Jell-O Desserts

Get On the Bus: The DIY Pizza Oven

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. When you get your first glance at L.A.'s Fox Pizza Bus, you might think you've stumbled upon one of those movie star home tours -- or maybe a sightseeing bus. Rather than tourists, though, the backseats of this bus are occupied by ... More >>

Your 4th of July Dining Deal Round-Up: Cobbler, Korean BBQ Sliders Beer Pong

Beer Belly's Backyard Boogie: The Filipino grillmasters at the The Park's Finest are joining forces with Beer Belly to host their 2nd annual "Backyard Boogie," an afternoon stocked with plenty of BBQ and beer. From 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., you can enjoy smoky pulled pork, hot links, coconut beef, bibingka ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Gay Rights Oreo Graphic, Tomato and Strawberry Gazpacho Foods That Improve Sexual Health

Bon Appetit: 10 foods that possess aphrodisiac qualities and can (theoretically) improve your sexual health. MSNBC Bites: Rainbow Oreo graphic celebrating LGBT pride month sparks advertising controversy. Eatocracy: Remembering Nora Ephron through her film Julie & Julia, as well as Ephron's other ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Cookbook Review: What Exactly Is A Mormon Cookbook? We're Still Not Sure

What exactly is a Mormon cookbook? Yeah, we wondered, too. And so we requested a copy of The Essential Mormon Cookbook by Julie Badger Jensen from the Deseret Book Company, a publisher in Salt Lake City (the book was originally published in 2004; the Kindle edition was just released earlier this yea ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Cooking Crazy, Street Vendor Fundraiser, Abeja Winery Tasting, Orchestral Maneuvers, Tour de Taste, Hudson House Birthday

Cooking Crazy Learn about Futurism, Surrealism and the development of French and Italian art in the 19th and 20th centuries by touring LACMA's collection, then heading to Surfas to sip wine and prepare a meal inspired by Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Coo ... More >>

Sniff This Now: Scented Highlighters

​Created by Japanese inventor Yukio Horie in 1963, the humble highlighter has moved far beyond basic yellow. There are dozens of colors -- and flavors. Raymond Geddes makes 21 flavors of scented highlighters, from sweet to savory, obvious to absurd. There's Fudgie Wudgie, Candy Apple, Pizza, L ... More >>

My Jello Americans: The Jell-O Shots Blog

Finally, the Jell-O shot isn't just for frat boys trying desperately to get girls drunk. The jiggly creations have been elevated to the level of high cuisine and high art at My Jello Americans, a blog that features stunning and whimsical gelatin creations. Some of their most stunning pieces feature ... More >>

Studies Show Thankfulness Can Lead to Better Health - & Better Sex

It's the day of thanks, when we all gather 'round the table or picnic blanket and hope there's at least one person in the room we're thankful for having in our lives. Food is usually involved, as is wine and other alcoholic splendor, and with all the focus on baking the perfect pie and finding flatt ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What'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), it's where most of ... More >>

David Mitchell's Soapbox: Towering Hamburgers Woo Food

Hey, fans of BBC America. You know David Mitchell, the comedian, actor and master of the nervous stammer who stars in the British-made sketch series That Mitchell and Webb Look and the sit-com Peep Show? The guy who also writes regular newspaper columns in The Guardian and The Observer and is the f ... More >>

Gee, That Food Looks Terrible!

jbcurio / FlickrTwo of the vintage ads in the Gee, That Looks Terrible! Flickr pool.​God bless old cookbooks and vintage advertisements. God bless Jell-O molds. God bless America's post-WWII bounty and our faith in science to "improve" hearty, classic foods by replacing them with elaborately s ... More >>

Cola Up: Jellied Japanese Soda

Guzzle & NoshCola Up: The soda that eats like Jell-O.​If light can be a particle and a wave, why can't cola be a liquid and a solid? Cola Up bridges the chasm between traditionalists who insist that soda should be sipped and hydrocolloidal optimists who believe anything can be slurped down in ... More >>

Corey Helford Gallery History: Six Standouts in the Last Five Years

Photo by Shannon Cottrell​ At LA Weekly, we've always liked Corey Helford's mix of high/low art, from cute to cool to downright creepy. As the gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary with its current show "Zero to Sixty," which closes today, we thought we'd look back at six standout shows.

