May 24th, 2011 
admin Awwwwe…the tomato with its smooth shiny skin, voluptuous curves and natural beauty; so sweet and tart. You can’t help but stare…but please don’t stop there. Then you have to touch it, hold it, taste it and savor every color, shape, size and variety that you can get your hands on. It’s no wonder the [...]
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April 28th, 2011 Georgina The first time I went to Avila Beach was when my daughter was about 2 years of age. I always took her to the Central Coast for our vacation because it was only three hours from Los Angeles and was about as long of a car ride as she and I could take. The Central [...]
Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Events, Farmer's Market, Features, Food and Wine, Resorts & Spas, Restaurants, Reviews Tags: Avila Beach, Chuck Carlson, Curtis Winery, Fish & Farmers Market, Payne Walnuts, Sycamore Springs Resort Tranquility Comments Off
April 26th, 2011 Georgina I went to the Torrance Certified California Farmer’s Market on Saturday. The colors of California’s Spring bounty were breathtaking. The sweet carrots were in a rainbow of colors: purple, orange, yellow and white. The daikon radishes were bursting out of their opalescent skins just ready to be sliced up, salted and accompanied by an ice [...]
Posted in Events, Farmer's Market, Features, Food and Wine, Recipes Tags: Apples, Carrots, Certified Farmers Market, Citrus, Firestone Brewery, Lime Pie Recipe, Torrance Comments Off March 18th, 2011 Georgina The power of scent is terribly underrated by most of us. Everyone longs for sensation — like the experience of when you see someone and it hits you like a thunderbolt as the Sicilianos call it. Frankly, I’ve seen a lot of beautiful people in my day, but looks don’t seem to strike me with [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Features, Food and Wine, Point of View, Restaurants Tags: Farmer's Market, Italian parsley, M5 Risotto, Margerum M5, Renato Moiso, Scent, Via Maestra 42 Comments Off March 4th, 2011 Georgina I thought that one of the craziest decisions that I ever made was to procure my horse Fabio, a retired and compromised polo champion as I like to remind people. At one time this horse was quite the athlete and at 26 years of age, he remains the Jack Lalanne of horses. After Fabio became [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Features, Point of View, Reviews Tags: backyard chickens, Martha Stewart Living, My Pet Chicken, Susan Orlean, The New Yorker Comments Off February 28th, 2011 admin Beylik Family Farms is a fixture at Farmers Markets across the Southland, from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. Even in the middle of February they have fresh ripe tomatoes!How do they do it? They raise six kinds of tomatoes (and European cucumbers) hydroponicaly in hothouses at their farm outside Fillmore. This is fresh, local produce [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Features, Food and Wine Tags: Beylik Family Farms, Farmers Markets, Hydroponic Gardening, Hyrdroponic Tomatoes, La Vita Fresca Comments Off February 25th, 2011 Georgina What sets Chef Linda Steidel apart from other chefs and cookbook authors is that she is much more than a great chef — she’s a teacher. She takes the home cook and with ease and understanding, makes them into a chef. Yesterday at Torrance Memorial Hospital’s Farmer’s Market, Chef Linda Steidel taught the crowd how [...]
Posted in Events, Farmer's Market, Food and Wine, Recipes Tags: edamame, Farmer's Market, lindasteidel, peas, salad recipe, torrance memorial hospital, Williams-Sonoma Comments Off February 7th, 2011 Georgina I love garden beets. I’ve been eating beets since I was little kid and loved canned shoestring beets swimming in Regina Red Wine Vinegar. After school, I was happily satiated with my beets, a side of kipper snacks and a cream soda and I was on fire. Strangely, it wasn’t until I was well into [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Features, Food and Wine, Product Reviews, Recipes, Restaurants Tags: Beets, Brendan Collins, City, Evan Kleinman Good Food, KCRW, Linda Steidel, Martha Stewart Roasted Beet Recipe, Santa Monica Farmer's Market, Waterloo Comments Off February 4th, 2011 Georgina I love trees and I’ve never met one that I couldn’t find something beautiful about with one exception – the homely avocado tree. It’s awkward –it’s huge –it’s blossoms are indiscernible and the fruit is unapproachable. It seems like one has to wait months before you’ll ever get to taste it and it’s an inedible [...]
January 11th, 2011 Georgina One of my very favorite things to snack on when I need something salty (and a beer) is the greatly under-appreciated Daikon Radish. I eat them just as one of my very favorite farmers at the Palos Verdes Sunday Farmers’ Market taught me to: sliced up, salt it and eat it while drinking German (not [...]
Posted in Farmer's Market, Features, Food and Wine Tags: cucumber, daikon radish, Erdinger Weissbier, german beer, jicama, Palos Verdes Farmers Market, Schneider Aventinus, seasonal vegetables Comments Off
