Dairy and Eggs

New Gelato and Frozen Greek Yogurt Flavors Ben & Jerry's Truck is in Town

With summer weather on the way, grocery freezer cases have some new dessert choices to help us chill. In April, Haagen-Dazs began marketing a line of gelato. And Ben & Jerry's just added three more flavors to its selection of frozen Greek yogurt, which was introduced last year. The gelato comes in ... More >>

McDonald's to Make Yolk-Free Egg McMuffins: Or, More Ways to Combat Obesity!

Conveniently in time for Easter, I guess, the fast food chain McDonald's has announced that it will begin making its Egg McMuffins without the egg yolks. Starting this spring, according to the Associated Press, you'll be able to get your oh-so-healthful breakfast sandwich made that much better for y ... More >>

3 Places in L.A. to Get Your Raclette Fix

On a backpacking trip through Europe in my early 20's I ended up in the small Alpine ski village of Isola, France. After a long day on the slopes my friend Anne-Sophie took me to a rustic restaurant for dinner -- all dark wood and fireplace and goblets of wine. There I had my first taste of raclet ... More >>

Cookbook Review: How to Boil an Egg A Lemon Ricotta Pancake Recipe By Way Of London & Paris

In 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 >>

Cheese-Making May Date Back 7,500 Years

Aged cheeses are delicious, although 7,500 years old might be a bit much. But that's how old the practice of cheese-making may be -- much older than previously thought -- according to an article in the journal Nature. Scientists have reportedly discovered 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that have ... More >>

Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces

Squid 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. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs Martha Stewart believes in studying the classics, she says, as images of Einstein, Shakespeare and Ab ... More >>

5 Best New Cookbooks For Teenagers

The upside of reality food television: all the teenagers we meet who want to hang in the kitchen in today's cool tattooed chef era. And yet most teenagers are still caught in those awkward cooking years. They don't need kid's cookbooks, or at least don't think they do. But they're not quite ready fo ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Beer Grilled Cheese Pairing, Iberico Ham Quest, Good Food Pie Contest Food Truck Battle

Beer and Grilled Cheese Pairing Night Sample exotic beers and grilled cheese at Andrew's Cheese Shop at this popular annual event, which features tastings and tutorials with beer and cheese experts. WHAT: Beer and Grilled Cheese Night WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. WHERE: Andrew's Cheese Shop ... More >>

Tips for Better Meringues From Shirley Corriher A Blueberry Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe From Cutie Pie That!

On paper, meringues look like the easiest thing to create, basically just egg whites and sugar. But looks can be deceptive. While the goal is a melt-in-your-mouth crispy texture, often the disappointing result is a sticky puddle of goo. Determined to find out what we're doing wrong, we turned to re ... More >>

Cheese, Please: What's the Deal With Mozzarella?

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. In L.A.'s not-so-distant pie past, family pizza night meant Friday evening quibbles over thick versus thin crust, debates over the proportion of marinara sauce to other ingredients and, inevitably, a few irreconcilable topping dif ... More >>

Heywood Grilled Cheese Now Open in Silver Lake: Of Cheese and Sandwiches

The 16th-century writer John Heywood loved cheese. So, in addition to collecting a number of heady epigrams in his book of proverbs -- "Out of sight, out of mind," "Haste makes waste," and so on -- he also wrote verses about reading books and eating cheese. And thus it makes sense we now have Heyw ... More >>

A Summer Cheese Chat With Andrew Steiner Of Andrew's Cheese Shop

Last we checked in with Andrew Steiner of Andrew's Cheese Shop, he was telling us that like farmers' market produce, soft cheeses in particular are "seasonal" -- and that we were in the middle of the wrong season (it was January). Now that we're in the middle of the right season, we circled back ... More >>

What Cookie Monster Will Be Eating at the Daytime Emmys

In case you were wondering what Regis and Kelly, Dr. Phil, Alex Trebek and Cookie Monster will be noshing on at the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards presentation at the Beverly Hilton this Saturday afternoon (airing at 5 p.m. PT on HLN), here is the rundown. (If you are a starving would-be soap actor ... More >>

10 Sickened by Raw Milk in California

Ten California residents have come down with food poisoning -- Campylobacter bacteria infections, to be exact -- after consuming raw milk produced by Fresno County-based Organic Pastures. Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by the dairy have been recalled and are s ... More >>

Dairyface: Do I Eat It or Put It on My Face?

