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Lauren Manning

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/13-2/17

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Bay Cities' mac is enough to give heartburn to an 8-year-old and good enough for him to know it's worth it." 9 Best Macaroni & Cheese Dishes in Los Angeles. "Okay, it's not out just yet, but it's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/30-2/3

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Is it a deadly bludgeon in the war against the atrocities of Fresh-Mex, Mission burritos or food-court wraps? Not quite." Where Does a Restaurant Critic Go When He's Not on the Clock? "Hallelujah! ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/17-1/20

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Ike-san was never a flashy sushi chef, but he was beloved for his skill at the early-morning fish markets, and his ability to less cut fish than to coax it into its ideal form." Sushi Kimagure Ike: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/9-1/13

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You probably should get a "garlic knot," which here is a hollow sphere of pizza dough, tied at the top with string and stuffed with a handful of baked garlic cloves -- it's the new-new thing, the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/3-1/6

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Let me get this straight: You're in Los Angeles, the single greatest eating city in the world, and what you're craving is a writhing mass of greasy, no doubt previously frozen fries in the style of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/26-12/30

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I am imagining six years as an ABD in Dumpling Science, and my fear smells a lot like goose noodle soup. Or is that what's simmering downstairs on the stove?" The World in Dumplings: Or, Not Livin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/19-12/23

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When properly cooked, its texture becomes less like rice than a kind of fluffy, chewy couscous, brilliant at absorbing flavors from dribbles of fish sauce and random splashes of oil." Night of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/12-12/16

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The invasion of the small plates is not finished, oh no. It is marching down our streets and avenues, invading our towns and villages, leaving behind nothing in its wake but duck-slider crumbs, rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/5-12/9

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But the menu at Bäco Mercat, the new restaurant from Joseph Centeno of Lazy Ox, reads almost like a graduate exam in culinary poststructuralism, mixing flavors from Italy, France, and Western Chin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/14-11/18

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "At the end of 2011, the year that the gastropub finally wrestled formal dining into a bathtub to drown, we pretty much know what a good, new restaurant is going to look like." Cooks County: A Perf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/7-11/11

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "In true Bourdain fashion, he gave us an straight answer. 'You know, I don't really care.'" Anthony Bourdain on The Layover, L.A. and Jonathan Gold. "The first thing you need to know about Attari ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/17-10/21

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Can you get a vegan mi quang? This is Echo Park. You shouldn't have to ask." Central Vietnamese in the O.C. ... or Echo Park. "And rather than the 'Select' and 'Start' printed on the controller, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/10-10/14

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Want to make a grown woman blush? Suggest that the reason she wants to go to Gjelina, the serene patio restaurant on Abbot Kinney, is because she wants to gaze deeply into a scruffy waiter's eyes." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/26-9/30

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And when you manage to get into the place, the dim blackness of the dining room -- formerly Tulipe, Jozu and the sushi bar Hamasaku -- flickers like something from a Robert Irwin installation, a re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/19-9/23

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And I suspect I've just offended the ghosts of 50 generations of Basque gourmets." Want Angulas, Spanish Baby Eels? Get the Fake Version. "Everything looks better in The Life Aquatic: wetsuits, s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/6-9/9

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The restaurant occupies one of the best spots in Little Tokyo, right next to the perpetually megacrowded ramen shop Daikokuya, and is as bright and modern as its blaring 1970s rock is not -- I'm no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/29-9/2

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Pan-fried sand dabs with succotash? A big melon salad with strips of prosciutto and a little lemon verbena? Spaghetti tossed with the orange Juliet tomatoes from Harry's Berries sauteed just until ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/8-8/12

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Because I have been at parties where I was asked about the pizzeria up to half a dozen times, and the smug Silver Lake dudes, the ones always trying to make excuses for their neighborhood's depress ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/1-8/5

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You will find the pro-Palestinian posters in neither restaurant." Palestinian Chicken Conflict: Only in Curb Your Enthusiasm or Is It Real? "Milk, gallon after gallon of it, was poured down the d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/25-7/29

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Plus, there's a citrus slush, a bioflavonoid bomb enhanced with pomegranate vinegar, that is to a Jamba Juice concoction what a Kia Soul is to your mom's Subaru Forester." Iota: K-Town Teen Heaven ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/18-7/22

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It is quite true: Korean fried chicken is the new black. Or was the new black three ago when the chicken wars began to get nasty, but that's another story." The New KFC: Korean Fried Chicken. "On ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/11-7/15

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But the idea that a tip is optional, or variable, is a useful fiction, even when the soup goes tumbling into your lap." 10 Handy Rules For Tipping. "Before every neighborhood boasted its own gela ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/27-7/1

