Cherry Bombe, the magazine for women in food, brought its Jubilee to L.A. Here's what happened

The strength of women and so many cookies, Halloween cocktails, our critic’s pick of some of L.A.’s greatest Thai restaurants and Mt. Whitney hikers’ Merry Go Round pitstop ... I’m Laurie Ochoa, general manager of L.A. Times Food, with Tasting Notes.

Jubilee’s L.A. debut

In a downtown loft building last Sunday morning, more than 300 women, many festively dressed in pink or red, picked up badges, coffee and HomeState breakfast tacos before the opening session of the first Los Angeles edition of the Cherry Bombe Jubilee . The magazine and media company Cherry Bombe has been hosting annual conferences for women in the worlds of food and drink in New York since 2014.

At the sold-out L.A. Jubilee — which Courtney Storer, culinary producer of “ The Bear ,” affectionately likened t