 Birds & Bees At Birds & Bees, Bar Manager Bethany Ham created for toasting  The Irish Grasshopper ($8) cocktail.   Ham does her own take on the ubiquitous Irish Coffee by blending hot coffee with Jameson Black Barrel whiskey, sugar, Amaretto cream, and dark chocolate shavings to make the perfect cocktail.  Bi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Even the weather cooperated with a cool fog in the hot LA March heat for a decadent afternoon of feasting on over 1,500 pounds of heritage breed pork raised on family farms. Afterward, cooks and close to 500 guests raised a glass to toast Winning Chef Jonathan Granada of Otium restaurant in DTLA, crowned b...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Welcome back to the Viceroy Hotel on March 12, “Cochon 555,” the ambitious and most talked about culinary competition and fundraiser starring “5 chefs, 5 pigs, 5 winemakers” in a national ten-city North American tour //cochon555.com. Watch a sample of the excitement here http...
 The Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) celebrated the Grand Opening of the second day of its East Hollywood Certified Farmers’ Market. The Market has been bringing fresh produce to the community on Thursday evenings since 2012. Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers’ Market Promoti...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The Guild of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Food Fare outdid itself this 2017 season with Food Fare, the event of the season.  Julia Child, who regaled audiences with a cooking demonstration at the first celebration 38 years ago, would be proud of the Guild’s year-long work to feature over ...
(Gerry Furth-Sides)  The Inimitable Chef Celestine Drago’s wide smile (above) says it all about the event of the season, Planned Parenthood Food Fare,  now over a quarter century running. And so does the playful grin of another regular icon, Chef Mary Sue Milliken of Border Grill (below) with Mexican dishes. Both were...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Surfas takes on teaching families  how to create contemporary favorites out of popular Chinese-inspired and Mexican dishes in their new line-up of cooking classes.  It is totally in line with the family-like atmosphere at Surfas — which Diane Surfas’ family founded decades ago, and remains a ma...
Historic Placerville, California, Placerville known as the birthplace of Hangtown Fry among its other credits, celebrates its annual, month-long January tradition, the El Dorado Epicurean Collection of Culinary Adventures, with a variety of culinary and wine events. For more information on this quaint town and for...
(Eagle Rock, CA)  Guests at the Grand Opening of SpireWorks® Eagle Rock on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017  will be offered a Free SpireWorks® Destination (served on a choice of bread, exotic wild rice or salad), SpireCake andBeverage (choice of Soda or Ice Tea) from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. S...
Ann Marie Panoringan’s write-up in the OC WEEKLY of the “Pizza Throwdown” to benefit for Chef Bill Bracken’s terrific Kitchen on wheels captures the spirit of the event, along with Niyaz Pirani’s photo. She writes, “The team lead by Dean Kim and Sandro Nardone won their friendly wager withÂ...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 