In 2008, home prices plummeted in Monterey County, the homicide rate skyrocketed in Salinas, and massive wildfires scorched large swaths of Big Sur and south county.
All one can recall are the delicious wheat biscuits. Another remembers “some good salads and a lot of roasted vegetables.” A third surviving founder of the Big Sur Land Trust says the only thing that comes to mind with any certainty is the cheese casserole.
