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March 11, 2013If the recent weather has you already craving a fantastic Home Made Summer, good news: Yvette Van Boven's latest book is almost here. Van Boven is a Dutch food stylist and illustrator who owns a popular café in Amsterdam; her husband, Oof Verschuren, is an award-winning photographer (for the Dutch ... More >>
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February 15, 2013L.A.'s Little Tokyo is home to at least 100 eateries -- Japanese and non-Japanese, old and new, traditional and innovative. And it is just about 0.13 square miles in size -- dense, compact, and easily explored on foot. (Roughly bounded between 4th, Alameda, Temple, and Los Angeles streets.) That mea ... More >>
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January 16, 2013In this new year of chef cookbooks and kitchen resolutions, sometimes you simply want to fine tune the basics: the perfect pork chop, the creamiest ice cream, How to Boil an Egg. In her latest book, Rose Carrarini, owner of Paris' Rose Bakery, reminds us just how much of a culinary chameleon the egg ... More >>
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January 4, 2013Let's forgive the Stinging Nettle -- an herbaceous weed currently popping up all over Southern California following our December rains -- for evolving those highly annoying tiny little hypodermic needles that give it its name. The poor plant has been unceremoniously ripped out of the ground for tho ... More >>
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December 3, 2012Most Jewish holidays are associated with special foods. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is no exception. Taking center stage during the eight-day celebration, which starts this Saturday evening, are latkes, which is the Yiddish word for pancakes.
The holiday commemorates religious ... More >>
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October 8, 2012Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us!
It seems fitting for Martha Stewart to kick off her latest series, Martha Stewart's Cooking School, with eggs, since it's the way many of us begin our days. We a ... More >>
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September 12, 2012Type "Field Guide" into the Amazon book search list, and you'll get, as of this typing, 39,688 results. These are the moments when we suspect the A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts, to be released in a few weeks, will come in handy. A little rainbow sprinkle, Boston cream, or old-fashioned buttermil ... More >>
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August 2, 2012Nastassia Johnson, blogger behind Let Me Eat Cake, has picked out several items to try at downtown's Semi Sweet Bakery on a recent afternoon: A croissant flecked with chocolate, an Almond Joy Doughnut, and a cookie called "Triple Chip" -- chocolate, butterscotch, and potato. She wanted a slice of 7- ... More >>
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June 22, 2012Welcome to a new series on cooking with farmers. Not just farmers, but also the farm stand workers who patiently calculate your erratic "one bunch of this/two of that" weekly tab. And the guy whom you've likely never seen because he's stationed in the back of a truck, trying not to smash the basil a ... More >>
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May 10, 2012Mother's Day is on Sunday, which, depending on your relationship with dear Mom, is the best day of the year, or just another day to hear, yet again, about all the pain you caused during childbirth and the ensuing 18 years thereafter. In either case, there are many, many restaurants and eateries ce ... More >>
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April 27, 2012Nutella isn't a health food? But it's made with hazelnuts -- nuts are good for you. And chocolate -- doesn't chocolate contain healthy antioxidants?
Two class-action lawsuits against Ferrero, the maker of Nutella, say the company's claims in a recent TV commercial that Nutella spread on toast makes ... More >>
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April 20, 2012Earth Day is this Sunday, April 22, and regardless of where you stand on the dietary spectrum, consider curbing your carbon footprint with a meal free of animal by-products. Non-profit organization Environmental Working Group found that eating one less burger per week for a year equates to reducing ... More >>
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September 14, 2011AmazonSince the inception of vegan cooking company Spork Foods in 2008, and long before that, sisters Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg have been advocates of the meatless lifestyle. For their first cookbook, Spork-Fed: Super Fun and Flavorful Vegan Recipes from the Sisters of Spork Foods (St. ... More >>
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July 8, 2011Flickr/yoshing_BTJapanese fermented soy beans
Boogers. Dirty socks. Puke. The only comparisons made to natto, or Japanese fermented soy beans, are unflattering ones. It's simultaneously sticky and slimy. When brought out of the freezer to room temperature and mixed, strings of what looks like ... More >>
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June 17, 2011Jeanne Kelleyzucchini griddle cakes
It's the season of the zucchini. The prolific, green, slightly sweet, slightly nutty summer squash abound in the garden, at the farmers market and in your CSA box. Mostly, zucchini will be consumed small and tender--sautéed briefly or perhaps shaved into ... More >>
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December 23, 2010Flickr user su-linMeatloaf Potatoes 3 (Pieces) of Vegetables = A Beautiful Southern MealIn Part 1 of our Q A with Cracker Barrel line cook Dan Keller, we heard about life as a chef in the kitchen of a corporate diner (read: no chef degree required), Paula Deen's latest cash cow (casino ... More >>
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November 24, 2010When we last spoke with Alessandra Innamorato, an underground restaurant chef by way of Spain and owner of Orgasmo de la Boca smoked olives, we were contemplating the American obsession with food-based sexual references. But we are supposed to be talking about "the crack meets hot sex of olives" Twe ... More >>
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November 19, 2010Flickr/slgckgcMost cooks still fry latkes in lots of grease, but not Hipcooks.
You love your grandma, but just not her leaden matzoh balls and grease-laden latkes. With the eight days of Hanukkah beginning on Dec. 1 (25 Kislev for those of you on the Hebrew calendar), it's time for an act o ... More >>
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August 20, 2009Notes on Eating and Drinking in L.A.
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November 20, 2008An Eagle Rock favorite takes a fresh approach to cooking
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February 28, 2008A not-too-extreme makeover, and a new spin on French toast
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December 27, 2007Hummus replaced foie gras, Southern Thai was hot and cheese shredded
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August 3, 2006 Square One and the most important meal of the day
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April 13, 2000After all, it’s the most important meal of the day
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February 17, 2000A Guide to Our Advertisers, part two
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May 27, 1999In the spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of lamb
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