Salsa Blast! is turning up the heat!
Desert Hot Springs, CA, Spicy food, hot music and cool beverages are on the menu for the 1st Annual “Salsa Blast!”. The Desert Hot Springs Salsa Festival, Salsa Blast! to be held on Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 11am to 4pm on Pierson Boulevard, west of Palm Drive. Salsa Blast! is presented by the Desert [...]
Food and Wine Festival in Palm Desert
The Integrated Wealth Management Fashion Week in Palm Desert held its annual Food and Wine Festival on March 22 thru 24 in two big white tents. Friday held the sit down luncheon where 4 award winning chefs gave demonstrations about the foods served to the customers. Large tables lined each side of the runway in [...]
Food and Wine Grand Tastings: 24 Chefs, 50 Restaurants, 80 Wine Labels
Food and Wine Festival Palm Desert 2 Days of Grand Tastings March 23 &24 24 Celebrity Chefs, 50 Restaurants, 80 Wine Labels and 6 Premium Wine Seminars Tickets: www.PalmDesertFoodandWine.com
Major US retailers reject ‘frankenfish’
A number of top US grocery stores, including Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, have pledged to reject selling the genetically engineered “frankenfish” if it is allowed on the market in April. The mutant fish was engineered by scientists at a company called AquaBounty, which has spent more than 15 years and $50 million researching and perfecting the [...]
Chili Cook-off Fundraiser for FOOD NOW
The best chili cooks in the area competed with one another in a chili cook off to benefit Food Now on Saturday February 23, 2013 at the DIllon Road House. Here are a few photos of a fun and happy (and good tasting) event. See all photos of the event by Bruce Montgomery; just click!
Chemicals banned in Europe still make their way into US foods
Have you ever tasted a soft drink so good you thought it should be illegal? In some parts of the world, ingredients used in beverages available across the United States are outlawed — but not because they’re dangerously delicious. Drinks including Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Powerade and Squirt are all commonly available at restaurants and convenience [...]
Grand Opening: Cork and Fork Restaurant in LaQuinta
A new restaurant is opening in LaQuinta on January 18th called the Cork and Fork. The restaurant features small plates of food and a variety of wines. Chef Andie Hubka and business Manager Jane Angwin are owners of Cooking with Class which is just next door. Class members and customers kept asking when they were [...]
Food Now Turkey’s Give-Away bonanza
Food-Now held a star-studded event on a perfect sunny day in Desert Hot Springs, to help and to brighten-up their clients Thanksgiving-Day celebration. David Johnson, director of Food-Now explains, “We are giving away 600 turkeys this week to feed the many needed families in the Desert Hot Springs area.” John Tesh, musician, star of ‘Entertainment [...]
250 Holiday Turkeys To Be Distributed To Needy Families In Desert Hot Springs
Council-members Russ Betts and Adam Sanchez Thanksgiving 2012 Desert Hot Springs, CA.- While the economy is showing some signs of improvement, there are still many families in Desert Hot Springs struggling to make ends meet. The holidays add extra pressure to already strained family budgets. To help ease the holiday pressure, Council Members Russell Betts [...]
Monsanto wins California: GMO labeling law defeated
President Obama wasn’t the only big winner on Tuesday: the Monsanto Co. and the billion-dollar business behind genetically modified foods were victorious in California, where a measure that would’ve required the labeling of GMOs lost at the polls. Proposition 37, a state-wide initiative that aimed to increase consumer awareness about the food industry’s growing use [...]