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May 8, 2012
Jamie Oliver Is Back with Meals in Minutes. Do We Like Him Again?
We've pissed off Jamie Oliver again. But this time, it not what we're allowing our children to be served in the school cafeteria, as was the case on Food Revolution. It's what we're serving them at home. It's what we're cooking. It's the fact that clearly we can't be trusted to navigate a market or ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Twitter: 10 of Our Favorite Food-Related Tweets
Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>
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March 22, 2012
I Am a Reverse Coyote: Smuggling Food Tourists Into Tijuana
Tijuana is the new culinary media darling, but this writer has been smuggling food tourists there for years
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March 22, 2012
Read This Now: Julia Moskin The Sussman Brothers on Cookbook Ghostwriting
If you have not already read Julia Moskin's piece "I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter" in last week's New York Times food section, you really should. And after you finish reading it, go read yesterday's blog post from The Sussman Brothers -- titled "#Cookbookghostgate" -- on the same subject, which is as ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition
Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Saturday Night Live Spoofs Paula Deen
Paula Deen made her debut on Saturday Night Live over the weekend -- or rather, Kristen Wiig debuted her best Paula Deen impression. During a segment on "Weekend Update with Seth Meyers," Wiig slowly swiveled in as Deen, with a drumstick in one hand and a big stick of butter in the other, to address ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Roy Choi of A-Frame and Kogi on How Cookbooks Changed His Life
Paula Deen made her debut on Saturday Night Live over the weekend -- or rather, Kristen Wiig debuted her best Paula Deen impression. During a segment on "Weekend Update with Seth Meyers," Wiig slowly swiveled in as Deen, with a drumstick in one hand and a big stick of butter in the other, to address ... More >>
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February 16, 2012
New Chef at WP24: John Lechleidner
John Lechleidner; Chow Fueng rolls at WP24.WP24 has a new Chef de Cuisine in John Lechleidner. A veteran of the Wolfgang Puck group who has cooked at Postrio at The Venetian, Spago at The Forum Shops at Caesars, Wolfgang Puck American Grille at The Borgata and Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill at L.A ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
[Updated] Jamie Oliver DOES NOT Find Joy Division and New Order Master Tapes in Basement of New Manchester Eatery
Update: 2/15/12 3:00 p.m. We should have known this was as bogus as the prospect of a goat on a leash getting down (in the video) to a band bolstered by the drumming talents of a man known to cheerily carve and cook domesticated beasts. NME was wrong and so were we. The treasures used to reside ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Anthony Bourdain: 5 Unexpected Lessons He Taught Us Last Night
College of the Canyons/Jesse MuñozAnthony Bourdain, giving a rapt audience a window into making No Reservations.We don't think any stone was left unturned by the end of Anthony Bourdain's speaking engagement last night at Santa Clarita's College of the Canyons. We know his new "death row" m ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Food Network Update: Record Ratings in January Trisha Yearwood is Getting Her Own Show
HuluThanks to gems like Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, the Food Network reported the highest ratings in the network's history in January. Overall, the network was ranked seventh in cable primetime television, and their viewership was 40 percent higher than one year ago. Celebrity Cook ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
The Piglet: Food 52's Cookbook Madness Starts Now
If you follow food sites and current cookbooks, you'll doubtless be aware of Food 52, the website run by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs. You will perhaps also know about their annual cookbook tournament, The Piglet, in which a number of this year's best cookbooks are pitted against each other in a ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Mario Batali Cooks Lunch at Shutters Jan. 28