Ever since we watched our mother slather raw eggs and mayonnaise on her hair and smashed avocado on her face, the idea of using food as beauty treatment has held a certain appeal. So we were kind of excited to try Dairyface, a new line of skincare products that looks like cartons of yogurt (because ... More >>

Raphael's Valentine's Celebration

Raw Milk Products Recalled Recall Upheld After Children Sickened in California

Flickr/grongarOrganic Pastures raw milk has been quarantined in California.​ The California Department of Food and Agriculture has upheld its recall of raw milk products, even though the dairy demanded the quarantine be lifted, saying tests show its milk is pathogen-free, according to the Asso ... More >>

Katherine Tidy's Very Yellow Lemon Meringue Pie: A Recipe

In our conversation with Katherine Tidy, the food stylist on BBC Film's coming-of-age food comedy Toast, we spoke of a lemon meringue pie that presented Tidy with one of her biggest challenges on the shoot. "It was pivotal," says Tidy, "so I did lots of samples of it and took pictures of it and e-ma ... More >>

Battle Pot de Crème: Mark Peel vs. Suzanne Goin a Recipe from the Winner

C. LeVasserThe duo of pots de créme.​We, and maybe you, continue to spend the majority of our time cooking at home, rather than eating out. Learning how to make things like New Orleans-style boudin blanc, and Sardinian malloreddus, seems to bring us a good bit more joy these days. So today, w ... More >>

Raw Milk Rover: The Revolution Will Be Animated

Whether you think the recent raids on raw milk pushers Rawesome Foods and Healthy Family Farms were noble, absurd, callous or simply a by-product of the government's conspiracy to force-feed chemicals to citizens, you will agree that this cartoon is stupid. Then again, with all the drama over a l ... More >>

Rawesome Foods Owner Released on Bail After Raid

Desiree N. Williams / FlickrRaw milk at an organic co-op.​[Update, 08.09.11: NaturalNews reports that as a condition of their release, the Raw Milk Three are subject to a gag order that prevents them from speaking about the case.] After being frog-marched out of his raw milk speakeasy in a We ... More >>

Raw Milk Controversy Nothing New

Laurie AvocadoClosed Alta-Dena Drive Thru Dairy, Lincoln Heights​People holding signs supporting raw milk, others giving testimonials of how drinking it has benefited their health. Were these scenes from the Thursday downtown protest over the raid on Rawesome Foods?, no, they occurred in Janua ... More >>

Crying Over Spilt Milk: Rawesome Volunteer Speaks Out on Yesterday's Raid Protest Rally

Tambako/Flickr​More details are emerging about yesterday morning's raid on Rawesome, a members-only raw food collective whose owner was arrested and jailed for the heinous crime of peddling raw milk. Most absurd and appalling is the fact that the raid was the result of a year-long undercover o ... More >>

Raw Milk Raid in Venice: Three Arrested For Alleged Unpermitted Sales of Unpasteurized Dairy

Don't do it.​Another day another raid in Venice. But this one didn't involve marijuana shops or pot docs or even RV dwellers. No, this time the targets were purveyors of fine, raw milk, a product you can't really sell legally without special permits. Those, authorities say, were not in-hand w ... More >>

Cops Raid Rawesome Foods; Owner James Stewart Arrested

Amy ScattergoodAuthorities raid Rawesome Foods in Venice, Calif.​[Update, 2:36 p.m.: The official word from the DA's office is that Stewart, Palmer & Bloch were arrested on criminal conspiracy charges stemming from the alleged illegal production and sale of unpasteurized goat milk, goat cheese ... More >>

Il Fico: Pugliese Cooking Comes to L.A.

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ Puglia, the sliver of Southern Italy often described as the heel of the boot, is home to some of the most distinctive cooking in Italy, a plain, solid, vegetable-intensive cuisine thrumming with the strong flavors of olives and garlic, rapini and favas, wild greens. ... More >>

Xtreme Eating Awards Announced: Top 8 Worst Things To Eat

Center for Science in the Public InterestThe Cheesecake Factory Farmhouse Cheeseburger​ This year's winners of the Xtreme Eating Awards have been named, just in time for us all to continue massively overeating. The so-called "dishonorees," as if we needed more clues as to the point of this, we ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Saveur's Got The New Comfort Food Down

​Yes, we know we are supposed to be at the farmers market cooing over those Blenheim apricots meant to be slowly savored and imagining the simple tomato-basil salads that will satisfy us after just a few bites with their intense summer flavors. But even this time of year, some nights all we re ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The Glorious Pasta of Italy, Including This Fettuccine Recipe

​Sure, we probably don't need another pasta cookbook. But The Glorious Pasta of Italy by Domenica Marchetti is pretty hard to pass up -- and we have a lot of Italian cookbooks in our library. Marchetti grew up in New Jersey on handmade ravioli (her mother is from Abruzzo). And so she spends ... More >>

Food Truck Friday: The Nacho Truck

To which school of cooking, precisely, do the concoctions from The Nacho Truck (@nachotruckla) belong: baroque or stoner? The line between the two can be thin.

