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Ludo Lefebvre, Evan Kleiman and 11 More L.A Chefs Share Food Lessons Learned from Mom Grandma

While planning that super sweet gesture for mom this Mother's Day -- remember, it's coming up on Sunday -- think back to all the valuable nuggets she taught you over the years. Chances are a lot of them have to do with food, right? That's certainly the case for many chefs, some of whom might have wo ... More >>

5 Reasons to Drive to Santa Barbara for Film Feast

This week, movie folk -- both celebrities and cinephiles -- will flock 95 miles north to the 28th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Running in conjunction with the festival is Film Feast. In its third year, Film Feast is not your ordinary restaurant week. There's a catch: All of th ... More >>

A Cookbook Gift Pairing: The 2012 Fermented Holiday Edition

Remember the pre-Amazon years, when sitting cross-legged in a bookstore and sifting through cookbooks for hours was one of the most thoughtful gestures of friendship? Now that it's always Black Friday at Amazon, everyone presumes you bought that cookbook for 40% off with a single click. In an era w ... More >>

5 Essential Back-To-School Food Titles

Summer tomatoes are at their prime, the first fall apples have arrived. Where else but L.A. can you continue to cook your way through the best summer cookbooks by day while starting on those fall reading lists at night? These are the sort of nightcap-worthy books to pull out when you don't quite f ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/13 - 8/17

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "By the end of the day your palate will be scrambled, your liver probably beginning to fail, and any remaining resources will be so depleted that you can only fall into the generous arms of your DD or Metro Operator." L.A. Cra ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

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 your content comes ... More >>

Happy 100th Birthday Julia Child: A Citywide Pasadena Cocktail Party Julia Costume Contests

Today Julia Child would have turned 100 years old, a centennial that has generated a country-wide celebration. All over America, in newspaper food sections and bookstores, in restaurants and on the radio, we're toasting Child's birthday. (Check out Google's homepage! Take the PBS Julia Quiz!) And in ... More >>

Julia Child's 100th Birthday PBS' Auto-Tune Remix

Television legend and Pasadena native Julia Child, who inspired millions of aspiring chefs with her long-running cooking show, would have celebrated her 100th birthday tomorrow. With an almost half-century of footage in the old public television vaults, it's no surprise that PBS decided to create a ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/6 - 8/10

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "For Mexican, I go to My Taco a lot. It's near my house in South Pasadena. The food there is really good and fresh and well prepared. Jonathan Gold wrote about it a couple of times for their carne asada fries, but I don't order ... More >>

Julia Child's Centennial Celebration

Books: Dearie, The Remarkable Life of Julia Child Happy 100th Birthday Julia!

To kick off Julia Child's nationwide 100th birthday festivities that begin today (her actual birthday is August 15th), we're taking a look at several books released in honor of the Pasadena native. A boeuf Bourguignon centennial book party, in essence (Happy, happy birthday!). We've seen several g ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Royal/T's Farewell Pop-Up, Wirsthaus 1-Year Anniversary, Ode to Julia Child Dinner Chinatown Summer Nights

Royal/T's Farewell Pop-Up with Cordero Negro Culver City's Royal/T shuts its doors for good after next weekend, but not before going out with a bang. Chef Sandra Cordero, who apprenticed under Neal Fraser and Michael Cimarusti, will serve a special two-night dinner featuring traditional tapas like m ... More >>

Summer Reading List: New Food Beverage Books For The Family

The upside of June gloom: It's the perfect excuse to check a few titles off the kids' summer reading list and to get started on your own. After all, the sunburns and 100 degree days will be waiting in July and August. Here are some of our favorite recently released food and drink book recommendati ... More >>

Bon Appetit!: The Delicious Life of Julia Child: A Children's Book Celebrates the Life of Julia Child

Julia Child would have turned 100 this August, a centennial that will be celebrated by many venues across the country, including Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena. (Child was a Pasadena native.) The anniversary is also the occasion of the publication of a terrific new children's book by Jessie Hartland ... More >>

Coming This Summer: Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats

Anticipation in the nonfiction food book world depends on your taste in dining companions, past and present: Julia Child, Yottam Ottolenghi, Diana Kennedy, perhaps. And this summer, it will also depend on how you feel about cats. Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats by Patricia ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/2 - 4/6

