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  • Porto’s Bakery Creates mini Rosca de Reyes for 2021

    Rosca de Reyes is a traditional, sweet bread enjoyed in honor of Epiphany/Three Kings Day, which is celebrated throughout Europe and Latin America. The Rosca de Reyes has an oval shape to symbolize a crown and is covered with dried, candied fruits to symbolize the many jewels on a crown.  The rich bread in the […]...

  • Future Global Slow Food Model: Mediterranean Prud’homies

    A project to support the fishermen of the Mediterranean Prud’homies Slow Food Presidium was presented on the www.terramadresalonedelgusto.com online platform. These fishermen represent a collective system of food production that perfectly matches the founding values of Slow Food. This is why Slow Food p...

  • New Grain Traders on Fairfax Offers International Ethnic Health Fare

    (Gerry Furth-Sides, content and photos courtesy of Grain Traders) Grain Traders, a good food company originally founded in Singapore, opened its doors of its first US location just south of the intersection of Fairfax Ave and Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood. It is at the end of the business end of the Fairfax street [&hellip...

  • Cafe Spice “Delivers” Authentic Ethnic Meals at Home

    (Gerry Furth-Sides, content and photos courtesy of Cafe Spice) Even if I was not about to answer the call someone  “craving restaurant-quality Indian, Mexican and Thai food at home,” Cafe Spice got my attention because of the company story.  Sameer Malhotra, CEO and Co-Founder of Cafe Spice, and his ...

  • My Glamour TV Job of Thanksgiving Cooking and Planned Overs

    Learn what it is really like to cook on TV ...

  • Tips, Techniques and Recipes for an Authentic Spanish Thanksgiving Feast

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Dishes from Spain will once again be on our Thanksgiving table this year.   And we will toast to all of it with Spanish Rioja and Temperanillo. This is after learning that the first Thanksgiving was actually celebrated in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 as documented by archaeologists at Florida’s Museum ...

  • García de la cruz Inspires This Authentic Spanish Thanksgiving in America

    This year we’re sitting down to a feast of dishes from Spain.   And we will toast to all of it with a Spanish Rioja and a Temperanillo – Already our favorites.  Why?   Archaeologists at Florida’s Museum of Natural History recently  revealed that the first Thanksgiving was a...

  • Michelin Star Chef Paul Shoemaker’s Five-Day Staycation Feast at the Raymond 1886

    Pasadena’s beloved Craftsman restaurant and handcrafted cocktail bar celebrates Fall with Michelin Star Chef Paul Shoemaker’s  Five-Day Staycation guest chef event at The Raymond 1886 through Saturday, November 14th, 2020. We loved the chef’s superb food at Montressor and wr...

  • We Celebrate (with) Tenuta Montemagno’s New Dry Sparkling Bruts!

    Prosecco from northeast Italy has attained such an affection (or affectation depending on the view) that is is always been the first to come to mind when you think of Italian sparkling wine.    Yet the Barbera variety that makes up  TM24 and TM36 shows how a historic, versatile and  charming bottle-ferme...

  • Master Chefs Cook Ethnic Classics in Futuristic “Thermomix”

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) All it took for the Thermomix ® to win me over was watching it transform hard cheese into snowflake like flurries. I I had almost broken other sturdy food processors.  It even weighed them before going into the machine.  And this is only one of so many uses.   Thermomi...