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Cotta’s Kitchen: Family Recipes and Farm Roots on East Main Street

Cotta’s Kitchen: family recipes on East Main Street, with an original place-setting illustration.
Original illustration by Local Turlock.

Before Angela Cotta ran a kitchen on East Main Street, she conducted an 80-piece orchestra at a Warner Bros. sound stage. She recalled that Los Angeles film-composing work in a 2014 Journal interview. Her love of food began much earlier, on her grandparents’ almond ranch in Ceres. Cotta’s Kitchen brings those family recipes to Turlock. Its official website describes fresh, seasonal ingredients and sends customers to its social pages for the latest news. Alongside its… Keep Reading

Red Steer: Turlock’s Sandwich Shop, Fire and Comeback

Red Steer was the place where you watched your meat being sliced for a sandwich. Its return inside Crust & Crumb brought back a familiar face, too—longtime chef Raul Miranda. But there is a recent ending to that comeback: Crust & Crumb closed on December 31, 2025, according to the Turlock Journal’s February 2026 report. A sandwich shop from the late 1960s Ray and Stan Maggard started Red Steer in the late 1960s. Its early… Keep Reading

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