IN SEASON: Chicories & Purslane
Guide to East Bay Farmers’ Markets
FIELD TO TABLE: The Path of the Strawberry
THE MOVEABLE FEAST: Market Ramble in Newark
Guide to Good Eats (and Sleeps)
SHOP & EAT: Artist Gary Handman at the Middle East Market
DRINK: A Matcha Moment at Forest Tea Bar
SOLANO AVENUE FINDS: Fern’s Garden and Of All Places
DRINK: Investing in Vines in Livermore Valley
DRINK: An East Bay Wine Bar Renaissance
GROW: Urban Tilth Grows Food and Opportunity in Richmond
EAT: Indigenous Cuisine Claims its Space
LAST BITE: from A Feather and a Fork by Crystal Wahpepah
RECIPES
Strawberry Parfait with Aquafaba Vanilla Mousse
Caponata Egg Salad Sandwich from Of All Places
Chochoyotes and Halibut in Poblano Broth from Bolita Masa
Sweet Blue Cornbread from A Feather and a Fork by Crystal Wahpepah
ON THE COVER AND THIS PAGE
The oil paint was still drying and the canvas was still on the easel in April 2026 when artist Rose Wright took a photograph of her “Castroville Artichoke” for our cover. The artichoke was fresh, too, as she had just picked it up while in the Monterey Bay Area on a stop in Castroville, America’s artichoke capital. “I’m completely taken by the structure of this delicious and remarkable plant,” she says. “I knew I was going to paint it as soon as I got home.” She also bought a pear at around the same time to create the oil painting above in honor of the Golden Pear, a soon-to-open new restaurant in her community of Rossmoor.
Click here for Rose Wright’s set of oil paintings called “The Path of the Strawberry” and our accompanying story on strawberry grower Rodriguez Bros Ranch.
