Tag: Nancy Silverton

‘Sweet Lady Jane’ back on the Blvd.

‘Sweet Lady Jane’ back on the Blvd.

| March 28, 2024 | 0 Comments

CatBird opens, Larchmont Jewelers plans for early April Sweet Lady Jane has been in the news quite a bit in recent months. First, because new stores were in the works, then because all locations were suddenly closed. The latest news is that new owners have swept in to bring the beloved bakery back. Now, as […]

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Aha! moment during pandemic inspires cookbook by Silverton

Aha! moment during pandemic inspires cookbook by Silverton

| October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

For Proust, a delicious Madeleine cookie launched his acclaimed book, “In Search of Lost Time.” For Nancy Silverton, an excellent peanut butter cookie sent her on a baking journey that filled the lost time of the pandemic. At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Silverton noticed all the […]

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Who really saved our local, historic Los Altos Apartments?

Who really saved our local, historic Los Altos Apartments?

| August 31, 2023 | 0 Comments

And what did celebrity chef Nancy Silverton and Playboy Magazine have to do with it? On a Saturday night in the spring of 1996, through thick synthetic fog, Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand was struggling to walk in her 4-inch heels on uneven cobblestones in the courtyard at the historic Los Altos Apartments at Wilshire Boulevard […]

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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter

| July 1, 2020 | 0 Comments

This special section has been added this month to provide a forum for sharing ideas and opinions on the important issues raised by Black Lives Matter discussions and demonstrations. That was not possible last month; the paper already was at the printer as events transpired. This month, we can include stories about immediate neighborhood reactions, […]

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Award-winning chefs live in the neighborhood

Award-winning chefs live in the neighborhood

| May 31, 2018 | 0 Comments

Last month was a busy time for prominent culinary stars residing in our local neighborhoods. At the beginning of the month, Hancock Park resident Caroline Styne, business partner with Suzanne Goin in the famous nearby restaurants Lucques, a.o.c., and other ventures, won the James Beard Foundation award for Outstanding Restaurateur. The New York City foundation […]

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Authors on Larchmont

Authors on Larchmont

| December 1, 2016 | 0 Comments

Crime scene yellow tape was in evidence for the Chevalier’s Books discussion of  the new story collection, “The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers and Dark Roads,” Nov. 15. The collection of original stories hail from acclaimed crime writers, including Michael Connelly, Ben H. Winters, Gary Phillips and Sara Gran. They discussed  the […]

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