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  • Tel Aviv Groove’s Gourmet Culinary Pop-Ups Coming to America!

    (Gerry furth-Sides) Tel Aviv Groove, a series of culinary events inspired by the Tel Aviv food and arts scenes is coming to America! The three-day scrumptious culinary and citing-edge artistic experience will take place at top restaurants in Los Angeles. As the first pop-up in a series of culinary events to be held in cities [&h...

  • Third Generation (!)Bella Sun Luci’s New Salad Dressings

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Founded in 1986, Mooney Farms in Chico, California is a third-generation certified, woman-owned family farm. (Read details below). When I had a problem with the bottle seal, I got an immediate response on how to use it properly! It is another case, like Capri gelato, of taking a European food item and adding ...

  • We Use and Love the Beef It Up! Book

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Any conversation with me about beef always used to start with my mother’s entire family of 15 all being meat brokers. Now the story is Jessica Formicola’s new, authoritative, illustrated, comprehensive and compact book, Beef It Up! //www.storey.com/books/beef-it-up/ The extensive, current in...

  • How Dallas-Based Bone-In-Butcher Became Personal Shoppers

    The Bone in Butcher Shop is a unique online, custom cutting operation. Creators John Sayklay and his son, Jake, are 3rd and 4th generation food service vendors. A passion for great food and great customer service is their legacy, just as a nutritional need for beef seems to be in my DNA because I come […]...

  • Ethnic Fusion’s Best New Friend: Causita

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Ricardo Zarate’s Causita Restaurant in Silverlake, translates into “little friend,” perfect for the congenial Ricardo. Chef Ricardo serves his beloved Nikkei Peruvian food, refined Japanese-influenced Peruvian dishes.  Culminating a decade-old career in Los Angeles, breathtaking Causita do...

  • Must-Visit Chef Tony Dim Sum In Pasadena

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Dim sum dates back to the 10th century when commercial travel elevated the city of Guangzhou (formerly Canton) to star dining status. (Please see the mind-boggling Michael Woods’ documentary, THE STORY OF CHINA). The leafy, spiffy neighborhoods of Guangzhou reminded me of spiffy, tree-lined Greenwi...

  • We Follow Chefs Sagar and Sourav to Delhi!

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Even the voice answering the phone on just about the first ring at Delhi Belly sounds happy and welcoming.  That would be Sagar Ghosh, co-owner-founder and sometimes these days, the manager, server, executive chef and interior designer, as needed. Ghosh is already well known for his elevated Indian cuisine,...

  • Start the Season with Pots & Co. Pumpkin Cream Pie in a Jar!

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) If you are going to anything “pumpkin” this pumpkin-mad season, try Pots & Co Pumpkin Cream Pie. Every mouthful gives as much pleasure as an entire pie. Yet they are light as air. The Pumpkin flavor is exclusively at Costco $13.95. Other retailers carry the other flavors, again subject to avai...

  • Terra Madre Salone del Gusto Features Slow Food Coffee!

    (Copy from Terra Madre Portal Program, Gerry Furth-Sides photos) More than 3000 farmers, cooks and food activists from 150 countries will gather in Parco Dora, Turin, Italy from September 22-26,2022 at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, the largest international event dedicated to good, clean, and fair food. ...

  • Celebrate All “Beach Days” at Stella Barra Italian Cafe

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) We learned that Stella Barra has so much more than pizza when we went to celebrate “Beach Days,” there this year. The official and unofficial dates range from Italian Beach Day (a religious holiday) on August 15 to National Beach Day in the USA on August 30th, also an alert that September 17 [&hel...