Farmers markets offer fresh harvest and local finds
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September 26, 2025

Farmers markets offer fresh harvest and local finds

Egyptian tomb paintings and archaeological evidence suggest that there were farmers markets more than 5,000 years ago. Agricultural communities throughout Northern Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia had farmers markets in the following centuries. The Boston Market...
Napa celebrates Jacques Pépin’s 90th birthday
September 26, 2025

Napa celebrates Jacques Pépin’s 90th birthday

Mythologies are built up and around famous chefs, layer upon layer, with the same amount of labor it takes to make daily batches of buttery croissant dough. The biographies of Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain and Alice Waters...
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
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April 28, 2025

Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective

In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made with galvanized steel wire and lit by a diffuse spotlight that casts a...
Channeling an indomitable spirit
At 95, Dolores Huerta could rest on her laurels with no reproaches. Labor leader, tireless fighter for immigrant rights and civil rights, as well as feminist,...
West Edge Opera Presents Its Summer of the Supernovas
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the...
October brings change and connection
“October,” wrote author Bonaro W. Overstreet, “is a symphony of permanence and change.” She might just as well have been speaking of aging—or what some call...
Keeping the synapses snappin’
Her recently assigned textbooks include Contested Histories in Public Spaces and Fighting Over the Founders. As Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez commented in his recent profile...

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