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A selection of summer dishes.
June 3, 2025
All Stories, Eat, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Farm and Ocean-Fresh Ingredients Elevate Pono Pacific Kitchen

The influence of Hawaii is evident on the plates served at Pono Pacific Kitchen in Arroyo Grande, where writer Emily Basanese introduces readers to Chef Preston Tripp.

Wife and hustband team, Megan Shanley Warren and Justin Warren, walk the 100-acre farm.
June 3, 2025
All Stories, Eat, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Farming for the Future: Shanley Farms’ Finger Limes

Writer Jonathan LaFerrara takes readers to Shanley Farms in Morro Bay, where finger limes are getting a chance to shine. Known for their avocados, this family farm is forging a new...

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June 3, 2025
All Stories, Featured, Food, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Paso Robles Olive Oil Sommelier Talks Tasting and Pairing

Central Coast Olive Oil Sommelier Gail Todaro shares with writer Katy Budge the beauty of tasting and pairing olive oil. This article checks in with The Groves on 41 in Templeton a...

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June 3, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Water Management Creates Quality Wines at Jada Vineyard

In this article, writer Aja Goare shares how Jada Vineyard’s focus on sustainability and water management has supported healthy soils that lead to outstanding wines.

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June 3, 2025
All Stories, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Food for Thought: Water’s Worth

The hot summer months find many of us poolside with chilled drinks, sunhats and (hopefully) and issue of Edible San Luis Obispo in hand.

Six photo collage for Amuse Bouche
June 3, 2025
All Stories, Featured, Food, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Amuse Bouche: Summer 2025

Check out these starters to entertain the mouth and the mind in the Summer 2025 edition of Amuse Bouche.

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June 3, 2025
All Stories, Community, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Perspective Piece: People with Disabilities Found Meaning at Templeton Café

In this Perspective piece, former Fig at Courtney’s House Owner Christina Dillow shares how her café provided a rare opportunity for people with disabilities to have meaningful ...

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June 3, 2025
All Stories, Eat, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Cal Poly Creamery’s Cheesemaking: Science and an Art

This article by Aja Goare highlights the cheesemaking process at Cal Poly Creamery, San Luis Obispo, which recently participated in the California Artisan Cheese Festival.

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June 3, 2025
All Stories, Drink, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Tasting Spot: Sparkling Water Adds Pizazz to Hydration

Various brands and flavors of sparkling water are replete on the shelves of grocery stores, gas stations and drugstores. Not long ago, the water was sold in apothecaries, believed ...

Edible SLO Summer 2025 - Water Issue
June 3, 2025
All Stories, Featured, Summer 2025 - Issue 48

Edible San Luis Obispo Summer Edition Now on Stands

You can grab a physical copy at dozens of businesses across the Central Coast or read it in full right here online.

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🥂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:
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Wednesday, June 24 | 5 – 7pm

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