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To visit the new Sea Ranch Lodge is to partake in an increasingly rare California dream. Join us on a tour of the pinnacle of mindful modernist development, and toast [...]

When I was a kid growing up in the 70s, I hated my parents for ruining every sandwich with alfalfa sprouts, trying to convince me carob was as good as [...]

At around 11 every day in Santa Monica, the restaurants lining Main Street just two blocks from the beach start setting up for lunch: The patios built in the pandemic [...]

I'M at Kona Village, a resort the Big Island of Hawaii, listening to Auntie Lei tell stories about the tsunami of 2011. Under the canopy of a koa tree, in [...]

On Thursday nights when the weather's good, the back patio of the Dutchess, a restaurant in the sleepy country town of Ojai, transforms into a smoky, slightly raucous Southern California [...]

Even the gatehouse at Desert Palisades is beautiful. With a dramatic cantilevered roof of patinated corten steel and surrounded by desert boulders, the structure at the entrance to Palm Springs' [...]

A cozy houseboat on a placid bay, a shaded ranch house with a pool surrounded with lush native plantings, a charming farmstand next to an orchard with pick-your-own fruit, a [...]

Jaynelle St. Jean's pies are modernist works of edible art. Over the past few years, the Oakland-based baker has established herself as a design-minded deliverer of deliciousness with her bakery [...]

Within months of opening in Seattle's Central District, Communion became the must-get reservation for anyone looking for a fresh and local take on soul food, colorful cocktails, and, well, a [...]

When chef Daniele Uditi moved to California from Italy 10 years ago, he was accompanied by a secret companion. In his suitcase, he'd hidden a container of his family's sourdough [...]

A country house can be a time machine. At least that's how Todd Hosfelt sees it: 'When you come here, time slows down. One day can feel like a weekend. [...]

But that is exactly what's happening at Peace & Plenty Farm in Kelseyville, California, on this early autumn day. Chef Arnon Oren and farmers Melinda Price and Simon Avery are [...]

A massive smoker sits on the back porch of a little red homestead cabin at the base of the hill that's home to the Alila Ventana Big Sur. Oak smoke [...]

What are your summer plans? Not long ago, I used to panic slightly whenever people asked me that question. It would trigger racing thoughts of the pre-trip work required to [...]

Simply put, chef Tanya Holland is the queen of West Coast soul food. The accolades and honorifics are many: Michelin Bib Gourmands, frequent topper of top restaurant lists, fierce Top [...]

CHEF Brady Ishiwata Williams pulls up outside his Seattle restaurant Tomo in a white Toyota Land Cruiser and something is off. Despite the fact that nobody's in the driver's seat, [...]

IN OJAI, BRIDGE SEASONS are delightful and disorienting. Early in autumn, the heat of summer recedes but refuses to yield, the temperature toggles between balmy and chilly depending on cloud [...]

When you walk into Musang, in Seattle's Beacon Hill, the first thing you smell is the sweet and nutty aroma of gently fried garlic. It shows up in any number [...]

This article from Sunset magazine discusses the history and success of Hog Island Oyster Co., a company that has played a significant role in popularizing California oysters. The founders, John Finger and Terry Sawyer, started the company in 1982 with the goal of creating a sustainable oyster industry on the West Coast. Despite initial objections to the name, Hog Island Oyster Co. has become a major player in the food industry, selling millions of dollars worth of oysters and seafood each year. The article also highlights the company's commitment to sustainability and its efforts to preserve the biodiversity of Tomales Bay, where the oysters are raised. The text includes two recipes featuring oysters and other ingredients sourced from the bay, as well as brief mentions of Terry Sawyer, John Finger, and Jeff Warrin. [Extracted from the article]

Tsubaki, a restaurant in Los Angeles, offers a California-inflected Japanese grilled feast with dishes like Japanese "latkes" and a potato croquette "danger dog" korokke. The restaurant specializes in izakaya cuisine, which combines sake and delicious dishes. The owners, Charles Namba and Courtney Kaplan, demonstrate how to make yakitori, a popular grilled dish, using a konro grill and Japanese binchotan charcoal. The article also includes recipes for Caesar salad, chicken thigh yakitori, potato salad, ebi sumibi-yaki (grilled blue prawns), and koji-marinated pork loin. Sake pairings for the meal are suggested by sake sommelier Courtney Kaplan. [Extracted from the article]

The article titled "Haute Hippie" discusses the author's experience growing up in the 70s and being introduced to a plant-based way of eating by their parents. The article highlights Jess Damuck, a chef known for her vegetarian food and her book "Health Nut: A Feel-Good Cookbook." The book celebrates organic, local, and healthy cooking with recipes like charred cabbage with mushroom butter and melon salad with honey, pistachio yogurt, and mint. The article also praises Los Angeles as a city that inspires and embraces healthy and delicious food. [Extracted from the article]

Despite the fact that the average person will spend nearly one third of their life in bed, the humble art of bed making is deeply underappreciated. In this, our annual [...]

