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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 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 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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April 3, 2012
2012 IACP Award Winners Announced
The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- yes, that's an old joke now, but you try googling IACP and see what you get -- announced their 2012 award winners at their annual conference last night in Ne ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
UMAMIcatessen: Now Open Photo Gallery
Up until Saturday, Broadway Street in downtown L.A. was a great place to be if you were in search of a bedazzled quinceañera dress, a solid gold watch, an art deco architecture tour, or a decent torta. But it terms of modern dining, Historic Broadway wasn't quite the hot bed of hipsterdom that the ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
A New (Year) Of Wine Books: Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest... For Bargain Wines
Aspirin, caffeine, blowfish. What really cures a 2012 hangover (Happy, happy by the way)? We're going with cheap -- but good -- wine. Sure, 'tis this time of year for New Year's resolution cliches. But as wine journalist Natalie MacLean is well aware, the key is finding those bargain wines that ac ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Q & A with Hatfield's Peter Birmingham on Finding the Sweet in Sweet Wine
K. RobbinsPeter Birmingham with a bottle of MacVin du Jura Dessert wines, the awkward, misunderstood stepsister of their cooler, vastly more popular, dryer brethren, are often overlooked by restaurateurs and sommeliers, who balk at trying to push bottles that in the year 2000 made up less tha ... 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 12, 2011
Jonathan Gold Samples New York's Best Eateries During Beard Weekend
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 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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March 31, 2011
Top 10 Most Interesting Things We Learned on a Top Chef Masters Conference Call with Curtis Stone, Ruth Reichl and James Oseland
Photo courtesy of Bravo.Host Curtis Stone, and Judges Ruth Reichl and James OselandWe spent the better part of Tuesday morning on a Top Chef Masters conference call, in which myriad media reps listened on mute while Season 3 host Curtis Stone and judges Ruth Reichl and James Oseland chatted a ... 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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February 18, 2011
Reader Comment of the Day: Awards, Meatloaf Nuclear Fusion
Instead of nodding your head in agreement, yelling obscenities -- or throwing your lunch at your computer screen, which is problematic at best -- the Reader Comment option on this and other blogs is a very useful way to weigh in on the conversation. This reader comment, from H. H. Silver, was in ans ... 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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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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May 8, 2010
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/3-5/7
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Romance and Mount Washington don't necessarily go together. I mean, they do, but not in restaurants, unless you want to re-enact the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene at Casa Bianca, which you don't."
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April 5, 2010
10 Leg of Lamb Recipes I Briefly Considered Making Yesterday
Flickr/One from RM 1. Julia Child's gigot a la moutarde. Bea Arthur's favorite, sure. But powdered ginger and pounded dried rosemary? Even on Easter, this one requires a leap of faith. 2. Chorizo-stuffed leg of lamb from Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques. The Mexican-Moroccan-Prove ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
2010 James Beard Finalists Announed: Suzanne Goin, Matt Molina, Michael Cimarusti, Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh Nominated
James BeardTwitter is at it again. The 2010 James Beard Award Finalists were announced this morning via the foundation's Twitter account. L.A's Suzanne Goin, of Lucques, AOC Wine Bar, Hungry Cat and Tavern was nominated for Outstanding Chef, while Matt Molina of Mozza and Michael Cimarusti of ... More >>
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February 18, 2010
James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition
James BeardThis morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
The Best Baking and Pastry Books of 2009
This wasn't the greatest year for "keeper" cookbooks. Are you really going to whip up fussy 6-hour chicken wings on Monday game nights and weekend beef stew that takes so long to make you could drive to the French Laundry and back before it's ready? Well, maybe. It turns out 2009 was a stellar yea ... More >>
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December 4, 2009
Holiday Cookie Recipes: Brown Butter Date-Walnut Rolls from Amelia Saltsman via Marion Cunningham
Random HouseMarion Cunningham To help you find the just the right cookie for your holiday baking spree, we're calling up chefs around town for their favorites. Over the next few weeks you'll find recipes for buttery sugar and chewy molasses cookies -- even vegan snickerdoodles, if you must (w ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
The James Beard Foundation's Invitational: Food and Cocktails Duke It Out
From 6:30 p.m. until the lights rose at 2:00 a.m. this past Monday (well, Tuesday), Squid Ink put in a full work day at The James Beard Foundation's L.A. Chef Invitational at The Foundry. As enjoyable as the evening was, good food and classic cocktails are difficult to mix. Eric Greenspan noted th ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
James Beard Foundation LA Chef Invitational At The Foundry: Eat, Drink, Repeat
A fairly high percentage of L.A.'s finer dining restaurants are closed on Mondays. Next Monday that's probably a good thing, as not a few of them will be at The Foundry on Melrose. Eric Greenspan, chef-owner of The Foundry, will be hosting The James Beard Foundation L.A. Chef Invitational, a 5-cours ... More >>
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August 20, 2009
Sugar Shortage, Yes. Crisis? Not So Much.
