Sunset back issues from May 1990:
Deli favorites stacked; matzo, pastrami, chopped liver ... easy to do ahead. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ...Matzo, pastrami, chopped liver . . . easy to do aheadGreat deli favorites--matzo, pastrami, chopped liver--join forces in this stacked sandwich. It's a cool make-ahead main dish for a spring supper. The cut slices show off ribbons of each flavor, and go with a refreshing ...
Shiitakes and chanterelles go to work on two simple dishes. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... As distinctive in flavor as their betterknown dried counterparts, though milder tasting, fresh shiitake and chanterelle mushrooms enrich these simple dishes. The first is grilled flank steak with Asian seasonings and a shiitake sauce. In the second dish, couscous is penetrated by the woodsy ...
Up and over the Marin Headlands. (in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California) (Walking for Your Life)
May 01, 1990 ...WALKING FOR YOUR LIFE [TM]Rising sharply from the sea, the 600-foot-high walls of the Marin Headlands, in Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), appear impenetrable to hikers. But now a key 1-mile section of the Coastal Trail has been completed, climbing up and over the ...
Mariachi festivities ... for Cinco de Mayo and almost anytime.
May 01, 1990 ... Trumpeting, strumming, crooning, and stomping their heels, mariachis regularly play their own brand of night music in restaurants around the West. But their performances reach a crescendo during Cinco de Mayo, when the spirited music is keynote to this month's Mexican holiday celebrations ....
By bike or car, exploring the winery-studded Shenandoah Valley. (California)
May 01, 1990 ... Unspoiled Shenandoah Valley offers natural beauty and serenity to visitors to Amador County's wine country. May brings warm, sunny weather, with a whisper of breeze, as the green hills go gold. Twelve wineries dot the valley, in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. Explore the area by ...
Looking in on a plains homestead, just southeast of Denver. (Plains Conservation Center, Aurora, Colorado)
May 01, 1990 ... Pioneers tamed the Great Plains with deep plows, barbed wire, and sold houses. But though their homesteads changed the face of the prairie, few remain. To provide a glimpse of how the pioneers lived and worked, the Plains Conservation Center, just southeast of Denver in Aurora, has erected ...
The wild McCloud River is easier to get to. (California)
May 01, 1990 ... A river born of the snowmelt from Mount Shasta, the icy McCloud is tinted a cool turquoise by the volcanic silt of the surrounding countryside. Once wild and remote along its entire length, in 1945 the river was dammed on its lower portion to create Shasta Lake. In 1965 a second dam formed ...
High-flying San Diego. (air show and aerospace museum; includes related article on San Diego aviation history)
May 01, 1990 ... It's been called "Air Capital of the United States." Visit the big air show and an aircraft carrier this month. Stop by the aerospace museum any timeIn the early days of aviation, back when the loop-the-loop and night flights represented the ultimate in derring-do, flying's ...
Collecting Arizona petrified wood.
May 01, 1990 ... Every year an estimated 12 tons of multi-colored, fossilized wood are stolen from Petrified Forest National Park, about 110 miles east of Flagstaff on I-40. There's no need to steal the beautiful fossils, since plenty exist for the taking--for a reasonable price--just outside the park's ...
Art-full Mendocino: visit studios, tour galleries, take a course. (California)
May 01, 1990 ... Beautiful views and charming shops may be Mendocino's mainstays, but the city is almost as famous for its art and crafts. On the Pacific coast 3 1/2 hours north of San Francisco, excellent galleries offer one-of-a-kind works, two artists' studios give glimpses of work in progress, and ...
Exploring Fiji's underwater world.
May 01, 1990 ... Rapidly gaining fame as one of the South Pacific's top diving and snorkeling spots, Fiji offers many lures to its diverse underwater world of coral gardens and reef fish. People are drawn to these islands by the proximity of barrier reefs to resorts with dive facilities--as well as the ...
Planning a ranch vacation this summer?
May 01, 1990 ... "Take a boy and a girl to the beach for a week and ask them 10 years later the name of it--they will have forgotten. Take them to a ranch, and they will remember its name and the name of their horse for the rest of their lives." --Eugene Kilgore, Ranch Vacations If you've been ...
