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Blogs
December 18, 2012
Food News Roundup: Cookie Advent Calendar, Christmas Hot Dogs A Gluten-Free Holiday Menu
Saveur: The 2012 cookie advent calendar. Ruth Reichl: Gift Guide, Day 18. Or, the Corkcicle. Eater LA: La Brea Bakery moving up the street in January. Serious Eats: Christmas-themed hot dogs. LA Observed: One Adam 12: Code 7 at Henry's Tacos. Food52: A Gluten-Free Holiday Menu. Bon Appetit: ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2012
Food News Roundup: Reviving the FDA, Vin Chaud Khmer Cuisine
Serious Eats: 5 great TV restaurants. David Lebovitz: Making vin chaud, or hot mulled wine. Gastronomy: Checking out Khmer cuisine in Long Beach. Huff Post Food: Scott Mowbray, editor of Cooking Light, writes an op-ed on "The Rise of the New Food Culture." Los Angeles Times: Why Jonathan Gold th ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: The Students Become The Masters
Finally, a challenge that truly lived up to the "Master" name. On last night's TCM, the three remaining chefs, Kerry Heffernan, Chris Cosentino and Lorena Garcia, did not touch the food they served in the Elimination Challenge. In fact, they did no cooking at all. Instead, in true master chef form, ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2012
Ruth Bourdain's Comfort Me With Offal: From Twitter to Your Local Bookstore
If you've spent the last two years laughing over the comic genius of Ruth Bourdain, you'll need no reminder that her eagerly (to some) awaited book has just come out from Andrews McMeel Publishing. If you are not among the initiated, here's a thumbnail sketch: In March of 2010, a hilarious Twitter f ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2012
Top Chef Masters Recap: Cooking for Billionaires, and Why Curtis Stone Is, in Fact, the Man
Hooray! Top Chef Masters is back! You know, that souped-up version of the old Bravo staple in which we get to watch alreadyfamous chefs duke it out in the kitchen, not for money (as all their winnings go to charity) but for the prestige of being crowned truly the best of the best. Right? That must ... More >>
Eat+Drink
May 24, 2012
Pulling Off the White Tablecloth
In the L.A. dining scene, it's no magic trick. It's casual.
Blogs
April 20, 2012
Food News Roundup: New Farm Food Bill, Gluten-Free Restaurants Dario Cecchini at Valentino
The Associated Press via the Washington Post: A new farm and food bill is in the works, but it faces an uphill battle. Gilt Taste: More chefs learn to cook without gluten. Daily Dish: A recap of Dario Cecchini's visit to Valentino last night. Loud and meaty.
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Twitter: 10 of Our Favorite Food-Related Tweets
Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>
Eat+Drink
March 8, 2012
Roy Choi of A-Frame and Kogi on How Cookbooks Changed His Life
Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
The Fried Dill Pickle Chips at Short Order: Secret Pickles, Ranch Dressing A Bottle of Tabasco
What is a fried dill pickle chip supposed to taste like? If you have been to The Penguin Drive-In, a circa 1950's roadhouse in the Plaza-Midwood district in Charlotte, NC, you know that there are four steps that elevate this crispy Southern-style snack food with zero nutritional value to total great ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2011
[Updated] Ruth Bourdain's Identity: The Village Voice's Robert Sietsema?
Update: This just in from Robert Sietsema himself via secret hyper-encrypted internal Village Voice Media email (that's a joke). "Not me, but it's been fun having people think it is. I'm on my way to tour a rice plantation in South Carolina." Sorry, everybody. Some mysteries are better left mysterio ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2011
Q & A With Ruth Reichl: Gilt Taste, L.A. Food, The Role of The Restaurant Critic, Her Movie The Corrective of Food TV
As you probably know, Ruth Reichl was recently in town for a launch party at Mozza for Gilt Taste, the shopping-as-literature site of which she's the editorial advisor. We caught up with her over coffee at José Andrés' Tres: frilly patisserie, coffee urns, decor like Monty Python meets Versailles ... More >>
Eat+Drink
September 1, 2011
Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast
As you probably know, Ruth Reichl was recently in town for a launch party at Mozza for Gilt Taste, the shopping-as-literature site of which she's the editorial advisor. We caught up with her over coffee at José Andrés' Tres: frilly patisserie, coffee urns, decor like Monty Python meets Versailles ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2011
Lucky Peach: The New Food Journal From David Chang & Friends Is Here
Lucky Peach, the food quarterly from Momofuku's David Chang, debuted yesterday. It's an enormous amount of fun, as you would expect, kind of like Grand Street crossed with No Reservations. This makes sense once you run down the list of contributors: Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Ruth Reichl ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2011
Joan Luther, Longtime Restaurant Publicist, Dies at 83
In the Pleiocene epoch of restaurants in Los Angeles, before Yelp, before blogs, before even the Usenet groups, restaurant publicists were a rare and exotic breed, neither hip as music publicists nor sleekly professional as film flacks, but creatures of another era; direct descendants of the press a ... 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 18, 2011
Gilt Taste Lauches: Ruth Reichl's Fabulous Prose & Fancy Cheese Store
Gilt TasteSeriously pretty asparagus For those of you who've been staring bleakly at your old dust and demi-glace covered copies of Gourmet, or stalking Ruth Reichl via Twitter, you now have a shiny new website to visit. Gilt Taste officially launched yesterday, with Reichl as the editorial a ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 1, 2011
Breaking News from Alice Waters: "Yes, It's True. I Am Ruth Bourdain."
