Cuisines

  • French-Tunisian Fire in the Belly Cuisine

    Tunisia may share a Southern Mediterranean shoreline and continental roots with Algeria and Morocco, but I’ve always been impressed and delighted that its cuisine is as distinguished, even from the most similar and familiar, Moroccan, as Vietnamese is from Chinese. You may recognize the name, Tunisia, from recent world ne...

  • The Awe-filled Offal: Not Your Mother’s Humble Pie

    Offals continue to be a favorite on Chef Alain Cohen’s Got Kosher? Café special menu -- not for sensational reasons but because they were always popular in Tunisian cuisine. Offals came into widespread use simply because farmers had to use as much of the animal as possible....

  • Celebrating Turmeric: Everything Old is New Again

    Gloriously colorful Turmeric is the newest darling of celebrity chefs, although in ancient times, rich orange Turmeric (the color of baked yams), popular in both North African and Indian curry dishes, held such healing powers it became known as “the spice of life.” French-Tunisian Chef-owner Alain Cohen at Got Kosher” Cat...

  • CARDAMOM INDIAN RESTAURANT -Los Angeles

    Articles by gerry furth-sides Cardamom Indian Restaurant – Review- When “New and Improved” is Actually New and Improved Cardamom Indian Restaurant is not one but two bright Los Angeles stories.  The first is of a popular neighborhood cafe (India’s Oven) smoothly taken over with continuity and also updated. I...

  • Mediterranean Gem Turquoise Restaurant in Redondo Beach

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Straightforward food would be more than enough to please at a beachside restaurant.  At award-winning Turquoise, Owner Hamid Fatemi  has added fresh ingredients, depth of flavor and collages of color in his dishes, along with superb service since he opened in 2008. Middle Eastern professional service be...