Linda Hanger and Kristina Scrivani have joked they decided in 2010 to open their wildly popular Stone Creek Kitchen during one of the worst recessions the country has ever seen, and have made the decision to close it during the pandemic, a disaster of another type but one with financial ramifications for all, especially mom-and-pop retailers. It s bookends to the decade, Hanger says.
That s 10 years of teaching people to cook, of winemaker dinners, of catering special events, of supplying the home cooks of the Peninsula and beyond with all of their kitchen tool needs. Ten years of those amazing curried chicken salad sandwiches on raisin-studded bread ( We make the curry powder before we make the curry salads, Scrivani pipes up) and 10 years of that crunchily delicious lettuce salad loaded with cherry tomatoes and creamy blue cheese and bacon. Ten years of grabbing a quick healthy bite from their deli counter, and of course please add a giant cookie, and 10 years of weary Highway