diego Wine Country

As a flourish of viticultural activity excites grape growers and wine consumers throughout San Diego...

Celebrity Chefs Cook to Benefit Regenerative So-Cal Farm

Celebrity Chefs Cook to Benefit Regenerative So-Cal Farm

On April 14, chefs, farmers, and vintners from around the San Diego area convened on...

Seed-Saving Renaissance

Seed-Saving Renaissance

Seeds are like magic. From tiny containers sprout nutritious foods, beautiful flowers, trees, medicinal herbs,...

Zero Proof

Zero Proof

Try mixing up a Metabolism Makeover for yourselves. Recipe and image courtesy of Higher Vibration...

Create Space for California Bumblebees

Create Space for California Bumblebees

Buzzing among lilacs or the tomatoes in our vegetable gardens, big, fuzzy bumblebees are a...

Meet the Winemaker at Walnut Tree Ranch Vineyard and Winery

Meet the Winemaker at Walnut Tree Ranch Vineyard and Winery

The golden rolling hills of San Diego County's backcountry. Image courtesy of Walnut Tree Ranch...

Wrapping Up the Seasons

Wrapping Up the Seasons

We’re all aboard the Polar Express headed straight through the holiday season. Next stop, 2024!...

Galactic Produce from Down-to-Earth Farmers

Galactic Produce from Down-to-Earth Farmers

Alyssa Brodsky prepares a row for planting. Image courtesy of Chris Rov Costa. Growing up...

Best Family Dining in San Diego

Best Family Dining in San Diego

Little ones on a garden tour at The Plot in Oceanside. Image courtesy of The...

Provisions for the Pacific Crest Trail

Provisions for the Pacific Crest Trail

Ask hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) what they think about most on this...

Three Delicious Heirloom Recipes

Three Delicious Heirloom Recipes

Many of us share fond memories and special bonds with loved ones through food. Recipes...

Follow That Fish

Follow That Fish

Dan Major with fishing crew members Luke (center) and Jasper (left)heading out on F/V Lady...

The Source of Life

The Source of Life

GUEST EDITOR’S NOTE Growing up in San Diego as a Filipino-American, I was fascinated by...

Pauma Tribal Farms: Celebrating the Fruits of the Land

Pauma Tribal Farms: Celebrating the Fruits of the Land

When a place and a people embody thousands of years of flow, we are especially...

How to Spend the Perfect Weekend  in San Luis Obispo County

How to Spend the Perfect Weekend in San Luis Obispo County

If you're looking for a weekend getaway, San Luis Obispo County, or SLO as it's...

Market Explorer: SunCoast Farmers’ Market Haul

Market Explorer: SunCoast Farmers’ Market Haul

While the future SunCoast Market Co-Op store location in Silver Strand Plaza is destined to...

Becoming an Agritourist

Becoming an Agritourist

What is agritourism? ag.ri.tour.ism (ˌa-gri-ˈtu̇ r-ˌi-zəm) is the practice of touring agricultural areas to see...

Where the Green Grass Grows

Where the Green Grass Grows

An acorn woodpecker, his red crown blazing in the sun, repeats his familiar knock, knock…...

Regenerative Ranching in San Diego

Regenerative Ranching in San Diego

A BITE OF HISTORYSan Diego County has grasslands well suited for regenerative ranching, which means...

San Diego In a Glass

San Diego In a Glass

There are numerous ways to infuse a sense of place into a beer. Common methods...

Living Soil

Living Soil

Painting by Stacey Messina representing the many layers of life in the soil. Story and...

Pie Tasting at Julian Pie Company

Pie Tasting at Julian Pie Company

The scent of freshly baked pies is one of the most heavenly aromas on Earth....

Julian’s True Treasure

Julian’s True Treasure

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the...

Pairing Food With Fruity Ciders

Pairing Food With Fruity Ciders

Cider, called “hard cider” in the US, continues to gain momentum as a beverage that...

