(Gerry Furth-Sides) I keep vowing to feature only one dish at a time but three favorites just about bounced off the page after looking up a recipe for a friend from Joan Nathan’s instant classic, King Solomon’s Table. And the best part is that even I have all the enticing ingredients in the (2 shelf) […]...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The first Taste of Israel Food and Wine Festival at the Majestic in downtown Los Angeles, was as wild as a bus ride in Tel Aviv. For starters, being Los Angeles on the Pacific Rim, sushi was one of the busiest booths. And with Los Angeles bordering Baja, David Slatkin offered tacos. All […]...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Ethnic (Pizza) Goes Mainstream Goes Ethnic (Matzah) at Fresh Brothers this season. For “those looking to celebrate one of the traditions of Passover,” Fresh Brothers is bringing back the Matzah Pizza. “It was a huge hit with customers in the past,so we have again decided to make the Matza...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) In his plea to “save this institution,” David Sax’s book, Save the Deli becomes the definitive account of delis around the world. Besides providing detailed, mouth-watering descriptions of the food he is served in his exhaustive research – along with witty accounts of the folks who prepare it R...
A “star” baker as a relative with a closely guarded recipe automatically bestows bragging rights onto an immigrant family. The family of Marlo Gertz of Marlo’s Bakeshop in San Francisco is no exception. But unlike so many recipes that have disappeared (like my Viennese grandmother’s tissue paper strudel), Marlo not only...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 