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Meat Pies, Vegemite Other Australian Treats at Downtown's Bronzed Aussie

Despite being a food-obsessed culture, Australia has no true defining cuisine of its own. Massive immigrant populations (Asian, Middle Eastern, Greek and Italian), as well as the country's wealth of seafood, have influenced burgeoning New Australian restaurants, but the traditional food of Australia ... More >>

Happy National Pi Day: Talent Show, Pie-Eating Contest A Recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Still dreaming of those idyllic high school days of talent shows, math problems and after-school slices of pie? Yeah, we're not either, but this Thursday night at Machine Project, you can have your strawberry rhubarb pie and eat it too -- at the first-ever American Pi-dol talent show and pie-eating ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: PinotFest, Wine Chocolate Tasting, "Back at Café du Monde," The Strand Dinner Crawfish Boil

Pasadena PinotFest Grand Tasting Praise the pinot! That's the theme of this tasting event, now in its sixth year. Sample 200 pinot noirs from California and Oregon wineries, including several exclusive to PinotFest. Also enjoy food courtesy of Noir Food & Wine and Altadena Town & Country Club. WHAT ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Trattoria Neapolis Cooking Class, PinotFest "Back at Cafe du Monde..."

Trattoria Neapolis Cooking Class Join Trattoria Neapolis chef Bryant Wigger to create Italian-inspired dishes described as "winter favorites": pumpkin soup, parmigiano sformato, ahi tuna, pasta carbonara (with black truffles), and a salad of squash, fregola and calamari. You'll sip wine and sample t ... More >>

Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast Tips From Leah Schapira A Leek & Sweet Potato Quiche Recipe

With Labor Day a distant memory, it's time to think ahead. We don't want to stress you out, but if you're hosting a Yom Kippur break-the-fast, it's time to start planning. (This year, break-the-fast is the evening of Sept. 26.) A break-the-fast gathering can be especially challenging to put togethe ... More >>

The Poor Porker: Beignets, Coffee The Coolest Couple You Could Hope to Meet

On the booth hangs a mirror for customers to double-check their mouths. "I've walked around with powdered sugar on my face so many times!" says Robyn Wilson, one half of the incredibly charming couple that makes up The Poor Porker -- a makeshift, traveling coffee and beignet stand that sets up shop ... More >>

May the Best Crust Win

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Beer Grilled Cheese Pairing, Iberico Ham Quest, Good Food Pie Contest Food Truck Battle

Beer and Grilled Cheese Pairing Night Sample exotic beers and grilled cheese at Andrew's Cheese Shop at this popular annual event, which features tastings and tutorials with beer and cheese experts. WHAT: Beer and Grilled Cheese Night WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. WHERE: Andrew's Cheese Shop ... More >>

C M Coffee Bar: The High Art of the Pop-Tart

Have you been to LACMA's new Levitated Mass exhibit? Because it's actually far more impressive than a giant rock with a path under it has any right to be. Afterwards you could treat yourself to a milkshake at LACMA's new "chef-driven coffeehouse" C M (short for Coffee and Milk), which opened a few w ... More >>

Cookbook Trends: New Quinoa Cookbooks, For Health Or Pleasure

Like so many pressing culinary issues, sorting through the wealth of new quinoa cookbooks -- the latest cookbook trend, it appears, second to cake balls on a stick -- all comes down to pie crust. Of the half dozen titles we've seen of late dedicated to the ancient seed with Aztec roots, two in part ... More >>

Tips for Better Meringues From Shirley Corriher A Blueberry Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe From Cutie Pie That!

On paper, meringues look like the easiest thing to create, basically just egg whites and sugar. But looks can be deceptive. While the goal is a melt-in-your-mouth crispy texture, often the disappointing result is a sticky puddle of goo. Determined to find out what we're doing wrong, we turned to re ... More >>

10 Best Pies in Los Angeles

Pie can become a fixation. For some, it's more than just something to eat, it's an experience. For us, it was a challenge. We polled and questioned, consulted the experts, prodded and called and narrowed our list to a daunting 25 local pies to sample. For our own sanity, this was limited to standard ... More >>

Q & A With Professor Amy Rowat: Food and Science at UCLA, Danish Gastro-physical Societies Experimental Cakes

If you've been attending UCLA's Science & Food lectures, which began in April and continue through next month, you'll know who Professor Amy Rowat is. She's the one who put the series together, whose happy task it was to find sand fleas and an old electric blanket for Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams ... More >>

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie for Memorial Day: A Recipe

Even though Angelenos enjoy cookouts year-round, tradition (and marketing) tells us that Memorial day weekend kicks off the official outdoor cooking season. What better way to celebrate the beginning of summer, end a barbecue, and to mark a holiday originated to commemorate fallen civil war soldiers ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Is Back with Meals in Minutes. Do We Like Him Again?

