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  • New Latin-Inspired CowLESS Burgers!

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) A new choice on the market for meatless eating is the CowLESS vegan burger option in South Pasadena, made with a grilled Beyond Meat patty, shredded lettuce, a fat tomato slice, vegan cheese, housemade chipotle and mayo for richness and a pillowy brioche bun. The burger is so popular there are now plans [&hel...

  • 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...

  • Celebrate A “Well-Rounded” New Year of the Ox

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) The growing popularity of historic Chinese New Year celebrations show how important this Asian holiday is becoming with mainstream America despite the recent bizarre backlash to the pandemic. Food plays an important role during Chinese New Year, and there are a number of dishes that are eaten to bring good lu...

  • Easy French Dinners with Susan Loomis’ PLAT DU JOUR Book

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Today I am an American in Paris from afar. And I share with you a revelatory brunch and lesson by way of Susan Herrmann Loomis’ definitive new culinary lifestyle book, PLAT DU JOUR French Dinners Made Easy.  The French have always been known to love food, even everyday meals. Featured on bistro menus [...

  • 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) […]...