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 […]...
What’s it like to attend One Michelin-starred chef Italian dinner? Italian One Michelin-starred chef in 2014, 2015 and 2016, Felice Sgarra, Executive at UMAMI Ristorante, Andria, Italy, and his brother Roberto, sommelier were flown all the way from Italy to prepare the post-premiere dinner for Cinema Italian Style open...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) We knew immediately from the invitation for a new, modern kaiseki restaurant experience presented by INN ANN Los Angeles, JAPAN HOUSE, that it would be exquisite. We had already experienced the superlative food of first guest chef, Taro Araki, Executive Chef for the Los Angeles Consul-General of Japan. //...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) I love French cuisine, and with a well-respected cookbook author like Barbara Hansen singing the praises of Susan Herrmann Loomis’ there was no way I going to miss the presentation of this French expert’s brand new (13th) cookbook, FRENCH GRILL. The award winning book author and enormously pop...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photos of “to-go” courtesy of sbe) sbe’s Cleo Third Street launches a new grab & go window concept, serving Mediterranean street food favorites. We are already major fans of Chef Danny Elmaleh’s cuisine and this is an opportunity to try it or to enjoy it outside the restaura...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) It ranges from invigorating to revitalizing and the last song at the House of Blues Gospel Brunch at the continually growing Anaheim Gardenwalk said it all, “Oh Happy Day”. In fact, you might be part of the audience to end up on stage waving dancing to celebrate a birthday, according to brunc...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Chef Nick Shipp goes all out to trail blaze dishes from his big, wild Texas imagination. And they are going to appear on his table only once inside the glassed-in front private room . “Too much work to do on a regular basis,” he laughs at every event. So at this point no […]...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Mimi’s Cafe honors the veteran’s day for a special reason. Founded in 1978 by Arthur Simms, who was stationed in France during World War II, Mimi’s is a neighborhood cafe offering fresh, hand-prepared American-French comfort food and bistro classics for breakfast all day, lunch, dinner and spe...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The first Taste of Israel Food and Wine Festival at the Majestic in downtown Los Angeles, was as wild as a bus ride in Tel Aviv. For starters, being Los Angeles on the Pacific Rim, sushi was one of the busiest booths. And with Los Angeles bordering Baja, David Slatkin offered tacos. All […]...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photos courtesy of Hungry Fan and Chef-author Jenn Segal) Loving bacon and eggs since childhood I have always stood behind, and eaten whole eggs, because they are just so satisfying. (My hunter cat, Jeremiah Johnson prefers this protein as well). On one recommended longtime regime, by a psychic-nutrition...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 