What's better than a beachside lunch dreamed up by Mario Batali? An "interactive" one cooked by the super chef himself. On Jan. 28, Batali will take over Coast Beach Café & Bar at Shutters on the Beach hotel. As a plus, he will "interact with the crowd," says a publicist. Nine people at each se ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
A Rawkin' Guy Fieri Drinking Game
Sometimes there are things that are out of your control. What the office orders for lunch, say, or what you're forced to watch when you're at Uncle Bob's house, trying to fulfill your New Year's resolution to Visit the Relatives More. If your Uncle Bob, like a startling large number of men, platoni ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
5 Paula Deen Holiday Recipes We Don't Want To Try
Paula DeenPeek-a-boo, y'all.In the spirit of the season, we thought we'd go through 2011 Rose Parade Grand Marshal Paula Deen's rich, buttery collection of online holiday recipes and highlight a few stand-outs. Deen is the author of cookbooks, magazines and hosts "Paula's Best Dishes" on the ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
10 Favorite Food Quotes in Simpsons' "The Food Wife"
L. BallaThe food media world was chomping at the bit to see last night's highly anticipated Simpsons episode. "The Food Wife" has Marge, Lisa and Bart write a food blog called The Three Mouthkateers as they make their way through the surprisingly eclectic Springfield food scene. There are sno ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Top 6 Weekend Food Events: LA Food & Wine, Taste of Mercado La Paloma, Beer Float Showdown, Sunset Beer Company, Golden Road Brewing, LQ's Cheese Cart Pop-Up
LA Food & Wine This four-day extravaganza features dozens of events including special lunches and dinners cooked by top chefs from around the country. Sang Yoon of Lukshon hosts Chris Cosentino of Incanto (San Francisco), Tom Colicchio throws a clambake, Michel Richard will discuss his book Happy ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Cat Cora's Favorite Tunes
Iron Chef Cat Cora joins the ranks of Kerry Simon, Rick Bayless and Adam Richman to reveal some of her favorite tunes for KCRW's Guest DJ Project. The Mississippi-born Cora segues from country to classic soul but says all her song picks represent major milestones in her life, most notably her wedd ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
So You Think You Can Eat
Iron Chef Cat Cora joins the ranks of Kerry Simon, Rick Bayless and Adam Richman to reveal some of her favorite tunes for KCRW's Guest DJ Project. The Mississippi-born Cora segues from country to classic soul but says all her song picks represent major milestones in her life, most notably her wedd ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Battle Sangria: Rick Bayless vs. Susan Feniger & Mary Sue Milliken a Recipe from the Winner
C. LeVasserJamaica sangria by Rick BaylessSome of us have been going out a lot less these days. But rather than unnecessarily spending twenty dollars on a rare gueuze at Father's Office, we've been throwing our money at things like Scharffen Berger chocolate, or imported speck from Alto-Adige ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week
Anne FishbeinSpicy chicken pops at Lukshon.Ever wanted to try the Lukshon's squid stuffed with fermented ground pork or spaghetti at Scarpetta but can't afford it? dineLA, which returns for 12 days in early October, might be your chance. The restaurant promo returns October 2-7 and 9-14, and ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Food News Roundup: Lots of Pie, 200 Year-old Desserts Teaching Kanye West to Cook
-- Gordon Ramsay teaches Kanye West how to cook. [The Mirror] -- How to make a 200 year-old dessert. [Zester Daily] -- How to open your own pop-up restaurant. [Forbes via food52] -- Pie-a-day #45, or white peach-brown sugar tart. [Good Food] -- Ricardo Zarate and Gary Menes cook a dinner ben ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Top Thai Chef Comes to L.A. A Recipe for Duck Larb
Barbara Hansenchef McDangRoyalty just left Los Angeles. Now it's coming again. The royal personage arriving this week is chef McDang (real name ML Sirichalerm Svasti) of the Thai royal family. Not content to rest on regal laurels, McDang has become a culinary celebrity in Thailand, appearing ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Lucky Peach: The New Food Journal From David Chang & Friends Is Here
