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Blogs
November 12, 2010
Q & A With Ming Tsai, Part 2: "Confusion" Cuisine, The Importance of Cookbook Pictures Why We Need To Go To Grandmother's House
A. ScattergoodMing Tsai poolside at The Standard in Hollywood In the first part of our interview with cookbook author and longtime television cooking show host Ming Tsai -- yes, he has a restaurant too, if you're anywhere near Wellesley, Mass. -- the chef talked about the evolution of food T ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2010
[Updated] Paula Deen Named Grand Marshal of the 2011 Rose Parade: Get Out Your Pimiento Cheese
PR NewswirePaula Deen with roses Update: When the folks at Pasadena Star-News contacted The Weekly's Jonathan Gold, a longtime Pasadena resident, for a comment about the recent naming of Paula Deen as Grand Marshal of the 2011 Rose Parade, Gold was less than enthusiastic: "Paula Deen? That ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2010
Scott Conant's Westward Expansion: Scarpetta in Beverly Hills
scottconant.comartist's rendering of Scarpetta Call it chef Scott Conant's great Westward expansion: Scarpetta Beverly Hills. Conant's fourth version of the Italian restaurant opened Monday at Montage Beverly Hills in the space formerly occupied by Parq, the beautifully tiled, but ultimatel ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2010
Q & A With Ray Garcia, Part 2: What Dogs Order At The Peninsula, Real Restaurant Cooking Helping Kids With Heirloom Tomato (And Marijuana) Issues
J. GarbeeSeared Tuna Nicoise With Quail EggsWe left off yesterday's chat with Ray Garcia, Executive Chef at Fig in Santa Monica, with dog food. "It was probably seared ground sirloin, some of the best beef in the country, and the dog didn't like the temperature or something like that," says G ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2010
Cookbook Review: Mark Bittman's Food Matters Cookbook -- Because It Does Matter
That Mark Bittman has cooked pretty much everything during his career is what has made him a household name (at least among New York Times subscribers). When he proclaimed that
Blogs
October 14, 2010
Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken: Adventures In the Alaskan Surfing Capital, Chasing Boar in Mongolia Her Hitchcock Squab Experiment
Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger have been culinary fixtures in this town for decades, from their first restaurant, City Cafe, which opened in 1981, to their downtown flagship Ciudad, to the Westside's Border Grill to, inevitably, a food truck of the same name. Oh, and let's not forget the five c ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Happy National Noodle Day Where to Get 89-cent Noodles
House of AnAn's Garlic Noodles Whether you're a soba, udon, linguine, glass, ramen or angel hair fan, today's your day. Actually, it's National Noodle Day: an equal opportunity celebration of all things noodles. To commemorate the date, chef Helene An, owner of Crustacean, Tiato Garden Marke ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2010
Your Andre Guerrero Update: No on Señor Fred and BoHo, Yes on Oinkster, Etc.
Food Network screenshotAndre Guerrero with Guy Fieri Andre Guerrero is a busy man these days, what with running his hugely popular Oinkster joint, location scouting for a second Oinkster, and co-ordinating with the Lefebvres on their upcoming LudoBites 6.0, which will be running out of Guerr ... More >>
Blogs
September 22, 2010
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 >>
LA Life
September 9, 2010
Tower of Power
Couple hope their art structure will help society
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Q & A With John Sedlar: Retirement, The Food Network Where Are Our Latino Chefs
A. ScattergoodJohn Sedlar of Rivera, with lamp John Rivera Sedlar, who opened his downtown restaurant Rivera a year and a half ago, has been one of Los Angeles' best chefs for decades: before Rivera, before the chef "retired" for 15 years, before the Museum Tamal, back to when he ran St. Est ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Q & A With Village Idiot's Lindsay Kennedy Part 2: Jack in the Box, Corned Beef, and Mario Batali
In Part 1 of our interview with Village Idiot chef and co-owner Lindsay Kennedy, we talked about the early days of his career, his work behind the scenes at the Food Network, and his restaurant's T.V. policy. For Part 2, we discuss some of his favorite restaurants in the city, his personal style of ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
Beat The Heat: A Round-Up of L.A.'s Ice Cream Sandwich Spots
