(Gerry Furth-Sides) The more we use Sun Basket meals, the more we love their refined ethnic inspired recipes such as this week’s Moroccan Merquez Patties with Warm Carrot Salad. What sets Sun Basket apart is the extraordinary quality of their ingredients for the professional quality, inventive, ethnic-inspired meals fr...
We found Casablanca Market harissa- not your typical harissa sauce. That is because it’s made in Morocco in the most careful way. Refined and rich, it’s the perfect addition to mild foods such as rice, couscous, pasta, hummus, and quinoa. We’ve put Casablanca Market harissa on every dish possible fro...
Israeli-born Sima Cohen’s energy seems to bounce right out off the pages of her new Healthy Indulgence cookbook. Not two days after we met Sima at Melissa’s workshop, she had thanked each and every one of my emails and requested our permission to be put on her mailing list. Clearly, a go-getter and we want to [&...
The new Modern Mediterranean Diet by Pangea Nutrition is a science-based meal planning delivery service designed by a team of doctors at Harvard, whose expertise is in the field of diabetes and obesity. //(www.PangeaNutrition.com/about) Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Pangea Nutrition was founded by Dr. Christos Ma...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The day we visited La Española Meats in Harbor City one sunshiny fall day, a special envoy delegation from Spain was visiting with a tasting of newly imported artisanal products. This hints at the importance of the small boutique store that makes the Doña Juana brand of chorizo right in the adjoin...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) If L’Ami Restaurant is not landmark space, it should be. These days, L’Ami Restaurant’s cuisine may be more Mediterranean than former incarnations as French-Canadian and Italian among others, and it once again feels classic and sunny. For starters, the appealing Mediterranean men...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The “insider” tip for new Jo Jo’s Mediterranean Grill is that the mysterious, unidentified image on the menu turns out to be the famous, colossal ruins in Baalbek (Lebanon) to introduce Lebanese favorites featured on Jordanian owner’s Malik Haddad’s menu. Most commonly...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Ethnic chefs stood out this year even among the curated “best of the new best” showcase at the 2016 Angeleno Magazine’s Live & Dine LA event the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows. It seems that “Inventive dishes from the city’s finest chefs” this year mean inspired and elevating cl...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Chef Nir Margalith, co-founder/owner of Puzzle Israel Tours, is everything you would imagine a high energy Israeli would be. “Strapping” is the first word that comes to mind. And it stays there. Of course, being an Israeli, Nir is also a veteran of the army with boundless energy. So it’s no problem fo...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Ask almost any Greek where to find the Greek cuisine, and they will almost invariable answer, “at home.” Carlos Tomazos is no exception although he prefers to share what he – or his mother when he was growing up on the island of Cyprus – prepared at home in his new contemporary, c...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 