Jenn Garbee

Holidays In L.A.: Only Liquor Bottles Wear Sweaters; Credit: jgarbe

Holiday Party Inspiration: 4 New Cookbooks, 4 Drink Recipes

Jenn Garbee
Overheard last week: "Gawd, the entire commercial audition was filled with Christmas carolers. Glad I was just the guy in the sweater," said the guy at Peet's with a sweater hanging out of his messenger bag. In L.A., the holiday season begins early. We know you have cocktail parties to......
Pistachio Flour + Butter From Santa Barbara Pistachio Company; Credit: Jenn Garbee

Santa Barbara Pistachio Co.: Pistachio Flour Fire Sale + A New Nut Butter

Jenn Garbee
Yet another buy local bonus: bumper crop discounts occasionally extend to secondary products like Santa Barbara Pistachio Company's pistachio flour. "It's crazy price!" says David Bomer, the company's enthusiastic Ojai sales manager, handing over a bright green $6 bag of cold-pressed pistachio meal. "At one point it was like $9......
Modernist Cuisine At Home; Credit: The Cooking Lab

Cookbook Of The Week (For Nitrous Oxide Fans): Modernist Cuisine at Home

Jenn Garbee
Affordable is a relative term when you're talking about cookbooks by Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft technology executive behind Modernist Cuisine, and his test kitchen/lab director Maxime Bilet. But at $140, Modernist Cuisine at Home reads like a bargain compared to its $625 predecessor. At least if you're a techie......
Centri Coffee Stand; Credit: Jenn Garbee

Centri Coffee: A New Roast-To-Order Coffee Purveyor

Jenn Garbee
Even with a dizzying number of farmers markets on our home turf, Dillon Miskiewicz epitomizes why produce and pantry road trips are so gratifying. His Centri Coffee stand is tucked near the end of a winding maze of produce and sundries at the Sunday Ojai Farmers Market. There, you will......
Curried Cultures; Credit: University of California Press

Best New Food-Studies Books: Coffee Life in Japan and Curried Cultures

Jenn Garbee
Looking to up your dinner table conversation? Coffee Life in Japan and Curried Cultures, both published by the University of California Press under its California Studies in Food and Culture branch (and edited by Darra Goldstein), supply plenty of digestif fodder. Curried Cultures is co-edited by Krishnendu Ray, assistant professor......