Salt and Pepper News

Michelin-starred Chef Jonathan Benno's most popular recipe is Eggplant Parmesan and we have the full recipe for our readers. Chef Benno has three restaurants located inside the historic Evelyn Hotel in downtown Manhattan, Benno, Leonelli Restaurant & Leonelli Bakery. He just recently announced the opening of Café Leonelli in Houston's Museum of Fine Arts in March.

In April, 2019, Pacific Opera Project performed Puccini’s Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人 in Japanese and English at the Aratani Theatre, part of the Japanese-American Cultural Center of Los Angeles’s “Little Tokyo. With a new libretto by Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura. See the film in which ll Japanese roles were sung in Japanese, English roles in English.

Heart Month to promote better heart health is recognized annually in February. We are sharing with our readers a delicious, heart-healthy recipe from celebrity chef Donatella Arpaia along with tips from her world renowned heart surgeon husband, Allan Stewart.

We kick off our winter cooking series with two delicious lobster recipes by Chef Ed McFarland of Ed’s Lobster Bar in the SoHo neighborhood of NYC and in Sag Harbor, NY

Teatro Paraguas will present a LIVE enhanced encore Zoom performance of Hunker Down, an upbeat and whimsical tale of single seniors coping with the COVID-19 Crisis, by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin. 

Celebrate 'International Chefs Day' on October 20th with The Jersey Tomato Co. sauces and the company's brand partner, renowned 'Top Chef' Head Judge, Tom Colicchio.

Harvest is a special time around the wine world when the year-long fruits of winegrowers' labor have come to fruition. In the Rhône Valley, in Southern France, wineries celebrate this time with family-style meals and gatherings. It is a time to relax and enjoy local wines, seasonal dishes and each other's company all under the beautiful plane trees that speckle the region.

Family meals are a great part of spending time together. But new dinnertime recipes can be a challenge when you are looking for dishes that please everyone. So, whether parents are juggling work schedules, picking up the kids, or doing the last Zoom conference of the day, we suggest some easy, creative recipes from Mrs. T's Pierogies.

The day burger lovers have been waiting for is coming up on Friday, September 18. We have a fabulous recipe by Jessica Merchant, author of 'The Pretty Dish' for our readers.

On Friday, September 25, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., Teatro Paraguas will present a LIVE enhanced encore Zoom performance of Hunker Down, a whimsical tale of seniors coping with the COVID-19 Crisis by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin. 

Chapter Two Films is proud to present ARMY OF LOVERS IN THE HOLY LAND, Asaf Galay’s new award-winning documentary about the Jewish roots of the Swedish queer disco-pop band Army of Lovers

National Chianti Day on Friday, September 4th celebrates the cherished Italian wine from the Tuscany region of Italy. Now is the perfect time to stock up on Santa Margherita Chianti Classico Riserva and whip up some of your favorite Italian dishes to pair with the full-bodied red wine.

UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) will present Forced Entertainment's Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare: At Home from Thursday, September 17, through Sunday, November 15, 2020 on YouTube. Each one of the 36 plays, starting with Macbeth and ending with The Tempest, will be free to enjoy with an RSVP.

To help inspire home cooks everywhere, Ellie Krieger has developed a delicious recipe for pasta salad using Chicken of the Sea Tuna. She also shared four of her special tips for tuna lovers!

On Friday, August 28, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., Teatro Paraguas will present a live performance of Almost Treason, A Revolutionary Whimsy in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin.

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., Teatro Paraguas will present a live performance of Hunker Down, a whimsical tale of seniors coping with the COVID-19 Crisis by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin. 

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 7:00 p.m., Teatro Paraguas will present a live performance of Hunker Down, a whimsical tale of seniors coping with the COVID-19 Crisis by Los Alamos playwright Robert F. Benjamin.  Duchess Dale stars in this short one-act comedy as Bari, a  widowed senior craving solace and friendship after weeks of self-isolation.  Her cabin fever impels her to socialize, but her curmudgeonly neighbor 

Make an Italian feast with authentic food products from Pastene. This is a company that has the best ingredients for your next meal.

The bright vibrancy of spring resonates at Joe's Pub. This week our stage features the sophisticated and unique urban pop sound of Toby Lightman; songwriter, composer, and creative director Sye Elaine Spense; the last performances of Ryan Raftery's IVANKA 2020 before he takes it on tour; Albanian singer and multi-instrumentalist Elina Duni; Pianist, composer, and Artistic Director for Cuba's Jazz Plaza Santiago Festival, Roberto Fonseca; and National Lampoon's satire of Coachella and modern music festival culture LEMMINGS: 21ST CENTURY.

The new Pedro Almodóvar film, PAIN AND GLORY is a study of acceptance, revelation and reconciliation; it is about cinema's relationship with the past and its power to reshape memories as a means of coming to terms with it.  This film is also Spain's official entry for the best International Feature Film Oscar.