by Think In The Morning | May 19, 2016 | Sea Gull |
The artists arrived so quietly the locals could not say when Mendocino became an artists’ colony. Like a solitary ant that finds a pot of honey laying down its pheromones to attract the others, one artist discovered the beauty of the Mendocino Coast, then another,...
by Think In The Morning | May 18, 2016 | Sea Gull |
The elemental properties that made up the Sea Gull Restaurant were food, art, music, people, and place. The atmosphere ultimately created was one of home and family. The properties and atmosphere came together at a particular point in time. It was during the...
by Think In The Morning | May 15, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Three men I knew but not as well as I thought—a father, a disgruntled employee, a son. Tragedy, families ruined, a bizarre plot to assassinate a President and detonate a dirty bomb in Washington D.C. by a disturbed young man who according to a TIME magazine reporter...
by Think In The Morning | May 14, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Panorama photo of Martin Schmidt’s coffee art by Krissy Jones Farmer Brothers locked up the restaurant market by loaning out equipment—stainless cabinets, brewing machines, pots, and other essential accessories. The policy helped cash-poor restaurateurs...
by Think In The Morning | May 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Snail shells are one of many examples of the Golden Spiral in nature. One way to approximate the Golden Spiral is with a mathematical series called the Fibonacci series. The ratio between consecutive Fibonacci numbers approaches the golden ratio as the Fibonacci...
by Think In The Morning | May 7, 2016 | Sea Gull |
Part of the job of running a restaurant is ordering the food and supplies. The two biggest suppliers when I first started at the Sea Gull were Monarch and Sexton. Today both these companies are part of the giant food distributor US Foods, but they started as...