Coolhaus Truck It might be mid-August, but it looks as though summer has finally arrived. In the same way we Angelenos become unglued at the first drop of winter rain, we also start to melt the moment the mercury rises beyond 85 degrees. So what do we do when we want to beat the heat? One o ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2010
Q & A With Pan Am Room's Norman Fierros: Hairdressing, Life in Phoenix & The Lure of Airplanes
If you've flown into Santa Monica Airport (literally, figuratively) hungry for dinner anytime recently, you're aware that The Hump, the infamous restaurant above Typhoon, is no more. In its place, owner Brian Vidor has remodeled the upstairs space into the Pan Am Room. The reworked restaurant gets i ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
New Baking Book Review: United Cakes of America
In the good old U.S.A, we hold our cakes to higher standards than cookies. A cookie can be dry and crumbly (that's what coffee is for). A cake must be both beautiful and tasty (good luck, as fondant will never taste good) and stay fresh for days (impossible without copious amounts of booze or ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Former Food Network Host Arrested For Planning Murder In Santa Monica
Juan-Carlos Cruz, cookbook authorCBS News is reporting that Juan-Carlos Cruz, formerly the host of Food Network's "Calorie Commando" has been arrested in Santa Monica after allegedly trying to hire a homeless man to kill his wife. Cruz was apparently scouting Santa Monica for an interested pa ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
Q & A with Marcel Vigneron: Island Life, Going Molecular & Cooking with Bobby Flay
Marcel Vigneron of Bar210Marcel Vigneron is probably still best known for season 2 of Top Chef, during which he displayed his talents for molecular gastronomy -- and for getting under the skin of his competition. After the show Vigneron, who still has his signature gravity-defying hair, moved ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
Top Chef Canada Coming Soon
If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Ted Allen: Queer Eye for the Local Wine 2 Recipes
Robert Mondavi WinesTed Allen at the Chateau Marmont The celebrity face behind Robert Mondavi Wines, Queer Eye alum Ted Allen is the host of Uncorked: Wine Made Simple on PBS and Chopped and Food Detectives on the Food Network. The renowned food and wine expert is also an Emmy Award-winner, a ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Stephen Colbert's Lastest Forray into Cooking: iPad Salsa
Maybe the Food Network -- or any of the other networks that are currently scrambling to get their share of the reality food television audience -- should just give Stephen Colbert his own DIY cooking show. After cutting sandwiches with an ice skate at the Olympics, the host of Colbert Nation is now ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
Q&A With Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, The Men Behind Animal, Part I
Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo grew up in Florida, met in culinary school, then went on to start a successful catering business. They had a cookbook, a Food Network show called 2 Dudes Catering, and even battled Cat Cora on an episode of Iron Chef America. But then they opened Animal Restaurant on Fairf ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
Top Chef Contestant Brian Hill's Comfort Truck Rolls Out
Elina ShatkinChef Brian Hill poses in front of his Comfort Truck. When Mary J. Blige dubs your homemade tortilla chips "crack chips," (because they're so addictive they're like... well, you get it), you don't think twice about putting them on the menu. Chef Brian Hill's Comfort Truck (Twitte ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Next Food Network Star Debbie Lee Bares Her Seoul at BREADBAR
BREADBARLee's Housemade Kimchee A finalist from Food Network's The Next Food Network Star is popping up in LA. No, not Melissa D'Arabian. We're talking about Debbie Lee, who is cooking up her version of soot jeep - think Korean-inspired pub grub - at BREADBAR's Third Street location until Sa ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2010
Playing Chicken at The Foundry: Chefs Ludo and Greenspan Cook a Chicken Dinner
If two chefs feel like cooking together, maybe matching their different versions of a dish up for an evening of good food, they do not necessarily need a glitzy Kitchen Stadium and a bunch of Food Network TV cameras to do so. Sometimes one chef can just drop into another's restaurant, cook, h ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2010
Paula Deen Live at the Pantages Theatre: Lights, Televisions, Pork Chops!
