Spring 2025

  • Superfood Success

    Involved in the restaurant scene her whole adult life, Karla Perry was frustrated with the lack of healthy options in the fast-casual food space in her community. For more than 25 years, she had embraced a vegetarian lifestyle and felt a persistent desire to create delicious, clean, plant-forward dining options. This passion inspired her and her husband, Charles, to open their eatery, Elixir Superfood & Juice.

  • Plรกtano Power

    Plantains pack health and flavor into a portable package. The culinary journey of the plantain is complex. It includes travels through the trade routes of Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, its introduction to Europe by Alexander the Great, and its arrival on the African continent via Trans-Saharan Arab merchants. The plant made it to…

  • Dining with Dignity

    A nonprofit provides dinners to at-risk and houseless youths. Most families are aware that qualifying students attending schools in the Washoe County School District receive two meals per school day, breakfast and lunch, on campus free of charge. But many of these children who live in low-income households still donโ€™t have access to nutritious dinners…

  • Take the Cannoli

    Elevate your events with handmade Italian desserts delivered right to your door. โ€œThere are only two cultures in the world: Italians, and those who wish they were,โ€ says Johnnie Sorrentino with a smile. In 2021, Johnnie and his wife, Evie, opened Cafรฉ Evie/Rolli Cannoli, a delivery bakery celebrating la crรจme de la crรจme of Southern…

  • A Cut Above

    Mommaโ€™s Meat is an old-fashioned butcher shop for modern needs. Ignite your inner carnivore at Mommaโ€™s Meat Co. In todayโ€™s world of industrialized meat processing, Mommaโ€™s Meat Co. in Fallon is bringing back the old-fashioned local butcher shop, with an emphasis on hometown service, creative meat products, and wild game processing. Owner and lead butcher…