(Gerry Furth-Sides) Los Angeles Times’ The Taste 2018, the annual event celebrating flavors of the world prepared and hosted by acclaimed L.A. chefs and bartenders, lived up to its promise. But the evening adds up to so much more than the sum of its parts, special in a city where there are three food events a […]...
(Roberta Deen) Laurel Gallucci and Claire Thomas’ book, SWEET LAUREL, Recipes for Whole Food, Grain-Free Desserts is a guide to overcoming adversity and limitations in the home kitchen. These two friends have written the perfect “make lemonade” cookbook. Like many things, SWEET LAUREL, the bakery, was b...
Panxa Cocina translates to “kitchen of the belly” in Catalan Spanish and this month dedicated Chef Art Owner Arthur Gonzalez goes all out in the tummy-pleasing category as he celebrates the coveted Hatch chile with a special tasting menu offered through a month of the harvest, plus weekend “chile roast-out” even...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The FARMHOUSE boasts an Executive Farmer, Nathan Peitso in a partnering with remarkable Australian-bred Chef Craig Hopson to make farm-fresh ingredients into such instant classics. I have already been recommending everyone I know to this “new and improved” shopping center restaurant incarnat...
This taco is amazing–and that’s in a day when tacos are everywhere in any form you can think of. This one appeared at a dinner at Buttonwood Winery & Vineyard in Solvang. The tortillas were made with locally grown green Oaxacan corn dried and processed into masa....
We met Executive Chef Rémi Lauvand through his food at the now-shuttered Le Ka in downtown Los Angeles. I still dream about his food. Now there is an opportunity for him to reach grocery shoppers. Chef Lauvand will be the Culinary Director at Vintage Grocers’ third location to open this September in Caruso’s Palisade...
It’s been so hot this summer that the August top tastes are all cool, starting with two salads, one Vietnamese and the other Indian. Next comes the Mediterranean eggplant dish baba ganoush, which is served at room temperature, followed by the perfect drink for a scorching day, an icy agua fresca....
Ethnic food is a natural at the annual Los Angeles Times’ The Taste celebrating the flavors of the world. Hosted by The Times’ editorial staff and acclaimed L.A. chefs and bartenders, The Taste takes place on the Paramount Pictures Studios backlot over Labor Day weekend (August 31-September 2). Each ticket grants acces...
Panxa Cocina celebrates the coveted Hatch chile with a special Hatch chile tasting menu and a weekend “chile roast-out” during the entire month of September. A portion of the proceeds going to New Mexico State University’s Chile Pepper Institute. GREEN HATCH CHILE PANXA BURGER (8 oz. beef patty, hatch green ch...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) HATCH CHILE is here, and only for six weeks. And they MUST be from Hatch, NM. It is the altitude in this southern New Mexican area that infuses the unique characteristic, cold at night and hot in the daytime. Like mesquite in the 80’s, New Mexican cooks have known about them […]...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 