Fabulous Friday + Tip for the Event Tomorrow

Greetings Sustainable Kitchen Friends !

Tomorrow is the Spiny Lobster Cooking Demo, please arrive early as we know there will be quite a crowd coming thanks to the shout-out from Tasting Table yesterday. Consider taking Metro, the Culver City stop is very close to Surfas.

Yes, we know the pic is not a Spiny Lobster... the devil is in the details.

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 Saturday, 2/2, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Free

Whole-Lobster Love

Join chef Ray Garcia of Fig for a lesson on cooking California spiny lobsters at Culver City’s Surfas. The crustaceans’ sweet and succulent flavors, along with their rosy hue, make them ideal for Valentine's Day. Surfas, 8777 Washington Blvd., Culver City; 310-559-4770 or surfaslosangeles.com

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A Pep Talk

If Everyone Lived Like Me, We'd Need 5 Planet Earths

I'm taking an online course offered at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 12,000 others along with me have just finished week one of Introduction to the U.S. Food System. Did you know that through Coursera you can take classes for free that are taught by the world's leading minds at Universities all over the world?  

A tool I want to share with you is this ecologic footprint calculator. Choose your country and answer questions about your diet, driving habits, and household to find out how many planet Earths we would need if all 7 Billion people on the planet had your lifestyle. You might be surprised ! I drive a Prius, shop locally and organically but we'd still need 5 planets to sustain us if everyone had my habits. Time to make some changes !

Friday Special

 

What happens when 
A Sustainable Kitchen 
brings together Chef Ray Garcia of FIG Restaurant, Sea Food For The Future and Edible Westside?

It's California Spiny Lobster Time!

Chef Ray Garcia (photo by Rebecca Reams, thanks to Edible Westside)


On Saturday February 2, join us for a celebration of an under appreciated California native, local and sustainably caught Spiny Lobster. This delicious native does not have claws, but makes up for it in sweetness and texture.
Sea Food For The Future's Kim Thompson will be there to explain the importance of this California Native, to the environment, sustainability, the local economy and the fishermen who catch them. 
Watch and learn as Chef Ray Garcia demonstrates his recipe for Spiny Lobster that graces the cover of the current issue of Edible Westside.

When: Saturday, February 2, 2013, 11am-1pm

Where: The Test Kitchen, Surfas Restaurant Supply and      
            Gourmet Food
            8777 W. Washington Blvd.
            Culver City, CA

Theodore Payne's 10th Annual Native Garden Tour April 6th & 7th

Do not miss the 10 year anniversary event ! Visit 35 gardens over two days and celebrate the gardens of the past, present, and future.

Garden in Altadena. Photo © Saxon Holt/PhotoBotanic

The Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour is a unique adventure: a two-day self-guided journey through 35 or more of the Los Angeles region’s most beautiful and inspiring home landscapes. At each location, you’ll meet garden owners, designers, knowledgeable docents and fellow gardeners.

Planning Your Tour

The gardens are divided into two groups—one group open Saturday, April 6, and a second group open Sunday, April 7, 2013. Tour hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day.

Saturday gardens are located inland, with destinations in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys and around downtown L.A., along with one high-elevation garden in Acton (near the Antelope Valley). Sunday gardens are primarily on the Westside, with locations from Santa Monica to the South Bay, with two stops in Oxford Square (near West Adams).

See the complete list of gardens for an overview of features, including slopes, edibles, recycled hardscape materials, child-friendly design, and more.

How to Attend

Tour tickets are $10 per person for members, and $15 per person for non-members. Tickets are available in our online store, by phone at (818) 768-1802, or at our Sun Valley headquarters.

Each ticket includes admission for a single visitor to all gardens across both days, and a printed color guide with addresses and driving directions. The tour is self-guided so you can make your own itinerary and go at your own pace. Guides will be sent to ticketholders via postal mail beginning late March 2013.

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