Canning Jams and Jellies Class -
Certified master food preserver Cindy Shipp teaches this hands-on class about making your own jams and jellies.
From the event page:
Imagine it is a cold and rainy morning in February. You pop a piece of your home made bread into the toaster. You make a cup of your fine herbal tea. The toast pops up and you spread a thick layer of fragrant chunky strawberry jam onto your toast. The first bite is delicious, the second bite is divine … and it keeps getting better.
Participants will each take home a jar each of jam and jelly.
Bite-Sized Food & Craft Festival -
The popular Hester St. Fair is expanding from New York City to Hollywood, where they’ll be taking over the streets for a few events this summer. First up is an indie craft festival (yikes). Don’t worry though, they’ll also have plenty of bite-sized ‘best of’ menus floating around from vendors like the Dosa Truck and Lomo Origato, plus a beer garden pouring some of the region’s best craft brews. Not a bad way to kick off your summer.
Food Weekend: Palm Springs, Bite-Sized Foods, Jam Class, Franklin Village Street Fest -
Lather on some lotion and don the hats, this weekend’s all about getting out and hitting the wide array of street fests happening in L.A.
Starting this Friday and going through next week, if you happen to find yourself heading east, the fifth installment of the Palm Springs Restaurant Week will be taking over the desert. Restaurants in Palm Springs, Indio, and every small town in between will be offering a fixed-price three-course meal for either $24 or $36 per person, depending on the place. There will also be all sorts of events and deals from non-food establishments during the event.
On Saturday, the popular Hester St. Fair is taking a trip from New York all the way toHollywood for the Bite Size Food and Craft Festival. Small portions will be all the rage, as chefs from L.A.’s favorite restaurants offer up “bite-sized” selections so people can sample as wide a range of dishes as their stomachs will allow. The normal assortment of food trucks and vendors will be parked and showcasing their wares as well.
Sunday morning, way up in Goleta, Goodland Kitchen and Market is offering a five-hour course on how to create your own jams and jellies. The class will be taught by master food preserver Cindy Shipp, and each participant will get to take home their own jar of jam and jelly. The whole thing isn’t cheap, at $50 per student. Still, if you’re on a five-bottles-of-jam-a-week habit like us, that will quickly add up to all sorts of savings.
And Sunday afternoon, the 5900 block of Franklin Avenue will be shut down (bad for traffic!) for the 11th annual Franklin Village Street Festival (good for live festival’ing!). Live music will be playing inside the block’s restaurants, while the streets will be littered with local vendors and craft makers will be selling their items. The fest also promises plenty of activities for children to do throughout the day, which, you know, it’s always good to keep them occupied.
For more food events visit kcet.org/events/food.
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Starting June 1st and going through June 10th, dozens of restaurants in the desert, from Palm Springs to Indio and everywhere in between, will be participating in the fifth installment of Palm Springs Restaurant Week. During the event, participating restaurants will offer a fixed-price three-course menu for either $24 or $36 a person (not including beverages and tips). Besides restaurants, local shops and business will also have special deals for the week.
For a full list of participating restaurants and other events around the area, visit the Palm Springs Restaurant Week website.
We Need to Talk About the Sunset Strip Farmer’s Market
“Well, there goes the farmer’s market.”
That was the thought ringing through my mind when a news-blast announcing the June 14th debut of the upcoming “Thursday Night Farmer’s Market on The Sunset Strip” hit my inbox.
This ain’t your grandma’s farmer’s market, that’s for sure. Rows of produce sold in the morning haze of the sun, the only aural accompaniment coming from fellow passersby, local farmers, and perhaps the odd accordion or acoustic guitar playing softly in the distance? Forget it. This one’s from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. (making it a bit more like, a farmer’s market happy hour?) and takes place in the parking lot of the old Tower Records. Oh yeah, and it’s going to rock and/or roll!
“The new Sunset Strip Market is not your typical farmer’s market,” West Hollywood Mayor Jeffrey Prang is quoted in the press release. And that’s certainly true. In fact, the question is: Can this even be considered a real farmer’s market?
Read more here.
The ultra popular Delaware-based breweryDogfish Head is taking over the taps at West Hollywood drink spot The Surly Goat. It’s a one night only sort of thing, with some of the brewery’s favorite beers. Highlights include the 90 minute and 120 minute IPA series, their Immort Ale and the salaciously named Bitches Brew. Come early and stay late for a few surprises as well.