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May 23, 2012
Tales of the Cocktail Nominees Announced: Congrats, Los Angeles
For ten years, Tales of the Cocktail has been doing for cocktail culture what the James Beard Foundation has been doing for food culture: advancing the craft of the drink through education, networking, promotion, as well as a bit of sanctioned mayhem. Each summer the organization throws a massive pa ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
Food News Roundup: Food Stamps at Farmers Markets, Disneyland's Club 33 Eater L.A.'s Pizza Week
The Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a $4 million grant will help supply the technology for farmers markets to accept food stamps. (The Electronic Benefit Transfer card has largely replaced paper coupons.) Eater L.A.: Chinese pizzas, most expensive pizzas ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Paula Wolfert Comes to L.A.'s Central Library: Moroccan Food, Favorite Kitchen Tools Issues of Sous-Vide
If you love couscous, Moroccan cuisine and the many glorious cookbooks of Paula Wolfert (not necessarily in that order), you have someplace to be this Saturday morning. Wolfert will be speaking at downtown's Central Library in an event brought to you by the Culinary Historians of Southern California ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
Live Stream the James Beard Awards: Cheer Mozza Possible Foie Protest
If you're the sort of food-obsessed person who will be following Twitter this afternoon and evening to find out exactly who's winning awards, or who's complaining about not having done so, at tonight's James Beard award ceremony, you might consider just live streaming the event. That's what the folk ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
James Beard 2012 Award Winners
The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
Read This Now, or Soon: Naomi Duguid & Rozanne Gold Start Columns in Cooking Light
Granted, you may be the sort of person who reads Lucky Peach and daydreams about Arzak eggs and impossibly rich pork broth instead of salad, but you might want to start checking out Cooking Light anyway. No, this is not an intervention. (Unless you want it to be.) Cooking Light is about a lot more t ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
L.A. Weekly Food: New Hires and Big (Exciting!) Changes
Let's start by stating the obvious: There have been big changes to the L.A. Weekly's food section recently. And there are even more on the way. After our longtime critic Jonathan Gold departed for the L.A. Times, we've been nibbling on this and that: a reflection on cookbooks from Roy Choi, a piece ... 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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February 28, 2012
Tonight at Farmshop: Colman Andrews Italian Food
This evening, a hometown hero returns to Santa Monica. We write of celebrated cookbook author and restaurant reviewer Colman Andrews. Offspring of a radio soap scribe and an actress, former student at Loyola Marymount, City College, and UCLA respectively, Andrews is a co-founder of Saveur magazine ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
James Beard Awards 2012: Semifinalists Announced
Los Angeles chefs made a strong showing among the semifinalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Local nominees for the Best Chef, Pacific award include Josef Centeno (Lazy Ox Canteen), Michael Cimarusti (Providence), David Feau (The Royce at the Langham), Matt Molina (M ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Top Chef Casting Call at The Foundry
Top Chef is turning 10! Are you surprised? Unlikely. They only win Emmys and James Beard awards out the wazoo. If we were Bravo, we'd keep milking that cash cow as well. But of course, one needs new talent to keep those Quickfires hot, which means it's casting call time.
