2005
Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans – George W. Bush elected to a second term – Patron at a San Jose Wendy’s restaurant plants a human finger in a bowl of chili – Former PayPal employees found YouTube
Kinch Confidential
Is Manresa’s David Kinch the world’s next celebrity chef? Kinch is not yet a household name outside circles of chefs and food lovers, but he continues to quietly, passionately and happily distinguish himself with his singular cooking style. And his cooking is unlike anything else in Silicon Valley. While his food has strong French, Catalan and Japanese influences, his style is more personal than geographical. From his hulking, handmade French “suite” of ovens and flameless cooking surfaces, Kinch creates a confident, sometimes playful, cerebral brand of cooking that pierces the heart of flavor of each ingredient. Stett Holbrook, March 30
Massing Media
Hear that giant sucking noise? That’s the sound of Knight-Ridder devouring independent media from the Silicon Valley. The nation’s second-largest newspaper company, which also owns the Merc, added another newspaper trophy wife last week with its acquisition of the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, a group of eight weeklies in Los Gatos, Saratoga, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Campbell and San Jose. In February, Knight-Ridder also acquired the Daily News Group. The Fly, Oct. 19
