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NASA Gives Grant to Create 3-D Food Printer

The future very rarely produces what we expect it to, or what we are lead to believe it might produce by science fiction writers. Where are the flying cars? The teleporters? But instant, from-the-ether food might be on its way (a-la Star Trek's replicator or the Jetson's food machine), thanks to a c ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Heirloom Helios Radishes from Windrose Farm

Radishes metamorphose from seed to plant in a handful of days and, with some varieties, are ready to harvest in a few weeks. This swift seed-to-salad trait is what makes them so ideal for short attention span gardeners -- great for kids and kids-at-heart -- and market farmers. Limited land equals ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Makah Ozette Potato

Alex Weiser's potato varieties form a mounded rainbow of surprisingly vivid colors, ranging from a nearly black Purple Peruvian to red-fleshed Chilean tubers to pale fingerlings. So you'd be forgiven for passing up on the Ozette (a.k.a. Makah Ozette), but only once. It is one of Weiser's, and the ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's Angeli Caffe Eulogy

Evan Kleiman's beloved Melrose Avenue trattoria closes after 27 years

Tom Chapin Begs: "Give Peas a Chance"

Even with the world being a brutal, violent place and people generally malevolent and scummy, peace will always get more of a chance than wrinkly green nubs from the freezer. On his latest album, Give Peas A Chance, famous children's musician Tom Chapin (brother of Harry, father of semi-locals Lily ... More >>

Santa Monica Farmers Market Q & A, Part 2: Laura Avery Discovers a Farm in Compton Her Favorite Fall Produce

City of Santa MonicaSanta Monica Farmers Market Manager Laura Avery.​ Laura Avery has seen a lot change and evolution in farmers markets since she started managing the Santa Monica Farmers Market back in 1982. In part one of our interview, Avery gave us a window on some of the bigger changes ... More >>

Atwater Village Farm Market Preview Tonight

Rachael Narinsjam and toast​ Tonight, July 28th, the Atwater Village Farm Market will be open for a sneak preview as part of the very charming Atwater Village's Summer Nights on the Boulevard from 5 to 10 p.m. at 3224 Glendale Boulevard. If you haven't been to one of these exceptionally well-o ... More >>

10 Potluck Etiquette Rules

Flickr user Slow Food Seacoast​As a follow-up to our 10 Handy Rules for Tipping, we bring you 10 Potluck Etiquette Rules. Because it's summer, and you're bound to be invited to a pot luck or two, as we were over the weekend. Lucky you. 1. Bring a dish. The official definition of a potluck is ... More >>

Why Los Angeles Schoolkids Get Lousy Meals

Good Food Film Fest: 30 Years of Santa Monica Farmers Market

Courtesy of the filmmakers.Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney of "Big River" and "King Corn."​[Update, June 6, 2:43 p.m.: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that the Good Food Film Festival was co-sponsored by the KCRW radio show Good Food. It is not. Also, none of the filmmakers will b ... More >>

Michael Pollan's 3 New Food Rules

​If you follow Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, etc.), you probably know that the food guru is in the process of updating his popular book Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. He's adding more rules, and he asked Slow Food members to help him. Recently he picked three of them. And since this ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Beets Twitter and 99 Cent Chef Recipes

Felicia FriesemaGolden and red beets from Tutti Frutti Farms ​ Last week gave us a big blooming harbinger of springtime. But we admit we're still getting in touch with our roots. Luckily we're not being forced into a mad panicky rush, because beets are generally available all the time (a vis ... More >>

Q & A With Lidia Bastianich: On Vegas, Her Next Book Chances Of An L.A.-based Eataly

flickr user pritheworldBastianich At An Eataly Cooking Class Demo​Lidia Bastianich has a successful, long-running food television career on PBS, too many cookbooks to count, a mini Italian restaurant empire, namesake retail pasta sauces, and even a new QVC ceramic cookware line (sure, why not? ... More >>

More Food Rules: Michael Pollan Wants Your Food Rules

​Depending on who you talk to, Michael Pollan is either Jesus Christ or the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or perhaps the chair of the NCAA rules committee. In any event, Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, etc.) is currently in the process of updating his popular Food Rules: An Eater's Manual. And he's a ... More >>

[Updated, Again]: Dervaes Family Trademarks "Urban Homestead" Term: Legal Battle Follows

The cover of The Urban Homestead, written by Erik Knudsen and Kelly Coyne, which might be renamed in the next printing.​Updated, 2/22, 12:30 p.m.: The Dervaes family recently filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice to Google regarding content in The Urban Homestead by K ... More >>

