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  • Tips, Techniques and Recipes for an Authentic Spanish Thanksgiving Feast

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Dishes from Spain will once again be on our Thanksgiving table this year.   And we will toast to all of it with Spanish Rioja and Temperanillo. This is after learning that the first Thanksgiving was actually celebrated in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565 as documented by archaeologists at Florida’s Museum ...

  • García de la cruz Inspires This Authentic Spanish Thanksgiving in America

    This year we’re sitting down to a feast of dishes from Spain.   And we will toast to all of it with a Spanish Rioja and a Temperanillo – Already our favorites.  Why?   Archaeologists at Florida’s Museum of Natural History recently  revealed that the first Thanksgiving was a...

  • Michelin Star Chef Paul Shoemaker’s Five-Day Staycation Feast at the Raymond 1886

    Pasadena’s beloved Craftsman restaurant and handcrafted cocktail bar celebrates Fall with Michelin Star Chef Paul Shoemaker’s  Five-Day Staycation guest chef event at The Raymond 1886 through Saturday, November 14th, 2020. We loved the chef’s superb food at Montressor and wr...

  • We Celebrate (with) Tenuta Montemagno’s New Dry Sparkling Bruts!

    Prosecco from northeast Italy has attained such an affection (or affectation depending on the view) that is is always been the first to come to mind when you think of Italian sparkling wine.    Yet the Barbera variety that makes up  TM24 and TM36 shows how a historic, versatile and  charming bottle-ferme...

  • Master Chefs Cook Ethnic Classics in Futuristic “Thermomix”

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) All it took for the Thermomix ® to win me over was watching it transform hard cheese into snowflake like flurries. I I had almost broken other sturdy food processors.  It even weighed them before going into the machine.  And this is only one of so many uses.   Thermomi...

  • Master Baker Alex Peña’s Heavenly Pan de Muerto

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Master Baker, Alex Peña’s Dia de los Muertos holiday bread, Pan de Muerto, may look like dough but it literally looks like a cloud in his hands.   It is considered an honor to be gifted with this confection. The bread is elaborate, decorated with skulls and bones, and sprinkled with sugar or covered...

  • 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...

  • Celebrate the World Series and More with Historic Primo’s Donuts “LA Baseballs”

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Acclaimed Primo’s Donuts, a family-owned LA favorite since 1956, is currently serving “Dodger Donuts” to celebrate the 2020 World Series.  Owners Ralph and Celia Primo, avid Dodgers fans, invite everyone to share their excitement about the Dodgers being in the World Series, which they hope will help t...

  • Slow Food Conference 2020 Offers Virtual Seminars

    (Gerry Furth-Sides, content and photos provided by Slow Food Conference 2020) The ongoing health crisis has refocused everyone’s attention on the central role of food and the importance of the food chain, in all countries around the world. On World Food Day, it is necessary more than ever to think about the food system, f...

  • Delicious, Nutritious Food Go with The “TERRITORY”

    (Gerry Furth-Sides) Fresh seasonal produce, plus a continually evolving menu of prepared, smart, globally inspired meals are  always “on the menu” at TERRITORYFOODS.COM.  Customers have the option of new and always healthy meal choices each week, with many of the favorite meals threaded back into the rotation.  Cu...