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EDIBLE PROVISIONS
EDIBLE PROVISIONS Locally Roasted
PHOTO AND STYLING BY ELIZABETH BIRNBAUM
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Local coffee roasters really know how to wake us up every morning and keep the Monterey Bay area buzzing. Top row (l-to-r): Cat & Cloud, Santa Cruz; North Coast Roasting, Santa Cruz; Verve Coffee Roasters, Santa Cruz; Hidden Fortress Coffee Roasting, Watsonville. Second row (l-to-r): 11th Hour Coffee, Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting; Captain & Stoker, Monterey. Bottom left: Alta Organic Coffee Roasting, Santa Cruz. Bottom right: Steeped Coffee, Scotts Valley. Other local roasters worth seeking out include: Acme Coffee Roasting, Seaside; The Beerded Bean, Salinas; Coffeeville, Watsonville; and Vertigo Coffee Roasters in San Juan Bautista.
LOCAL FOODS IN SEASON
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER
FRUITS
Apples • Asian Pears • Avocados • Blackberries** Cactus Pears • Dates • Feijoas**** • Figs • Guavas**** Kiwis • Kumquats • Lemons • Limes*** • Mandarins**** Melons • Nectarines** • Oranges • Peaches* • Pears Persimmons • Plums • Pluots • Pomegranates • Pomelos**** • Quince • Raspberries • Strawberries
Vegetables
Beans • Beets • Bok Choy* • Broccoli • Brussels Sprouts* • Burdock • Cabbages • Carrots Caulifl owers* • Celeriac • Celery • Chard • Collards Corn • Cress • Cucumbers • Dandelions • Eggplants Endive • Fennel • Garlic • Herbs • Horseradish • Kale Leeks • Lettuces • Mustard Greens • Okra • Olives Onions • Orach • Parsnips • Peas • Pea Shoots Peppers • Potatoes • Radishes • Rhubarb Rutabagas*** • Salsify • Scallions • Shallots • Spinach Sprouts • Squash, Summer and Winter • Sunchokes Sweet Potatoes • Tomatillos • Tomatoes • Turnips
Nuts
Almonds • Hazelnuts • Pecans • Pistachios • Walnuts
Seafood
Abalone • Halibut, Calif. • Lingcod • Rock Cod/Rockfi sh Sablefi sh, aka Black Cod • Sanddabs • Sole Sea Bass, White • Spot Prawns • Squid, Market • Tuna, Albacore
* = September only ** = Only through October ***= October and beyond ****=November only