We've pissed off Jamie Oliver again. But this time, it not what we're allowing our children to be served in the school cafeteria, as was the case on Food Revolution. It's what we're serving them at home. It's what we're cooking. It's the fact that clearly we can't be trusted to navigate a market or ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Do You Really Need Bi-Rite Market's Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones?

It happens every year about this time. Those malted milk-chocolate chip ice cream (p. 82) and blood orange sorbet (p. 162) recipes start appearing in the latest ice cream cookbooks. This year, Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones, to be released in two weeks, starts us down that rocky road to what we hope wi ... More >>

Weekend Baking: The Pie it Forward Cookbook A Chocolate Stout Pie Recipe

Those summer berry and fall holiday pies may get all of the seasonal baking attention, but spring really is the ideal time to Pie it Forward, isn't it? There are those rainy weekends best left to indoor dough rolling, the partly cloudy ones that aren't quite ready for berry picking outings, and thos ... More >>

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5 Holiday Desserts and Where to Get 'Em

Flickr/chocswirlCroquembouche​Holiday desserts get a bad rap with memories of cloyingly sweet, leaden bricks of Christmas past. Escape your fruit cake funk and end the year with these five sweets: croquembouche, panetonne, sufganiyot, stollen and the beautifully elaborate Buche de Noel. Sure, ... More >>

10 Best Bakeries in Los Angeles

A. ScattergoodBread At Milo & Olive​San Francisco sourdough? You may have noticed beneath that smoky (wood-burning oven?) haze, L.A. has a new whole grain baguette, flaky croissant (even at LAX) and yes, crusty sourdough advantage. Here are our picks for the 10 Best Bakeries in L.A.. It's the ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Desserts by Michel Roux A Chocolate-Almond Rochers Recipe

amazon​Normally, baking books by top restaurant pastry chefs, at least the Michelin-star type, are big. And glossy. As with the previous cookbooks from French pastry chef and former London restaurateur Michel Roux (his son now runs La Gavroche restaurant), you needed those gorgeous super-sized ... More >>

Perfect Pies: The Best Sweet and Savory Recipes From America's Pie-Baking Champion A Chocolate-Pecan-Bourbon Pie Recipe

Just in time for holiday baking, pie-maker Michele Stuart offers Perfect Pies: The Best Sweet and Savory Recipes From America's Pie-Baking Champion (Ballantine Books, $25). Stuart opened the first Michele's Pies in Norwalk, Conn. in December 2007. Since then, she has won 26 National Pie Championship ... More >>

A Pie Crust Recipe or 3: Thanksgiving, Plugra, Thomas Keller A New Technique

J. Kelleypie crust pie​For some reason, making piecrust scares people. Bakers who confidently turn out fancy frosted and piped layer cakes and cooks who can sauté and deglaze with the best of us balk at humble pie dough. Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, friends drop by for impromptu ... More >>

The Pie Hole: Love At First Crust

Guzzle & NoshCoffee and lemon meringue pie at The Pie Hole.​Opened just last week in a gritty-chic corner of downtown L.A., The Pie Hole hopes to do for pies what nearby Wurstkuche did for sausages. That is, reinvigorate a staple dish, make it feel hip and modern, and, hopefully, fill the plac ... More >>

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Considers Beijing Pie House

Anne FishbeinBeijing Pie House​ This week, our intrepid critic ventures again into the San Gabriel Valley. Why? Because he can. Because you perhaps should. No, not noodles, but xian bing, little stuffed pies that explain the name of the restaurant. No counters of apple pies and lemon meringue ... More >>

Katherine Tidy's Very Yellow Lemon Meringue Pie: A Recipe

In our conversation with Katherine Tidy, the food stylist on BBC Film's coming-of-age food comedy Toast, we spoke of a lemon meringue pie that presented Tidy with one of her biggest challenges on the shoot. "It was pivotal," says Tidy, "so I did lots of samples of it and took pictures of it and e-ma ... More >>

Borekas at Tarte Tatin Bakery: Savory Among the Sweet

D. GonzalezMaybe one... or two: Borekas from Tarte Tatin Bakery​ Usually, there's one overarching purpose that drives most visits to a bakery: a straight dose of the sweet stuff. That was our mission when we first visited the recently turned 1-year-old Beverly Hills bakery Tarte Tatin. But w ... More >>

Good Food Pie Contest: Photo Gallery

Guzzle & NoshPies from the Good Food Pie Contest.​220 pies were submitted in yesterday's Good Food Pie Contest, and how many of them did event host and fairy godmother Evan Kleiman sample? Not a single one. The pie perfectionist explained that just that week she had baked what might be her bes ... More >>

Tart for Tart's Sake

Nola's Brings a Taste of New Orleans to Downtown L.A.

