This father’s day presents enticing opportunities for memorable dining experiences with special menus at popular restaurants (Celestino, Sol Cocina Playa Vista, ) and Drive up to gracious Pasadena to honor dad on Father’s Day the way the Italian families do it around the table with excellent food prepared from b...
Using the same logic of Airbnb but working on a home dining experience model, Rinita Vanjre Ravi, Inez Wihardjo and Giovanni Casinelli created BonAppetour. It proved such a worthy idea that early on it won the 2003 edition of Startup. BonAppetour, now actually known as ‘The Airbnb of Food,’ is an innovative web-base...
The food stakes were high at the BRIT WEEK (www.britweek.org) 2016 10th Anniversary Gala following a formal tea only days before prepared by the charismatic, Chef Darren McGrady, former private chef to Princess Diana and the Princes. Simpson’s Spotted Dick tins, jars of Seville Orange Marmalade, Stockley’s Milk...
The first and only authentic Japanese green tea café, SHUHARI Matcha Café comes to the heart of Venice backed by Maeda-en USA, a green tea distributor founded by green tea aficionado Taku H. Maeda in 1984, as well as the Cool Japan Fund, a public-private fund that supports the development of overseas demand for Japanese [&hell...
A brand new “Gastronomical Sidebar” and a number of culinary inspired films was one of the highlights of the tenth anniversary Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF.org) as it rolled out the red carpet to celebrate its June 1 – 5, 2016 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, CA. Cuisine-themed entertainme...
(Chef Roberta Deen) Heinz Pitmaster Collection has certainly secured an eye-level position on grocery store shelves. The Collection features five new regional barbecue sauces created in collaboration with five regionally famous chefs or Pitmasters as they are known in the fire-and-brimstone competitive world of serious grilling ...
“Summer” wines have always typically been white, rosé or sparkling. This year’s new wine trend feature red wines that can also be enjoyed in warmer weather, chilled or as at room temperature. One thing to look for is a low tannin style varietal, such as a Chianti Classico Riserva. It is perfect for a ...
We have been used to the The United States as an emerging culinary force on the global scene. Expert Dwight Furrow has his own theories about the elements of American history that have kept the nation from developing its own respected cuisine until now. He details them in AMERICAN FOODIE: Taste, Art and the Cultural Revolu...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Even the sun came out in full force to lend an early spring glow to the first Masters of Taste recently on the field of the Historic Pasadena Rose Bowl. From start to finish, this event defined Pasadena: prepared, sophisticated and friendly. It proved to be an ideal way to sample a number of gour...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Actor Lesley Nicol, who became the most beloved character, as Mrs. Patmore the cook, on the Downton Abbey television series, alone proved more than enough reason to accept an invitation to a preview tasting for the 10th Anniversary, week-long BRIT WEEK extravaganza of cultural events all over Los Angeles ...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 