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Marcus Samuelsson Cooking Demo At South Coast Plaza!

While the commotion usually occurs at Williams-Sonoma or Bloomingdale's, Macy*s Home Store in Costa Mesa will welcome Top Chef Masters Season Two winner and Red Rooster owner Marcus Samuelsson on February 25th. We're happy it's on the side of the street that's easier to park on.Chef will hold a cook ... More >>

Strickland's Introduces Rose-Flavored Ice Cream For Valentine's Day

Strickland's Ice Cream, winner of way too many of our Best Of issues and other listicles, is at it again. They're doing what they do which makes us like them so much: introducing a cool new flavor. Just for and only during Valentine's Day, they will be churning out rose ice cream. See also:- A ... More >>

Tyler Florence Coming To South Coast Plaza Friday

If you didn't catch God Thomas Keller there on Tuesday, another brush with celebrity chefdom occurs this Friday at Williams-Sonoma. Best known for his hosting gig on The Great Food Truck Race, Tyler Florence rolls into our favorite shopping mall for a book signing.Bay Area-based with both a successf ... More >>

Strickland's Ice Cream Bought "MANY Pounds" of Williams-Sonoma Peppermint Bark; Making Ice Cream With It This Sunday

Strickland's Ice Cream, without a doubt the ice cream shop that we most like to write about on SAFII and winner of many of our Best Of lists, sent out an e-mail yesterday with this announcement:"We have bought MANY pounds of Williams Sonoma bark for our peppermint bark ice cream! We are making thi ... More >>

[UPDATED: Guess What...] Surfas Culinary District in Costa Mesa to Open THIS FRIDAY, Nov. 9!

[UPDATED Nov 8., 9 a.m.] Well, apparently the management has other ideas. Despite three separate employees, including two managers, giving the date, Steven Surfas says not yet. Watch this space for an announcement whenever they get their I's dotted and their T's crossed.[ORIGINAL POST, Nov. 5, 8 a.m ... More >>

Williams-Sonoma Sells An Empty Jar; Calls It A "Butter-Making Kit"

I'm not about to deny Williams-Sonoma their right to sell what's essentially an empty jar for $29.95. But there is something, I don't know, slightly disingenuous about calling it a "Butter-Making Kit", even if they include a pair of cute "hand-carved teak butter paddles", two porcelain but ... More >>

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Macarons and Cooking Classes Highlight New Rocq Cafe in Lake Forest

​For some reason, the rest of Orange County thinks South County is a culinary black hole. As someone who lives south of the Spectrum I take offense to that. First, haters, let's not forget that we have Break of Dawn. But we're also home to the boss burgers at Riders Club in San Clemente, the impre ... More >>

Williams-Sonoma is Selling A Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cake (Yes, Cake)

Williams-Sonoma​Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. We love 'em, but they're gone in two bites--12 if you're a baby bird. If only there was a way to prolong the peanut buttery goodness . . . 

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The Voltaggio Brothers to Sign Books at South Coast Plaza

Flickr User Erik Anestad​Can't get a reservation at Ink? Join the club. Want to plead your case to the Brothers Voltaggio themselves? Here's your chance. They've got a new cookbook out called VOLT ink, a title that makes no sense unless you know that Volt is the elder Voltaggio's restaurant and I ... More >>

Bobby Flay To Sign Books At South Coast Plaza

​As it seems with every Food Network chef that has a book out, Bobby Flay will stop by Orange County on his book tour--a tour that has him signing copies of a new cooking tome entitled Bobby Flay's Bar Americain Cookbook. And as with every past book signing by Food Network celebrities have gone, ... More >>

Food Profiling: House of Balsamic in Irvine

​To taste authentic balsamic vinegar is something of an experience. Possessing a history of healing properties, this import from Modena, Italy, is created under a strict process regulated by the Italian government before it can be deemed a traditional artisan product. House of Balsamic president M ... More >>

Eva Longoria To Sign New Cookbook At South Coast Plaza

WikiMedia Commons​You might be thinking to yourself, that Eva Longoria?  She has a cook book?  Isn't Bree Van de Kamp, Marcia Cross' character, the model of domesticity on that show?  Admittedly, I haven't seen Desperate Housewives in ages, so I have no clue what's going on with the ... More >>

