(Gerry Furth-Sides) Ethnic food takes an even bigger role among the over 150 of Southern California’s best restaurants, caterers and libation purveyors at the 39th ANNUAL FOOD FARE CELEBRATES PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES PPLA Food Fare Thursday, March 1, 2018, in Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar. The event supports P...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) New TOSAI SUSHI in the posh food court of Westfield Century City is guaranteed to the quality of the finest Asian market fish and seafood. That’s because Tonny Soesanto created it. Tonny started first as a restaurateur 30 years ago a few miles away in Beverly Hills with Edoko. He eventually f...
Performers in the spectacular LUZIA show of the Cirque du Soleil in Los Angeles this year represent over 15 different countries, and a total of 26 with the entire staff, including Canada, the United States, Russia, Mexico, France, Poland, Czech Republic, Belarus, and Ukraine. Jovial Executive chef Regis Gagnon honors as many a...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) New Georgós Wine came about in typically Greek fashion. Greeks believe in big ideas and doing everything on their own, (think Zorba the Greek), so when Georgós Zanganas realized he could not purchase natural Greek wines he wanted in the US, he decided to simply import the highest quality fruit f...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photos by Roberta Deen). Chinese cuisine and culture have influenced our way of eating for centuries in healthy, delicious ways. The wise Chinese always seem to have known psychologically what science now proves: the stronger the intentions for positive ideas we put into our consciousness, the stronger ...
(Roberta Deen, photos by Roberta Deen) The new China Lights festival in Las Vegas, and in Arkansas, and the growing popularity of historic Chinese New Year celebrations show how important this Asian holiday is becoming with mainstream America. The Chinese New Year Festival and Golden Dragon Parade in Los Angeles, des...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photo courtesy of Acuna-Hansen) Montrésor, Studio City’s newest French bistro, is designed with the grace and style of Paris in the 1920’s. Executive Chef Paul Shoemaker has created a new menu of traditional French cuisine with farm-to-table ingredients. Even the art nou...
Georgós wines are Greek, sort of. They’re also as American as Sonoma County. To explain, Georgós Zanganas, company founder (above), came up with the idea of producing bona fide Greek wines. And in Sonoma, which is an easy trip from San Francisco, where he lives....
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Innovative, inventive Justine Kelly, co-founder and Executive Chef and the team at Sun Basket www.sunbasket.com keeps key ingredients, such as of crushed peppercorns, in the classic French Steak Au Poivre, defined a dish defined “prepared or served with a generous amount of usually coarsely ground bla...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The 2018 Kosher Wine and Food Event (KWFE) featured “the best of the best” of wines and food, “that just happen to be kosher,” as Got Kosher?”s Chef-owner, Alain Cohen phrases it. Here are three of our favorite foods and wines from Israel, Italy, and France that are also re...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 