(Gerry Furth-Sides, photos courtesy of Cavalia Odyssey) Show star Arabians, Bravas, Pearl and Shade, steal your breath away, even in an image. Watching them perform confirms that these three proud animals define talent, effortless grace and beauty. We wondered what these almost ethereal creatures eat ...
Any excuse is good enough reason to write about Frank Sinatra for me. Mario Marino was recently tapped to host the Frank Sinatra-Audrey Hepburn exhibition at Bergemot Station to usher in the year of the Sinatra centennial, co-sponsored by KJAZZ and The Grammy Museum. He was already legendary when he became a long-time customer o...
Floriane Eznack is the perfect oenologist for the Champagne Jacquart House, arrived in Champagne with the passion to “create wines, not sell them or grow grapes.” Floriane represents the bold company, with a history considerered almost brazen by most standards. The daughter of a diplomat, this young lady’s childho...
Food has always provided a means to promote peace and spices from several ancient regions was the common ground of a dinner at India’s Tandoor Brentwood from “parts” of what is now the separated India, Bangladesh and Pakistan with the goal of “souls coming together together to create loving peace.”...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Long-time resident and artist, Susan Amend, treated us to luscious limes and lemons from her backyard studio garden for a fragrant, homey start to the Ojai Studio ArtistsTour 2015. It captured the little hamlet’s ethereal feeling we always experience there, starting with our first other-wo...
LA’s most celebrated, community-minded chefs will star at the upcoming event hosted by the Children’s Bureau, a nonprofit leader in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. The sixth annual Celebrity Chefs & Wine Tasting event takes place on October 22 from 6:00 pm. to 9:00 p.m. at Casa Vertig...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, Los Angeles) “A Taste of Tomorrow,” food and job mixer, the first of its kind annual event designed to elevate lives and motivate the taste buds of youthful current and future food professionals, was met with bursts of enthusiasm by all participants. The site was historic Hollywood High School; a &...
(Dalia Miller, C-CAP Advisory Board Member, Los Angeles). The third annual Ventura County Farm Day on September 26, 2015 brought out two dozen C-CAP guests for a day-long bus tour that included visits to farms plus a grand BBQ dinner at Limoneira Ranch in Santa Paula. They joined about200 of the 2000 partic...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 