B. HansenCabrini Schnyder talking to guests at Nola​ Down South is now downtown, thanks to Nola's A Taste of New Orleans, which celebrated its opening with a splashy Creole brunch on Sunday. Nola's is on east 3rd Street in the Arts District in a space owned by Jason Ha, whose restaurants Zip ... More >>

A Recipe from Clifford Wright: Gomser Cholera

Clifford A. WrightGomser Cholera, a Swiss potato and cheese pie ​ Clifford Wright is a James Beard award winning author and culinary instructor at Venice Cooking School with New York Times columnist Martha Rose Shulman. He's been widely hailed as the foremost English speaking expert on Medit ... More >>

Best Food Porn: Matt Bites

A Recipe From the Chef: Kristin Ferguson's Strawberry Galette

Eugene Ahn of Forage Restaurant in Silver LakeChef Kristin Ferguson's Strawberry Galette​ A traditional French fruit galette is a free-form tart made with a basic pâte brisée dough. The galette shell is rolled out into a disk, topped with fresh berries or fruit and the edges folded over by h ... More >>

A Recipe for Pâte Sucrée Mother's Day Kitchen SOS

Patricia EscusaFrench Fruit Tart Prepared by Patrica Escusa, Test Kitchen Assistant​ Every year, during elementary school, we made something for Mother's Day as a class project. If your mother really did you love you, she probably still has a stash of butterfly and heart shaped cards as reminders ... More >>

COME HERE, YOU DELIGHTFUL LITTLE CUP OF CAKE

First & Hope dineLA Review: Chef Yuji Iwasa's Deconstructed Pot Pie

First & Hope is a counter-intuitive choice for lunch. This posh supper club awash in subdued decadence is known for its glamorously adorned waitstaff, its ambiance, its cocktails not its food. With a $22 dineLA lunchtime deal and a new chef, Yuji Iwasa -- who took over from Joseph Panarello who ... More >>

Top 10 Places to Celebrate National Pie Day

Guzzle & NoshA few ways to celebrate National Pie Day.​You don't have to be Adam Carolla to prefer pie to cake. (He tells a story about loving pie so much, that he once entered a pie-eating contest at North Hollywood High and, with his hands behind his back, nibbled and licked at the side of t ... More >>

Pie Fight: Sweet Lady Jane vs. SimpleThings (No Clowns were Harmed)

It's National Pie Day on Sunday, and February is National Pie Month. This would be exciting, if it weren't for every day seeming to be some absurd national food holiday. February is also Black History Month, which seems like it shouldn't have to share its remembrance with a pie eating celebration. ... More >>

The Twelve Days Of Cookies: An Italian Taralli Recipe From Evan Kleiman

Evan KleimanA Taralli Holiday Tree​On the first day of our Twelve Days of Cookie Recipes we brought you Alice Medrich's milk chocolate and hazelnut peanut butter meringue recipe. On the second day, we diverged slightly off the straight and narrow cookie path with a recipe for homemade peanut b ... More >>

Bakery Biz: simplethings Opens in Mid-City West

Boasting the motto "Sandwich, Pie, Done" as well as the sweet and savory pies of chef Carrie Cusack (who you may know from the Eagle Rock, Silver Lake or Sherman Oaks farmers markets), simplethings sandwich & pie shop bakery opened this morning on W. Third St., offering more competition for Mid-Ci ... More >>

Thanksgiving Dining: 6 Holiday Dishes With A Global Spin

Cham Korean Bistro​ You eat kimchi pizza, Filipino adobo burritos and Japanese rice patty burgers. So when it comes to Thanksgiving, the most traditional of American food holidays, boring old stuffing won't do. Here are six Thanksgiving options that will make your globetrotting palate sing wi ... More >>

KINGS OF PASTRY

Until the Green Door Opens Again, Where to Find Fish Beignets

Shanghaied Village

Ribbed for Her Pleasure

J N J has burgers, pies and brisket, but oh, those bones

Praise the Lard

Pig heaven in Pacoima

Claws and Effect

Everyone’s crowding into Macau Street for the fried crab

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Life of Pie

Paradise Found