Tulsi Turmeric Ginger Tea, an Organic India produce, combines the best of two of the most respected ancient herbs “newly discovered”, turmeric and ginger, and adds tulsi, known in India as The Queen of Herbs.” Tulsi is revered as a sacred plant infused with healing powers by practitioners dating back 5,000 y...
It’s truffle season, not the candy modeled after the irregular, warty-shaped little gem but the original with it’s very own unique flavor, aroma and story, now served in local restaurants. Natural truffles are black, brown, white or gray. They vary from the size of a walnut to a man’s fist. Bulbs grow from 3 to [&helli...
Even the word itself has salted our language from biting or “salty” dog language to the invigorating briny – or salubrious” smell on our skin after an ocean swim, “salubrious”- or “healthy” derived from the Latin for “salt.” So is “salami” (salted meat), “salary” (from wages paid to Roman soldiers...
A “star” baker as a relative with a closely guarded recipe automatically bestows bragging rights onto an immigrant family. The family of Marlo Gertz of Marlo’s Bakeshop in San Francisco is no exception. But unlike so many recipes that have disappeared (like my Viennese grandmother’s tissue paper strudel), Marlo not only...
We are categorizing brownies as “American originals,” but everyone in the world loves brownies, even people who are not “chocolate people” like myself. So imagine receiving a snowy white post office box with only the holiday logos on it in the mail and opening it to feast your eyes on the image abov...
Just in time for those New Year’s resolutions, Award winning nutritional blockbuster, The World’s Healthiest Foods (GMF Publishing, 2015), by George Mateljan, has just been revised into a long-awaited second edition. It will be available online and on store bookshelves January 1, 2016. Better yet, you have the choice of...
Imagine opening your door and having a beautiful box like this delivered to you each month (we added the bow for Christmas). This is what a unique company named the Hatchery delivers in subscription format each month to your doorstep: small-batch artisan ingredients and condiments. Open it and this is the beautiful wrapping...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) The Seared Yellow Wax Beans “N” Greens dish above was prepared in an All-Clad pot for good reason. Los Angeles chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo are the owners of animal, Son of a Gun, Trois Mec, Petit Trois and Jon & Vinny’s. They have been credited with innovating and changing the dining [&hell...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 