(Gerry Furth-Sides) We first took Sonoko Sakai of Common Grains at The StandardLA, DTLA, where the class took over the main lobby and then the restaurant to honor her extraordinary Soba Noodles. The workshop focused on ancient techniques in the art of creating the perfect buckwheat soba and its deliciously rich umami d...
(Gerry Furth-Side) Traveling with Chef TommyTang to film the travel sections of his fourth TV cooking series, Tommy Tang’s Modern Thai Cuisine, aired on PBS nationally, turned out to be a major culinary hunt for the remembered “great noodles” of his youth. This was only a part of the larger quest to document the culinary [...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) For anyone who has dined on a train or followed alongside a train rattling through the Colorado canyons by car in the dead of night as I have, or anyone who loves history for that matter, Anthony Lambert’s dense, detail-packed book, painstakingly researched and passionately written Lost Railway Journey...
(Gerry furth-Sides) We give a fig – and always did after cooking with them on tv for 22 years. We were privileged to work with the semi-dried figs – dense, packed with flavor and The fashion industry agrees with us, and they promoted “fig” as a major color this fall season, although judging from the vari...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) MOSO bags turned out to be in reality as inventive, natural and effective as their introductory description. The bamboo is from China. If you’re going to buy a product via China, this would be it. Aside from the fact that ethnic foods often are extra fragrant from their rich spices plus classi...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Jessica Weiss’ Apple Crostata are baked at //www.caffemarchioMarchio a Roman-Style Coffee Shop in NYC, and are available for pick-up orders there. These rustic and yet exquisite pastries, as only Italian bakers create them, are now offered by Joe Ariel’s Goldbelly, which brings t...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Without staging at a fried chicken cafe, Gourmandise Cooking School teaches how to cook this southern regional dish in a commercial kitchen with all the comforts of a restaurant dining room, starting with a class of wine in hand and cheese and cracker plate nearby. It is a BYOB with students ready to [&he...
Thanksgiving for me was usually well over by the second week in November during the 22 years I cooked on TV up and down the west coast on a 10-city holiday tour on behalf of Mrs. Cubbison and the California growers. One of the all-time favorites, seeped in Southern Comfort, was developed from the […]...
What’s it like to attend One Michelin-starred chef Italian dinner? Italian One Michelin-starred chef in 2014, 2015 and 2016, Felice Sgarra, Executive at UMAMI Ristorante, Andria, Italy, and his brother Roberto, sommelier were flown all the way from Italy to prepare the post-premiere dinner for Cinema Italian Style open...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) With as well-respected a food writer as Barbara Hansen excitedly reminding me weeks in advance about Dorie Greenspan’s new book, Everyday Dorie to be introduced, there was no way I could not go. Barbara is a cookie fan and love’s Dorie’s cookie books. I found that lively, intelligent, know...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 