out of streams just a foot or two wide, cooked flayed on green sticks over a small fire and eaten with a touch of salt and the packed musubi!! PICNIKS—in the foothills of the Sierras or at Roeding or Kearny Park in Fresno!...

You bet! DZ will get all of those. Hey, email me after the Central Valley visit. What about Chef Liu’s place in Fresno? Where Melanie organized a couple of chowdowns?

of these: a fig and brie fondue with an orange slice and Fresno chile, which would have been very good if the fig were ripe; a tangy vichyssoise with crème fraîche—not a very exciting version of vichyssoise, unless you’re awed by...

What you describe sounds so disgusting to almost be hilarious... almost. I was born in Fresno, California, after WWII. We Japanese had the “fishman” from Central Fish come around in his truck every week with great...

as Sausalito to Fresno to San Luis Obispo and somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, so, I’ve posted on the California board (link below). Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/83455#463726

As a kid in Fresno and in the backyard: pecans, walnuts, avocados, oranges, grapefruit, asparagus, pomegranate, loquats, kumquats, Japanese pears and apples, grape leaves, mint. Peaches and oranges from the family farms....

Caroline1, my expereiences are somewhat similar to yours. I grew up in the 50s and 60s in Fresno, California. There was a large Chinese population and good Chinese restaurants—not that many, but several that were good....

's in Fresno, had his big new SUV for the day and had their dog – a big friendly golden retreiver – with me. Loved it when I drove up to the ordering point and the sign said, "ldkjfhjudejfliidkjfwldklpsocpl lkkjlo...

. Fortunately, those years also meant good Mexican restaurants around pre-chain Fresno. Before I left for Asia, I spent almost a year in Albuquerque, where I got to learn to make a lot of New Mexican dishes. In my occasional work...

like soursop, nanche, etc. on the order of La Reina de Michoacan in Fresno at Broaday and Belmont. 4. A Oaxacan mole restaurant on the order of Guelaguetza in LA....

Blossom Bluff is a grower located in the Parlier-Redley (sp? and I was a geography major) area (Fresno) They sell at a number of local farmer’s markets (Berkeley Saturday market) - organically grown fruit. I too am...

In the 1950s and early 60s in Fresno, California, the fish man would come once a week. Central Fish was a Japanese market that catered to Japanese Americans. We got fish, seafood, sashimi, nori, shoyu (which the hakujins than...

classes always did something special for el cinco de mayo. There were always celebrations around Fresno as well.

Doesn’t have to be the South. In Fresno we had two huge pecan trees, a huge black walnut (worse yet), five almond trees—in addition to pomagrantes, oranges, grapefruit, asperagus, Japanese pears, Japanese apples,...

is inferior but the flavor is the same so there is some tradeoff that can be made depending on whet they are to be used for. Always fresh fruit and vegetables are preferable so when we can get these. Over my holiday we visited my...