Off The Hook

Off The Hook

Nov 27, 2023

My dinner tonight is tender, flakey and buttery black cod, known as sablefish, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil, torn basil confetti and crushed cherry tomatoes.

It’s the freshest fish I’ve had in town—and it came from a waterfront stand off South River Road in West Sacramento.

Down South River Road’s bends and twists, across the river from Pocket and just before Vierra Farms, there’s sign for Ferrari Fisheries. The trail leads to a stall with a table and containers.

The sign brings to mind the timeless, muddy Sacramento River floating past. Yet here is some of the area’s freshest ocean fish. The fisherman is Anthony Ferrari. He carries on a family tradition started decades ago by his father.

Happy Returns

Happy Returns

Nov 17, 2023

Happy Returns East Sac home becomes a magnet for this family By Cecily Hastings December 2023 East Sacramento pulls you back. Noelle Dear and her husband Ben joined the returnees. “As our family grew, we both decided East Sac was the best place we could be,” Noelle...
Pray On It

Pray On It

Oct 28, 2023

PK is an old-time church abbreviation for “preacher’s kid.”

My wife and I are both PKs. Her dad pastored Fairvale Baptist Church for 49 years in Fair Oaks. My father pastored multiple churches, moving us every three or four years to a different California congregation.

We were PKs and proud of it. But my siblings and I knew our title was sometimes applied in a pejorative sense to describe bratty kids that ran unabated through the sanctuary before and after service.