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Does Los Angeles boast the best sushi in the entire country? If even Ferran Adriá is on our side, we can probably feel confident it's true." 10 Best Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles. "Anticipation in the nonfiction food boo ... More >>

Best Wine Book Of The Year: The Food Lover's Guide To Wine

Not because Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg co-authored it, though that would be reason enough. But because their latest book is good. Very good. And it's organized like their books Culinary Artistry and What to Drink with What You Eat -- classics for every thoughtful cookbook shelf. Like those ... More >>

PBS FOOD: PBS Launches Food Website

PBSJulia Child and Jacques Pépin​Another day, another food website. This latest site, however, was not launched by a grandmother who likes to bake chocolate croissants in her Reseda kitchen, a university food policy center or even a vegan start-up, but PBS. Who, of course, had us at Jacques P ... More >>

Happy 99th Birthday, Julia Child: Her Top 5 Cooking & Non-Cooking Moments

T. Nguyen​Everyone has a Julia Child story. Nancy Silverton has one. Martha Rose Shulman has one. Mary Sue Milliken has one. We have one. We bet you do, too. Today is Julia Child's birthday -- it would have been her 99th -- and it's hard not to appreciate this wonderful woman for all she did ... More >>

Angry Birds: The Cookbook

Flickr/tomazstolfaone very angry bird​ If weather girls can become television food megastars, then why can't massively addictive Finnish game apps become cookbooks? That was a rhetorical question; of course they can. And what better game to make the transition to cookbook than Angry Birds, a g ... More >>

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 >>

Nine Degrees of Food & Wine: 9 Academic Food Programs

UW Digital Collections​Does your "I'm-running-away-from-home" daydream involve the countryside and small batch goat cheese or building a giant copper still in an industrial warehouse space? Maybe it's time to take the first step towards making that dream a reality, and maybe the way to go is t ... More >>

Food Memoir(s) Review: A Tiger In The Kitchen And The Problematic Food Memoir Genre

​Memoirs have never been easy to pull off. For starters, no matter how interesting we may personally find our own Pinot Noir-enlivened nights, publishers have long gravitated to those authors who are famous enough to keep those Williams-Sonoma book signing lines out the front door. Even if tho ... More >>

The 32nd Annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare

photo courtesy of Border GrillMary Sue Milliken, Susan Feniger and Julia Child​ This Thursday, March 10th, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles will hold their 32nd Annual Food Fare at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. One of the longest-running food events in L.A., the event has come a long way si ... More >>

Q & A With Ming Tsai: His New Book, PBS The NASCAR of Food Television

A. ScattergoodMing Tsai poolside at The Standard in Hollywood​ If you spend any time watching cooking shows on PBS, you'll know who Ming Tsai is. Or if you've read any of his cookbooks -- the fourth, Simply Ming: One-Pot Meals, has just come out -- or watched old Food Network television. Or s ... More >>

Q & A With Martha Rose Shulman: The New Book, Letters to Julia Faux Meat

Michele van VlietMartha Rose Shulman​Martha Rose Shulman has been a food fixture in this town and beyond for many years, teaching cooking classes at Venice Cooking School, working on the cookbooks of some of L.A.'s favorite chefs -- she co-authored Mark Peel's recent New Classic Family Dinners ... More >>

Top 10 Kitchen Safety Tips (Excluding: "Don't Be a Moron")

Flickr user Photography_1O1Is your meat being stored at the appropriate temperature?​ It is National Food Safety Education Month, because everyone knows that the best way to deal with a serious issue is to give it its own month. We also love giving out National Days (yesterday was National Cr ... More >>

Q & A With Dan Aykroyd: Why He's Making Crystal Head Vodka, Tomorrow's Bottle Signing A Cocktail Recipe

Crystal Head vodkaDan Aykroyd, with head​If you're the sort of person who has lost count of the number of times you've watched Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child SNL skit on YouTube, find yourself lurking at House of Blues to try and catch a glimpse of the actor, have seen Driving Miss Daisy an otherwi ... More >>

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."

NBC's Latest Cooking Show: Caterers Who Are Spies!

