(Gerry Furth-Sides) My birthday last month was the second time I was treated to Sharlotka baked by @tableconversation, and the home grown apples and loquats in it got my attention. The attraction from the beginning was the light-as-chiffon stone fruit cake texture. And as it turned out, the cake alone has a surprisingly, royal a...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) According to culinary history, American potato salad most likely originated from German and other European immigrants’ recipes during the nineteenth century. We were so excited to try a Spanish version because as our staff writer, Roberta R. Deen pointed out, it was the Spaniards who...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Reopening at our gorgeous rustic neighborhood favorite means pared down hours (dinner only five nights a week) and a pared down menu from Chef Nick Shipp that is SENSATIONAL! Even with Nick’s obsession-worthy, take-away Burger Box last year, it was like “coming home” to have a dinner in the glas...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Now is the time to visit Commerson, open for indoor and outdoor dining. Usually fully booked on week-ends, we were delighted to be welcomed by the original executive chef who created the menu concept, Executive Chef Sascha Lyon, and his wife who designed the muscular restaurant interior. It took a glass of wi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Pulled Oats are so popular with the whole family in Finland that fast food cafes have them on their menus along with chicken and hamburgers. “And they are the kids’ first choice,” laughed the Consul General of Finland at a private dinner in his home to introduce the product in Los Angeles. T...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) As summer heats up, so does the Italian aperitivo trend with traditional and unconventional twists on cocktails such as the Spritz. We think of it as practice for Italy’s national “Day at the Beach” on August 15. With gatherings slowly making a safe comeback, there’s no better time to rais...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) From a new take on a classic Pastrami sandwich piled mile-high to Pastry Chef Raymond Morales’ sublime dessert with Asian yuzu the”New Summer Menu” at the The Raymond 1886 holds imaginative, historic ethnic twists. The Pasadena’s Craftsman cottage on South Fair Oaks Avenue with its hig...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) When I wanted to take something special but small to my cousins for a birthday on their visit to Palm Springs, I asked Primo Donuts do a decorated donut for the “birthday boy.” I had in mind the sourdough doughnut the shape – and size – of a large potato. Little did I […]...
Everyday is a celebration of dairy at KAPOOR’s with variety of Indian Lassi’s. National Dairy Month started in June,1937 as a way to sell excess milk in the warm summer months. Within two years, National Dairy Month moved to national prominence. Today it’s a full-blown celebration of all things dairy, with par...
Slow Fish, the biennial event organized in Italy by Slow Food and the Liguria Region, will be divided into both online and offline activities this year due to the ongoing pandemic. The theme of the tenth edition is The Water Cycles. Online activities start today: a rich program of events addresses the problems and challenge...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 