Oaxaca

The 5 Things You Need To Know About Gish Bac

Gish Bac is the subject of this week's restaurant review. Here's a taste of what you can find in the review, as well as a few extra tidbits: Food: Oaxacan specialties -- moles, tlayudas, memelas. And on the weekend, barbacoa - whole roasted lamb and goat. From the review: "Go with a friend, and get ... More >>

10 Best Moles in Los Angeles

Let's count the reasons we love mole. It's rich and intense. Warm and comforting. Spicy, yet sweet and often savory. A seamless blend of 20 to 40 (or more) ingredients that have been toasted, roasted, ground, blended and cooked. Radiant and colorful. A mix of Old World spices with New World chiles a ... More >>

Feria de los Moles This Weekend: Puebla vs. Oaxaca

Last year's Feria de los Moles (or Mole Fair) at L.A.'s Olvera St. drew 30,000 people -- and with good reason. The annual event, now in its fifth year and happening this Sunday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., celebrates this classic Mexican dish with food, music, dance, workshops, and even a friendl ... More >>

AltaMed's In Their Own Words II A Recipe for Pescado a la Veracruzana

What's your favorite Mexican restaurant? It just might be one of the 17 in AltaMed's new book, In Their Own Words II, by Sergio C. Muñoz. Rather than a restaurant guide, the book tells how Mexican cuisine flourished in and around Los Angeles in the words of the restaurant owners who made it happe ... More >>

Alexandra Gibson's Artistic Journey to a Oaxaca Slaughterhouse

Diana Kennedy at LACMA: Oaxacan Foods, Book Signing Proper Tortillas

Diana Kennedy, the Mexican cuisine authority and cookbook author, doesn't often travel outside of Mexico, where she lives in rural Michoacán a few hours from Mexico City. For the past 65 years, Mexico has been her home, and a laboratory for her studies and writings about Mexico's regional cuisines. ... More >>

Diana Kennedy Holds Book Signing at LACMA

Have you checked out Diana Kennedy's 2010 cookbook Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy? Because if you have, and you really should, you'll notice it feels a little more academic than most cookbooks: It was commissioned by a governor of Oaxaca in order to catalog the state's regional cuisine. Oax ... More >>

Finally: L.A. Gets Mexican Food Worthy of Mexico's Grand Tradition

Cookbook Of The Week: Memories of Philippine Kitchens For Your Weekend Pig's Blood Stew

If you don't happen to have any of your own Memories of Philippine Kitchens -- banana hearts in coconut milk, chicken tinola, hot salabat -- Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan's cookbook by that name will soon be re-released with updated content (the book includes a history of Filipino foods) and recipes. ... More >>

E.K. Valley Brings Home-style Oaxacan Food to Culver City

E.K. Valley is more like a home than a restaurant. This new Oaxacan place in Culver City has only seven tables in a small room simply decorated with Oaxacan fabrics, painted gourds and other artesanías. Epy García, the owner, greets you, brings the menu and serves the food. E.K. stands for Epy's ... More >>

Rocio Camacho's Latest: Mole de los Dioses

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​Mole -- we've all had mole. Los Angeles may be the best place to eat mole outside Oaxaca and maybe the D.F., a bastion of both Oaxacan and Poblano styles of the ultracomplex sauce. If you can't find the famous seven moles of Oaxaca here, you're not looking. But ever ... More >>

Guelaguetza: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Day of the Dead: What to Cook for Hungry Spirits

Barbara Hansena table in Tijuana​Souls of the departed are wandering the earth now as they head home for a good meal. They'll eat their fill on the Day of the Dead -- Día de Muertos -- when families all over Mexico, and here too, greet them with their favorite foods. The holiday lasts two day ... More >>

Simmering Mole Rivalry at 4th Annual La Feria de los Moles

While some of our blogger brethren headed down south this weekend to celebrate the regional cuisine of Baja California, those who hung tight had the opportunity to taste distinct moles from Oaxaca and Puebla. Over 30,000 people turned out for Sunday's Feria de los Moles at Plaza Olvera, where snakin ... More >>

2 Great Weekend Food Events: La Feria de Los Moles Oktoberfest at Lucques (Beer! Lederhosen!)

La Feria de Los Moles: The 4th annual Mole Fair is an all-day event, featuring 13 moles from the states of Puebla and Oaxaca, the two states known for the estimable sauce. Come prepared, as last year's event drew about 20,000 people. The fair is organized by the immigrant community of Puebla and Oax ... More >>

Library Bar's The Earth of Oaxaca: A Coffee-Infused Cocktail for National Coffee Day

Leave it to mixmaster Matthew Biancaniello at the Hollywood Roosevelt's Library Room to take the coffee cocktail to the next level. For his new fall drink, The Earth of Oaxaca, he didn't go the easy route with Kahlua or even an actual cuppa. Nope, no ready-to-go ingredients here. Instead he used an ... More >>

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 >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

