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Blogs
March 15, 2013
What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Cardoons from Flora Bella Farm SMFM Farmer Comes to Hollywood
It's probably telling that when asked how he likes to cook cardoons, Flora Bella Farm's James Birch immediately says, "By finding someone else to do it." Birch says he does like the flavor -- it's nearly identical to its thistle cousin, artichoke -- it just takes a bit of work and time to get it th ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2011
5 Local Farmers Who are Doing it Right
Felicia FriesemaThe Hollywood market earlier this year.After reading Beth Barrett's piece about farmers markets this week, it might be tempting to hang up the locavore hat and head out for an angsty and cathartic mouthful at the local McDonald's. We're envisioning an army of market goers as ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2009
Saving the Season: Canning at Surfas
The test kitchen at Surfas in Culver City was filled with a standing room-only crowd on Saturday morning for their weekly free cooking demo. Behind the range was local food blogger Kevin West as well as Bettina Birch of BeeGreenFarm in the Three Rivers, California--a regular vendor at both Surfas an ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Market Report: Pears A Recipe for Rustic Canyon's Pear-Fennel Salad
It's finally September, which fact you can tell by the school bus fleets, the onset of Trojan football season, and the resurgence of pears at farmers markets. This morning at the Santa Monica farmers market, the Flora Bella Farm stand was heavy with crates of them: Asian pears, red Bartlett pears an ... More >>
Music
January 1, 2009
The Evil That Men Play: Heavy Metal in Baghdad and Mideast Metal
Mideast Metalheads: "Look around. We are living in a heavy-metal world."
Art+Books
January 10, 2008
The Never-ending Exploration
Justin Beal likes his art open-ended
LA Life
May 29, 2003
Eternity in an Hour
Cruise the Middle East on the Carrizo Plain
Music
December 19, 2002
Fish Fry 2002