Rowdy Skagway, sedate Haines; they're history-rich Alaska neighbors, 13 miles apart by ferry or plane, 360 spectacular miles by car.
May 01, 1990 ... They're history-rich Alaska neighbors, 13 miles apart by ferry or plane, 360 spectacular miles by carFrom the start, these two Alaska towns were as different as a dance-hall girl's petticoat and a lieutenant's dress grays. In Skagway, argonauts from five continents stomped muddy ...
Literary Missoula; up in Montana's northwest corner, dozens of writers and a literary scene that invites you in.
May 01, 1990 ... It's a town of many faces: car lots and bookshops, espresso cafes and Western-wear stores. It is surrounded by the Bitterroot Mountains, at the confluence of the Clark Fork, Bitterroot, and Blackfoot rivers. It has a university, long winters, and four months of softball. It's a "forgiving ...
The place to be at 7:28 a.m. July 11, 1991 ... the Big Island. (last solar eclipse to darken any part of the U.S. in this century)
May 01, 1990 ... If you're in the right place at the right time on July 11, 1991, you can witness the last solar eclipse to darken any part of the United States in this century (the next one isn't until 2017). The right time is the 4 minutes beginning at 7:28 a.m.; the right place is the Big Island of ...
Backcountry Yosemite. (includes related articles on Yosemite National Park)
May 01, 1990 ... Still mostly wild and uncrowded . . . ready for exploring as the grand old park celebrates its centennialOf all the grand plans ever conceived around a campfire, one of the grandest was born in the High Sierra just over a century ago. Pioneer environmentalist John Muir and magazine ...
Bomba; this Italian bread is full of hot air. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... This Italian bread is full of hot air. It takes just minutes to cook . . . and an instant to "explode"Full of hot air and shaped like a bomb, this intriguing bread is aptly named in Italian: bomba. And at the table it's a stunning knockout--another translation for "bomba." Inspired ...
Lavender; fragrant, of course, but also tough and unthirsty ... plenty of reasons to grow.
May 01, 1990 ... Fragrant, of course, but also tough and unthirsty . . . plenty of reasons to grow For centuries, lavenders (Lavandula) have been prized as handsome landscape plants and for their clean-scented flowers. With increasing need for water conservation in much of the West, there's even more reason ...
New looks for old pools. (remodeling)
May 01, 1990 ... In each case they improved the appearance and gained an inviting place for poolside entertainingImproving the relationship of these two pools to their landscapes went far beyond a cosmetic facelift. Not only did the pools gain a new look, but so did their settings--making the pools ...
Baskets from the hills or from you won weed patch; you weave sweet-smelling wild grass.
May 01, 1990 ...You weave sweet-smelling wild grassBring the outdoors in with rustic, sweet-smelling baskets made from the tall, wild grasses proliferating in vacant lots, along roadsides, or perhaps in an unruly corner of your own back yard. We used wild oats--although any lanky grass will ...
All between front door and street. (remodeling the front yard)
May 01, 1990 ... Reclaiming the front yard--or even just part of it--is the theme of these two remodels. In each case, homeowners wanted an outdoor living area near a kitchen or living room. The logical solution was to develop this space out front, at the same time creating a visual and aural buffer between ...
Northwest cheeses.
May 01, 1990 ... Lots of contented cows ... lots of cheese choices, old and new, in markets throughout the West. Or go to the sourceHome to the country's most contented cows (Washington is first among all 50 states in milk production per cow), the Northwest generates plenty of raw material for one ...
A hallway-library is a bridge to their new master suite.
May 01, 1990 ... The problem became part of the solution in the remodel of this house in Pacific Palisades, California. The owners wanted to add a one-story master suite to the rear, but the garage--also at the back--was an obstacle. A ground-floor addition would have blocked access to the garage. Adding a ...
Safer pools. (swimming pools)
May 01, 1990 ... "He sank like a rock," remembers one father who pulled his 15-month-old son from the bottom of a pool seconds after he fell in. There had been no cry and hardly a splash; luckily, the parents were poolside when it happened. For pool owners with children--or with young visitors or ...
The answer was two decks and a terrace.
May 01, 1990 ... One way to landscape when you have pets, small children, and limited time is to use a lot of decks and paving. Pulling that off without monotony takes some planning. Seattle architect Luther Hintz designed the system of decks and terraces pictured here for Alison and Craig Wells. The result ...