Catering usually means insanely long hours, mediocre pay, a big pile of worn-out cooking clogs, and -- unless you work for Wolfgang Puck Catering -- very little glamor. But who needs real life when you've got NBC. Jay Leno's home network has just picked up a new series from J.J. Abrams called Underc ... More >>

The World According to Evo Morales: Real Men Can't Eat Chicken

While coq au vin may be one of Julia Child's best dishes, and a preposterous chicken sandwich the most newsworthy thing to order at a fast food restaurant at the moment, chicken is not what Bolivian president Evo Morales thinks you should have for dinner. At least if you're a man. Morales told an ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​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 ... More >>

Back to (Cooking) School: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles Gets More Students An Anti-Griddle

In questionable economic times, people tend to hit the bars, go to movies--and go back to school. In the Food Network Era, when food is not only a daily necessity but a commodity, popular entertainment, the subject of reality television, and even a venue for celebrity, we thought we'd check in and s ... More >>

Julie and Julia and Julia: Julia Child Prud'homme, Bridge Instructor

In a twisty version of cinéma vérité, Julia Child's grandniece, Julia Child Prud'homme, appears in the new movie, "Julie & Julia," as a bridge instructor so boring that everyone's favorite home chef ditched the class in favor of cooking school. I recently visited with Prud'homme in her Hollywood ... More >>

The Happy Rise of Cookbook Sales: Michael Ruhlman's Book "Ratio" Hits Bestseller List

Ruhlman.comRatio jacket cover​It's not only Julia Child's books that have been topping the charts: next week Michael Ruhlman's most recent book hits the New York Times bestseller list. "Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking," which came out this spring from Scribner, is ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​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 on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Kindle This: Mastering the Art of French Cooking Tops Bestseller List

Amazon.comJulia Child a best-seller​For those bemoaning the lost art of reading (here's David Ulin's fine piece in the Los Angeles Times) or the lost art of cooking (Michael Pollan in the New York Times), there is good news on both counts: Julia Child's classic cookbook "Mastering the Art of F ... More >>

A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger

Scan courtesy Susan FenigerEveryone's in the kitchen with Julia​A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger, chef-co-owner of Ciudad, Border Grill and Street: I'd like to say something right up front: I'm not a film critic, I'm not a writer, and I generally don't like movies about cooki ... More >>

Julie & Julia: In Praise of Half of Meryl Streep's Top-Chef Biopic

Nora Ephron captures the earthly delights found in Julia Child’s cookbook and autobiography

1961 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

When Julia Met Chicken

Larousse Gastronomique: The Necessary 8-lb. Book In Your Cookbook Library

It is the Summer of Julia, when teenage girls will soon be lining up along the hot concrete sidewalks of Wilshire Boulevard to watch Meryl Streep flip omelets and deconstruct ducks onscreen.

Mastering The Art Of Julia: Drinking STREET's Susan Feniger Under The Table

Sony PicturesMeryl Streep as Julia Child in "Julie and Julia" In this week's ongoing Mastering The Art of Julia series - partly started in anticipation of this summer's Nora Ephron-directed Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as the food world's warbly-voiced Julia Child - we talk to STREET's Susan ... More >>

Mastering the Art of Julia: How Did Nancy Silverton Make Julia Child Cry? "I thought, 'Oh, my God, I burnt the HELL out of Julia Child.'"

Anne FishbeinSilverton: She made a Child cryIn this week's ongoing Mastering the Art of Julia series -- partly started in anticipation of this summer's Nora Ephron-directed Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as the food world's warbly-voiced icon Julia Child --we talk to Mozza's Nancy Silverton ( ... More >>

Remembering Bea Arthur's ... Leg of Lamb Recipe. The Food-Obsessed Actress Started Her One-Woman Show With a Recipe for It

A Golden moment with Arthur When I heard today's news that Bea Arthur had died, the first thing I thought of was roast leg of lamb. This isn't as odd as it might seem at first. Arthur's one-woman show, Bea Arthur On Broadway: Just Between Friends began with a recipe for leg of lamb. According to h ... More >>

Mastering the Art of Julia: Mary Sue Milliken Hears a Thump

Sony PicturesChild in time: Streep as Julia This summer, Meryl Streep will appear as the food world's warbly-voiced icon Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. The movie is based on Child's autobiography and Julie Powell's Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, in which ... More >>

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