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  • 1 week ago | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

    LOS ANGELES — The majority of the supply of cocoa, the raw ingredient in chocolate, is grown in West Africa and imported to the United States.

  • 1 week ago | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

    LOS ANGELES — The Rancho Palos Verdes home buyout program is moving forward with 23 homes selected for the next stage of the assessment. What You Need To KnowThe Voluntary Property Buyout Program is intended to help eligible homeowners relocate to safer areas by offering a fair market value for their properties based on pre-disaster appraisals.

  • 2 weeks ago | spectrumnews1.com | Nathalie Basha

    LOS ANGELES — According to the Independent Restaurant Coalition, one in five of all U.S. restaurant industry workers are immigrants. What You Need To KnowIn California, 1 in 3 restaurant workers are immigrants ICE can enter a restaurant without a warrant because they are public spaces, but cannot enter non-public spaces like kitchens or back offices. According to a 2023 study by USA Facts, the percentage of immigrants in the restaurant industry in California is much higher at 33%.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

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Nathalie Basha
Nathalie Basha @TheTravelMuse
1 Sep 21

In times of drought, chefs have to dramatically re-write menus. #california #drought @SpecNews1SoCal https://t.co/fEMm3mcF94

Nathalie Basha
Nathalie Basha @TheTravelMuse
22 Apr 19

Any Hawaii natives here? Or know any? Tag tag!

Nathalie Basha
Nathalie Basha @TheTravelMuse
15 Apr 19

Unimaginable loss. I'm in tears watching this. Notre Dame IS Paris, way more than the Eiffel Tower. A devastating day for Parisians, for France, and for everyone who ever visited and left a piece of their heart at #NotreDame. 💔 https://t.co/DzUnz4oDB8