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10 Best French Macarons in Los Angeles

French macarons are glorious confections, little sandwiches of buttercream or ganache filling pressed between two meringue disks. (They are not to be confused with macaroons, which are coconut, and most definitely do not resemble tiny round pastry sandwiches.) When well-made, macarons are delicate c ... More >>

IACP 2013 Food Writing Award Finalists Announced

The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- yes, that's an old joke now, but you try googling IACP and see what you get -- announced their 2013 award finalists this morning for four of their prestigious ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Bouchon Bakery Thomas Keller's Secret To A Memorable Macaron

If you can flip past the pages of Thomas Keller's new Bouchon Bakery cookbook and not get excited about the gorgeous macarons, bacon-cheddar scones, pistachio Madelines and "Oh Ohs," Keller's stunning take on Hostess Ho Hos, all the more for us (Did we really just use the word "stunning" and Ho Hos ... More >>

5 Best New Cookbooks For Teenagers

The upside of reality food television: all the teenagers we meet who want to hang in the kitchen in today's cool tattooed chef era. And yet most teenagers are still caught in those awkward cooking years. They don't need kid's cookbooks, or at least don't think they do. But they're not quite ready fo ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

5 Picks for DineLA's Summer Restaurant Week

Next week kicks off DineLA's first ever summer-session Restaurant Week, which consists of discounted prix-fixe lunches and dinners at some of the city's most popular restaurants, available from July 16 to 27. For those who've never experienced Restaurant Week, over 300 restaurants from Santa Monica ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again (And Again)

Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the third consecutive year, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Congratulations to Rene Redzep ... More >>

Phil Rosenthal, Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, on His Journey Through the World of Food

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

The Want Ads: A Bacon Cheeseburger Bed Of One's Own

Craigslista cheeseburger bed​If you're the sort of person who eats out way too often at Umami Burger, frequently invokes Thomas Keller's well-documented love of In-N-Out as justification for your fast food burger fetish, and spends your weekends in close proximity to your charcoal briquets and ... More >>

Chefs Feed: Your Latest Food App

So many apps, so much food, so little time. The latest fun food app is called Chefs Feed, which was released yesterday by Credible, Inc., and it's sort of like an aggregate of all those Bon Appétit back pages where your favorite chef told you what they liked to eat on their own time. The Los Angele ... More >>

Q & A With Farmshop's Jeffrey Cerciello: Open For Dinner, Keller, El Bulli Market Plans

A. ScattergoodJeffrey Cerciello at Farmshop​ When Jeffrey Cerciello came to Los Angeles to open Farmshop in the Brentwood Country Mart, in the space formerly occupied by Maury Rubin's short-lived City Bakery, it was a homecoming of sorts. Cerciello, who was culinary director of Thomas Keller's ... More >>

And Now, A Brief Message From Thomas Keller

Screenshot of Thomas Keller's Twitter page​

The Most Expensive Restaurants in the Country: The Top 25

Bundle.comMost Expensive Restaurants in the Country​ Ever wonder what the most expensive restaurants in the country are? So did we. Thanks to Bundle, an online money management company, we now get a cartoon breakdown of the top 25 most expensive restaurants in the country (based on average che ... More >>

Chefs to Defy Foie Gras Ban?

Guzzle & NoshRabbit albondigas, teriyaki foie gras, green garlic tempura, miso broth by chef Laurent Quenioux at Starry Kitchen.​Foie gras, the delicacy beloved by gourmands and protested by animal rights activists, may be off California menus by next summer. SB 1520, which bans force-feeding ... More >>

Bouchon Bakery Coming to LA Sunday Suppers

Cathy Chaplin / gas•tron•o•myBouchon Bakery in Las Vegas​Bouchon fanatics who can't get enough of Thomas Keller's bread and pastries can cheer up because Bouchon Bakery is set to open August 17th in Beverly Hills. Pastry chef Roy Shvartzapel will be overseeing croissants, pastries, muffi ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Meat Desserts, The Hatfields Cook Breakfast Why You're Eating Pork Belly Right Now