Growing a Food Revolution

Growing a Food Revolution

You may know Jessica Waite from her plant-based, zero-waste restaurant The Plot, or as president...

Sustainable Water Ways

Sustainable Water Ways

Image: Art Zeigler. The leaves on tomato plants wither and droop. Higher winds knock avocados...

From Sea Forest to Table

From Sea Forest to Table

Catherine O’Hare and Avery Resor witnessed the pitfalls of the modern food system by working...

Traditional Knowledge and Innovative Leadership

Traditional Knowledge and Innovative Leadership

A stop on the basketmaking trail. Image: Courtesy of Lacey Cannon.Indigenous RegenerationIndigenousregeneration.org is an organization...

What a Centenarian Eats

What a Centenarian Eats

Image: Courtesy of Deborah Szekely. ‍ To celebrate Deborah Szekely’s 100th birthday on May 3,...

Moving Forward

Moving Forward

I feel deeply honored that we have spent this time together with you, our valued...

This Land We Live On and Depend On

This Land We Live On and Depend On

DEFINING REGENERATIVE AGRICULTUREREDEFINING OURSELVESThis small herd of cows at Pasturebird supports rotational grazing for chickens. Image: Maria Hesse.You’ve...

Regenerative Ag Resource Guide

Regenerative Ag Resource Guide

Regenerative Ag Resources  Get Involved Locally and Globally Regeneration.org California Department of Agriculture’s Healthy Soils...

Regenerative Farmsteading Fosters Education

Regenerative Farmsteading Fosters Education

In 2018, Rich and April Viles were searching for a new adventure. In Vista, CA...

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part Four

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part Four

The world is changing faster and in ways we can’t possibly comprehend. Abstract and easy-to-ignore...

Behind the Bar with Whit Rigali

Behind the Bar with Whit Rigali

Tell us about yourself and where you live.My name is Whit Rigali. I'm the co-founder,...

Meet the ‘Dine-cation’

Meet the ‘Dine-cation’

Hotel restaurants used to have a reputation for serving overpriced convenience food to a so-called...

Would the Real Margarita Please Stand Up?

Would the Real Margarita Please Stand Up?

With illustrations by W. Scott Koenig Bar Andaluz Margarita‍1940 to 1950"It's just like a daisy,...

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part Three

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part Three

Water touches every part of the beverage creation process, from growing ingredients to creating the...

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part Two

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part Two

The average American drinks over two gallons of alcohol per year, and that number has...

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part One

The Story of Water in Southern California: Part One

This is the first of a four-part series, one part of which will roll out...

Getting Ready to Eat Local and Think Global for the Planet this Earth Day

Getting Ready to Eat Local and Think Global for the Planet this Earth Day

April 22, 2021 is earmarked for a Happy Earth Day to all of us riding...

An Invitation to Bluebirds

An Invitation to Bluebirds

Bet you didn’t know you can tell western bluebirds to eat your pests without telling...

Wine 101

Wine 101

San Diego may not be as prominent as the Temecula region (for those who don’t...

Shop Like a Local: Visit the Sand n’ Straw Community Farm Stand

Shop Like a Local: Visit the Sand n’ Straw Community Farm Stand

A visit to Sand n’ Straw Community Farm is an escape from our regularly hectic...

13 Ways to Save What’s Edible and Reduce Food Waste

13 Ways to Save What’s Edible and Reduce Food Waste

ed·i·bleadjective fit to be eatenIf we gathered global food waste into one pile, we’d have...

Staycation: Go From SDC to OC for an Overnight Getaway

Staycation: Go From SDC to OC for an Overnight Getaway

Having been well behaved in Covid-19 quarantine for many months, considering a hotel stay was...

Four Top Sommeliers on Where to Drink Wine in San Diego County

Four Top Sommeliers on Where to Drink Wine in San Diego County

San Diego recently hosted SommCon, the annual conference that brings together the most awarded and...

