Fruits and Vegetables

Study: Eating Lots of Fruits and Vegetables May Help Asthma Sufferers

Eating lots of fruits and vegetables may help reduce asthma symptoms, according to a recent study. But if you're one of the 25 million Americans with the breathing disorder, the take-away message is not that you should rely solely on dietary improvements. "One of the dangers here is that people pic ... More >>

10 Best Tamales in Los Angeles

At L.A.'s Mexican restaurants, the classic combination plate -- you know, the #5 or the "Macho Combo" or the "Pancho Villa Platter" that serves up a burrito, taco, tamale and chile relleno topped with yellow cheese along with refried beans, rice and flour tortillas -- tends to be ridiculed in this e ... More >>

Farmer Recipes: Coastal Organic's Grilled Salsa, Or How To Spice Up Your Tomato Relationship

jgarbeeSusana Leyva (Left) And Maryann Carpenter Know Their Tomato Recipes​Even if Coastal Organics isn't a vendor at your local farmers market, you've likely had their veggies at an L.A. restaurant. That Lucques heirloom tomato salad is often built from their beautiful Cherokee and green zebr ... More >>

Best 2010 "Diet" Cookbook That Isn't A Diet Book: Mark Bittman's Food Matters

​Diet may be a four letter word on a food blog, but eventually too much bacon really does catch up to you (or so we're told, as we have yet to reach our limit). But as it is perilously close to the New Year's resolution hour, we have been looking back on 2010, and the large amounts of cured me ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The River Cottage Preserves (And Booze) Handbook

​Canning and preserves books are typically best left to those who consider slow versus rapid set pectin a suitable cocktail conversation, or who happened to be employed by canning jar companies. Enter the just-released (stateside, it was originally printed in Britain) The River Cottage Preserv ... More >>

Picnic Run: Koreatown Supermarkets

D. GonzalezMarinated potatoes at Koreatown Gallery Market​ Honestly, can one truly get excited about supermarket deli potato salad? And yet, there it is, in all its bland, yellow-hued glory at pretty much every picnic we attend for the next three summer months. Instead of accepting our fate, ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Early Season Apricots

Felicia FriesemaJumping Jack apricots​ This seesaw weather we've been having (chilly and windy, then warm and sunny) might trick you into thinking we're stuck in a perpetual springtime, Memorial Day's approach notwithstanding. Local eaters with their noses stuck in the markets know otherwise ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Big Strawberry Season

Felicia FriesemaStrawberries at the Pasadena farmers market last Saturday​ The latest news reports say that California's strawberry season -- which technically begins now even though we see delicious berries year round -- is about to contribute to a nationwide glut of strawberries. Florida's ... More >>

Tasty by Any Name

A noodle house in the San Gabriel Valley changes, amazingly

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: Bloomsdale Spinach

Bloomsdale spinach is probably the only leafy green that can be considered even remotely sexy -- the heavily ruffled top leaves act like a billowy skirt, concealing long crunchy stems that connect in a bright pink nexus at the base of the plant. And thankfully, most vendors harvest the plants whole ... More >>

Rivera's Olive Oil Cake & Caramel Sauce: If You Haven't Tried It Yet, Make It At Home

John Sedlar, whose downtown restaurant Rivera opened in January, is known more for his flower-embedded nixtamal tortillas, his mole-sauced kurobuta pork chops, his buratta-stuffed chile relleno, his duck enfrijoladas, his chile-powder-as-art plate stencils, and his curating of Latin food history (th ... More >>

Best Thai Pancakes for Vegans

Pizza

Thai

Dinner at Eight

A Cuban Rhapsody

In the Land of Sugarplum Fairies

The Driving Concept: Cut

The Steak House Rethunk

Vegging Out

Backpacking food can be lightweight, or it can be good. But if you know what you're doing, it can be both.

So Cal-Asian

Winter Restaurants 2002

Part 3

Eat, Memory

Searching for the taste of home

When I’m 64

Spicy With Spicy

A Mantu for All Seasons

Mapping the Afghan menu

The Farmers Market School

Eat This, Grandma

Roast chicken rules at Globe Venice

Just Dessert

Solo

Solo

Hot Spot

When in Venice . . .

Primo Pasta

Comme Ci, Comme Ça

Couscous, Bang Bang

French-Moroccan in Silver Lake

The Last Time I Saw Paris

West L.A.‘s new French bistro

Beyond Old Town

Pasadena’s civilized side

The Pig

Barbecue, Memphis-style

Frankenfoods

Should genetically modified produce frighten you?

The Pasadena Conundrum

Can Bizou succeed where others have failed?

Supersize It!

Bigger is better

Just for the El of It

And let us shed a little tear for the late El Mr. Cat No. 1

First Bites

A taste of some of the city’s newest restaurants

From Spaetzle to Saimintosoda

The world on a string

Spamming the Globe

(or Culver City at least)

A Vine Thing

The tomato worth eating

Hand Jobs

Let your fingers do the walking.

Consume Part I: Food

Forty-One Reasons to Live in LA

Ping-Pong Balls and Thai Tacos

A different kind of dessert in Hollywood