Haggis; Good Food Wine Club; Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

This week on Good Food, Michael Pollan shares his rules to eat by. Stacie Hunt has details on the Good Food wine club and Evan eats haggis with Eddie Lin.

This week on Good Food, Michael Pollan shares his rules to eat by. Stacie Hunt has details on the Good Food wine club and Evan eats haggis with Eddie Lin.

Launched in 2001 by the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance, a nonprofit organization that benefits local youths, the Silver Lake farmers market successfully serves its community.
Prepared foods and crafts stands — such as gourmet coffee, books, LPs, sunglasses and clothes — outnumber the produce vendors, giving the venue somewhat of a flea market ambiance, but [...]

Hand over your noodles, meat and veggies and the cook stir-fries them until they’re just cooked through.Here’s a taste of my Gobi Mongolian BBQ review in the Los Feliz Ledger this month. Go to the neighborhood paper’s revamped website to read the whole thing.Basically Gobi is all about the build-it-yourself noodle bowl. Dinner is $13.95, [...]

Zarate’s Seco de Cordero
Mo-Chica mastermind Ricardo Zarate brought eight electrifying Peruvian recipes to dinner at BreadBar last night as the next chef in the restaurant’s monthly “Hatchi Series” that showcases thrilling, lesser-known toques of pronounced talent. Zarate riffed around the specialties, tender-loving touch, and ingredients that brings his restaurant the mega-attention evading most eateries stuffed [...]

First, the bad news: This recipe for osso buco takes 3 1/2 hours.
But that's also the good news.
Braising is one of the easiest ways to cook — it's so forgiving. And most of the work is done by your stove, or oven. Essentially, a braise cooks itself.
That's why it's perfect for [...]

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad.
“Still, some pig candy is better than no pig candy at all, and the sweet, sugar-brushed slabs of double-smoke…

BREADBAR co-owner Ali Chalabi and chef Noriyuki Sugie have made repeated efforts to give inventive chefs a stage with their monthly “Hatchi Series.” On January 28, lauded Mo-Chica chef-owner Ricardo Zarate took to the Century City stage, delivering a captivating Peruvian dining experience that he dubbed “Peru Mucho Gusto.”
A trio was playing traditional Peruvian music [...]

Silver Lake area residents looking for fresh, healthy food are likely to be thrilled about the arrival of Forage, near Pazzo Gelato in the old Town and Country Bakery space. Chef/owner Jason Kim was sous-chef at Lucques, so it sounds like he’s got the food chops to make this space work much better than the [...]

• J.D. Salinger’s fiction was chock-full of food references, like the chicken sandwich in Franny and Zooey that signified the rift between Franny and her boyfriend. [Diner's Journal/NYT]
• LeBron James is partnering with McDonald’s on a multi-year ad campaign. [NRN]
• In a recent speech, Argentina’s president recommended eating pork as an alternative to [...]

Tara Kolla of Silver Lake Farms is offering gardening workshops through February and March at the LILA School Garden in Los Feliz. It's a two-part series called "Creating an Edible Garden in Los Angeles."
Part 1 focuses on starting a vegetable garden from scratch in raised beds, containers and in the ground. The class [...]