We are categorizing brownies as “American originals,” but everyone in the world loves brownies, even people who are not “chocolate people” like myself. So imagine receiving a snowy white post office box with only the holiday logos on it in the mail and opening it to feast your eyes on the image abov...
Just in time for those New Year’s resolutions, Award winning nutritional blockbuster, The World’s Healthiest Foods (GMF Publishing, 2015), by George Mateljan, has just been revised into a long-awaited second edition. It will be available online and on store bookshelves January 1, 2016. Better yet, you have the choice of...
The whole idea of a limited-edition offering of a vodka with Peppermint even sounds appealing when you hear it. It looks even better when you see the bottle, with red and white and green ribbon swirling from top to bottom (and you cannot see the content inside either!) We’ve given a bottle with a box […]...
Imagine opening your door and having a beautiful box like this delivered to you each month (we added the bow for Christmas). This is what a unique company named the Hatchery delivers in subscription format each month to your doorstep: small-batch artisan ingredients and condiments. Open it and this is the beautiful wrapping...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) A traditional Czech feast, both luxe and straightforward at the same time, welcomed in both the holiday season and the new Consul of Czech Republic. A light drizzle added to the wintery feeling and made his beautiful home feel all the more festive and cozy. Fried fish, traditionally Carp (Tilapia here), Po...
Cirque du Soleil’s performers have always traveled as “family,” including the truly awe-inspiring, spectacular Kurios Show, currently in Los Angeles. And so Brazilian Executive Chef, Paola Müller, heads up the kitchen like a traditional home – aiming to please and to have her charges eat healthy. “I’m like ...
Any excuse is good enough reason to write about Frank Sinatra for me. Mario Marino was recently tapped to host the Frank Sinatra-Audrey Hepburn exhibition at Bergemot Station to usher in the year of the Sinatra centennial, co-sponsored by KJAZZ and The Grammy Museum. He was already legendary when he became a long-time customer o...
Named in honor of a town near the Taj Mahal, Agra Café is as praised among experts for serving properly spiced and consistent authentic regional dishes, such as Balti as it known among USC students for being about the most popular Indian restaurants in Los Angeles. Tucked in the back corner of a small shopping plaza, [&hel...
Inotheke, a contemporary dining destination from Carolos Tomazos, is now open in Santa Monica. The dining room and bar showcases modern Greek warm, lighthearted hospitality while taking its cuisine and spirits seriously. Even the name is written in Greek. Hints of the Mediterranean Island, Cyprus, (Tomazos’ homeland)...
The invitation read: The sumptuous table setting looked like this: The deconstructed, fresh food in the Greek Nice N Easy restaurants look like this: And the story goes like this: Chef Chris Athanasiadis and restaurateur Dimitris Christoforidis who created the Nice-N-Easy Restaurants in Athens and Mikonos came from Greece to ...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 