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In our continuing series about Valley nonprofit organizations, we recently caught up with Lost Our Home Pet Rescue founder and executive director Jodi Polanski to learn more about her organization. Why did you start Lost Our Home Pet Rescue? I was working as a mortgage banker and volunteering at a pet rescue during the housing crisis of 2008 and kept hearing stories from realtors about pets found abandoned in foreclosed homes, often without food or...

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Executive chef Jorge Gomez takes great pride in all the recipes he’s crafted for Humble Pie and Humble Bistro, including his updated Caesar salad. “I wanted to create something a little different,” he says. Gomez’s recipe veers from the iconic Caesar with the addition of pickled jalapeños for a “little kick” in the dressing and fried Brussels sprout leaves and toasted panko bread crumbs in the salad. “I want every bite to have a crunch,...