Changing Tastes
Vintage menus offer blueprint to popular dishes of yore. This column always requires detective work, but this one took the art of deduction to a new level. Inspired by local […]
Gourmet Dude-Ranch Cook
Edith Crook was a legend in her own time. Edith Crook was a legend in her own time and remains so today. She was a remarkable woman who took on […]
Slot History
Fruits, bars, and the Liberty Belle, oh my! Did you ever wonder why slot machines, the quintessential symbol of Nevada, feature fruits and bars? If you, like me, write about […]
A Victorian Melodrama
The Comstock’s first coffee roaster. The story has all the makings of a melodrama: kidnapping, seduction, mistaken identity, murder, hanging, coffee. Coffee, you wonder? How does this perennially popular drink […]
The Big Chill
Chism Ice Cream set the standard for decades. We all scream for ice cream, or so the saying goes. Summer is inseparable from the pleasures of the cold and velvety […]
In A Pickle
Castors at the local tables of yore. Maybe you’ve noticed them in antique stores or in a period drama. A jar, maybe six inches tall and made of pressed […]
RIVERSIDE REFLECTIONS
Reno’s first address has undergone impressive transformations in its 150-plus years. It sits there grandly, arguably at the most prestigious and prominent location in Reno. For more than a century, […]
TURKEY KING
Frank Margrave was Reno poultry royalty. Skeptics might say that the story of Frank Margrave’s enormous turkey ranch in Reno simply is a footnote, considering the extensive farms and ranches […]
PASTA LA VISTA, BABY
Northern Nevada’s love affair with noodles. The days are cooling and the image of a steaming bowl of fresh spaghetti calls. The allure of pasta is nothing new — its […]
Meals on Wheels
Drive-in restaurants roll into Northern Nevada. Drive-in, drive-through, curbside pickup — common terms as restaurants have struggled to meet the demands associated with coronavirus. But it was the 1940s and […]