My House: Amid a Pandemic, a Restaurateur Rebuilds Her Career and Life in Oakland
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Sequoia Del Hoyo arranges her space the same way she sets a table—in cream and black tones to allow people, aromas, and sounds to "become the color." When she plates her dishes, she opts for crisp white or matte-black dinnerware "so that the colors of the food really have a chance to shine on their own without getting muddled against the backdrop," she says.