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As a latchkey kid, Herbert Alpers learned how to cook out of pure necessity. He honed his craft during the almost 30 years he spent cooking for his fellow firefighters in a Santa Clara County fire station. Now retired, he inaugurated his food tent, Kettle and Smoke Catering, three weeks ago at Hollister’s Food Truck Tuesdays.
Besides his award-winning competition-grade chili, an absolute staple, he and his daughter Nalijah Alpers are making the ambitious choice to rotate new items through the menu every week, already debuting shepherd’s pie, corned beef and cabbage, chicken tortilla soup, and more…