Lucky Peach, the food quarterly from Momofuku's David Chang, debuted yesterday. It's an enormous amount of fun, as you would expect, kind of like Grand Street crossed with No Reservations. This makes sense once you run down the list of contributors: Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Ruth Reichl ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Jamie Oliver: 12 Quotes From The Celebrity Chef You Won't Read in This Week's Cover Story
A. ScattergoodJamie Oliver You may have noticed a giant Jamie Oliver-shaped hole in our recent cover story, "Bad Lunch," about school food in Los Angeles. Oliver's antics originally inspired the piece. But we chose instead to focus on the problems inherent within LAUSD's meal program, and on ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
LAUSD Bans Chocolate Milk: Thanks To Parents, Jamie Oliver & Jimmy Kimmel
photos by Gendy Alimurung Say goodbye to chocolate and strawberry milk at Los Angeles public schools beginning July 1. The LAUSD Board of Education voted 5-2 to remove flavored milk with added sugar. A new dairy contract will exclude the chocolate and strawberry milk as part of the district's ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Q & A with Bobby Flay, Part 1: A New Yorker's Take on L.A. Food
Image courtesy of The Food Network.Bobby Flay on the set of his newest cooking show, Barbecue Addiction.When it comes to television, we live in blurry times. Who's got real talent, and who is famous just for being famous? The popularity of many reality stars far eclipses that of real actors, ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Q & A with Bobby Flay, Part 2: Why Being on TV is the Easy Part
The Food NetworkBobby Flay on the set of his newest cooking show, Barbecue AddictionIn the first part of our interview with Bobby Flay, he gave us some insight into how his opinion of the L.A. restaurant scene has changed over the years, as well as how he thinks the Food Network has molded th ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview
mariobatalivoiceSkirt Steak with Jasmine Rice and Apple-Wine Chutney, Albini-style. Back in March, when we wrote about the Monsters of Folk crème brûlée blog, we said that famous recording engineer, musician, wicked amateur poker player, and gourmand Steve Albini should have a food blog ... More >>
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May 4, 2011
ABC Pulls Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution: Watch Some Dancing, Drink Some Chocolate Milk
Jamie Oliver If you tuned in last night to see Jamie Oliver, with or without his tomato suit, fighting the good fight on the streets of Los Angeles, if not in its public school cafeterias, you will have been disappointed. And though you doubtless enjoyed Dancing With The Stars as much as we d ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Don't Be a Mayo Swoosher 99 Other Tips from Chefs
Food NetworkThe May 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine claims to give you the "100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of All Time!)." These are the "greatest" tips, presumably, because they come courtesy of "the top chefs in the country." Los Angeles represents well, with a number of our city's chefs ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
Q & A With Lidia Bastianich: On Vegas, Her Next Book Chances Of An L.A.-based Eataly
flickr user pritheworldBastianich At An Eataly Cooking Class DemoLidia Bastianich has a successful, long-running food television career on PBS, too many cookbooks to count, a mini Italian restaurant empire, namesake retail pasta sauces, and even a new QVC ceramic cookware line (sure, why not? ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Food News Roundup: The Cheese Police, 1 Billion Anchovies Paula Deen Riding Things
-- The 15 best meatballs in New York City. [Marcus Samuelsson] -- Billions of dead fish invade Redondo's King Harbor Marina. [Daily Breeze] -- Bring Back the Poison Squad (that would be old school food-safety regulators). [Slate] -- Three Drinks Ahead, with Humphrey Bogart. [Modern Drunkard] ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Anthony Bourdain Joins Writing Team on HBO's Treme
Anthony Bourdain, no stranger to TV, is moving to the other side of the camera.Under Anthony Bourdain's many writing credits - Kitchen Confidential, Bone in the Throat and Medium Raw, to name a few - we can now add HBO series Treme to that list. As the AVClub reports, via Nola.com, the sharp ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
OCTOPI HAVE BALLS?
