Revamp your recipes with one of Long Beach’s many cooking classes

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Some kids take to the kitchen like little Emerils and Rachael Rays, chopping vegetables and baking brownies as if their futures were laid out before them on a predestined Silpat. For parents, an extra set of hands eager to learn sauces [...]

Recipes for a retro summer
Beneath the Atomic Age’s nuclear anxiety was a renaissance of American leisure, a sudden swell of free time that often meant many more hours in the kitchen. At the same time, American cooking was blossoming with the influence of a surprising amount of international cuisines. Knowledge of such culinary arts, however, [...]

Tough times turn everyone into home cooks, but have too many mediocre meals and your stomach might start searching for its own stimulus plan. But even if your kitchen skills end at pushing buttons and turning knobs, you can always learn. That’s why one of the best investments, even in these cash-strapped times, might just [...]

Going for broke on kitchenware at Olives, Too! and Kitchen Outfitters

OLIVES, TOO! by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s a shame nobody ever tells you how expensive your hobbies will be before you get hooked on them. I seem to have a knack for finding ones requiring copious amounts of time, planning and money: screen printing (of the non-clothing [...]