In order to make their new Chef’s Table more “palatable,” Six Senses Qing Cheng Mountain Resort in the heart of China, recently introduced a unique concept for menu pricing in their Farm2Fork restaurant by asking guests to pay what they feel is appropriate for food and service when dining there. The Chef’s ...
(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 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, 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...
(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...
(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...
(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 ...
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...
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...
“If I didn’t have a grill to use this on, I would go out and buy one,” was the only thing I could think of when I opened the GRILL DADDY packing box. The tools are the “muscle car” of cooking equipment, bringing the caveman culinary method of cooking meat or poultry over a fire […]...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 