Anthony Bourdain, no stranger to TV, is moving to the other side of the camera.Under Anthony Bourdain's many writing credits - Kitchen Confidential, Bone in the Throat and Medium Raw, to name a few - we can now add HBO series Treme to that list. As the AVClub reports, via Nola.com, the sharp ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Rick Bayless Taco-Blocks Local Blogger
Chicago-based chef Rick Bayless, who graciously introduced Los Angeles to authentic music right after introducing us to authentic Mexican cuisine, doesn't want a certain Los Angeles blogger to know what he's doing. The blogger in question is Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA, who savaged Red O in ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
The Feast's Top 20 Most "Liked" Chefs on Facebook: Y'all May Be Not Agree With #1
The FeastMichael Symon, the #5 most "Liked" chef on FacebookDo you think Michael Symon is sneering at Mario Batali across Kitchen Stadium right now, mocking him for having an inferior number of "Likes" on Facebook? We can almost hear Symon's Nelson-esque "hah-hah" from here. "Only 23,000-some ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
The Daily Meal's 50 Most Powerful People in Food
Listmania continues (David Letterman's cultural legacy, perhaps, along with Velcro suits) but this time The Daily Meal has come up with something more compelling than a list of Top 10 Cupcakes. Theirs? America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food. It's a good list, as it would be: The Daily Meal is h ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Q & A With Eric Ripert: His New Book, More Fun With PBS Le Bernardin's Numbers
A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont Eric Ripert was in town a few weeks ago on a book tour for his fourth and most recent cookbook, Avec Eric, a sort-of companion book to his Emmy award-winning PBS show of the same name. We met Ripert at the Chateau Marmont, his customary hang-ou ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution the LAUSD: An Open Letter to Parents
It's now Day 4 of Jamie Oliver's Los Angeles Food Revolution and the British chef staged a rally of sorts yesterday at his Westwood headquarters, Jamie's Kitchen, in order to garner support for his efforts to get into Los Angeles public school kitchens. Oliver has been repeatedly denied acces ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Q & A With Eric Ripert, Part 2: Celebrity Chefs, Spago's Spies The Identity of Ruth Bourdain
A. ScattergoodEric Ripert at the Chateau Marmont In the first part of our interview with Eric Ripert, the French chef who is chef-partner at New York City's Le Bernardin, the author of four cookbooks, the host of his own PBS show, Friend Of Tony, and (lest we forget) recipient of French's Leg ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/10-1/14
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I can remember only one happy outcome: A friend sent a curry back to the kitchen at a Thai restaurant because it wasn't spicy enough, and it came back spicy enough to light up a pinball machine, which to anybody but him would ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Guns, Gasoline & Shark Fins: Gordon Ramsay Risks Life for Television Show
MirrorGordon Ramsay If anybody thinks that being a TV chef is easier than actually working behind the stoves, Gordon Ramsay, of all people, can now report otherwise. The English chef, still a faint presence here at Gordon Ramsay at the London, West Hollywood and the host of many reality telev ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
What Your Sausage Won't Tell: Q A With Cracker Barrel Line Cook Dan Keller
Twitter user NewCookDanSausage or Bacon?To some folks, news reports on the latest tensions in Lebanon simply means a customer didn't particularly care for that salty country ham biscuit (clearly one of those crazy Californians) at Cracker Barrel, arguably the mightiest of all chain diners. Th ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Q & A with Scott Conant, Part 2: Silverton, Celebrity, and Defending the Spaghetti Price Structure
Flickr user Muy YumScott Conant in the kitchen of Scarpetta Beverly Hills In part 1 of our interview with Scarpetta chef Scott Conant, we discussed his youth; how rejection from a plumbing program lead him to the life of a chef; what it felt like to get that first three-star review in The New ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Musical Kitchen Chairs: Sara Johannes Named Chef de Cuisine at WP24
Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining GroupSara JohannesIf you haven't been to WP24, Wolfgang Puck's newish restaurant, you can live vicariously and just read Jonathan Gold's latest review, out today. Or you can head downtown, past the gathering crowds of Lakers fan and the folks at LA Live, past the val ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
A Recipe From the Chef: Ming Tsai's Mom's Famous Vinegared Shrimp
Kyle BooksMing Tsai's mom's famous vinegared shrimp We may not all have mothers who make awesome vinegared shrimp, or grandfathers who grew their own chiles for sambal or made their own dumpling wrappers, as chef, cookbook author and television host Ming Tsai did. But hey, that's why people ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Cookbook Review: Avec Eric, A Culinary Travelogue Eric Ripert's Homemade Butter Recipe
Ya, ya we all know not to judge a book by its cover. And then we do it anyway. Consider Avec Eric, the latest from Eric Ripert that looks like yet another food television show in hardcover form. And it is, complete with another hot-as-hell Top Chef judge as the star. But when you get into the ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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June 4, 2009
Wolfgang Puck’s Bar & Grill Export at L.A. Live
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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