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Photo of strawberries in a bowl with rice
June 2, 2024
Eat, Featured, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Last Bite: Sweet Rice with Fresh Strawberry Black Pepper Jam

This dessert is a cross between sticky rice and rice pudding. The sweetened, creamy rice is topped with a strawberry jam that has a lingering savory heat, thanks to...

Participants are guided in harvesting their own seaweed on local shorelines.
June 2, 2024
Featured, Food, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Foraged seaweed off the coast of Cayucos is the protein of the future

In this article, San Luis Obispo chefs and fisherman explain how seaweed fished off Cayucos offers sustainable protein for the future. The vegetarian ocean product is driving the H...

Food for Thought - Summer 2024
June 1, 2024
Community, Featured, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Summer Food for Thought: Letter from the Editor

Anyone who has ever worked back of house at a restaurant during a dinner rush knows how hectic the shift can be — an open flame on the grill, plates whipping down the line, “CO...

Candice and Ariette making food and taking photos
June 1, 2024
Eat, Featured, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Creston chef and photographer with Mexican heritage shares stories through food

In this article, Chef Candice Custodio and Ariette Armella tell their story of friendship and Mexican heritage through food and photography. The San Luis Obispo County women togeth...

Birchwood Co-owner Howdy Nunez welcomes guests.
May 31, 2024
Featured, Food, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Birchwood Nipomo offers beer garden and community in South San Luis Obispo County

This article illustrates how Birchwood Nipomo has served as a community gathering place in South San Luis Obispo County for decades, potentially acting as the site of the famed Mig...

Brook captures the natural sounds of the vines and vineyard as he hears them from day to day.
May 31, 2024
Drink, Featured, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

San Luis Obispo composer and winemaker Brook Munro creates album from sounds of harvest

This article explores how Brook Munro used his San Luis Obispo studio to produce an album that harmonizes the sounds of harvesting wine grapes in the Edna Valley. His album is call...

Photo of Jacob and Fiona
May 31, 2024
Drink, Featured, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Niner Winery in Paso Robles offers garden-grown produce along with flavorful wine

In this article, Fiona Bond and her husband Jacob Burrell share how their partnership supports farm-fresh food at Niner Winery in Paso Robles.

Family stands in farm
May 30, 2024
Eat, Featured, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Willow Brook Blueberry Farm offers visitors a chance to pick their own fruit all summer long

In this article, the Snodgrass family carries on the legacy of their late patriarch with their Willow Brook Blueberry Farm near Arroyo Grande. They offer a u-pick option and supply...

Good as Gold, illustration of lemons
May 28, 2024
Featured, Food, Summer 2024 - Issue 44

Tasting Spot: The history and applications of lemon

This article explains the history and culinary application of lemons, which are commonly grown in California and San Luis Obispo County.

April 29, 2024
Community, Featured

Nate’s On Marsh’s to Host Kentucky Derby Day Watch Party

While Nate’s on Marsh is 2,242 miles away from Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, the San Luis Obispo neighborhood restaurant will host its third annual Kentucky Derby Day ...

April 17, 2024
Featured, Food

Food in Cinema at the SLO Film Fest

Food, wine, and cinema are on the menu for this year’s SLO Film Festival. Check out these three films that are sure to be the perfect pairing for a dinner and a movie night out.

Dinner with the Author
April 13, 2024
Events and Partnerships, Featured

Dinner with the Author

Buy Tickets Here Dinner with the Author  at The Piccolo  Wednesday, June 12  Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo invites you to break bread with author and Edible contributor Lori R...

Edible Wedding Central Coast
April 13, 2024
Events and Partnerships, Featured

Edible Weddings – Central Coast

Edible Magazine San Luis Obispo is one of over 80 Edible publications across North America. Together with neighbor publications Edible Santa Barbara and Edible Ojai Ventura County,...

Hambly Farms. Photo by Evan Bishop.
April 13, 2024
Eat, Featured, Food

All Things Are Lavender at Hambly Farms

Lavender is having quite a moment. Newsweek magazine declared lavender 2024’s food trend of the year but Gina and Milton Hambly have been living and breathing all things lavender...

Tyler Florence Paso Wine Fest
April 10, 2024
Community, Featured

Tyler Florence to Kick Off Masters of Fire Tour at Paso Wine Fest

Renowned Celebrity Chef Tyler Florence is set to ignite the culinary scene at the 2024 Paso Wine Fest with the debut of his Masters of Fire Experience series. The event will take...

Three people walking together
March 19, 2024
Drink, Featured, Spring 2024 - Issue 43

San Luis Obispo County Ranch Owner Continues Family Legacy at Avenales Ranch

For over 140 years the Sinton family has run the Avenales and Canyon Ranches with the dedication of preserving and protecting the land, plants and animals that call it home. In thi...

Sophia Zekria prepares Afghan national dishes for her home chef business KOR
March 12, 2024
Eat, Featured, Spring 2024 - Issue 43

Afghan Refugee Brings Cultural Cooking to San Luis Obispo County

This article shares the story of a family of Afghan refugees who fled to the United States following the departure of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Writer Scott Lewis explains how ...

Photo of sliced bread loaf
March 12, 2024
Eat, Featured, Food, Recipes, Spring 2024 - Issue 43

No Knead Bread Recipe From San Luis Obispo Home Cook

This no knead bread is quick and easy, requiring minimal ingredients and effort. Central Coast resident Lyndsey Hiltner created this recipe for her blog “Censored Baker,” which...