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December 14, 2011
10 Food Predictions for 2012
2011 was quite a year in the Los Angeles dining scene. If you had told us a year ago that we'd be eagerly wolfing down plates of alligator schnitzel, polenta sushi, and corned beef tongue sandwiches from a Michael Voltaggio shop with the word "sack" in its title, we wouldn't have believed you ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Cochon 555 Now Has A Rewards Program -- Kind of Like Costco
Anne FishbeinThe scene at Cochon 555 2011The well-heeled hedonists who flip like patties over Cochon 555's annual baptism-by-pork don't need any extra incentives to support local agriculture. Pork shoulder bánh mì, carnitas tacos, and maple pork-fat ice cream reel them in just fine. Yet C ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Pete Wells Named New York Times Restaurant Critic
Pete WellsThe New York Times just confirmed that Pete Wells will be that paper's next restaurant critic, ending two months of rampant speculation about who would get that coveted chair at the table. The previous critic, Sam Sifton, stepped down in September after two years at the position. Th ... More >>
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October 20, 2011
Jonathan Gold Reviews Night + Market
Kris Yenbamroong mixes Thai with hip
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October 13, 2011
The Tasting Kitchen's Justin Pike Named L.A.'s Best Bartender
Steven ArmstrongThird-place Devon Tarby pours a thirsty spectator some love On Sunday, Table 20 hosted its second annual L.A.'s Best Bartender contest at Elevate Lounge in Downtown Los Angeles. Five of L.A.'s top bartenders arrived to compete for the title of L.A.'s Best Bartender before six ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Q & A with Chef Sean Ehland, Part 1: From Culinary High Schooler to Noma Stagier
Photo by Shauna MillerIt seems some chefs just can't sit still these days. As Jonathan Gold mused in A Movable Beast, it's no longer essential that chefs simply keep to their kitchen. We have chefs who pop up, chefs who make guest appearances, chefs who get in trucks and roam the streets. Now ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Cookbook Review: Intoxicated Cupcakes: 41 Tipsy Treats
Intoxicated Cupcakes: 41 Tipsy Treats, the latest in the recent onslaught of booze-drenched cake cookbooks, certainly isn't going after any James Beard awards. But it's summer. And so it's perfectly acceptable to have a strawberry daiquiri cupcake (p. 40) followed by a piña colada cupcake ch ... More >>
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July 1, 2011
A Recipe from Clifford Wright: Gomser Cholera
Clifford A. WrightGomser Cholera, a Swiss potato and cheese pie Clifford Wright is a James Beard award winning author and culinary instructor at Venice Cooking School with New York Times columnist Martha Rose Shulman. He's been widely hailed as the foremost English speaking expert on Medit ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Noooooooooooo! Alton Brown to End "Good Eats"
One of our favorite cooking shows ever, right up there with the Galloping Gourmet when he was still a drunk, is finito. Alton Brown announced yesterday that after 249 episodes, his Food Network show Good Eats is done. (Chicago Tribune reports Brown announced it as his first post on Twitter, b ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Goes to New York City
Anne Fishbein This week's Counter Intelligence goes bi-coastal, as our critic travels to New York City -- there for the James Beard awards, of which he picked up a few more to stash in his overstuffed Altadena closet -- to check out the dinner scene. Man, or some of them, cannot live in San G ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Last Night: The 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards The Winners
J. RitzOutstanding Chef nom Suzanne Goin and Best NYC Chef winner Gabrielle Hamilton on the green carpet outside the JBFAs. We Californians have a reputation, however fictional or exaggerated, for looking on the bright side of things. So when it comes to reporting on the 2011 James Beard Fou ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Food News Roundup: Sriracha Chicken, Movie Sandwiches More Fun Listening to Bourdain Talk
-- Saveur #127, the Los Angeles Edition. (Congrats, Javier! Street food! And yes, James Oseland used to be a proofreader at LA Weekly.) [Saveur] -- Allergies explained using cookies and candy. [Boing Boing] -- 5 Questions for Walter Manzke, or the joy of immersion circulators. [Daily Dish] -- ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
2011 James Beard Media Award Winners
It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the first ever ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Food News Roundup: Bourdain on Beard, Questions for Roy Choi The Online World of Cannibals
-- Anthony Bourdain on the James Beard awards ("I would sooner attend a Renaissance Fair in Hell"). [No Reservations, via The New York Times.] -- The Great Mayonnaise Debate. [Food Republic] -- Two words: Absinthe Cake. [Food Gal] -- A cup of coffee & illegal immigration. [Los Angeles Times] ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Osteria La Buca Gets New Chef, New Menu