New sunroom instead of unused deck.
May 01, 1990 ... Enclosing a deck with greenhouse sections and a flat roof turned an unusable outside space into a sunlit sitting room. Before, fog-chilled winds kept owners Gail and Larry Tomlinson inside their Belmont, California, house, while a deck-facing window and a pair of glass doors let interior ...
"Treehouse" for a Los Angeles slope.
May 01, 1990 ...It climbs up to make the most of garden areas, interior spaces, light, and viewsThis house greets you squarely at the curb, but that's where the obvious ends. It twists, turns, climbs, and stretches to make the most of its garden areas, interior spaces, natural light, and ...
A sturdy bookcase replaced the philodendrons.
May 01, 1990 ... Tired of babying her scrawny philodendrons, Hildy Manley all but abandoned the built-in planter box along one side of the entry in her Tiburon, California, house. As a result, a trellis of vertical 2-by-2s, originally meant to support the climbing vines, became a jarring eyesore. "I felt as ...
Poolhouse with a kitchen opens for entertaining.
May 01, 1990 ... Complete with a kitchen, this poolside building open wide for entertaining. Only 12 feet deep, it has a small room for pool equipment at one end, a convenient changing room in the middle, and, at the other end, a bay-fronted kitchen with refrigerator, sink, grill, and dishwasher. Fronting ...
Two-part remodel: master bedroom and guest cottage.
May 01, 1990 ... The ebb and flow of generations can change the way to use your house. About the same time that Merry and Michael Herb's children left the nest (in Kailua, Hawaii), Mrs. Herb's parents came to live with them. They decided to use one of the two vacated children's bedrooms to expand their own ...
Illuminated shelf system started with a casting tube. (book shelf)
May 01, 1990 ... A tall tube and solid-core doors became an illuminated shelf system in the Los Angeles house of designer Emily Ain and architect Jim Matson. The heavy cardboard casting tube (a form for pouring concrete columns) was wrapped in thin galvanized sheet metal; expansion bolts secure the vertical ...
More generous entry for a corner lot.
May 01, 1990 ... The way in needed a change of direction at this tract house in Inglewood, California. Looking marooned on its corner lot, the house also needed a more inviting entry and screening from the street. The transformation came about with little structural change (the original porch, landing, and ...
In one bold stroke, dark basement becomes informal living area. (remodeling)
May 01, 1990 ... Once a dungeon-like basement, this wide-open room now provides just what its owners wanted: an informal living area and play space, somewhat apart from the rest of the house, that can double as a guest apartment. Steve Rankin and Lewis Butler of San Francisco-based Butler Armsden Architects ...
A trio of Trellises for shade, privacy, climbing vines.
May 01, 1990 ... Three graceful trellises define and unify garden areas at both sides and the rear of this slender house. All are bolted to the house's walls, but each has a differing size, style, and additional support system.Entry trellis. This 44-foot-long structure uses the largest timbers: ...
Phoenix shows how to organize games for very young athletes. (Community Action; Itty Bitty Olympics)
May 01, 1990 ...COMMUNITY ACTION:Organized athletic events--fun runs, ski races, corporate challenges--give just about everybody who wants to participate a chance to compete. Well, almost everybody. Aren't preschoolers too young for such structured sporting events? Not according to Sue ...
A 1960s entryway needed some discipline. (remodeling of front yard)
May 01, 1990 ... Some residences need lessons in deportment. In this 1960s tract house in Hillsborough, California, the front door was hard to find--and dumped visitors unceremoniously into the living room. At the same time, a patio off the kitchen was exposed to the front walk and driveway. To correct the ...
Portland remodel: modern in function, "period" in feel. (kitchen remodeling)
May 01, 1990 ... She had to invent a compound word to do it, but Portland homeowner Thayer Willis described what she did to her kitchen as renovation-restoration-rejuvenation. The former owner had gutted and left unfinished the kitchen of the 50-year-old house. The Willises started from scratch, envisioning ...