Paula Deen, TV chef, cookbook author, queen of "down-home" cooking, and a woman who can somehow cook with more rocks on her fingers than Liza Minnelli, is coming to the Pantages Theatre next month. Deen and Family will present an evening of "cooking demonstrations, story-telling, Q and A and fun," c ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2009
The Next Iron Chef: Jose Garces Takes the Podium
The Food NetworkIron Chef Jose Garces, with Alton BrownIf you watched the final episode of The Next Iron Chef last night, you know by now that Chef Jose Garces will take his place on the Kitchen Stadium podium, next to Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Cat Cora and Michael Symon. I ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2009
Back to (Cooking) School: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles Gets More Students An Anti-Griddle
In questionable economic times, people tend to hit the bars, go to movies--and go back to school. In the Food Network Era, when food is not only a daily necessity but a commodity, popular entertainment, the subject of reality television, and even a venue for celebrity, we thought we'd check in and s ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2009
Top 10 Happy Hours: Penny Pinching Drinking
High on the list of traditional activities during economic hard times has always been watching movies--and hitting the bars. This town is, happily, very good for both. But it's really no fun to toast the movements of the Dow with a $15 martini, so save a penny at one of Los Angeles' many watering ho ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2009
So Long, Surya: Indian Restaurant To Close Their Recipe For Chicken Mangalorean
Barbara HansenThe elephant god Ganesha presides over SuryaAfter more than nine years on West 3rd Street, the Indian restaurant Surya will close. It has been sold by owner Sheel Joshi, who says it will be gone by mid-December. This is a blow to diners who like Surya's relaxed, contemporary Ind ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2009
A Q&A With Martha Stewart: Her New Book, What She Thinks of Gourmet, And Cooking to Ludacris
photo credit: Valerie SchaffMartha Stewart is coming to town this Monday to sign copies of her new book, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family & Friends. For all of you keeping track, this is Martha's 67th cookbook. We spoke with her yesterday by phone in her New ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2009
Q&A With Kristine Lefebvre: Trade Secrets, Stealing Recipes, Restaurant Rumors & Why Paula Deen is A Ludo Fan
Kristine Lefebvre is a lot more than her twitter name (@FrenchChefWife) would indicate. The former Apprentice finalist (and yes, Playboy covergirl) is a corporate transactional attorney who specializes in intellectual property law. As such, she's her chef-husband Ludo Lefebvre's (Ludo Bites) attorne ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2009
The Next Iron Chef: The First Chef Off The Kitchen Island
It's a safe bet that grasshoppers will not be on the menu at The Foundry at Melrose, now or ever. Eric Greenspan, the only Los Angeles chef on this season's The Next Iron Chef, which is set in LA, was eliminated in the first round yesterday. The 10 chefs were each given a difficult ingredient (sea ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Meet Your Food Blogger: Amanda Simpson of FoodPornDaily
Hot red lobster with Prosecco butter sauce running down its claws, seductively posed on a bed of creamy rosemary, garlic and chèvre yellow corn grits. Pork tenderloin outfitted with bacon, stuffed with figs and blue cheese, splayed out on a white porcelain plate, surrounded by crimson fig slices. I ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2009
Coming Soon: Home Cooking School in Venice with Martha Rose Shulman Clifford A. Wright
Venice Cooking SchoolMostly Food Friends, Occasionally FoesSeasoned cooking gurus Martha Rose Shulman and Clifford A. Wright, who have penned nearly four dozen cookbooks between them, are collaborating on a new cooking school. Shulman and Wright will offer their first class, Thanksgiving With ... More >>
Blogs
August 28, 2009
Riverside Cook is Finalist in Ocean Spray Cranberry Contest Her Red-Ribbon Recipe
Cooking Contest CentralLaureen Pittman (left) at the Pillsbury Bake-OffRiverside's own Laureen Pittman has been selected as one of four finalists in Ocean Spray's Ultimate Cranberry Recipe Contest consumer category. On October 5th, Pittman will face off against the three other finalists in Ne ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
An Interview with Spago Pastry Chef Sherry Yard A Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe
sherryyard.comSherry Yard with Wolfgang PuckSherry Yard moves at the speed of someone who, for professional reasons, consumes a lot of sugar. But when she's not at the pastry kitchen of Spago or Cut, or overseeing the desserts of Wolfgang Puck's vast and growing empire, or writing cookbooks ( ... More >>
LA Life
August 7, 2008
The Chumby Diaries: A Partial-Attention Love-Hate Story
Is the ambient widget device a friend who will share corn-bread recipes and glimpses at its panda cam, or a foe who will steal your passwords?
Stage
January 3, 2008
Theater Reviews: Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, Groundlings
Also A Tuna Christmas
Film+TV
July 26, 2007
No Reservations: Light Dining
Sweet and savory fare � without the foam
News
May 3, 2007
Jailhouse Rock
Singing for supper in the Alcatraz of Arizona
Film+TV
August 3, 2006
Shrugging in Hollywood
Testosterone-challenged Laura Kightlinger�s Minor Accomplishments
Film+TV
June 9, 2005
Chefs Under Fire
Is Hell�s Kitchen�s Gordon Ramsay merely the Simon Cowell of haute cuisine?

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