(Gerry Furth-Sides) Santa please feed me with these top-five online paleo favorites. each surprising inexpensive. Every one of these favorites are raised sustainably, humanely and with dedication, as reviewed on their websites. (1) Piedmontese Beef is a tale the finer things. Let me take you there. It is my favorite gi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Worthy of the Gran Hotel itself, the 25th “Spain’s Great Match” headlined Albarinõ, the new “darling of the wine world” to set the high tone for Spain’s finest, most memorable wines. Chef Jose Andres’ incomparable Spanish bites and the sheer volume o...
Bigger-than-life, Chef Jose Andres’ reflection is evident everywhere at his SLS hotel. So this important year it was even more fitting that the Barcelona born, Nobel peace prize nominee hosted the 25th “Spain’s Great Match”. The event encompasses the finest, most memorable wines, served with cerem...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) We first took Sonoko Sakai of Common Grains at The StandardLA, DTLA, where the class took over the main lobby and then the restaurant to honor her extraordinary Soba Noodles. The workshop focused on ancient techniques in the art of creating the perfect buckwheat soba and its deliciously rich umami d...
(Gerry Furth-Side) Traveling with Chef TommyTang to film the travel sections of his fourth TV cooking series, Tommy Tang’s Modern Thai Cuisine, aired on PBS nationally, turned out to be a major culinary hunt for the remembered “great noodles” of his youth. This was only a part of the larger quest to document the culinary [...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) For anyone who has dined on a train or followed alongside a train rattling through the Colorado canyons by car in the dead of night as I have, or anyone who loves history for that matter, Anthony Lambert’s dense, detail-packed book, painstakingly researched and passionately written Lost Railway Journey...
(Gerry furth-Sides) We give a fig – and always did after cooking with them on tv for 22 years. We were privileged to work with the semi-dried figs – dense, packed with flavor and The fashion industry agrees with us, and they promoted “fig” as a major color this fall season, although judging from the vari...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) MOSO bags turned out to be in reality as inventive, natural and effective as their introductory description. The bamboo is from China. If you’re going to buy a product via China, this would be it. Aside from the fact that ethnic foods often are extra fragrant from their rich spices plus classi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Jessica Weiss’ Apple Crostata are baked at //www.caffemarchioMarchio a Roman-Style Coffee Shop in NYC, and are available for pick-up orders there. These rustic and yet exquisite pastries, as only Italian bakers create them, are now offered by Joe Ariel’s Goldbelly, which brings t...
Thanksgiving for me was usually well over by the second week in November during the 22 years I cooked on TV up and down the west coast on a 10-city holiday tour on behalf of Mrs. Cubbison and the California growers. One of the all-time favorites, seeped in Southern Comfort, was developed from the […]...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 