Fight Not Over: Hollywood Farmers Market Gets 90-Day Extension but No Final Deal

Felicia FriesemaVendors at the 12-12 Hollywood market show their support.​ The SEE-LA/Hollywood Farmers Market vs. LA Film School battle has reached a temporary detente, but the fight that's been raging for the past two weeks is far from over. First, the market was on its last legs. Then, it ... More >>

[Updated, Again] Hollywood Farmers Market Update

Google EarthSatellite view of the LA Film School and the Hollywood Farmers Market.​ New update: SEE-LA announced late last night that The Hollywood Farmers Market was granted a special 90-day extension on their street permits. An announcement posted to the Slow Food LA website stated that the ... More >>

The New York Times Weighs in on "That Other California Cuisine"

hmdavid/Flickr​ As Kim Severson writes in Tuesday's New York Times, Southern Pacific Railroad big-wigs started Sunset magazine to express the idea of California living: sunshine, gardens, open spaces, clean air, and opportunities as wide-ranging as the state's epic coastline. The intent was l ... More >>

October Unprocessed: Q & A With Food Blogger Andrew Wilder, Unprocessed Food Man

Want to eat healthier, feel better and live longer? A million suggestions are out there on how to do just that, but a good place to start might be processed foods. As in, not eating them. Doritos, M&M's, Oscar Mayer wieners, McDonald's french fries -- could you do away with them all? Okay, how about ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/28 - 7/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The surroundings are luxurious, but the avant-garde cooking of Michael Voltaggio, who uses his tank of liquid nitrogen with the abandon that a bachelor uses his toaster oven, is anything but sedate: white asparagus lac ... More >>

Fast Food Using Slow Food?: Talking With Chipotles' Steve Ells

Lucy LeanChipotle Opens New Restaurant in Hollywood​ With the opening of Chipotle on Vine and Sunset this month and another being built on Sunset just west of Fairfax it seems like these fast food restaurants are popping up like mushrooms all over Los Angeles. But did you know this might actu ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Heirloom Ozette Potato

Felicia Friesema​ Really, he had us at Laker Baker. But Alex Weiser apparently isn't content to simply wow us with new potatoes. This week he's decided to wow us with an old potato. An heirloom, actually, from the late 1700's called the Ozette, a.k.a. the Makah Ozette, after the Pacific No ... More >>

The McItaly: How Do You Say 'I'm NOT Loving It' in Italian?

There's marketing, there's selling out, and then there's the McItaly, the new McDonald's hamburger that comes wrapped in the Italian flag, both literally and figuratively. The Italian government has so thoroughly embraced the burger that Luca Zaia, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Agricult ... More >>

Slow Life in a Tuscan Town: Douglas Gayeton's Slow Food Book, On A Restaurant Book Tour

When filmmaker and photographer Douglas Gayeton decided to write a book that would chronicle the 5 years he spent in rural Italy, he didn't dash off a guy's version of Under The Tuscan Sun. Fortunately for the rest of us. Instead Gayeton assembled a patchwork of sepia prints, singly and in montage, ... More >>

This Cooking Class Should Stink: Kraut Fest 09 at Machine Project

Photo Credit: Ralph UndenKimchi ​When September comes around -- in Southern California, the month is often hotter than June or July -- it's time for pickling. Yes, the heat that's causing you and your bountiful summer cabbage to wilt is choice weather for fermentation. Hence, Kraut Fest 2009. ... More >>

We Want Healthy School Lunches: Peaceful Protest in Potluck Form

Brooke BurtonHelping kids to eat fresh food​Every day more than 30 million public school children in America, from both rich and poor communities, are served food made from ingredients that cost less than a dollar. That's based on a breakdown of the USDA's reimbursement budget to the National Scho ... More >>

Tickets On Sale for the Modesto Reel Food Film Festival

Modesto Film FestivalInside the State Theater​If there's anything to be drawn from the box office successes of "Food Inc.," and "Julie & Julia," two of the bigger food films to be released this summer, it's that films about food or even those with food-related themes have grown progressively m ... More >>

Slow Food's Time For Lunch Campaign Aims to Get "Real Food" in Schools

Say the word "malnutrition" and the image that comes to mind is probably the shirtless 3rd World child with a bulging belly and large, sad eyes that you've seen for years on TV. But the plump-cheeked American kid may be suffering from malnutrition too--though perhaps not from lack of food. One in f ... More >>

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

Bird Is the Word

Chicken with a side of chicken at Kyochon

Slab City

On the meat trail, a lardo dream

Italian L.a.

The 20 Best

Ask Mr. Gold

All in the Family