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  • Bird Is the Word

    I pan-fried 75 pieces of chicken the other day, legs and thighs from sustainably raised chickens that I had brined in salted buttermilk, dusted... More >>

  • Soup Opera

    Even if you have never heard of Bae Yeon Jung, an hour or so at her BYJ Restaurant may make you as familiar with the former Korean sitcom star as... More >>

  • Slab City

    We’ve talked about lardo before, I think, the traditional cold cut from the ancient Colonnata quarries innorthern Tuscany: slabs of pure,... More >>

  • Al Langer: The Counterman

    {mosimage}When I am showing first-time visitors around Los Angeles, I like to take them for a pastrami sandwich at Langer’s, the old-line... More >>

  • Garbanzos!

    When Wolfgang Puck decided to stop serving foie gras in his restaurants earlier this year, many of us thought it would leave a yawning gap. Other... More >>

  • Magnum Opus

    Opus occupies huge, awkward quarters fitted into the Wiltern building 17 years ago for Mario Tamayo’s Atlas, a supper club with pan-Latin... More >>

  • The Chili Chemist

    This is probably the moment where I should evaluate Hoffman’s chilis, to note that the Roasted Garlic Beef has at least three levels of... More >>

  • Hen Party

    {mosimage}Veiled in steam like an idol from a 1930s serial, samgyetang, chicken-ginseng soup, ranks first among the massive roster of Korean... More >>

  • Grade A-Won

    Like its more rice-intensive counterpart bi bim bap, hwe dup bap is an interactive creature that doesn’t really come into existence until... More >>

  • Sadao City

    Down the street from the big Serbian temple, not far from Vietnamese noodle shops, a Taiwanese restaurant where the waitresses dress like... More >>

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