It's hard to talk about wellness these days without someone bringing up Blue Zones, the book and TV show that examine communities around the world with the highest rates of [...]

Like many restaurant ideas, the concept for Yangban began as a late-night conversation between two chefs dreaming of what to do next. Katianna and John Hong had been working at [...]

Clockwise from left: Bungalows with a view on Malibu beach; Highway I carves its way up the coast; the fields at Thorne Family Farm, just half a mile inland from [...]

When Andrew Bird and Katherine Tsina moved into their home in Los Angeles, a vaguely Craftsman 1920s house typical of the mashup architecture of the era, the backyard was, as [...]

You could swear you hear the jingle of spurs when you walk the dusty main street of Pioneer-town, California, and find yourself hitting the cadence of a gunslinger's saunter. You [...]

KETCHIKAN, ALASKA SALMON FALLS RESORT Just a 90-minute flight from Seattle, Salmon Falls Resort is an unpretentious rustic luxe all-inclusive fishing lodge nestled between the forest and the ocean. It [...]

Blue sky peeks through the morning fog in Carneros and the kids are getting their hands dirty in the very best way. Una, age 4, and her cousin Oliver, age [...]

The gardener and the herbalist pack fresh masa around the seal of a vintage copper alembic still on the porch of the goatherd's cabin. We're at Flamingo Estate, high up [...]

On a not unbusy street in Los Angeles on any given afternoon, if you listen carefully, beneath the thrum of traffic you might hear the ping of a kickball, the [...]

Before I moved to Southern California, with its '72 and sunny' Januaries, every Illinois winter brought the promise of a snow day, that delightful disaster every schoolkid hopes will come [...]

With houses as in life, sometimes we need to go back to go forward. When Karlyn Neel was vacationing in Palm Springs one February weekend, a real estate email showed [...]

MONTANA The Ranch at Rock Creek A sprawling Westworld for well-heeled cowboy wannabes, this rustic showstopper features top-flight fishing and shooting programs and a honkytonk complete with saddles for barstools [...]

KENYA IS TRYING to get the outdoor lounging area for the holiday party just so: Fanned out on the lawn are three Moroccan rugs, one in chocolate and caramel striated [...]

Midway between Santa Rosa and Bodega Bay, there's a swath of forest dotted with fir trees, vintage birdhouses, plantings of medicinal herbs, and other enchanted woodsy things. In the midst [...]

After 20 years of having a lawn that took, I wanted a yard that contributed: to the planet, to local animals, to biodiversity, to my neighbors, to my mental health. [...]

The hardest thing about travel in the West is deciding where to go and what to do. Bouldering in Yosemite or bronzing in Cabo? Driving Highway 1 above Big Sur [...]

Plant Paradise We've always considered nurseries essential businesses. Here are three that nurture and inspire. PORTLAND, OR PISTILS NURSERY This Portland institution sells urban garden necessities like staghorn ferns, stylish [...]

When my wife and I finally got around to re-landscaping our 1922 Spanish-style bungalow in Los Angeles, we did what many space-challenged Angelenos do: reimagined the unused back half of [...]

'BANANA leaves are the original aluminum foil,' says Charles Olalia, placing leaf-wrapped, pyramid-shaped bundles of sticky rice onto the grill in front of him. 'Only they taste much better.' Smoke [...]

'My food is definitely market-driven and minimalist,' says Gabriela Camara sounding like any self-respecting Bay Area chef rightly enamored with the region's preposterously good farmers' markets. 'But it's Mexican in [...]

SMART CAMPERS BUILD AN ITINERARY AROUND EATING AND ADVENTURE. using each site as a home base for forays into the wild. That was chef Kevin O'Connor's mission during this coastal [...]

Hugh Garvey 125 summers ago the original editors of this magazine assigned themselves a gloriously ambitious task. It was 1898 and the first issue of Sunset was published by the [...]

The resort boasts the largest solar array in Hawaii; once online, it will remove the resort from the power grid. Travel & Escapes I'M at Kona Village, a resort the Big Island of Hawaii, listening to Auntie Lei tell stories about the tsunami of 2011. [Extracted from the article]

Yesterday a sycamore tree in my backyard that had been barren for months unfurled dozens of tender new leaves. A nascent tangerine tree that had been scorched by a heat [...]

I was raised a modernist, but it was lost on me until I was an adult. In 1959, my grandparents had a house built for their growing family. It was [...]

* Meet your new favorite garden tool: a Japanese hori hori knife, the best garden tool for potting, weeding, digging, sawing, and transplanting. I've developed a covetous obsession for Japanese [...]

We do holiday food better in the West. That is the wholly unscientific, entirely biased, thoroughly questionable, but incredibly delicious conclusion of a recent random polling of a few Sunset [...]

When it comes to cult Cabernet Sauvignon and other high-end juice from Napa Valley, 'bargain' is a relative term--with bottlings from Screaming Eagle and Sine Qua Non topping $1,000. Fortunately [...]