Cuisines

  • Moqueca Restaurant Brings Brazil to Oxnard

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Brazilian Moqueca Restaurant in Oxnard honors its namesake dish, moqueca, with with no less than eight of the original clay pot  versions, lovingly prepared from family recipes at this lively, spacious, glassed-in restaurant overlooking the water.  It begins by sipping Caipirinha, while purusing a desc...

  • Simply D’licious American Regional Soul Food on LA

    Simply D’licious is Chef D (Dennis Baines)’s take on Louisiana food in a story that took his family from that southern state to California and back to a “Louisiana soul food state of mind.”  Baines was raised in Los Angeles though his family arrived in California from Louisiana.  He never intended to ...

  • Fogo de Chão’s Tips for Brazilian Dining During the Olympics

    Fogo de Chão, the world’s leading Brazilian steakhouse/churrascaria just launched the “Fogo Guide to Brazilian Cuisine,” an inside look for diners, travelers and churrasco enthusiasts into the expansive culinary landscape of South America’s largest country.  The  Brazilian-born gaucho chefs offer tips, tricks and ha...

  • Oxnard Salsa Festival 2016 Anchors Five Ethnic Town Hits

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) A visit to Oxnard is like stepping back into time (think Ray Bradbury’s book, Dandelion Wine, and American Graffiti) .   Our five reasons why: the Salsa Festival, the Farmer’s Markets, Moqueca, the Maritime Museum and 27 Mexican restaurants. The competition remains a wonderful, small town, se...

  • New Five-To-Try (and Why) Cooking Tools with Ethnic Pedigrees

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Even the names of new (or “improved”) products prove intriguing enough for a try: Himalayan Salt Table Cook-Top, Bear Paws and Burger Lifts — and the book, Salt Block Cooking.   Each of them has earned high marks in our own kitchens. Salt Rox.  If you’ve ever eaten food prepared on t...

  • New American Bear Paws: The Better to Shred You with My Dear

      (Gerry Furth-Sides) Bear Paws are so appealingly tactile they look like a play toy although they really are the tool to help prepare American regional or international dishes.  They just about scream out how far we’ve come from a stick over a fire!  And of course they are “the tool” for finishing off ...

  • Loire Valley Celebrates Quincy Appellation’s 80th Anniversary of the

    France’s largest white wine producing region, The Loire Valley, celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Quincy appellation with special wine tasting opportunities at US restaurants.  In August of 1936 Quincy was the first Loire Valley appellation to receive an AOC (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée)status – Controll...

  • We’re Nuts About American “Nuts About You” Ethnic Products

    Based in West Hollywood, Nuts About You is a popular line of almonds in creatively flavored coats. These include the Latin-trendy Sweet Sriracha and the Japanese Green Matcha Tea and tropical  Coconut along with the very American Regional, Cookies n Cream.  They are softer than raw or roasted almonds and are as satisfying a...

  • American Regional Brownie Brittle Goes International and Organic

    Imagine receiving this box in the mail.  The FEDEX guy read the name and looked like he wanted a taste.  The bags are shiny and enticing.  That’s because every element of BROWNIE BRITTLE™ is well thought out and bright.  BROWNIE BRITTLE™is  trademarked. BROWNIE BRITTLE, the company’s flagship snack product, is a...