(Roberta Deen, food stylist, photographer) Simple Mills is a thriving young company founded by Katlin Smith. She holds the firm belief that clean “intentional ingredients” can be combined to create wholesome baked goods, easily used by home cooks. Each of the Simple Mills mixes is printed with clear instructions and ...
Southern cooking today isn’t just grits, fried chicken, peach cobbler and the like. It’s also Chinese char siu pork, Mexican posole, Thai larb, Venezuelan arepas and Korean grilled beef ribs. These are among the 80 recipes in “Secrets of the Southern Table” by Virginia Willis, a book that is as much about...
Bokksu Founder, Danny Taing, is becoming known as the “ambassador of Japanese snacks,” selling a million snacks to over 75 countries around the world in his company’s first two years in business. The company offers the only gourmet snack box sourced and curated directly from local snack makers in Japan, has grown...
This month I deviate from my policy that all five tastes must be reasonably local, meaning in and around Los Angeles. The outsider comes from Oregon, fries so good you’ll want to go there just to try them....
(Gerry Furth-Sides) First of all, chef Jenn Segal generously shared with us, that the title of her new book, The Once Upon a Chef Cookbook: 100 Tested, Perfected, and Family-Approved was chosen only because a publisher came after her, after being impressed with her popular blog of the same name. And rightly so. Jenn’...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Pearl’s Texas BBQ celebrates a Good Ol’ fashioned five-day (June 27-July 1, noon to 9 PM) Fourth of July Texas Picnic, worthy of its name, right smack in downtown Los Angeles. Live Music, Full Bar and ice cold Beer, Games and the best BBQ west of Texas headlines the event. Live Music from Al...
Visiting Abacela winery is like treading on sacred ground, that is, if you worship the Spanish red wine grape Tempranillo. It was here, in Southern Oregon’s Umpqua Valley, that Earl and Hilda Jones introduced Tempranillo to the Pacific Northwest, with stunning results....
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photos courtesy of California Pizza Festival). World famous pizzerias headline the inaugural California Pizza Festival on July 28 – July 29 at Los Angeles Center Studios with unlimited pizza-samplings. World-renowned pizza chefs from Naples, Italy join 30 pizzerias from California, Arizona, Nevada, ...
The new award-winning Crustacean Restaurant beverage team welcomes in summer with a show-stopped lineup of Vietnamese-inspired seasonal cocktails, matched by a new Red Hour bar bites menu (the An version of “Happy Hour) to celebrate their newly remodeled space. Innovative Beverage director Peter Barriga heads up t...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, all photos courtesy of Dr. Dolly Alzenman) Dr. Dolly Alzenman’s, engaging Kool Kosher Kitchen: Collection of Recipes combines her passion for cooking with her vast knowledge of cultural and global recipes. Educator Dolly exemplifies the first rule of teaching: engage and motivate your stu...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 