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If there happens to be a bottle of illegal añejo in your purse, that's between you and your conscience." Ask Mr. Gold: Seeking Romantic, Inexpensive, Healthy, Not Boring, Wheat- and dairy-free Re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/20-6/24

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But keep in mind, I am not a trained physician -- I'm a guy who likes to justify an occasional shot of sotol or xtabentún." Ask Mr. Gold: Thoughts on Digestifs, or Drinking to Digest. "It's not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/13-6/17

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I sleep better knowing that there is still fried pork leg with onions like this in the world." Ask Mr. Gold: Top 10 Pico Boulevard Eats. "Aside from Sun Chips and soda, Rite Aid's most noteworthy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

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

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And try not to slug the cop who is in the process of ticketing your car. That sort of thing is frowned upon in California." First Bite: Papaya King Brings Late-night Hot Dogging to Hollywood. "No ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/31-6/3

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "What is a fake restaurant, exactly? Is it a place like Happy Family, serving kung pao chicken whose fowl is carefully crafted from gluten, or like the celebrity hangout Philippe, itself an imitatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/23-5/27

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The words 'authentic,' 'New York' and 'pizza' in conjunction mean nothing but trouble around here." Ask Mr. Gold: Filling the New York-style Pizza Vacuum. "Instead of the usual long, dry, and oft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/16-5/20

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "My friends, the ones eating monkfish, assume that I was talking to a dealer. In a manner of speaking, I was." Nathan McCall: The Butcher of Hillhurst Avenue. "It's self-heating. (That's halfway b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/9-5/13

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Everybody knows what a deli is supposed to be: an enormous dining room, stinking of garlic, bolstered by corned beef and chicken in a pot, with giant halvah displays teetering by the cash register. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/2-5/6

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "This is the South. You have to have liquor. This is not California." Q & A With Amber Huffman: Bourbon Blunders, Derby Cocktails Cooking For Jess Jackson At His Kentucky Racehorse Farm. "Can 79 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/25-4/29

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minima ... More >>

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    April 22, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/18-4/22

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As Sotto, the new Italian restaurant from Steve Samson and Zack Pollack, who ran David Meyer's Pizza Ortica at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, somebody sprung to fix up the basement, because it is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/11-4/15

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You will leave slightly drunk, slightly sore and covered with stinking juice. It's what love is all about." Ask Mr. Gold: Big Plate Dating. "This working shoulder-launched munition made with 15 p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/4-4/8

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Somebody had a great week once in Provence, and wants the Meatpacking District -- and the swingers at the Melrose Place sequel -- to be as happy as he or she was." First Bite: Fig & Olive, and Mor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/28-4/1

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Whatever the current style in Los Angeles restaurants ends up being named, all of it -- from the small-plate thing to the fixation on local, organic produce; the off-center proteins to the internat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/21-3/25

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "While waiting for Pho Minh to resurface (please, please, let it resurface), try Pho Filet, a couple of blocks away, which also has a delicious pho bac, highlighted by a slab of filet mignon that l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/14-3/18

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Have we ever tried poutine? Don't come around here much, do you?" Ask Mr. Gold: Poutine in Los Angeles, or The Endurance of Boy Food. "'You're not nearly as fat as I expected.'" 30 Burgers in 30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/7-3/11

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You're the porteño with the Ph.D. in literature. You tell me." Ask Mr. Gold: In Search of Salteñas, Revisited. "And the drink is named The Bitter End 'because we all know this isn't going to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/28-3/4

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The lime-and-salt thing is for beginners." The Cocktail Issue: Border Grill's Sangrita A Recipe. "It looks a bit more like an 18-wheeler crossed with a Che Guevara T-shirt shop." [Updated] Jam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/21-2/25

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Floss when you get home - those antennae can be tenacious." Ask Mr. Gold: Where to Eat Bugs in L.A. "Why a band known for mixing coke and heroin might worry about a little inter-berry mingling is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/14-2/18

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "They're filled with custard, you could eat a million of them, and you get to gripe about how they're not as good as the ones you had on the Big Island on your last surf trip. Mission accomplished." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 2/7-2/11

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The fetish object of the week? My money's on the uni goma tofu at the new Aburiya Toranoko in Little Tokyo, which is to say a smallish cube of firm, blackish tofu made from ground, toasted sesame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/31-2/4

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Vegans have hangovers, too, I guess. At Mas Malo, the vegan hangovers are organic." First Bite: Chips, Chips Especial, Menudo Vegan Hangovers at Mas Malo. "Sure the scene is fratty and the name s ... More >>

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