A Good Granola Is Hard To Find A Recipe

Jeanne Kelleygranola​ A good granola is hard to find. The supermarket selection, no matter what the flavor or brand -- organic or otherwise -- tastes like stale oat flakes. And the proliferation of low fat granolas -- don't even bother with those, unless you enjoy snacking on sweetened cardboa ... More >>

Grilled Cheese Week Deals A Peek at Eric Hulme's Quack Attack Sandwich

Photos courtesy of The Oaks Gourmet Market & Tender GreensA grilled cheese & tomato sandwich from The Oaks (left); Eric Hulme's GCI entry, the Quack Attack (right).​As the 2nd 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational draws nearer and National Grilled Cheese Month draw to a close, you can still g ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Goat: Milk, Meat, Cheese A Butterscotch Goat Milk Pudding Recipe

​Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, the prolific writing-cooking duo who brought us Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter last year, have just released their eighteenth (!) cookbook, Goat: Milk, Meat, Cheese. Whether you love or hate Weinstein and Scarbrough's signature slapstick-tinged, ... More >>

Cheese Store of Beverly Hills Gives Out Artisanal Food Awards

Courtesy of The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills​Not content to sit atop a throne of taleggio as one of Los Angeles' most acclaimed cheese purveyors, Norbert Wabnig has fashioned himself into the artisanal food world's equivalent of (pre-stroke) Dick Clark, bestowing a set of annual awards to art ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Sunset Magazine's The One-Block Feast

​If you're a dedicated follower of Sunset magazine's One-Block Diet blog, where staffers report on tending a backyard-sized plot of land behind their offices where they grow vegetables, raise chickens, and such to create 100% locavore meals, then you probably don't need the magazine's just-rel ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Tupelo Honey Cafe Their Two-Cheese Mashed Cauliflower Recipe

​If you've ever been to Asheville, North Carolina, a stunning city known for its quietly elegant beauty but also for its cultural diversity (fueled in the early days by Black Mountain College, a Depression-era progressive arts education institute), then you know what writer Elizabeth Sims and ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Grilled Cheese, Please! A Bologna-Peanut Butter-Pickle Grilled Cheese Recipe (Yes, Really)

​Those pocket-sized theme cookbooks on an excessively narrow subject tend to taste repetitive very quickly (veggie burgers?). And so when we received Laura Werlin's Grilled Cheese, Please! 50 Scrumptiously Cheesy Recipes, we were wary -- that exclamation point and subtitle certainly didn't hel ... More >>

A Recipe From The Cheesemaker (And Farmer): Fried Squash Blossoms Stuffed With Nasturtiums And Jackrabbit Chevre

Flickr user kelsoAwaiting Their Jackrabbit​In our two-part interview with D.J. Mitchell, the self-taught cheesemaker was telling us why he and his wife, Suellen, started making cheese. ("We bought 20 acres in the middle of nowhere... after that that first winter, when the snow melted, we found ... More >>

Q & A With Jackrabbit Cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell, Part 2: Secret Stash Not Included

J. GarbeeHandmade Jackrabbit Feta (Cow's Milk)​When we left off with our characteristically buttoned-up cheesemaker D.J. Mitchell, owner of Jackrabbit Ranch Cheese in Southern Utah, he was opening up after his regular 450 mile drive to L.A. (he works as a freelance accountant here) about why ... More >>

The FDA Weighs Tightening Regulations on Raw Milk Cheese

Adam Kuban/FlickrA Tomme de Savoie​ Somewhere in a smoke-filled boardroom, the Whey and Curds Committee is hunched over a heap of runny rounds with washed rinds, trying to figure out whether or not the Federal government ought to clamp down on cheeses made with unpasteurized milk. A recent Ne ... More >>

Cheese Rules: Andrew's Cheese Shop Owner Andrew Steiner On Why Certain Cheeses Stink This Time Of Year

Andrews Cheese ShopSteiner May Be Smiling, But He Does Not Share The February Love​Andrew's Cheese Shop owner Andrew Steiner is not one to be bashful with his opinions. If you mention you like a certain cheese that isn't tops on his list, be prepared for a raised eyebrow and the ensuing commen ... More >>

Eat This Now: Greenleaf's Corn Hotcakes With Blueberry Compote

C. BishopGreenleaf's Corn Hotcakes​ Griddlecakes. Pancakes. Flapjacks. Heck, there's even the Danish aebleskiver. Aside from a high-octane cup of coffee, few things get our mornings started better than a towering stack of fluffy pancakes laced with butter, dripping with sticky maple syrup, or ... More >>

Mom's Apple Latkes: A Recipe

Guzzle & Nosh​ Few goyim would turn up their noses at latkes, which are, after all, what hash can only browns dream of becoming. Some have sampled the potato latke's slick city cousin, the ricotta pancake, which, no matter how much it's gussied up, is still a fancy way of saying "fried cheese ... More >>

Underground Recipe: Orgasmo De La Boca's Cornmeal Pancakes With Lox And Coriander Creme Fraiche

When 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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