Opening the kitchen up and out. (kitchen remodeling)
May 01, 1990 ... Cramped and cut off from the back garden, this kitchen was typical for a 1940s tract house. According to owners Denise Brakefield and Robert Larsen, "We dreaded cooking because of lack of counter space, only one electrical outlet, and inefficient appliances." They decided to open up and out ....
Bold entry court instead of asphalt driveway. (remodeling of front yard)
May 01, 1990 ... There's nothing timid about the timbers used to transform the front yard of this Los Angeles tract house into a spacious entry court. Their bold size is key to the design's success at emphasizing horizontal space and visually anchoring the house to its site. Wedged between street and steep ...
French bistro dinner ... it's simple, unpretentious, generous. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... At its best, French bistro cuisine is simple, unpretentious food well prepared and generously proportioned. This cooking also tends to highlight a region's local ingredients, as you'll in this uncomplicated supper we encountered in Burgundy. You can easily manage this meal at home. A crisp ...
Ice cream irresistibles ... coated cones. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... Ice cream or sorbet can be quickly dressed up to make a walk-about dessert treat. Coat a scoop of ice cream on a cone with a confection and freeze the cone upright (see top left). When ice cream is hard, dip the cone quickly into melted chocolate, then sprinkle with extras of the first ...
Step up to the spaghetti bar. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... Pick and choose from colorful garnishes, mix and warm them with spaghetti . . . easy on the barbecueThe spaghetti's ready, and you use it as the foundation on which to create your own pasta meal--lean to lavish, plain to fancy. As at a salad bar, at this garden party you pick and ...
Have you met mizuna? It's a mild Japanese green for salads. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ...It's a mild Japanese green for saladsA newcomer for salads is showing up in many supermarkets: mizuna (Brassica japonica). Curiously, this mild-flavored and tender-firm member of the mustard family is not used in salads in its native land. There, where raw salads are unusual, ...
Cooky cameos; easy to make with edible flowers. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ...Easy to make with edible flowersPretty as a picture, these flower-topped cookies make perfect treats for May Day or Mother's Day. With a little supervision, youngsters can shape the cooky frames, spread the syrup "glue," then anchor the edible flowers. An adult should do the ...
Classic spinach combinations ... with options. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... Featured in many classic combinations, particularly with cheese or chicken, spinach holds its color better than many green vegetables. But fresh spinach shrinks dramatically when cooked, so knowing how much to start with its challenge. In these three main dishes, we give guidelines--and the ...
Pasta Cook Book
May 01, 1990 ... As a word and as a product, pasta has certainly come into our lives in the last 25 years. As recently as 1965, most non-Italians didn't even use the word, but called it macaroni, noodles or spaghetti instead. Ten years ago, Sunset published its first book on the subject: Pasta Cook Book ...
Fresh Ways with Pasta.
May 01, 1990 ... Now, in comes our new book, Fresh Ways with Pasta ($7.95; shown above right), published on April 20. Boasting a light, contemporary approach, our recipes take advantage of fresh pasta (homemade or purchased), lean chicken and seafood, delicate sauces, and fresh vegetables. From soups and ...
Chinese salads that go light on the dressing. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... Unlike most Western salads, these two Chinese versions use only minimal oil. Their refreshing flavor comes from a generous splash of lean and mellow rice vinegar--and a few zesty seasonings. Look for the Asian ingredients in Asian markets or some supermarkets. Chinese Hot and ...
Don't let its name or its looks intimidate you. (geoduck) (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ...Say gooey duckCertainly no beauty, and decidedly firm (almost crisp) to chew, the giant geoduck clam wins diners with its delicate, seafresh taste. Harvested in the Pacific Northwest under regulations to preserve supply, clams average 2 to 3 pounds in their gaping shells. In ...
15 minutes or less, 9 quick family meals. (recipes)
May 01, 1990 ... Ultrasimple and flexible, these recipes provide quick meals for 2 to 4 people. Here we've taken three almost effortless dishes, each complete in about 15 minutes, and varied the short ingredient lists to make six more dishes. The advantage of these loosely structured recipes is that you can ...
"These spices are the soul of Indian cooking." (includes recipes) (Chiefs of the West)
May 01, 1990 ... The cuisine of the Indian subcontinent is an ancient and varied one. But to most American diners it simply means curry--a notion that amuses Indians if it does not annoy them. As more Indian restaurants open, our appreciation of the complexity of the country's cuisine grows. One concept that ...
