Great Chefs of L.A. 2009

Last year, just a few days before the Great Chefs of L.A. event, I came down with a wretched stomach flu. By the morning of the actual event, I felt good enough to attend but my tummy wasn’t fully recovered yet.
Since my husband Peter was out of town on business, I planned on skipping the [...]

Foodista

Back in May, I attended the International Food Bloggers Conference in Seattle, Washington. It was the first ever conference just for food bloggers, and was organized by the founders of Foodista, Barnaby Dorfman and Sheri Wetherell.
Foodista is described as “a collaborative project to build the world’s largest, highest quality cooking encyclopedia”. If you haven’t tried it [...]

Steeped in History: The Art of Tea

In late July, I received an email from the marketing director of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, with an invitation to a press preview of an upcoming exhibit called, “Steeped in History: The Art of Tea”.
At first I dismissed the email. “I’m the FOOD girl, not the TEA girl”, I thought. “Why would I want to [...]

Taste of the Nation 2009

What exactly is Taste of the Nation?
“Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation Los Angeles is one of 55 events across America dedicated to ending hunger in America. Each summer, LA’s hottest chefs and mixologists donate their time, talent and passion at the Taste of the Nation event at Media Park in Culver City to [...]

Gourmet Institute (save the date)!

The official dates for the 2009 GOURMET INSTITUTE event in NYC.
SAVE THE DATES: October 23-25, 2009.
Peter and I had a great time when we went, especially mingling with the likes of Eric Ripert and the great Mario Batali!
  
Check out the promo video from last year. I was totally surprised to see myself and Peter featured on the video! [...]

Kogi

The Kogi Taco Truck made me miss being in my twenties. Especially over the last couple of months, since I started following their Twitter updates on my cell phone. Late at night I’d be in bed reading a book, and have to stop so I could see the incoming Twitter text: “10PM-2AM@The Brig – Abbot Kinney [...]

I Did It!

To commemorate “Earth Day 2009″, I officially gave up bringing home plastic and paper bags from the market. Check out the beautiful, reusable bags I picked up yesterday! (read “I’m Doing It” )

The first four I selected. Very large, these “B Happy Bags” can fit two regular grocery bags inside. Purchased at Gelsons. $15.99 each

About to [...]

I’m Doing It

Today is Earth Day, and I’ve got a fun evening planned with friends. Chef Akasha Richmond invited me to “Battle of the Chefs: Eco-Cuisine”, a cooking competition “to help raise national awareness of the importance of incorporating eco-friendly foods, soy in particular, into our diets”. Akasha is one of the judges and is also cooking [...]

Taste Of The Nation – 2009 Tix On Sale!

I just purchased my ticket to Taste of the Nation 2009, and wanted to share a few photos from last year’s event. If you’ve never been before, it’s a great opportunity to taste wonderful food from many of our top L.A. restaurants.
My favorite part (besides all the food) was chatting with the chefs in a [...]

Chef Michael Young

I first met Chef Michael Young at Sur la Table, when he was my instructor at a Molecular Gastronomy class, and he’s the one I credit for kick-starting my “molecular cooking” obsession. If he didn’t make it seem so fun and attainable, I would have never been able to make fruit “caviar” at home.
Before arriving to the class, [...]