February 2012
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Entertaining W/ Andrea DeRosa & Ashley Manhan
Andrea DeRosa and Ashley Manhan’s style flawlessly complements one another. The design experts behind Avenue Interior Design have a collective portfolio composed of local, national, and international projects on large-scale and prolific level. Heavyweight hotels, casinos, restaurants, nightclubs, and spas include; The Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, along with numerous...
January 2012
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November 2011
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Conversation, rare: Emma Hearst
Emma Hearst is the lovely and talented chef behind the lower east side gem known as Sorella. Hearst is one of the youngest and extremely gifted female chef’s I have had the pleasure to meet. I met Hearst at her restaurant a few weeks ago and here’s what she had to say about Sorella.
Why did you go into cooking?
I can honestly say I have loved to cook since I was 3 years old
How old were you...
September 2011
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Conversation, rare: Jennifer Stewart
The few remaining watering holes, Formosa Café has had its doors open since 1939. The late Jimmy Bernstein inherited the space from his brother in a poker match in the 1920’s, and later, upon a chance meeting with Lem Quon at Grand Star in China Town, conceived of opening a Chinese restaurant just east of United Artists Studios, now known as “the Lot” on Santa Monica Blvd. Originally where Mary...
August 2011
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Conversation, rare: Heather Garrett
Interior designer, Heather Garrett, and her husband, Rhys Botica, opened the downtown NC Main Street Bar, Whiskey. The private club has a 1930’s style to it, a 27-foot, narrow wooden bar. Botica, the sole proprietor, started the bar with the intention to offer the largest selection of whiskeys in the state, and now has the largest selection in the South, at over 400 labels. Garrett used...
July 2011
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Conversation, rare: greencookingpots
Growing up in a household where fresh and organic food was always in the fridge and on the table, twin sisters Café and Mica learned to love food as well as cooking. As children, they frequented the local farmers market with their mother, who instilled a deep value of preparing and cooking healthy food. Early on they learned that food preparation is a holistic endeavor, every step as important...
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Conversation, rare: Rachel Horn
Interior Designer Rachel Horn has brought her design feast to Los Angeles with the opening of her new showroom and design studio. Horn believes that every object has beauty, soul, and place – her job is to find it. Her work is imbued with a spiritual and warm-blooded understanding of luxury and romance that the words “Spanish Gold” bring to mind. Her interiors are complex, elegant,...
May 2011
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Conversation, rare: Carla Pellegrino
Chef Carla Pellegrino comes form humble beginnings and has retained her sense of modesty even with all of her accomplishments. Born in Rio de Janeiro to a Portuguese father and a second-generation Italian mother, Carla was cooking daily for her family and helping run her mother’s catering business as early as the age of 10. Since then, she has attended the French Culinary Institute in NYC,...
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Conversation, rare: Dominique Crenn
The chef with an edge is Dominique Crenn. Growing up in Versailles, France, Crenn’s culinary expertise were finely tuned by her mother from an early age. Her father’s political career included a life of extensive travel for the family, and education of the many ingredients and flavors countries around the world had to offer. Crenn’s extensive travels lead her to San Francisco where she fell in...
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Conversation, rare: Gulla Jonsdottir
Gulla Jonsdottir, the woman behind such remarkable design and architecture as The Roosevelt Hotel, and The Thompson Beverly Hills, has emerged on her own and is creating quite the buzz. For the past 8 years the stunning Icelandic beauty was vice president and principal designer of Dodd Mitchell Design, and has recently emerged with her own design firm, G + Gulla Jonsdottir Design in Los Angeles....
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Feast w/ Elf
Tucked away in the cozy neighborhood of Echo Park, you will find the popular vegetarian/vegan eatery known as Elf. Do not be intimidated meat lovers, this place will make you salivate no matter what category of food you crave. Conceived by Astara Calas of the band Viva K, Elf serves up delicious Middle Eastern/Mediterranean inspired dishes.
I recently dined at Elf with one of the top modeling...
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Conversation, rare: Suzanne Goin & Caroline Styne
Chef Suzanne Goin, and Sommelier Caroline Styne, are a match made in California heaven. These celebrated restaurateurs, have taken seasonal and fresh ingredients and turned it into a phenomenon in LA, with four successful restaurants, AOC, Lucques, Tavern, and Hungry Cat, under their belts. I sat down with the marvels, to get to know the women with the magic touch.
How did you forecast that all...
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Conversation, rare: Alex Guarnaschelli
Alex Guarnaschelli is the executive Chef of New York’s Butter Restaurant, instructor at New York City’s Institute of Culinary Education, Food Network’s Iron Chef America challenger and judge, and a reoccurring judge on the popular primetime series Chopped, as well as her own shows, The Cooking Loft, and Alex’s Day Off, which launched October of 2009.
What is your least favorite food? Your most...
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Feast w/ Nancy Silverton
The flavorful bread at La Brea Bakery, the savory pasta at Campanile, the luring Monday mozzarella night at Jar, and the tantalizing scents coming from Pizzeria and Osteria Mozza, have all been touched upon, crafted, and developed by the masterful Nancy Silverton. I had the pleasure of sitting down with the celebrated chef at her well-known enterprise Osteria Mozza, to delve into her many...
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Feast w/ Susan Feniger
My afternoon at Street was a feast for the senses, once walking in to meet Susan Feniger, owner/chef extraordinaire, and her partner, writer, director Liz Lachman for lunch.
Growing up in Chicago, Feniger had the makings of a Chef from an early age. Observing her mothers cooking techniques was the inspiration Susan utilized to carve her path. A French educated chef, Susan got her start in Los...