With a vineyard, a customized barbecue station and 55 acres to plant, produce and roam, celebrity chef Curtis Stone’s Agoura Hills farm is giving the Australian entrepreneur new ways to grow his culinary reach. In advance of The Los Angeles Times’ 2nd annual Great Australian Bite event, to be held at Four Stones Farm on May 31, the L.A. Times toured the facilities to see just how the production studio and fledgling winery works.
Stephanie Breijo is a reporter for the Food section and the author of its weekly news column. Previously, she served as the restaurants and bars editor for Time Out Los Angeles, and prior to that, the award-winning food editor of Richmond magazine in Richmond, Va. Born and primarily raised in Los Angeles, she believes L.A. to be the finest food city in the country and might be biased on that count but doesn’t believe she’s wrong.
Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.
