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Under-the-street food
This feature is part of a CN&R special report: Entrepreneurs 2022: Reinvention. It’s the week of the soft opening for the new brick-and-mortar home of his popular Gnarly Deli food truck, and for Nick Stiles, […]
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Stage is set
This feature is part of a CN&R special report: Entrepreneurs 2022: Reinvention. Brandon Squyres has a deep connection to Naked Lounge. He cherishes memories of nights out front of the downtown space when he couldn’t […]
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New vibrations
This feature is part of a CN&R special report: Entrepreneurs 2022: Reinvention. For years, Amanda Bosschart fantasized about the storefront at the southeast corner of Third and Main streets, imagining it would make the perfect […]
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Fig collectors’ paradise
While driving north toward Oroville for a Feather River salmon fishing trip in August of 2003, a voluminous tree beside Highway 70 caught my eye. “A fig tree!” I called from the backseat of my […]
Arts & Culture
Indulge your dreams
Ten years ago, after Jack Campbell and his wife, Ana Bonnin, returned to the states from a year spent in Buenos Aires, Argentina, they faced a serious dilemma. They couldn’t find a pizza that matched […]
Food
Treats for trying times
As a child growing up in Southern California, Adrianna Wiley was always curious, especially in the kitchen. At a young age, she started learning from an aunt who transmitted a love for cooking and baking […]
Arts & Culture
Growing roots
After stints farming in Italy and Hawaii, Aimee Zarzynski and her fiancé, Kevin White, decided to set roots closer to home, and started their own Gold Roots Farm in Corning in January. The couple grew […]
Arts & Culture
Scrumptious side hustle
As a freshman at Chico State in 2014, Wal Riek found himself suffering from a serious condition that afflicts many young people when they first strike out away from home: He missed his mother’s cooking. […]
Arts & Culture
The panini bus
As sound engineers, Daniel Nelson and Joel Matzinger know what it’s like to be on the road. However, with live music and everything that goes along with it canceled for the foreseeable future due to […]
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A sweet surprise
When Emily Zimmerman lost her Paradise home to the Camp Fire, her cupcake shop, Lovely Layers Cakery, became her refuge. She leaned into her second home, continuing to work and bake sweet treats while she […]
Arts & Culture
Next chapter in local baking
Kenneth Curran’s first foray into bread making came at 21, when he was stocking bread at S&S Produce in Chico. The original Tin Roof Bakery owner Brandon Siewert walked into the store one day and, […]
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Legado del helado
At 23 years old, Marco Arreguin manages four ice cream shops in Chico and one in Yuba City. La Flor de Michoacán Paletería y Neveria is his family’s business, which started in 2012 with one […]
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Parking lot cafe
In 2018, Eileen Humiston and Rylan Morabito decided to take a risk and pulled the trigger on buying an old coffee truck they found on a Redding Craigslist ad. The truck was a fixer-upper built […]
Arts & Culture
Buffet to-go
During a recently bygone time, I could take the healthiest vegetables from below a sneeze guard, combine them in ungodly ways and bury them under enough blue cheese to make a so-called “salad” capable of […]
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Cheesecake queen
More than 10 years ago, Dawn McGaffick stumbled upon her mom’s old Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cookbook. The Chico native decided to give the classic pumpkin cheesecake recipe a shot, and by fateful accident she […]