Three Celebrity Chefs Converge Upon South Coast Plaza This Week

Photo courtesy of Macy's​This week is turning out to become a sort of food-celebrity invasion at South Coast Plaza. Three noted chefs and cookbook authors are slated to make appearances and demos at various stores there--all this after recent appearances by Rick Bayless and Bobby Flay.First, Micha ... More >>

Killer Pizza, Part Two: Oven Technique

Photo by Flickr user Jeff Kubina​ In Part One, we talked about how to ferment a wet pizza dough recipe slowly in your refrigerator. This week, we'll talk about tips and tricks to shape that dough and turn your home oven into a reasonably good replica of a brick-lined deck oven like you'd find in ... More >>

Gettin' Made: Cake Pops Book Signing in Costa Mesa on Monday

Photo provided by Chronicle Books​ In 2007, Suwanee, Georgia resident Angie Dudley took a cake decorating class on a whim. She quickly became hooked on the basic techniques she learned, including making and tinting frosting, icing cakes and how to use decorating tools. Soon after, t ... More >>

The Popsicle Project: A Girl, A Blender and Lots of Frozen Treats

Kelso CooperBanana-mango-strawberry-papaya popsicle, anyone?​Earlier this summer I was invited to a potluck; not knowing what to bring I hit the internet searching for ideas. I wanted to make something simple that everyone would like and being a professional crafter I knew that if it didn't also l ... More >>

Prop 8 is Enough: Five Gay Comic Book Couples Who Should Tie the Knot

Marvel Comics/David LaFuente Garcia​Sure, the repeal of Proposition 8 is a major political and legal victory for gay rights, but it pales in comparison to a much more significant event in LGBT equality. An affectionate gay couple made the cover of a Spider-Man comic! And we're not talking abo ... More >>

Champagne With Wild Hibiscus Flowers

​BevMo! carries just about every type of alcohol you could possibly need and if they don't have it in stock, they will special-order it. Their most under-appreciated aisle happens to house all of the non-alcoholic items. There is just about every flavor of rim salt and sugar possibl ... More >>

Giada De Laurentiis To Be At SCP April 29

​Giada De Laurentiis, she of the enormous head and ample cleavage (for further reading on the subject see Bourdain's blog on Ruhlman), will be having a book signing Thursday, April 29th at the Williams-Sonoma South Coast Plaza.

How to Clean Copper Cookware

Dave Lieberman​Walk into any Williams-Sonoma and you'll see rows of absolutely stunning copper cookware, pinkish brown in its perfection and infarctingly high in its price. Eventually you give into the pan lust and drop several Benjamins on a set.You get it home, cook with it a few times, and it t ... More >>

Ellie Krieger to Give Demo, Signing at SCP

​You know, it's never too early to be a buzzkill. New Year's resolution season is coming soon, and if, like just about everyone else in the world, one of your goals is to eat healthier food, you might want to come meet Ellie Krieger.Krieger, who is the host of Food Network's "Healthy Appetite" (on ... More >>

Thomas Keller Signing Books at South Coast Plaza This Thursday, Nov. 12

​So if you're not on board with the upcoming local appearance of Adam Richman (a.k.a. Fred Savage's forever ravenous evil twin), how about Thomas Keller? Well either way, I'm willing to bet that last sentence of mine is the first to mention both names together in the same breath. Yes, Keller, ... More >>

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UPDATED: Sur La Table in SCP Scheduled to Open August 28th

Edwin GoeiJust got a tip from the Sur La Table people that the once super-secret location at SCP's Crystal Court is slated to open August 28th.I know what you're thinking: Finally, a place to buy kitchenware at South Coast Plaza when you're just too far away from Williams Sonoma.I feel the same way ... More >>

Sur La Table Soon To Open at SCP's Crystal Court

Edwin Goei This past weekend, after I stocked up on clothes at Old Navy's half off sale on all men's items (that's it for garment shopping for me for the next year or two -- I loathe the activity), I meandered over to South Coast Plaza's Crystal Court and found where the new Sur La Table will be loc ... More >>

Frittata Pans Be Damned! Treat Mom Right With Our Guide To The Best Mother's Day Menus in OC

Flipping through Real Simple last night, I caught a glimpse of what could be the most insulting ad ever.Sure, the visuals were mouthwatering--an enticing asparagus frittata, cooked to perfection and waiting for a fork to sink into it--but it was the text that nearly made me choke:"Mom deserves the b ... More >>

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