The 2019 St. Joseph Center ¡Latin Food Fest! will take place March 29 – 30 at the LA State Historic Park, which includes a kick-off party “Chefs Night out,” and ultimate tasting festival “Gran Tasting.” ¡Latin Food Fest! will also takes place at Embarcadero Park at San Diego Bay and includes a high-energy kick-off pa...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Adya Restaurant Owner-Chef Shachi Mehra is known to ” dig deep into the complexities of Curry” with her renowned interactive “CURRY 101 COOKING CLASS” so that students can then recreate the dishes at home. And, who can resist a class taught on a “Boxcar Patio” at the A...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) ADYA is an authentic Indian restaurant created by Chef Shachi Mehra to be a reflection of modern India. Tucked into a corner of the Anaheim Packing House complex, the atmosphere is bright and breezy and a throwback to a more simple, relaxed time when the area outside was filled with orange groves. There [&hel...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) It literally was a “dark and stormy night” for the media preview of Masters of Taste 2019 this year. After a two-hour drive to the Rose Bowl, the excitement of the event started right at the gate where the chefs hailed us from their cooking in a temporary outdoor kitchen in a drizzling [&helli...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) As if the sumptuous “Market Table”ever needed refreshing, internationally prominent Brazilian steakhouse, Fogo de Chão, will feature new, fresh spring items for a limited time geared toward summer’s warmer temperatures. The idea is that “Brazilian cuisine focuses on harvesting and...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) While the news during the past two years is that Kosher restaurants have been opening up and thriving in totally unexpected places in many Italian cities (read not very friendly to the Jewish populace), kosher products have been produced in Italy and exported internationally without any fanfare for decades no...
The public is invited to EATING HIBERNIA, an Irish cooking demo and book signing with Chef Geraldine Gilliland. The event takes place on Saturday, March 16, 2-3:30 PM at the Pacific Food & Beverage Museum, 731 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro, CA 90731. According to Gilliland, Irish food is “not all green and fortifie...
Irrepressible, outgoing southerner, Nancie McDermott has rightfully been described as a world-traveling, culinary-history-exploring, recipe-wrangling, mystery-unraveling and dot-connecting author of 14 books. Her newest slim volume, “Fruit: A Savor the South Cookbook”, packed with historic, nostalgic and esoteric inform...
Just when I was wondering how to store cheese, along comes the book, The Little Book of Cheese! Debbi Dubbs turned out to be the perfect answer to my current questions about storing this gem of a food product. The short guide gives tips not only in purchasing and storing cheese but how to make cheese […]...
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Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 