May is National Barbecue Month, and there is time to there’s no better way to celebrate the beginning of summer than spending it outdoors for a cookout with family and friends. Grilling is one of America’s favorite pastimes during the summer months, with a recent survey showing that 75% of U.S. adults own a grill ...
(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...
National Picnic Day marks the halfway point between spring and summer on April 23. To prep for the holiday, chefs at Picnic LA created appealing dishes inspired by classic ethnic cuisine and by the diversity of local produce available within California. The menu focuses on the abundant seasonal selection of locally sou...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) High levels of mercury found in common seafood dishes has turned people away from buying it. This why Safe Catch, a new brand of canned tuna fish, based out of Marin County, California, was created. Safe Catch tests every single fish for their mercury content. Their mercury level is 90% lower than the FD...
SUCRE Sweets Parisian Ice Cream & Bakeshop with its treasures of Syrian-influenced pastries sits demurely through the archway from Souk Shawarma, it’s savory “big brother” next door. And well it should — owner-pastry chef, Lauren is the younger sister of chef-owner, Andrew Faour, who partners with...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) General Manager Chris Garcia may be the one to meet you at the door with a huge Chino “hill country” welcome but the spirit behind the extraordinary The Pub at Chino Hills belongs to owners Andrew Faour and Mathew Carpenter. The owner-chefs know how to entice diners to try sophisticated, global di...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Slow Food International and Slow Wine Editore debuted their new and updated edition of the Slow Wine guide during the 2016 Slow Wine US Tour. The show on the road for this fifth consecutive year world tour featured the Slow Wine editorial team, along with the winemakers recommended in the guide, with stops [&...
The need for global responsibility is at an all time high. A young company making “Funkins” have as their goal a way families and schools think about packing lunches and the waste created from a single meal on the go. With over 3.5 million tons of paper towels and napkins ending up in landfills, the eco-friendl...
Tulsi Turmeric Ginger Tea, an Organic India produce, combines the best of two of the most respected ancient herbs “newly discovered”, turmeric and ginger, and adds tulsi, known in India as The Queen of Herbs.” Tulsi is revered as a sacred plant infused with healing powers by practitioners dating back 5,000 y...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) You either love it or hate it, and it was love at first bite for me with uni (the Japanese word for sea urchin roe). The gold- colored little gems resembling a kitten’s tongue taste like a cloud and are soft to the point of trembling. When they melt in your mouth, it […]...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 