Farmer’s Footprint: A Soil Crisis, a Health Crisis, and a Regenerative Solution

Farmer’s Footprint: A Soil Crisis, a Health Crisis, and a Regenerative Solution

Hippocrates famously said, “Let food be thy medicine.” Over the last decade, our clinical and...

Ethical Meat in Lake Elsinore: A Q&A with Ashlie Pesic of Da-Le Ranch

Ethical Meat in Lake Elsinore: A Q&A with Ashlie Pesic of Da-Le Ranch

We talk to Ashlie Pesic, Farmers’ Daughter of Da-Le Ranch, about ranching, meat, and living...

What is Natural Wine? And Where to Drink it in San Diego County

What is Natural Wine? And Where to Drink it in San Diego County

Natural wine, simply defined, is wine that has nothing but grapes and a little sulfur...

Finding Bliss in Tecate at Rancho La Puerta

Finding Bliss in Tecate at Rancho La Puerta

If you’ve ever had any trepidation about crossing the border, this might be the perfect...

10 Amazing Summer Salads That Will Make You Want to Eat More Vegetables

10 Amazing Summer Salads That Will Make You Want to Eat More Vegetables

People have been heading south to Rancho La Puerta's world-renowned fitness and spa retreat in...

Edible Bookshelf: “First We Surf, Then We Eat” Presents Global Flavors with Surfer Sensibility

Edible Bookshelf: “First We Surf, Then We Eat” Presents Global Flavors with Surfer Sensibility

As a Southern California surfer, I’ve spent my life traveling and surfing the world, along...

Five Simple Ways to Cook with Figs

Five Simple Ways to Cook with Figs

Figs are easy to love and even easier to add to every day dishes for...

The Natural Wine Movement is Long Overdue, and San Diego County is Representing

The Natural Wine Movement is Long Overdue, and San Diego County is Representing

If the term “natural wine” is confuses you, don’t worry, you’re not alone.Far from being...

Five Ways to Cook with Cherries Beyond Cherry Pie

Five Ways to Cook with Cherries Beyond Cherry Pie

Bonus Tip: Pit a Cherry in 3 Steps Without a Cherry PitterIt is easy to...

Agritourism for the Holidays

Agritourism for the Holidays

The holiday season is upon us. It’s time to take a step back from the...

The Sparkling Wines of Ramona and Julian

The Sparkling Wines of Ramona and Julian

A while back, Joe Cullen, owner and winemaker of Cactus Star Vineyard, decided it would...

10 DIY Foods You Can Easily Make at Home

10 DIY Foods You Can Easily Make at Home

We love DIY at Edible San Diego (see back page), especially when it comes to...

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Sweet and Sticky Pineapple Pork Ribs
Peach Caprese Salad with Pickled Shallots
Summertime Clafoutis with Peaches and Cherries
Thyme Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Labneh
White Bean & Lemon Pepper Tuna Tartine
Cóctel de Frutas: Mexican Fruit Salad
Ultimate Lamb Sliders
Potato Salad with Gooseberries
Gazoz—Fresh Fruit & Herb Soda
Sweet and Sticky Pineapple Pork Ribs

Sweet and Sticky Pineapple Pork Ribs

Peach Caprese Salad with Pickled Shallots

Peach Caprese Salad with Pickled Shallots

Summertime Clafoutis with Peaches and Cherries

Summertime Clafoutis with Peaches and Cherries

Thyme Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Labneh

Thyme Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Labneh

White Bean & Lemon Pepper Tuna Tartine

White Bean & Lemon Pepper Tuna Tartine

Cóctel de Frutas: Mexican Fruit Salad

Cóctel de Frutas: Mexican Fruit Salad

Ultimate Lamb Sliders

Ultimate Lamb Sliders

Potato Salad with Gooseberries

Potato Salad with Gooseberries

Gazoz—Fresh Fruit & Herb Soda

Gazoz—Fresh Fruit & Herb Soda

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