Drought-tolerant, easygoing garden packed with ideas.
May 01, 1990 ... Water conservation and versatility characterize this small garden in Southern California. The 1,250-square-foot space brims with ideas for displaying plants in camouflaged pots--an especially useful idea in the West's semi-arid climates. Landscape architect Ken Smith created his Newbury Park ...
Summertime blues ... warm-weather bloomers.
May 01, 1990 ... Cool colors in flower borders offer a reprieve from summer's heat. Handsome warm-weather bloomers, scabiosas (pincushion flowers) and stokesia (Stokes aster) can swathe gardens in tones from palest lavender to sky blue. Tall, strong stems and a vase life of a week or more also make then ...
Growing a bean tepee ... or a pumpkin tunnel.
May 01, 1990 ... Leafy recesses delight children, who see them as forts or playhouses. The hideaways shown here delight gardeners, too, because they create play space without sacrificing ground needed for planting. Both structures are covered with summer vegetables you can plant this month. The tepee at ...
80 little things and one great big thing you can do to save water in the garden. (includes related article on saving water and getting rid of unused lawn)
May 01, 1990 ... After four dry years, many gardeners in the West--particularly Californians who get their water from Coast Range reservoirs--are facing another summer of limited water supplies. Here we list 80 small ways and one big way (see THE GREAT BIG THING: Getting rid of unused lawn) to save water in ...
The little and little-known hollyhock: it's compact, easy, fast.
May 01, 1990 ... For small gardens in moderate climates, a little-known perennial deserves wider recognition: miniature hollyhock, or checker-bloom. It's easy, fast, and compact, with 1- to 3-foot stalks that bloom two months or more. Plants grow best in coastal or hillside gardens (in the central valleys ...
When drip tubes won't drip.
May 01, 1990 ... Regular maintenance of a porous tubing (ooze tubing) irrigation system is essential to prevent clogging and to keep water flowing through it evenly. Hard water, with its high concentrations of iron, calcium, and magnesium, is the primary cause of clogs. Since deposits build up as tubing ...
Easy-care plants for unthirsty borders.
May 01, 1990 ... These pastels shimmer softly in the dry glare of Los Angeles heat and paving. Good choices for dry climates, once established they thrive in average soil with water only every one to two weeks. Where water suppliers are unrestricted, plant soon to take advantage of rapid spring growth. Where ...
Gophers vs. gardeners; what will and won't work.
May 01, 1990 ... All mouth and no heart, people say of pocket gophers. These furry creatures have big teeth and big fur-lined cheek pouches, so they can get and carry a lot of food. They also have big appetites to match. What they don't seem to have is any regard for the probability that what they eat was ...
Five full months of garden exuberance. (Wanda Morken's garden; includes related article on year-round schedule keeps the flowers coming)
May 01, 1990 ...Wanda Morken shows how she does it--by rotating pots of annuals and perennialsTerraces and patios surrounding Wanda and Don Morken's house burst with exuberant bloom in spring and summer. Blooming annuals and perennials in plastic pots fill some 135 terra cotta pots so they ...
Bodie: quiet ghost stirring; gold and silver mining built it. Talk about a new mine is rousing interest. (California)
May 01, 1990 ... "Goodbye God! We're going to Bodie." That saying--familiar to all who visit--was written in a young girl's diary as her family was leaving for the remote mining town in California's eastern Sierra Nevada. It's now believed that she was misquoted, and that she really wrote, "Good, by God! ...
Another grand arch for Paris. (La Grande Arche de la Defense)
May 01, 1990 ... Simple shapes mark the designs of some of Paris' colossal new architectural works. Joining the list of Paris landmarks, along with I.M. Pei's glass pyramid at the Louvre, is the hollowed cube of La Grande Arche de la Defense. When its glass-walled elevators first rose within their open-air ...
Stopping over in Luxembourg ... tranquil now, turbulent once.
May 01, 1990 ... Squeezed between Belgium, France, and Germany, the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is often just an unplanned stop-over forvisitors. Though surprisingly verdant and deceptively tranquil, its history has been anything but calm. For centuries, this 1,000-square-mile country has served as ...