Author: Marci Bracco Cain
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Plan the Perfect Indian Wedding at Hyatt Regency Monterey
Engaged couples are always seeking ideas and inspiration for their dream wedding. They can find a treasure trove of information, recommendations and ideas from hundreds of magazines, websites, books and social media, such as Pinterest and Instagram. After they’ve come up with a theme and a date, they have to find a venue that will…
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Fungi Fun at Big Surʻs Foragers Festival
Foraging — in this case the act of hunting and gathering mushrooms, wild herbs and edible flowers in the woods — is practically an art form in Big Sur. The embodiment and celebration of that art form is the annual Big Sur Foragers Festival. In the interest of community safety, the festival will not be…
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5 Unexpected Things You Might See on a Whale Watching Trip in Monterey
The Monterey Bay may be the finest spot on earth to view whales and other wildlife from the deck of a boat. Because of the federal protections of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, which encompasses one of the world's most diverse marine ecosystems and the 2-mile deep Monterey marine canyon, which is rich with…
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Why Monterey is the “Calamari Capital of the World”
The sardines may be long gone from the waters off the Central Coast, but squid are relatively plentiful. All one has to do is look at any menu at a Monterey Peninsula restaurant, seafood or not, and you’ll find calamari, the Italian word that has become synonymous with fried squid, that tender, tasty delicacy served…