Flickr/Lauren Manning In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. “You taste things you have not tasted before — that you have not begun to taste before — and you
August 20, 2011 | Posted in
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Todd English hosts Los Angeles Food and Wine’s bowling night Are food festivals the new film festivals? Los Angeles only recently started to see multi-day food festivals; last year, the L.A. Times’ first Taste festival was held on the same weekend as the Beverly Hills Celebration of Food and Wine. This year, the Taste has [...]
August 19, 2011 | Posted in
Eating L.A. |
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Both worth their weight in gold “We’re doing about $400 million in business…We did $70 million for our fine-dining restaurants in the first six months and the same thing in catering.” — Wolfgang Puck, on the value of his empire, though the chef won’t say how much he makes personally. [Bloomberg] Filed Under: quote of [...]
August 19, 2011 | Posted in
Grub Street |
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In 92-degree heat in the middle of August in L.A., even the hardiest ramen aficionado might think twice about sticking her face over a steaming bowl of ramen — no matter how hungry for hot noodle soup with roast pork that first issue of Lucky Peach made her. That's where hiyashi chuka comes in: cold ramen [...]
August 19, 2011 | Posted in
Daily Dish |
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The beer board at Hot’s Hermosa Beach has more bars per square foot than Sacramento has politicians, good ones anyway, so it’s impressive that the new Hot’s spot (yes, we can and will beat this
August 19, 2011 | Posted in
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Eric Greenspan is the chef/owner of The Foundry on Melrose. Eric shares his recipe for an Apple Bacon Pie with a cheddar cheese tuille.
August 18, 2011 | Posted in
KCRW's Good Food |
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La Feria de Nopales Look, let’s face it. You can buy a giant Sculpin IPA at BevMo or score a Stone collaboration at Whole Foods and basically save yourself $40 and a tank of gas this weekend. But you’re probably not going to make cactus tortillas yourself. The Glutster reminds us that this Saturday, La [...]
August 18, 2011 | Posted in
Grub Street |
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The Booster Shots blog takes a close look at the Triple Double Oreo: Arriving in stores as we speak is the new Triple Double Oreo cookie. That's right, we said Triple Double, as in three layers of cookie, one layer of original creme and one layer of chocolate creme. The calorie count on this Big [...]
August 18, 2011 | Posted in
Daily Dish |
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Ted SoquiSlocum in his kingdom Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, especially when said metaphorical crown goes with the title Eastside Tomato King. Cameron Slocum could be dealing moder
August 18, 2011 | Posted in
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With summer still running strong, I’m all over the cold noodle bandwagon. After last week’s eclectic, creative & beefy consommé at Ramen Bull, I decided to hit up Chabuya, one of my solid standbys in the Sawtelle “Little Osaka” District, for a more traditional chilled ramen dish . . . . . . and their [...]
August 18, 2011 | Posted in
LA & OC Foodventures |
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