Nathalie Basha

1 week ago | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

A new bill has been proposed to ban all ultra-processed foods from schools, and Mendez Middle School in Santa Ana is already ahead of the legislation. School officials have removed frozen and prepackaged foods and are now making foods like birria and salsas from scratch in their brand-new, state-of-the-art kitchens. Santa Ana Unified School District director of nutrition Josh Goddard decided to transition two schools to a made-from-scratch menu.

2 weeks ago | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Long Beach has a new, inaugural taco week, and while it’s a great community event, there’s a deeper motivation for restaurants to participate. Restaurant owners in Long Beach said current events, from food inflation to tariffs, have affected them greatly enough that they wanted to participate in Long Beach Taco Week to drum up support for their local small businesses. In total, eight restaurants around the city are taking part, offering taco meals between $5 and $15.

2 weeks ago | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

LOS ANGELES — Fashion industry experts say tariffs imposed on most imports from China will disproportionately affect the fashion industry — especially fast fashion — and they’re anticipating those higher costs will push consumers to shop secondhand. According to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, 98% of clothing in Americans’ closets is imported to the United States from China.

Aug 6, 2024 | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — According to the 2022 U.S. census report, over two million people from El Salvador live in the U.S., and over a third live in Los Angeles. Los Angeles-based Salvadoran writer Karla Vasqez saw a gap in the media's representation of Salvadoran food and culture, so she wrote a cookbook called "The SalviSoul Cookbook." It's a cookbook that celebrates the food stories of the Salvadoran diaspora in the U.S., particularly in Los Angeles.

Jul 25, 2024 | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

LOS ANGELES — Researchers from UCLA and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles are asking for help from the public to study how wildfire smoke affects local birds. The program is called Project Phoenix, a community science monitoring project to study the effects of smoke on birds in neighborhoods across California, Oregon and Washington. Volunteers who sign up are asked to observe birds for 10 minutes a week and log their findings in the Project Phoenix app.