As restaurants close—some temporarily, some permanently—chefs and bakers are taking their talents to private homes, ghost kitchens and street stands, meaning Los Angeles is seeing a renaissance of pop-ups and limited-run specials while some of the city’s top talent finds new ways to cook and serve food. And in Highland Park, one of the best of these new items can be found with a sustainable bent. Primed for summer heat and brimming with flavor and color, Jonathen Liu’s chirashi bowls are a blend of consciously-sourced seafood and a range of cooking techniques, a Taiwanese- and Japanese-inspired meal offered only twice a week and one that’s been selling out within two hours. The bowls mark a pivot for the chef and restaurant...
Create this yummy smelling Apple Scented Slime this fall season! This stretchy apple slime will keep kids entertained during the cooler months. My kids love to create slime on a regular basis! The cool thing about slime is that you can get as creative as you’d like with it! You can experiment with different colors, ingredients, textures, scents, add-ins and more. This fall, we created Apple Scented Slime using an apple scent and apple add-ins. This is a super stretchy slime that I’m sure will entertain the kids with it’s yummy smell and fun apple add-ins. Kids can hide the apples in the slime, group them together, space them apart, line them up, etc. when playing with the apple slime....
What Did the Book Club Think? A Retrospective Three of our book clubs are chugging along virtually through Boswell and a fourth one, the Mystery Group, has spun off on their own for now. We’ve got booksellers hoping to start two more, but everything moves slowly in the age of COVID. And even before the age of COVID. Here is a round-up of the last three books that we’ve read. June’s selection was Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli. This is a twist on a classic road novel. A mother and father take their two kids to a project in Arizona. Dad is an audio ethnographer and is interested in documented Apache Indian history while Mom has been charged with...
These Learning Resources Gears Set on Sale will make the perfect for your kids! My kids love toys like this and will spend hours playing with them! If you have kids going starting school soon make sure you check out all of the Back to School deals we have found for you lately. Learning Resources Gears Set on Sale Children will enjoy screen-free fun as they grow into this 100-piece deluxe set! Now on sale for just $17, down from $32.99 at Amazon! These are a great hands-on thinking toy for kids. Might even be good to grab now and put up for Christmas! This Gears set will help usher your child into the world of engineering games as...
Thames & Kosmos is continuing to expand its popular Kids First range with its latest addition, Robot Factory; a kit suitable for children aged five to seven that taps into the still strong demand for “good quality and re-playable STEM toys for early years primary school children.” The toy company recently detailed the surge in demand for its own STEM toy products, in particular the Kids First range, which has been a proven hit during the UK’s lockdown period and the temporary closure of schools. The new launch, the Robot Factory, comes hot on the heels of the success of the recent Robot Pet Shop. Robot Factory comes with an illustrated 32-page storybook which centres around the adventures of the...
