Food on the Move
Edible Reno-Tahoe’s flourishing food truck scene offers convenient eats and community fêtes. Takeout food has an entirely different meaning these days. What once was a service for fun and convenience is now an act of necessity and safety. It’s good that the food truck movement in Reno is as large as it is and offers […]
A Sweet Profession
Local pastry chefs share their stories of life and baking. Our corner of the world has an amazing team of talented pastry chefs. Educated, experienced, hardworking, creative, and passionate about their work, they are the people behind the fabulous dessert you can’t forget, the Danish that sweetly started your day, and the pink birthday cake […]
Farm Girl Chef
Chopped Junior winner wants you to eat local. When University of Nevada, Reno freshman Elisabeth Watkins was 14 years old, unbeknownst to her parents, she applied for the first season of a Food Network cooking competition show for youths. When the Watkinses received a call letting them know their daughter had been selected for Chopped […]
Honey, Water, & Yeast
Black Rabbit Mead Co. opens in Reno’s Brewery District. When Will Truce and Jake Conway were approached by fellow teacher (and beekeeper) Al Sindlinger about the prospect of making mead together, neither man knew what the drink even was. Fast forward seven years and hundreds of batches of mead later and that certainly has changed […]
Got Unwanted Bees?
Here’s what to do. In August, when a cottonwood tree fell in Carson City’s Riverview Park and revealed a well-established beehive inside, the folks at Carson City’s Parks, Recreation & Open Space Department knew exactly whom to call: Great Basin Beekeepers of Nevada. Member and beekeeper Cara Strasser was on the scene, and, after multiple […]
The Latest Buzz on Bees
University of Nevada, Reno is a hub for pollinator research. In the Leonard Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Fleischmann Agriculture Building, I look through a microscope at an Osmia densa, or mason bee, marveling at its intricate hairs coated in flecks of pollen. The solitary bee (it does not live in a hive […]
Bugs for Change
Nonprofit brings beekeeping to vets suffering from PTSD. “It was my crazy idea,” says Ginger Fenwick with a laugh. She’s referring to the light bulb moment when she realized that her newfound love of beekeeping might just be able to help veterans and first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries. “(My […]
Drink Beer, Do Good
Crombacher Brewery pours craft beer for a cause. Webster’s Dictionary defines “win-win” as “advantageous or satisfactory to all parties involved.” Perhaps “drink beer and fund charities” might be a better definition. It’s a model that’s been embraced by Reno brothers-in-law Tim Trefts and Spencer Grundmann and father Harry Grundmann, with their Crombacher Brewery USA in […]
How Sweet It Is
Genoa’s famous Candy Dance celebrates 100 years. Billie Jean Rightmire hasn’t been to every Candy Dance celebration. But the 86-year-old Genoa native and town historian probably has attended more than most. In fact, the fourth-generation Genoan can boast that her ancestors were at the very first one, a century ago, and family members have participated […]
Homegrown Gastropub
THE SHEA DYNASTY Entrepreneurial family makes a “Shea-borhood” in Midtown Reno. . No way could Jerry Shea have guessed he’d turn into an entrepreneur. And no way could he have predicted that three of his children — Nicki, Lacey, and Spencer Shea — would follow in his footsteps. His legacy began in the early ‘70s […]