Seaweed may first have made American news decades ago as a kooky Asian health food fad, popular with “hippies” but these days the intriguing ingredient has moved onto more sophisticated and fashionable international circles. Dishes can be as lavish as the tony new grazing dishes on the posh Norwegian Cruise Lines at sea. A s...
SLOW FISH is the inspiration behind the second high-energy restaurant opened by Korean entrepreneur, John Lee. The first in North Huntington Beach has been going strong for almost a decade. Friendly Slow Fish Wilshire manager, Bonnie, greets regular customers by name—usually by the second visit. The sophisticated, festive rest...
Martin Shah’s passionate hospitality was evident last week when he answered our pleas to bring his own native Bangladeshi dishes to the table. After all, Martin is Bangladeshi, and people from this region follow. w certain rules and regulations while eating. It includes hospitality and way of serving as well, known as...
The historic Venice Whaler has been standing guard at the foot of the Venice Pier right on the Pacific Ocean beach for 70 years. And what a place. The place on its own screams, “Location, location and location” but Head Chef (and avid surfer), Nick Liberato, hails from Philadelphia and combines wast and west coast cuisines...
We are categorizing brownies as “American originals,” but everyone in the world loves brownies, even people who are not “chocolate people” like myself. So imagine receiving a snowy white post office box with only the holiday logos on it in the mail and opening it to feast your eyes on the image abov...
Just in time for those New Year’s resolutions, Award winning nutritional blockbuster, The World’s Healthiest Foods (GMF Publishing, 2015), by George Mateljan, has just been revised into a long-awaited second edition. It will be available online and on store bookshelves January 1, 2016. Better yet, you have the choice of...
The whole idea of a limited-edition offering of a vodka with Peppermint even sounds appealing when you hear it. It looks even better when you see the bottle, with red and white and green ribbon swirling from top to bottom (and you cannot see the content inside either!) We’ve given a bottle with a box […]...
Imagine opening your door and having a beautiful box like this delivered to you each month (we added the bow for Christmas). This is what a unique company named the Hatchery delivers in subscription format each month to your doorstep: small-batch artisan ingredients and condiments. Open it and this is the beautiful wrapping...
Cirque du Soleil’s performers have always traveled as “family,” including the truly awe-inspiring, spectacular Kurios Show, currently in Los Angeles. And so Brazilian Executive Chef, Paola Müller, heads up the kitchen like a traditional home – aiming to please and to have her charges eat healthy. “I’m like ...
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...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 