Q&A With Patricia Tsai: The Oaxaca Fiasco, IMing With Her Grower, and Chocovivo's Future (Part 2)

J.KoslowChocovivo assembly line​ In the first part of our interview, Chocovivo's Patricia Tsai discusses her trajectory from CPA to chocolatier and the decision she made to opt for flavor thereby leaving her chocolate untempered. In this second part, Tsai shares her mind-boggling and almost f ... More >>

Q&A With Patricia Tsai: LA's Only Bean-To-Bar Chocolaterie (Part 1)

J.KoslowWorking hands​ Your first thoughts may be indelibly linked with nostalgia when asked about chocolate. Perhaps the blame falls on that popular silky, milk chocolate bar that's either snacked on directly from its brown and white packaging, or broken and inserted between a well-toasted ... More >>

Best Cookbooks of 2010 That Double As Cultural History Studies: Cook Learn

Luis Manuel GuaidaDiana Kennedy Has So Many Things To Teach You About Oaxacan Cooking​For those who complain there is simply no time to do it all, that these days you must choose between cooking and reading (in that precious weeknight window of time between your last Tweet and lights out), thi ... More >>

More Fun with Tequila: Las Perlas Introduces the Mezcal Collective

Francisco ArcauteLas Perlas​A tequila "collective." Think about this concept for a moment. A gathering of agave enthusiasts brought together to sample the smoothest of tequilas available, paired with some of the best Mexican food L.A. has to offer, and a side of complimentary margaritas. Al ... More >>

Holy Mole: "Taste of Mexico" Coming in December

Guelaguetza.com​There's been much to say recently about what constitutes authentic Mexican food in Los Angeles, and who's bringing it. But perhaps we'll get our answer at next month's Taste of Mexico event, which celebrates Mexico's bicentennial via its cuisine. Four L.A. restaurants - ... More >>

Last Night at Loteria Grill: An Evening of Oaxacan Food with Diana Kennedy

N. GalutenStuffed jalapeños​ Diana Kennedy, the highly-esteemed cookbook author and Mexican cuisine authority, was at Loteria Grill in Hollywood last night for a special event to promote her latest (and supposedly last) cookbook, Oaxaca al Gusto. The event, costing $100, included two drinks, ... More >>

Diana Kennedy's New Oaxaca al Gusto Cookook: Yes, You Want It

​Diana Kennedy. Those two words mean esquite expert to some, proper tamale-making instructor to others, or as so many have dubbed her, simply the "Julia Child of Mexican cuisine." That last one is the only title that the pedigreed author of the new cookbook Oaxaca al Gusto doesn't deserve, as ... More >>

Supper Liberation Front Invades Guelaguetza

Supper Liberation Front​For one rare night, chefs Josh Gil and Daniel Snukal take their semi-underground, pop-up restaurant legit, bringing Supper Liberation Front to Oaxacan stalwart Guelaguetza. Think of this as a taste of things to come. What things? We can't say. Gil, who earned his Miche ... More >>

Last Night at La Descarga: In Celebration of a New Cocktail

N. GalutenBrisa de Oaxaca​ Something new has arrived at the Cuban themed rum bar La Descarga, in honor of someone who goes there a lot. Bricia Lopez is something of Oaxacan restaurant royalty in Los Angeles, with her family owning Guelaguetza and she and her brother Fernando owning the recent ... More >>

Lila Downs: Mixtec Blessing

Oaxaca singer weaves rancheras, cumbias, boleros and other Mexican and Latin styles with the energy of rock and the swing of jazz

But How's the Food? Ricki Kline Talks Bar Design in L.A., Part II

In part 2 of our interview with Ricki Kline, the designer discusses travel, his favorite local spots, and the inspiration behind his design of 213's next bar, the tequila and mezcal-focused Las Perlas, which will be located across the street from Cole's on East 6th Street. Squid Ink: What are your ... More >>

California, Here He Goes

CALIFORNIA, HERE YOU GO

Moles La Tia: Beyond the Magnificent Seven

Sauced in East L.A.

Metrolink Tries to Censor Bloggers

A paranoid transit agency spends public money threatening critical Web sites

A Federal Case

Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

¡Ask a Mexican! Brownie Mix

Oaxacan Hearts and Minds

Mole Minimalism

Super Fry

New to the List

Oaxacan Snack Attack

Oaxacan Snack Attack

Ask Mr. Gold

Build a House, Go to Jail

Two Baja laborers led land invasions with their poor neighbors and brought down the wrath of a government intent on enforcing rules that protect the rich

Identity Crisis in Athens

The New Face of Politics in Mexico

Hint: It isn’t Vicente Fox

Holy Moles

Thick as gruel, black as night

My Favorite Things, Part 2

Imports and adaptations

A League of Their Own

How a Team of Oaxacan Busboys in Redefining L.A. Basketball

Return of the Mole People

Santa Monica's Tlapazola Grill

Consume Part I: Food

Forty-One Reasons to Live in LA