Flickr user mhuangAlice Waters at a book signingOn the heels of launching her very own Twitter account, famed chef, author, activist, conservationist, and dedicated locavore Alice Waters, has decided to come clean. Reached last night by phone, Waters, 66, informed the Weekly that she is in fa ... 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 31, 2011
Top 10 Most Interesting Things We Learned on a Top Chef Masters Conference Call with Curtis Stone, Ruth Reichl and James Oseland
Photo courtesy of Bravo.Host Curtis Stone, and Judges Ruth Reichl and James OselandWe spent the better part of Tuesday morning on a Top Chef Masters conference call, in which myriad media reps listened on mute while Season 3 host Curtis Stone and judges Ruth Reichl and James Oseland chatted a ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Local Macadamia Nuts
Felicia FriesemaMacadamia nuts at the Hollywood market this past weekend. Ruth Reichl tweeted about the Hollywood market this weekend: "Stunned by abundance. Hollywood Farmers Market: strawberries, Kishus, tomatoes, oysters, avocados, herbs, lettuce, live crabs. LA in winter." 140 characters ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
And Now, A Brief Message From Ruth Reichl
screenshot of Ruth Reichl's Twitter page
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Food News Roundup: Gordita Supreme Court, Martha Stewart's New Show Why Your State Drinks
-- Vanishing America at Clifton's. [Ruth Reichl] -- Stephen Colbert's Gordita Supreme Court. [The Colbert Report] -- Cold Sauce, or how a New York Times Congressional reporter makes insanely easy spaghetti. (Making this recipe as we speak.) [food52] -- Food blogger's home burglary makes the 11 o' ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
The Daily Meal's 50 Most Powerful People in Food
Listmania continues (David Letterman's cultural legacy, perhaps, along with Velcro suits) but this time The Daily Meal has come up with something more compelling than a list of Top 10 Cupcakes. Theirs? America's 50 Most Powerful People in Food. It's a good list, as it would be: The Daily Meal is h ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
And Now, A Brief Message From Ruth Reichl
screenshot of Ruth Reichl's Twitter page
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Gunshots & Tweets: Mark Bittman's L.A. Moment
Want a thumbnail sketch of life in Los Angeles? Read the following Twitter exchange between Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and prolific cookbook author, and Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet and, well, you know who she is. Seems that when Bittman was in town last week to give a talk at t ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2010
And Now, A Brief Message From Ruth Reichl
screenshot of Ruth Reichl's Twitter page
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Sotheby's: Legendary Auction House and Local Greengrocer
analuciababy/FlickrA pink banana pumpkin Sotheby's usually concerns itself with selling famous paintings, rare books, and plush estates. Later this month, however, the fourth-largest auction house in the world will push the cream of a different crop: the sort farmers actually yank from the g ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2010
Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie, Part 2
Flickr/WordRidden A few months ago we went off on the Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate, a post that generated a lot of feedback, for which we are grateful. It also, as you might expect, generated a lot of other words that are happily vilified by many of us who spend far more time, sadly, writing ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2010
And Now, A Brief Message From Ruth Reichl
screenshot of Ruth Reichl's Twitter page
Blogs
June 22, 2010
Gourmet Live: Coming to Your iPad, Not Your Mailbox, This Fall
Gourmet Magazine, you will remember, closed last November. The late, much lamented publication is not, sadly, being resurrected, but it will live on, at least on your iPad. Gourmet Live will be "coming to your favorite devices" (for free) this fall, bringing together "content, social and location-b ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Golden Fridays on KCRW
Zocalo Public SquareEvan Kleiman, Ruth Reichl, Jonathan Gold and Laurie Ochoa at the Skirball in January You won't find KCRW's Good Food host Evan Kleiman and LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold on Saturday mornings when you usually expect them, but you will find them ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2010
2010 IACP Award Winners Announced
The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- which comes up first on a Google search, proving maybe that cops can SEO better than writers -- has announced their 2010 cookbook award winners. The ho ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2010
What Would Arianna Do: Huffington Post Launches Food Section
Today, in fact about an hour ago, The Huffington Post launched their new food page. You knew this one was coming, right? The Atlantic has a food page, as does Tina Brown's The Daily Beast. And I bet Arianna Huffington makes a mean skordalia. HuffPost Food editor Colin Sterling says that the new se ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
The LAT Food Section of the 70s & 80s: Four Women, A Food Section, A Retrospective
