Classes

Onigiri are the perfect portable Japanese snack or lunch food.  In it’s classic form it’s a rice ball enclosing a bit of tasty filling, and finished off with a wrap of nori.  Stuffings can include salted salmon, different roes, tuna, but it’s fun to come up with your own.  I love stuffing them with boiled chicken mixed with soy and chives.
Making the Onigiri are …

This coming Saturday is Good Food Day in LA.  Does that mean my radio show is taking over the city?  Nope.  Instead you’ll find a citywide festival focusing on activities that bolster food justice in the city .  There will be Food Trucks, gardening and urban farming, Panels (yes with myself and Mr. Gold), and Cooking Competitions.  The festival activities are citywide,  but several events …

Los Angeles County Cooperative Extension is now accepting applications for its Master Food Preserver class! The course runs Tuesday nights from 5:30 to 9:30 pm from March 20, 2012 through June 5, 2012.  Successful graduates will be expected to share and expand their knowledge through community service and ongoing education.  To find out more about the program, see the attached announcement or visit the on-line application:  http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=6914
The deadline to apply …

These days it’s more than a phrase of authorship.  It’s a gauntlet thrown down to remind us of how much we’ve ceded to the rest of the world and why we should take a look around us to support those folks who are, well….us.  What we often forget is that food is the one thing that we still make in America all over America …

I get asked to moderate a lot of conversations in this town.  And I don’t know how to say no.  (Although, fair warning, I’m learning.)  So that’s how it turned out one Saturday that I realized in panic that I said yes under duress to interviewing The Beekman Boys.  Maybe you know them.  Brent and Josh, a couple from NYC who bought an old …

Get your intellectual appreciation for sugar and feed the craving all in the same day.
Our friend Maite Gomez-Rejon weaves tales of art and culinary history together in her exceptional Museum Tours, ArtBites.  On September 18 (Pie Contest Day) she will take a group through the galleries for a Sugar Tour.  She’ll lead you in discussion about desserts from around the world while looking at …

Last weekend Evan hosted a class with master preserver Delilah Snell and friend and gardener-extraordinare Kazi.  The subject was citrus and the many ways to preserve it.
While Kazi led a tour of her garden (where she grows 27 various types of citrus) Evan made an amazing lunch.  Next Kazi led a marmalade demonstration while Delilah discussed citrus salt, limoncello and jams.  Everyone left with …

Join me and my friends, urban farmer Kazi Pitelka and master preserver Delilah Snell at Kazi’s urban farm in Altadena.  We’ll walk through the orchard and try 10+ varieties of in season fruit as Kazi shares her breadth of knowledge of Citrus.  Then we move to the kitchen to learn to make a basic Marmalade Recipe, a Citrus Liquer and dry Spice Mixtures.  Class includes lunch.
Saturday, …