California Foodways

For California Foodways, reporter Lisa Morehouse spends a lot of time in her car. She’s on a kind of mission: to travel to every county in the state, finding stories about food, agriculture, and -- most importantly -- the people that make both possible.

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An Oasis for Date Palms, Not For Their Workers

Posted June 15, 202100:08:48

It’s said that date palm trees want their feet in water, and their heads in fire. It makes sense, then that more than 90% of the dates harvested in...

From Mistake to Legendary Dish: Napa's Malfatti

Posted June 8, 202100:07:53

Tourists to the Napa Valley may visit their favorite exclusive wineries and fine dining restaurants. But locals love a more humble dish called malfatti....

A Sit-Down Dinner for Military Families

Posted June 1, 202100:05:52

Members of the military are often deployed or stationed far away from their extended families. When military families make friends, they often move....

In Isolated Trinity County, This Man is a Food Lifeline

Posted May 25, 202100:10:35

Trinity County is one of those places that doesn’t get in the news much, unless it’s for marijuana or wildfires. It’s a beautiful, remote, rural...

A Frozen Burrito Legacy in the Central Valley

Posted May 18, 202100:09:20

For this story, I visited a factory, a kind of factory I'd never seen before. I got suited up in safety gear -- smock, rubber gloves, a hair net --...