Events

  • Art Openings are Back at Artful Upper West!

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) It was an event to look forward to and did not disappoint: The first Sunday Art Opening Reception first art opening in over two years to welcome local Artist Bobbie Rich (@bobbierichfineart) to the walls of Upper West. The buzz was immediate as soon as you walked in the door to be greeted with […]...

  • Live! AbilityFirst Food & Wine Festival 2022

    (Photos by Gerry Furth-Sides. AbilityFirst Food & Wine Festival content)The Historic Laurabelle A. Robinson House in Pasadena, one of the most, if not the most gracious, old-school and fun event sites in the world, will be home for a day to the  AbilityFirst Food & Wine Festival presented by CHUBB. Th...

  • New Scrappy Ways to Fight Food Waste

    (Gerry furth-Sides) “Waste Not, Want Not” describes the work of Imperfect Food. We experienced a lively, inspiring experience learning about it at Cafe Gratitude in Los Angeles. The combination of he Launch Dinner Menu currently offered to diners this month and motivating conversation is the perfect Rx this session. The atti...

  • Masters of Taste 2022 Preview Promises!

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) The invite that arrives this year signaled the transition of lockdown to a party! The festive and fun 5thAnniversary Masters of Taste preview promises the L.A.’s premier outdoor, luxury food and beverage festival will be the welcome back public event after two years. The Sunday,April 3rd, 2022, fr...

  • Italian Cheese 2021 Chooses “Consider the Animals” Theme

    (Gerry Furth-Sides, event information from Cheese 2021) The theme of Cheese 2021, “Consider the Animals” . The 13th edition of the most important event dedicated to raw milk cheeses and artisanal dairy products will take place from September 17 – 20 in Bra, Italy, and is being organized by the city itself. It welco...

  • How Hatch Chile Peppers are Like a Fine Wine –and Back Now!

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) What gives Hatch Chile Peppers its distinctive taste? Answer: hot days and cool nights in Hatch, New Mexico. The same reason for the distinctive taste of fine wines from the Central Coast of California. Melissa’s Hatch peppers harvested from fertile soil along the Rio Grande, bring about these prized Hatch ...

  • Cutting-Edge Millie Gram Goes Nuts with Mystical Ancient Mushrooms

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) You might say that foresty mushrooms are having a new “moment in the sun.” This new incarnation arrives as a lush, healthy snack food and spread.   Millie Gram answers the current search for a new portable form of basic, functional, healthy foods with mushroom-nut butters and pastes. It is not b...

  • Smithfield Hams Introduces Italian to Los Angeles Chefs

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) It was a  (rare) dark and stormy night in Los Angeles this past winter when Smithfield Foods brought in a Chicago-style party, part of a three-city tour, to introduce their take on Italian-influenced pork dish options to local chefs at Pistola-LA.   The fashionable...

  • Safe! At Our Elegant, Al Fresco Ethnic (Italian, naturally) Dining Choices

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) A toast to San Antonio Winery for our first lunch outside since March! Thank you, Barbara Hansen, for a perfect first pre-Halloween restaurant outing to  our last shopping stop before lockdown in March. Now perfectly prepared for safe outdoor dining that makes any day special, owner Santo is on hand to gree...