Internally Yours by Nouar: Food Art Exhibit

Some of the art currently on display at Corey Helford looks so good, you might be tempted to peel it off the wall and eat it. Maniacal Jell-O molds tromping through the blood of their deceased compatriots. A flirty cowgirl with a glistening Jolly Rancher for a head. A translucent puppy digesting a ... More >>

Harmontown

Hollandaised and Confused: Cooking with Keif, Your Latest Pot Cookbook

​ There was a time when pairing Slurpee flavors with Sour Patch Kids by their color was considered a gourmet marijuana experience. Discovering the perfect addition to your badly stirred bowl of mac 'n cheese (yup, it's fruity pebbles) was a master stroke of cannabis culinary brilliance. Thes ... More >>

Community Gathering: Interview With Show's Creator Dan Harmon

Gillian Jacobs and Joel McHale in Community​ Do you watch Community? You should, if you like funny, ensemble-based shows like 30 Rock and Parks & Recreation. Or even if you enjoy Two and a Half Men. Community creator Dan Harmon and the Nerdist folks invite fans and would-be fans to Meltdown C ... More >>

Morning News Roundup: Taco Madness, German Bars, Freakiest NYC Sublet Story EVER

Gustavo Arellano/OC Weekly​More news you definitely cannot use but need to read: --Tapatio-flavored Fritos debuting in 2 weeks! [Stick A Fork In It] --Bill Buford's Heat, about his year as Mario Batali's kitchen slave, got a film deal. [DHD] --Tap rooms, bars, lives bands -- the grocery store ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Cops, Pints, Paula Deen Jell-O

-- Too Many Sommeliers, Not Enough Training. [ZesterDaily] -- Colorado prison inmates raise fish for food. [The Denver Post] -- Greek restaurant Xandros has a crisis of faith, identity, ownership, something. Cops, etc. [Eater LA] -- Could the days of the British "pint" be numbered? [Reuters] -- ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/6-12/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When you see how they react to the live octopus tentacles at Masan or the pig ear chicharrones at Lazy Ox Canteen, you may have a better idea of how they might handle the idea of babysitting triplets or a sudden move to Icel ... More >>

Blast from the Past: 10 Pictures from Cookbooks for Kids

Because teaching kids to cook isn't the same as teaching grown-ups, cookbooks have always used a different approach in getting children to learn how to prepare food: they get them into the kitchen with pictures of cute, fun-to-make desserts. Flickr user Charm and Poise has compiled vintage kid-food ... More >>

Your Thanksgiving Meal... in Cupcakes

Yummy CupcakesClockwise from top right: Lime Jell-O, Turkey Cranberry, Pumpkin Pie and Marshmallow Yam. ​ Don't want to make an entire Thanksgiving dinner? Just skip to dessert. Yummy Cupcakes (with stores in Burbank, Hollywood, Brentwood and Santa Monica) is offering cupcakes with such holida ... More >>

More Fun With Restaurant Critics: Sam Sifton Reviews LudoBites

The New York Timesthe anonymous restaurant critic​"Reservations to LudoBites are the summer's must-have accessory in this restaurant-mad city," writes restaurant critic Sam Sifton in today's New York Times, "written about on Twitter and blogs and heralded in the pages of LA Weekly, where the ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Thesex & Summer Tramps

Sugary (and Corn Syrupy) Blast From the Past: A Look Back at Our Nation's Favorite Desserts

From banana splits and Eskimo pie to cake kits, ambrosia, and bacon-laced cupcakes, American society has always craved something to satisfy its ever-present sweet tooth. But what defines our taste in desserts? Cleverly packaged free "recipe books" published by companies like Pillsbury and Del Monte, ... More >>

Tasty by Any Name

A noodle house in the San Gabriel Valley changes, amazingly

More Disappointing News From the Pumpkin Patch

Try as I might, I couldn't get Urth Caffé to share the recipe for their award-winning, outrageously good pumpkin pie with us. To be fair, co-founder Shallom Berkman did actually take the time to get back to me, but sadly the response also came with the old "It's a family recipe" chestnut. He went o ... More >>

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Talk about Their Next Big Foodie Flick: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

​Writers and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have thought an awful lot about food. But not in any sort of usual way. While working on their animated film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs based on the 1978 classic kid's book, Lord and Miller had to take the initial premise involving frea ... More >>

Best Tranny Bar: The Silver Platter

Best Poly Party: A Club Called Rhonda

Nightranger: A Club Called Rhonda and a Moonlight Rollerway Jubilee

New Pork City: Eating Everything but the Squeal

Big Apple Pigs

¡ask a Mexican! Let My Gente Go

It Ain’t Like That Anymore

By Peter Fletcher I was reminiscing with my buddy, Bruce Duff, after watching Celebrity Skin at the Detour festival in downtown LA. We were talking about the LA underground music scene back in the late 80s and early 90s (and lamenting the lack of one nowadays) and how there was a camaraderie betwe ... More >>

Warm Jello

Bill Manspeaker

Quaking Politicians

They ignore and delay the inevitable on immigrants’ rights at their own peril

Capital News

On Native Ground

Gardening in the asphalt jungle

Diners

Scenes from a Mall

Ask Mr. Gold

Farting Robots and Shitting Ducks

The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

When I’m 64

Who Wants To Be a Popsicle?

Blood Sacrifice

Westside Chop Shop

Pho, bun and spring rolls at Le Saigon

It Must Be Jelly . . .

'cause jam don't shake like that

Clifton’s Brookdale Cafeteria

Sawtelle Boulevard

Unrolling American Japanese food history on the Westside