(Roberta Deen, photos by Roberta Deen) The new China Lights festival in Las Vegas, and in Arkansas, and the growing popularity of historic Chinese New Year celebrations show how important this Asian holiday is becoming with mainstream America. The Chinese New Year Festival and Golden Dragon Parade in Los Angeles, des...
(Gerry Furth-Sides, photo courtesy of Acuna-Hansen) Montrésor, Studio City’s newest French bistro, is designed with the grace and style of Paris in the 1920’s. Executive Chef Paul Shoemaker has created a new menu of traditional French cuisine with farm-to-table ingredients. Even the art nou...
Georgós wines are Greek, sort of. They’re also as American as Sonoma County. To explain, Georgós Zanganas, company founder (above), came up with the idea of producing bona fide Greek wines. And in Sonoma, which is an easy trip from San Francisco, where he lives....
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Innovative, inventive Justine Kelly, co-founder and Executive Chef and the team at Sun Basket www.sunbasket.com keeps key ingredients, such as of crushed peppercorns, in the classic French Steak Au Poivre, defined a dish defined “prepared or served with a generous amount of usually coarsely ground bla...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The 2018 Kosher Wine and Food Event (KWFE) featured “the best of the best” of wines and food, “that just happen to be kosher,” as Got Kosher?”s Chef-owner, Alain Cohen phrases it. Here are three of our favorite foods and wines from Israel, Italy, and France that are also re...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Today’s sexiest fruit, the darling of chefs,” is how our favorite food writer of fruit, UC Riverside pomologist, David Karp, labeled it — five years ago. He described the yuzu as” a rare, expensive Japanese citrus of mysterious provenance.” Officially the (Citrus Junos (Rutaceae)) the yuz...
Valentine’s Day inspiration for new cocktails goes international this year. The Raymond 1886, lives up to the famous bar’s reputation for drinks so good you almost forget to eat. Peter Lloyd Jones’ features hibiscus, cava, and lemon in his red Cupid’s Arrow. The Sazarac Lover cocktail, also at the Raymond...
New, creative French-inspired St.Valentine’s Day ethnic celebrations range from renowned Chef Kimmy Tang’s California-inspired French-Vietnamese and Chef Alain Cohen’s refined French-Tunisian to Chef Olivier Rouselle’s international-inspired Parisian French menu. After all, isn’t French the “l...
A yoga position. A meditation practice. Quotes by Deepak Chopra and Eckhart Tolle. And a lot of miscellaneous information about food and chefs....
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Are you as daring an ethnic food dinner at home as you are when traveling? According to a recent TopDeck Travel survey, travelers are more and more motivated notably to experience the local cuisine while traveling but to actually travel to seek out the best dish of its kind. The same rules sent [&hellip...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 