This evening Food & Wine magazine will toast the winners of their 24th(!) annual Best New Chefs award. Every year the editors, along with food writers and restaurant critics, pick 10 promising young chefs from across the country. This year Southern California has one winner: Bryant Ng of the Spice Table in Little Tokyo, cited [...]
Last week, Palate Food + Wine in Glendale posted a sign on its door that it would be "temporarily closed for reorganization" (a photo of the sign was published on Eater LA). But on Monday came news from chef-owner Octavio Becerra that Palate, a well-received restaurant on a stretch of Glendale's Brand Boulevard otherwise populated [...]
What's the connection between pattypan squash and the bagel? OK, pretty remote, but it exists. In England, there's a traditional Lenten fruitcake called a simnel, which has both a filling and a frosting of almond paste. Originally, however, the simnel was a "sodden [boiled] bread," cooked by boiling the dough awhile and then baking it, [...]
This week's Culinary SOS comes from Kathleen Sheldon in Santa Monica: I had a delicious meal at Nage restaurant on a recent trip to Washington, D.C., and I would love to have the recipe for its clementine salad. This salad is the perfect way to highlight these sweet little mandarin oranges. Nage combines the orange [...]
Rain was predicted last weekend, but who knew if it would really show up? Nevertheless, I decided to cook as if a tremendous storm were on the way. The garden needed rainy weather. I needed it, too, if only as an excuse to stay in and make bollito misto. It’s one of my favorite dishes, [...]
Ever on the lookout for market bags, I found two new ones at the kitchen store that’s part of Lost & Found in Hollywood. If you’ve never checked out this sweet little complex of five side-by-side stores, now’s the time. The Green Kitchen is filled with covetable items for the home and kitchen. But don’t [...]
Painter Claude Monet may best be known as a founder of the Impressionist art movement, but the Frenchman was also a serious gourmand. The Royce restaurant at the Langham Huntington hotel in Pasadena created a special lunch inspired by Claude Monet on Saturday — one of a few experiential meals the storied hotel has hosted [...]
A pastry cutter, also known as a pastry blender, makes quick work of cutting flour through cold butter to make pie and pastry crusts, as well as quick breads. The tool is composed either of several wires connected to a single handle or several stainless steel blades (as shown above) connected to a handle. I [...]
Have you ever seen root vegetables with such personality? Radishes looking so happy? Celeryroot that seems almost pensive? These are the work of contemporary botanical artist Sally Jacobs, who has a show starting this week at TAG Gallery in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station, says she gets her inspiration from Los Angeles' farmers markets. I don't [...]
In 1999, Napa Valley wine producer and entrepreneur Leslie Rudd (Rudd Oakville Estate and Dean & Deluca) discovered an old distillery just off the Silverado Trail on one of his vineyard properties. Established in St. Helena way back in 1882, the distillery was the 209th to get a permit in the U.S. Why not revive it [...]
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