Recently I had the privilege of visiting the 24th Street School, home of an edible schoolyard garden created (with the kids) by the Garden School Foundation. Since 2005 the Garden School has provided an outdoor, hands-on experience to instill in children the importance of and connection between nature, food and good health. The results are [...]
What to think about Street? I’m having the same hard time as everyone else. I love owner/chef Susan Feniger’s culinary passion and curiousity, not to mention her warm-hearted desire to make her customers happy. The concept behind Street — a menu inspired by street food from around the world, served informally but professionally and matched [...]
WriteGirl, a fantastic Los Angeles-based writing and mentoring organization for girls, is throwing a fundraiser this weekend at the Pasadena Playhouse. In addition to scenes and monologues written by the girls and performed by celebrated actors, the food and drink roster will make foodies happy. Talent donors include Angela Bassett, Dana Delany, Annie Potts, James [...]
A report from our ace San Gabriel Valley spy, Melody Malmberg:
Yuki Yama Sushi
Let’s face it — sushi is becoming one of those splurges that come along all too infrequently these days. You either break the bank, eat sparingly, or say to hell with it and go out for tacos. Normally I’d chose high-quality fish over [...]
Some food lovers count the days until a particular restaurant opens. Me, I’m counting the days until Julie & Julia opens. I’m going to have to count more than 90 days, and I must live with the fear that it will disappoint, but based on the serious charm of the just-released trailer, I’m choosing to [...]
A few things we wanted to share from cyber-foodland:
• One of our own, Pat Saperstein (proprietor of Eatingla.com), is building a pretty darn comprehensive roster of Twitterers for food lovers on her new mini-blog, lafoodietwitterers.com. It’s a wonderful and growing resource, unless you hate to tweet.
• Another one of our own, Amelia Saltsman (author of the [...]
This year the Vintage Bouquet, the food- and wine-tasting event thrown every year by the Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers, turns 21. The event features tastings from a number of restaurants (including Chaya Brasserie, STK, Rocksugar, Cafe La Boheme and Gonpachi) and such California wineries as Quady, Carneros della Notte, Jaffe and Peju. Proceeds benefit [...]
Our pal Nancy Ransohoff, editor of EAT: LA’s sibling book Hometown Santa Barbara, was a recent guest on Evan Kleiman’s Good Food radio show, talking about her favorite places to eat in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Ojai. Her visit was such a success that Evan asked her to do a guest post about a favorite [...]
I wanted to like the Grilled Cheese Invitational, I really did. Unfortunately, the organizers were clearly not anticipating the attendance (although they should have given the tons of publicity in the last couple of weeks). How else could you explain the two-hour line to get in when we arrived on time? It was mind-boggling how [...]
We just posted about Animal’s Vinny Dotola cooking and talking and signing at the L.A. Times Festival of Books this weekend, but that’s not the only place he’ll be celebrity-cheffing. He has also just joined Jonathan Gold’s panel, Carnivores!, this Saturday at noon. It’s part of the LA Weekly’s first citywide cultural event, LA Weekend!, [...]
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