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Fresh Italian Pomi Tomatoes Come Home to America

I am back to eating tomatoes, and cooking with luscious strained tomatoes and chopped tomatoes and finely chopped tomatoes, all because of Pomi Tomatoes, straight off the vine in Italy. ...

“101 Amazing Uses for Cinnamon” – My New Vinegar

Nancy Chen's new 101 Amazing Uses for Cinnamon transforms mainstay spice, cinnamon, into "my new vinegar" - making another ancient product into a household necessity...

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...

The Inspiring Nutritionist’s Kitchen (Book) is Open to All

(Gerry Furth-Sides) It’s natural I suppose to look through a cookbook and let appealing recipes jump out at you. This is what I usually do, and with CARLY KNOWLES, MS, RDN, LD’s  new book, The Nutritionist’s Kitchen it was the same. Delicious, appealing, colorful – and healthy- recipes fill the secon...

Eat Like You Give a Fork’s Mareya Ibrahim

“Eat Like You Give a Fork,” effervescent author Mareya Ibrahim ( St. Martin’s Press) is known as the Fit Foodie – celebrity chef, holistic nutrition coach, speaker, award-winning entrepreneur and patented inventor.  We stored Mayera’s little zippered cloth lunch box until it looked a little wo...

How Joan Nathan’s “King Solomon’s Table” Made me a Star – Twice

(Gerry Furth-Sides) I keep vowing to feature only one dish at a time but three favorites just about bounced off the page after looking up a recipe for a friend from Joan Nathan’s instant classic, King Solomon’s Table. And the best part is that even I have all the enticing ingredients in the (2 shelf) […]...

Casita del Campo to Show Off LA

(Gerry Furth-Sides) Where to take a visiting Covid nurse to eat authentic, historic food and show off LA at the same time? Casita de Campo and favorite area sites was a natural choice. The patio was relaxing and lively at the same time because of attentive to-go staff and the beautiful plants and fountain. The […]...

Celebrate Bagel Week-end with Bantam Bagels

I was excited to get an offer of new and original Bantam Bagel frozen products.   Like nine million other viewers of Shark Tank, I first came familiar with founders  Nick and Elyse Oleksak when I saw them on the TV show in 2018 pitching their Bantam Bagels.   We really liked the “everything b...

Setouchi: Japan’s Hidden Sushi Region

(Content and photos courtesy of Setouchi DMO) Setouchi is the soothing, authentic region of Japan spanning 700 islands and 7 prefectures surrounding the Seto Inland Sea. The abundance of water plus a diverse climate yield some of the quirkiest culinary experiences in this fascinating country. It may look exactly like San Francis...

New International Grain Traders Food Market to Go

(Gerry Furth-Sides) A lunch invite to the new Grain Traders Food Market was the perfect answer to the January “blahs,” all the more to pick up the meal after a crosstown drive in the city under lockdown. Despite opening staff glitches, he new restaurant concept meal turned out to be as fresh and inviting, as [&hellip...