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...
Recent studies have shown that juicing is one of the easiest ways to get all the recommended servings of nutritional fruits and vegetables daily, but ONLY if you are juicing the correct way. Juicing expert, Daniel Winer, recently created new simple tips and tricks for correct,healthy juicing. “There are definitely some do’...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Signature Indian summer fruity cocktails are the newest marks of luxe, inviting NoMa social, restaurant and lounge. The name is inspired by its location just north of Manhattan in New Rochelle, NY. For this writer, who once called Larchmont home and still dreams of the beach, NoMa Social’s atm...
(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 &...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Decades old, Peacock Gardens Restaurant and Banquet Room in Diamond Bar has earned ZAGAT Senior Editor’s affectionate distinction of “ institution.” He himself praised the restaurant as “Best Indian Restaurant” in the area. In fact, my friends in Walnut singled it out for me years ago wi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides)If you’re looking for some simple, ghoulish, and fun party ideas, Chef Amy Fothergill, a mom and author of the award-wining cookbook, The Warm Kitchen: Gluten-Free Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love, offers these ideas in her newest book. Amy’s Gluten Free Menu for a Halloween Party inc...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Joyous, Chef-owner, Boda Nirouia, renews Gate of India, an old Hollywood mainstay since the 198o’s, with his gift for contemporary Indian cuisine fusion. Chef Boda’s dishes shows a light, deft hand at incorporating fusion elements that elevate the most ordinary Indian dishes. Here radish sprouts, ...
(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...
STAR-STUDDED LINEUP SUPPORTS RESTAURANT HIGH’S “TASTE OF TOMORROW,” ON OCTOBER 14 TO ADVANCE THE HEALTH AND CAREER PATH OF THE NATION’S YOUTH ((Gerry Furth-Sides, LOS ANGELES, CA) — Chef and restaurateur Carla Hall from ABC’s The Chew, producer, entrepreneur and television personality will be in support of incre...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, Los Angeles)New, dedicated owner-chef Durga’s authentic Nepalese and South Indian dishes are only part of the ambitious revamp of Shalimar Cuisine of India (Culver City Raintree Plaza) from neighborhood mainstay into a “best of Indian” restaurant. Details, such as offering Mustang bee...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 