If a bright marketing executive invented something like the L.A. Times food section of the 1970s and 1980s, he or she would be heralded as a genius - a fat bundle of supermarket ads leavened with recipes, interactive features and detailed instructions showing readers how to use the new produc ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
Feed Your Head: Top 10 Food Books That Make Us Drool
Whether it's a chef's memoir or a novel set in the kitchen, books that center around food have conjured up cravings, inspired us at the stove and opened us up to new adventures in dining. This is a list of our favorites: some fiction, some exposé, some popular, some obscure, but all in celebration ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2010
April Fools! A Roundup of Food-Related Fools' Day Materials From Around the Web
Deep End DiningHappy April Fools' Day-- In-N-Out toys with the hearts of New Yorkers. [Huffington Post] -- Reports on a new bathroom truck to keep Kogi and Nom Nom company. [Thrillist] -- Actual roach coach hits the streets. [Deep End Dining] -- Starbucks announces two new drink sizes: Th ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2010
2010 James Beard Finalists Announed: Suzanne Goin, Matt Molina, Michael Cimarusti, Jonathan Gold, Patric Kuh Nominated
James BeardTwitter is at it again. The 2010 James Beard Award Finalists were announced this morning via the foundation's Twitter account. L.A's Suzanne Goin, of Lucques, AOC Wine Bar, Hungry Cat and Tavern was nominated for Outstanding Chef, while Matt Molina of Mozza and Michael Cimarusti of ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
Food on Twitter: The Beautiful Schizophrenia of @ruthbourdain
screenshot of @ruthbourdain's twitter pageIf you haven't heard of Ruth Bourdain, the Twitter mashup of food rock stars Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain, you need to. It's possibly the funniest thing we've heard in weeks. Months. Longer. To get up to speed on what you've been missing, read the ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2010
What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Rhubarb
Christian Guthier Marco Polo was once charged with a singular mission on his Silk Road journeys: bring back to Europe a rhubarb plant from China that could be grown on European ground. At the time, rhubarb was fetching prices well above that of other Silk Road imports like cinnamon and even ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2010
The New Culinary Order: An IACP Food Conference, NOT Mario Batali's Punk Band
Late April is going to be a good time to be in Portland, Oregon, if you're interested in the food world--or have been secretly stalking Ruth Reichl. The 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) will be held in that caffeine and rain saturated city from ... More >>
Columns
February 11, 2010
The Legacy of Gourmet Magazine: As They Were
Late April is going to be a good time to be in Portland, Oregon, if you're interested in the food world--or have been secretly stalking Ruth Reichl. The 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) will be held in that caffeine and rain saturated city from ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2010
Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters
-- Celebrating the Marino family and their restaurants. [e*starLA] -- Goody's in San Gabriel shutters. [LA Observed] -- Haitian Libations Charity Event on February 6th at Vertical Wine Bistro. [Mattatouille] -- Robbie Burns' Address to a Haggis. [Deep End Dining] -- Ruth Reichl, The Movie? (Seco ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
Tell Me What You Tweet, and I Will Tell You What You Are
Tuesday night, Zócalo hosted a tribute to Gourmet Magazine at the Skirball Center, with Laurie Ochoa, Jonathan Gold and Ruth Reichl in discussion with Evan Kleiman. Bloggers sat braced with their phones, calculating the perfect 140 character report. Their tweets, after the jump. Zocalo
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Ruth Reichl Talks Gourmet: A Zocalo 'Celebration'
For all of you who've been crying over your old copies of Gourmet since the magazine folded in October, get an umbrella and get out of the house this evening. Evan Kleiman is moderating a Zócalo-sponsored talk celebrating Gourmet at the Skirball Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Former Gourmet editor Rut ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2009
Evan Kleiman's Good Food Program Tomorrow: Gold & Parsons on the Demise of Gourmet
Anyone who's been downing Eric Alperin's violet-scented cocktails to cope with living in a post-Gourmet world should get up at least by 11 tomorrow morning and turn on the radio. On KCRW's Good Food program, Evan Kleiman will be discussing the demise of the much-loved magazine with the Weekly's Jona ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2009
Food Fight at Condé Nast: The Sketchy Future of Bon Appétit and Gourmet
Gordon Ramsay does a cooking demoReaders of food magazines often like to pit Condé Nast's two culinary powerhouses, Gourmet and Bon Appétit, against each other. Like Letterman and Leno, one is based in New York (Gourmet), the other here in Los Angeles (Bon Appétit). Gourmet has historicall ... More >>
LA Life
July 6, 2006
Writer's Boot Camp
... with dessert. The Writing Pad promises gain without the pain
Art+Books
July 26, 2001
Under the Table
A conversation with Ruth Reichl
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