In addition to a streamlined new look, Melrose-and-Western neighborhood favorite Osteria La Buca is getting a streamlined menu courtesy of new executive chef Jason Neroni, an Orange County native known for his cooking at Brooklyn's Porchetta and Manhattan's 10 Downing Food & Wine. (He's also ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Behind The James Beard Awards: A Cookbook Judge's Journey
J. GarbeeWeighing In With Salty OpinionsThe Husband: Your James Beard books arrived, several boxes. One weighed 50 pounds. James Beard Reviewer: Ha, you're funny. TH: I'm not kidding. I had to help Jerry [our UPS guy] carry them up the stairs. JBR: Seriously? Shit. Those text messages su ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
2011 JBF Journalism Awards Nominees: Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh
James Beard FoundationLess than half an hour ago, the James Beard Foundation announced the nominees for the 2011 JBF Journalism Awards, and the Weekly's own Jonathan Gold earned two nods (for Food-Related Feature and for the M.F.K. Fisher award) as did Los Angeles magazine restaurant critic ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
James Beard 2011 Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition
Award season is approaching again, and we don't just mean the Oscars. The nominations for Food & Wine's best new chef award opened yesterday, and now the James Beard Foundation has announced the semifinalists for their restaurant and chef awards. Here's the complete (very long) list. The Be ... More >>
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January 19, 2011
James Beard House Brings Its "Friends of James Beard" Benefit To SoCal
James Beard Foundation If you missed the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour stop in L.A. last summer, not to worry; the culinary powerhouse is headed back to Southern California, this time bringing with it a weekend full of cooking demonstrations, extravagant meals and even a few Food Network s ... More >>
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January 6, 2011
Just Your Average Chef Fest in an Historic Landmark National Park Hotel: Yosemite Chefs' Holidays at the Ahwahnee
Chris AndreChefs' winter wonderland: the dining room at the Ahwanee. For those who want to experience our country's natural treasures but aren't the camping type, here is the event for you. The 26th annual Yosemite Chefs' Holidays series of chef demonstrations, presentations, dinners, recepti ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
[Updated] Finally, A Reason to Eat at Chipotle: Nate Appleman Will Make Your Burrito
Food NetworkNate ApplemanIt seems like Chipotle has finally figured out how to get some of us to walk through its doors. No, not by dreaming up a well-placed ad campaign. Not by being in seemingly every mall in America. Not even by serving natural meats and reducing sodium and supporting loca ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Food Bloggers Now Eligible for James Beard Foundation Awards
James Beard FoundationA Coveted James Beard Award In barely the blink of an eye, food blogging has exploded. Sometimes it seems that hardly an accountant, construction worker, or production assistant is without a personal blog detailing their relationship with food, or at the very least, the ... More >>
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September 20, 2010
Bon Appétit Moves From L.A. to New York Barbara Fairchild to Leave Magazine
James Beard FoundationBarbara FairchildCondé Naste announced this morning that food magazine Bon Appétit will relocate its offices later this year from Los Angeles to New York, and that, after 32 years with the magazine, editor-and-chief Barbara Fairchild will be leaving the magazine. Fair ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
James Beard Foundation: The L.A. Celebrity Chef Tour
James Beard Foundation Chances are very few of us will ever get the opportunity to dine at the The James Beard House. Forget the fact that it's three thousand miles away in New York's Greenwich Village; even if it was in your backyard the fact is that James Beard events are typically reserve ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Q & A With Pan Am Room's Norman Fierros: Hairdressing, Life in Phoenix & The Lure of Airplanes
If you've flown into Santa Monica Airport (literally, figuratively) hungry for dinner anytime recently, you're aware that The Hump, the infamous restaurant above Typhoon, is no more. In its place, owner Brian Vidor has remodeled the upstairs space into the Pan Am Room. The reworked restaurant gets i ... More >>
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May 10, 2010
Q & A With Dorie Greenspan: Her New Book, the Pierre Hermé Fan Club Why Baking Is More Fun Than Gerontology
Alan RichardsonDorie GreenspanDorie Greenspan is one of those people who, in a perfect world, would live in the house next door. She would advise you about pie crust over coffee on the front porch. You would leave a plate of anonymous cookies on her front step, knowing how ridiculous it was t ... More >>
Eat+Drink
February 5, 2010
W Is for Brasserie
Delphine, on Hollywood's left bank (sorta)
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May 7, 2009
Fucking With "Fucking With Drew Barrymore”
And more thoughts on L.A. People 2009
Eat+Drink
August 31, 2006
L.A. Simonized
Kerry Simon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chef, comes west
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