Easily the most recognized staple of a panadería, or Mexican bakery, is the concha. It's named after the Spanish word for "seashell" for a couple of reasons: one, because the sweet roll is topped with …
April 9, 2025
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Tus Chefs Favoritas make conchas to rival donuts
Tom Arnold's Old Places: Las Cuatro Milpas
The idea of writing about old places in San Diego County has been something I’ve been mulling around for years – but I kept putting it off because coming up with the parameters was a …
April 9, 2025
Nextdoor wars: Claws out at Cowles Mountain
San Diego has always been a city of hidden stories — murmured in the spaces between sun-bleached bungalows, whispered over backyard fences, and now, increasingly, shouted into the digital void of neighborhood apps. And nowhere …
April 9, 2025
Peter Navarro gets caught up in the Trump-Musk nexus
Our man Peter Navarro has been in the news again of late...Video:Boys will be boysMr. Musk actually went even further than the "dumber than a sack of bricks" comment, dubbing his opponent in the tariff …
April 9, 2025
Eleanor Widmer – queen of San Diego's cafe critics
The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical …
April 9, 2025
Local author exposes Johnson & Johnson's dark history
If you search for “Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder” on Wikimedia Commons, you will find the above image from an old edition of The Canadian Nurse, the official organ of the Canadian Nurses' Association. The text …
April 9, 2025