In The Weeds
In restaurant lingo, to be "in the weeds" is to feel overwhelmed in the thick of chaos. In pre-pandemic times, it often referred to drowning in orders. COVID-19 radically altered the restaurant industry, and brought a different kind of chaos and struggle to those who depend on it to survive. These intimate first person confessions are their stories.
Does the best cookie in Los Angeles come from a gas station?
In the WeedsUsing fresh ingredients and operating out of a gas station, Arezou Appel has made Zooies Cookies a success.
How San Juan Capistrano’s Ecology Center became an oasis of regenerative farming
In the WeedsThe Ecology Center is a blue dot in a red sea. How did Evan Marks come to run this 28-acre regenerative farm in Orange County?