In Italian restaurants, you sometimes find dishes flavored with a red-amber sausage-like substance called bottarga. This is the salted eggs of the gray mullet, but it's nothing like caviar, which is preferably as fresh and lightly salted (malossol) as possible. These mullet fish eggs, still in the original egg sack, are salted, pressed and dried [...]
This week's Culinary SOS comes to us from Selby Blum in Los Angeles: Milk has the best molasses cookies I've ever had. My entire family adores them, and I would love to be able to make them for my dad on his 66th birthday. Please help? These cookies are out of this world. I need [...]
Last week, we said a sad farewell to Angeli and honored the occasion with one of chef Evan Kleiman’s most adored desserts. Now we turn to another superb Italian place that’s saying arrivederci: Drago, the Santa Monica flagship of chef Celestino Drago. To honor the occasion, he’s shared with us one of the best recipes [...]
Myanmar is in the midst of a coming out party. Could that mean more Burmese food on the menu? Plus, a mall food court that resembles Los Angeles.
Apparently the people of Silver Lake have spoken, and they’ve asked for…oysters? It’s hard to say if an oyster bar was exactly what was needed in the former Domenico’s and Michelangelo spot, but judging from the crowds of the first few nights, it was a popular choice. Dustin Lancaster and Matt Kaner of buzzing Los [...]
The Bellamira of Baco Don’t get us wrong; there’s a time and a place for Whippits. But Demi Moore was neither spending a quite Sunday in her freshman year dorm room nor hanging out in the parking lot of a Jerry Garcia Band concert. Nonetheless, the inhalant was one of many at the center of [...]
Today is National Chocolate Cake Day — as if we needed an excuse to indulge. To celebrate, we're sharing some of our favorite recipes for rich, satisfying chocolate cake: Nancy Silverton's bittersweet chocolate cake with hot fudge sauce and cioccolati perugini Classic flourless chocolate cake Mint chocolate cake Royal Sonesta double chocolate cake Old-fashioned milk [...]
Flickr/Lauren ManningIn which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. “I’m not sure that what you’re looking for exists.” Bouillabaisse: Meant for the Poor, Now for the
We’re already in love… Like everyone else, your love has turned savvier when it comes to what they put in their mouth. In 2012, giving your Valentine another box of chocolates makes you about as suave as a suit on Ron Paul. An appealing option providing both partnership and mutual satisfaction comes from Six Taste, [...]
Eagle Rock Brewery is hosting its anniversary party at Verdugo Bar on Saturday to celebrate its second year as an L.A. brewery. Craft beer lovers can sip on all Eagle Rock's signature brews along with a few surprise beers to be revealed at the event. Grill 'Em All and Mandoline Grill food trucks will be [...]
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