Hook Line and Threatened Species, illustration of steelhead fish
March 10, 2024
Eat, Featured, Spring 2024 - Issue 43

Decline of Steelhead Fish in SLO County

How human interreference with the fish’s environment has depleted the population.

Coconut and Chili Infused Hippocrates Soup Cover
March 9, 2024
Eat, Featured, Food, Spring 2024 - Issue 43

San Luis Obispo County Chef’s Modern Take on Ancient Recipes

Taking a bite of the past with historic tastes.

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    🤩 Oh, Hello Summer Issue! Sometimes life’s most 🤩 Oh, Hello Summer Issue! 

Sometimes life’s most meaningful moments come from the most unexpected places. In this issue of Edible San Luis Obispo, we celebrate those moments and the people, places, and stories behind them.

☀️ You can pick up this summer’s issue of “Unexpected” and support our writers, photographers, illustrators, and designers. 

➡️ Find a copy out in the wild at over 100 locations across San Luis Obispo County or sign up for a subscription to have each beautiful issue delivered right to your door every season. 

Let us know what you think!
    TOUR + TASTE + LEARN and explore our local agricul TOUR + TASTE + LEARN and explore our local agriculture June 19th-21st for @farmsteaded SLO County Farm Trail’s 6th Annual Open Farm Days Weekend. Tickets are FREE - register for yours at farmsteaded.com/openfarmdays.

20+ farms, ranches, producers and purveyors welcome you to experience our local agriCULTURE firsthand out on the trail. This family-friendly experience is an up-close chance to learn about agriculture through demonstrations, tastings,  workshops, and farm tours.

Local farms will be featuring everything from beekeeping to olive oil production, vegetable and fruit growing. Local ranchers will introduce you to goats, alpaca, sheep, pigs, and more, while local purveyors will showcase their locally made products using our locally grown.

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Open Farm Days is a special annual engagement organized by Farmstead ED SLO County Farm Trail (@farmsteaded)
    Check out the soft opening for Uma’s Eurasian Cuis Check out the soft opening for Uma’s Eurasian Cuisine (@umas_slocal) in @downtownslo. Uma’s origins started in 2013 in Rockaway, New York.
 
“Our menu is inspired by the many diverse cultures found along the Silk Road and beyond, spanning everything from everyday street food to the fine dining traditions of Samarkand.”

We had an impromptu lunch with Austin of @salinas_charreria_slo to check out what Uzbek and Eurasian cuisine Chef Conrad Karl was bringing to @downtownslo.

We were delighted with everything brought to the table Scallion Pancake, Uma’s Salad, Kebobs, and Manti with Meat. 

More to come from Uma’s!

🎥: @stephenheraldo
    ☀️ Mornings are the heartbeat of Halcyon Farms (@h ☀️ Mornings are the heartbeat of Halcyon Farms (@halcyon_farms ). Six days a week, the work commences by 7am in the quiet of the dawn. It’s during this time that the berries are cool and firm, the greens crisp, the herbs fragrant. Each day presents a different list of farm maintenance activities. Some mornings are spent harvesting produce; others are dedicated to planting seed. Time-intensive crops such as green beans or carrots are harvested early in the week, while errands and school tours happen midweek or later. 

As the sun fully rises, it also allows the crew to observe how the produce is progressing and what it needs. By midmorning, the farm hums with energy. The farm stand opens to the community on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Customers can buy one of Halcyon’s harvest bags, filled with a curated selection of the freshest produce, often picked in the hours just prior. There are baskets filled with other produce, too, including seasonal offerings such as Swiss chard or delicate herbs. Their summer strawberries are a community favorite for their natural sweetness. Halcyon’s carrots are among the stand’s most popular items — and Ariela’s favorite crop to grow. “Carrots from a farm taste so much better than carrots from a store,” she says convincingly. “They’re just so different.”

The care for land and community doesn’t stop with the thoughtfulness and dedication of the farm crew’s harvesting hands. Halcyon is committed to organic, pesticide-free growing, which means their planting, maintenance and harvesting necessitates extra work. It’s slower, but the commitment to this growing style protects Halcyon’s carefully developed reputation with the community they are deeply embedded in. 

Excerpt from “Early to Rise” in the Spring 2026 issue of Edible SLO

Articles by Annie Secrest
Photos by @alisaheraldo
    🎊 In celebration of Edible Magazine’s summer issue 🎊 In celebration of Edible Magazine’s summer issue release, join us for a party at the first castle on the right, The Anderson Paso (@theandersonpaso)

🥂Let’s toast to all who helped get this magazine on stands and in our hands, from editorial contributors to our advertisers; from subjects in the features to our digital team; and of course Edible Magazine readers, who give us a reason to keep doing what we do. 

Enjoy bites and drinks from The Anderson’s culinary team, with ingredients sourced from farms and purveyors right here on the Central Coast, and opportunities to connect with the bright minds featured in this issue. 

Step into our “Unexpected” issue, where moments of surprise reveal themselves in subtle turns; and join us in a spirit of camaraderie and commemoration.

The fête will be held at:
The Anderson Paso
3090 Anderson Rd
Paso Robles 

Wednesday, June 24 | 5 – 7pm

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    Whether it’s an entrée at a restaurant or a tastin Whether it’s an entrée at a restaurant or a tasting at a winery, the unpleasant fact is that prices increase over time. Few in the industry end up getting rich. Most do what they do simply because they love serving people, making exceptional food and creating memorable experiences.

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