When a reader commenting on the closure of The Times' stand-alone Food section asked when the section had first appeared, I went to our historical database. And there I found the answer — the Food for the Family section (as it was then called) was born April 5, 1962, just one month shy of 50 [...]
D. Solomonbulgogi and margherita pizzasIn Korea, Mr. Pizza Factory is as ubiquitous as Pizza Hut in our country, with more than 350 locations. But here in the U.S.? Last week, we had just one,
Pixar founder John Lasseter and his wife Nancy have been wine lovers almost as long as they’ve been animation buffs. They started making wine after moving to Sonoma County in 1993 — just before "Toy Story" catapulted Pixar into the animation big leagues. Nancy is the force behind Lasseter Family Winery, the Glen Ellen winery [...]
True Food Kitchen If something about the 1% tip and nasty note to “Get a real job” at Newport’s True Food Kitchen struck you as funny, congratulations, you have one sharp set of eyee. The restaurant has revealed that the offensive receipt, supposedly left by a grinchy banker, was actually photo-shopped from a real receipt [...]
Birthday party: On March 5, Ray's and Stark Bar at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is celebrating its first year with a party. Executive chef Kris Morningstar has devised a menu featuring the best dishes of the year, such as chile with chorizo, dates, local goat cheese and almond sauce; squid ink pasta [...]
alanna-marie via Flickr Sprinkles recently announced via Facebook that they’ll soon open an ice cream shop and 24-hour cupcake dispenser adjacent to their Beverly Hills location. “Our ice cream
Sushi Nozawa, a simultaneously beloved and maligned Los Angeles institution, is finally closing its doors on February 29. Many a hound has come out of the woodwork to reminisce, commiserate, and heap both love and scorn onto its funeral pyre. Nozawa, named after the sushi chef who started the restaurant, will always have its loyal [...]
The Go Chew Truck Apparently, all it takes to get us hyped up about another Asian food truck is to drop a NOMA vet behind the wheel. Today, Pleasure Palate introduces us to The Go Chew truck, a Korean cuisine-skewing cruiser that serves Jidori fried chicken thigh and short rib in organic rice bowls, along [...]
Beer, beer, beer: $55 will get you into the first L.A. Beerathon happening throughout downtown Los Angeles on March 31. The route featuring 26 bars, which means 26 beers, won't be released until the week of the event and the names of the venues will be released one at a time starting 26 days beforehand. [...]
Punctuated/FlickrGirl Scout CookiesThe Girl Scout Cookie season is just about to start, an annual event to which some of us look forward with more anticipation and excitement than Christmas. I
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