L.A.’s First Public Fruit Park is Set to Ope...

Los Angeles, get ready to get to know your very first public fruit park! Wait, what’s a fruit park, you ask? No, it’s not a designated spot for eccentrics and oddballs, it’s actually a public art project aimed at building community through the installation and maintenance of an urban orchard. The project is the work of the collective Fallen Fruit (LAist coverage), who worked with the Office of Supervisor...

Mayan Sidecar Recipe from Nopalito

By Isabel Wade My husband and I had our New Year’s Eve dinner at our favorite neighborhood restaurant, Nopalito. The food is so outstanding, we thought it would be the perfect place to welcome the new year. How can you go wrong with lamb birria? However, what really caught my attention was the Mayan Sidecar drink. Always on the lookout for lemon as an ingredient (of course!), I waited with anticipation for my new year...

Just One Tree

JUST ONE TREE is a non-profit project to promote the value of tree crops in cities worldwide, with an initial campaign to help San Francisco, our world headquarters, become self-sufficient in lemons. We have selected lemons for San Francisco because they are useful in many ways as an ingredient in food and drinks, and even as a cleaning agent, they produce year round in San Francisco and yet most lemons are imported from...

Isabel Wade presents JOT to the American Community...

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Jack’s Lemon Bars

For the Love of Lemons, Part 3 – By Dianne Boate Being involved with this wonderful project has produced a new, beneficial “mindset” – everywhere I look, I see lemon possibilities. Many of the recipes on food magazine pages pop out because of lemon juice, lemon zest, or just a lemon slice for decoration. And then this: Fruits, vegetables, fish, meat, salads, desserts, drinks, no longer taste right unless there is...