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The History of West Coast Cuisine
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An American Food Atlas, Part III: West Coast and Pacific Northwest

Photo: Anna Monette Roberts The Deep South may be renowned for utilizing pantry items like molasses, butter, and sugar, but the West Coast is famous for having its foodways at its fingertips.
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Photo: Anna Monette Roberts

The Deep South may be renowned for utilizing pantry items like molasses, butter, and sugar, but the West Coast is famous for having its foodways at its fingertips. This includes seasonal produce from a few hours inland, ideal conditions for vineyards, pastured animals that provide meats, cheese, milk, and eggs, and — particularly in the Pacific Northwest — fresh seafood from the nearby ocean. Keep reading to learn more about the predominantly casual culture and rustic, often simplistic expression of food on the West Coast.

West Coast Beach Hotels, Resorts, and Cottages
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49 Looks at the Most Coveted West Coast Beach Haunts

Whether you're dreaming of a beach vacation or are looking to add coastal style to your home this Summer, allow these seaside haunts to serve as inspiration.
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West Coast Beach Hotels, Resorts, and Cottages

Whether you're dreaming of a beach vacation or are looking to add coastal style to your home this Summer, allow these seaside haunts to serve as inspiration. To celebrate iconic West Coast beach style, we've rounded up a gallery of our favorite inns, rentals, and homes from Washington to Southern California. Keep reading to discover a potential Summer getaway, or steal style notes to achieve the covetable coastal look.

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Study Shows West Coast Is Happier Than East Coast Based on Twitter
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Want to Be Happier? Move to the West Coast

I question California gurl Katy Perry's decision to sit naked on a cloud of cotton candy, but she's smart to think grass might actually be greener in California.
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I question California gurl Katy Perry's decision to sit naked on a cloud of cotton candy, but she's smart to think grass might actually be greener in California. When it comes to happiness, the West Coast is the best coast — at least among people who use Twitter.

Researchers from Northeastern University spent three years looking at 300 million tweets and found that people out West are much more likely to use positive language. The study says that "tweets suggest that the West Coast is happier than the East Coast, and across the country happiness peaks each Sunday morning, with a trough on Thursday evenings."

Each tweet was given a mood score. If the 140 characters or less included words like "funeral," "rape," or "suicide," the mood score would go down. Words like "love," "diamond," or "paradise" indicated a happy mood. Still, the "pulse of the nation" study has its problems. For example a tweet that says "I'm not happy" would count as positive because it includes the word "happy." We can only know so much about tweet sorrow.