On August 7th, some of the country's largest food processors, including Mars, Hershey's, General Mills and Kraft, sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stating that the country was on the verge of a massive sugar shortage and that, without raising the quotas on the amount of tariff-free ... More >>
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August 18, 2009
The eGullet Society Food Site: Forums (The World's Best Cookbooks), Discussions & Cookbook Recipe Testing
eGulleteGullet Society If you're surfing the web in the next few days, you might want to check in with the food website eGullet, which is doing a forum on the world's best cookbooks. Why? Because lists are inherently fun reading, and also because eGullet numbers among its members many of the ... More >>
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August 6, 2009
Los Angeles Public Library Cookery Ephemera Collection
Los Angeles Public LibraryWonder Sandwich SuggestionsFood is as much about history as it is about taste, and digging into that history offers often mouth-watering illumination about who we are and where we came from. Angelenos are fortunate to have a renowned culinary treasure available to th ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Ludo Lefebvre's Chocolate Cupcake Recipe: Foie Gras Chantilly Optional
"I'm thinking about creating the world's most expensive cupcake," says Ludovic Lefebvre as he drowns nuggets of fattened goose livers in heavy whipping cream for a foie gras chantilly.
LA Life
October 2, 2008
Best Shrimp Louie: Grill on the Alley
"I'm thinking about creating the world's most expensive cupcake," says Ludovic Lefebvre as he drowns nuggets of fattened goose livers in heavy whipping cream for a foie gras chantilly.
Eat+Drink
May 18, 2006
Station Identification
"I'm thinking about creating the world's most expensive cupcake," says Ludovic Lefebvre as he drowns nuggets of fattened goose livers in heavy whipping cream for a foie gras chantilly.
Eat+Drink
December 29, 2005
Send a Salami...
"I'm thinking about creating the world's most expensive cupcake," says Ludovic Lefebvre as he drowns nuggets of fattened goose livers in heavy whipping cream for a foie gras chantilly.
News
November 3, 2005
Letters
"I'm thinking about creating the world's most expensive cupcake," says Ludovic Lefebvre as he drowns nuggets of fattened goose livers in heavy whipping cream for a foie gras chantilly.
News
May 5, 2005
Letters
"I'm thinking about creating the world's most expensive cupcake," says Ludovic Lefebvre as he drowns nuggets of fattened goose livers in heavy whipping cream for a foie gras chantilly.
Eat+Drink
August 19, 2004
America Childless
Julia Child, 1912�2004
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July 15, 2004
Post-Puck Generation
Cooking in the Age of Anxiety
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April 1, 2004
Wines on Target
Cooking in the Age of Anxiety
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June 5, 2003
Salty Prose: Judy Rodgers and the Art of the Cookbook
The Zuni Cafe Cookbook
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March 16, 2000
My Favorite Things, Part 3
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