-- Quinn and Karen Hatfield to open a breakfast spot on La Brea. [Daily Dish] -- Unsettling desserts made out of meat. Unsettling is an understatement. [Flavorpill] -- Saturated Fat Helps People Deal With Negative Emotions, Study Says. (Which is why we're all eating pork belly while we read this ... More >>

Bocuse d'Or Begins Accepting Applications for 2013 Competition

gastros on tourDenmark's Rasmus Kofoed's 2011 winner​ Though Americans have a long history of full-on dominations and come-from-behind victories at the Olympics, when it comes to the Bocuse d'Or -- the culinary equivalent of a world championship -- we haven't even sniffed bronze. Fresh off ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ What'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), it's where most of ... More >>

The L.A. Times Festival of Books: Thomas Keller & Duff Goldman, Fabio Viviani & The Galloping Gourmet

LA Times Festival of Books​ Next weekend, April 30th through May 1st, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books celebrates the book. You know, those text-y files you download and read on your Kindle or iPad or, as they were once known, those pieces of papers inked on both sides with words, bound ... More >>

The Want Ads: A Chef de Partie at Bouchon

Thomas Keller Restaurant Group​ Bouchon Beverly Hills has an opening for a chef de partie (that's the French kitchen brigade name for a line cook or station chef). To quote the job listing, which was posted on the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group website on March 1st: This is a great opportunity ... More >>

Top 10 Supersized Cookbooks: Let's Hope The Shipping Is Free

J. Garbee​Half the fun of bookstore browsing is picking up a well-fed cookbook, letting it slump over your knee, and flipping through those hundreds upon hundreds of pages. These days, it's all about knowing a book's shipping weight, the modern kill-joy of cookbook shopping. Unless you're in t ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/29-12/3

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The refrigerator is swept of leftovers, the bowl of cranberries has been scraped clean, and the half-gallon of superconcentrated turkey stock in the freezer doesn't begin to compensate for the loss." Ask Mr. Gold: Take a Dip ... More >>

[Updated]: Foie Gras Protest Tonight at Providence

bloggyboulga/Flickr​Update: We checked in with chef Michael Cimarusti this morning to see how last night's foie gras protest affected the event. He tells us the dinner went "very well," and that no major conflict arose between the restaurant and the protesters. "Obviously we disagree on the ... More >>

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 >>

Epicurious Names Top 15 Chefs (of Last 15 Years)

EpicuriousFergus Henderson (2007)​Epicurious, the website best-known as the excellent database warehouse for some 100,000 recipes from Bon Appétit and Gourmet, houses more than just recipes. It has articles, guides, videos, cooking and gadget advice, and, of course, lists. It seems everyone h ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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 >>

Thomas Keller Joins Twitter

Yes, finally, all you food people on Twitter have what is perhaps your ultimate validation, at least until Ferran Adrià starts tweeting recipes in Spanish haikus. Thomas Keller has joined Twitter. His first tweet -- @Chef_Keller; go look it up -- went out this afternoon. According to his PR firm, " ... More >>

Airing Your French Laundry

For that special trip to Napa

Ask Mr. Gold: Airing Your French Laundry

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I know it's slightly out of your territory, but my husband and I are heading to Napa for our first wedding anniversary and we're wondering if we should spend a million dollars and eat dinner at The French Laundry? We love fo ... More >>

Once Bitten, Twice Fried: Best French Fries in Los Angeles, Part 2

Because we can't get too much of a good thing, here's the second installment of our quest for the city's most outstanding fries. This list (organized alphabetically) includes the pure, the gently garnished, and the heavily adorned in a world that's a vast, exciting terrain of Kennebec vs. Russet, pe ... More >>

Bar Bouchon Opens Today: Park Your Barneys Bag, Get a Drink

Flickr/arnold|inuyaki ​Thomas Keller's Bar Bouchon opens today, on the first floor space beneath the lofty digs of the new Bouchon Bistro in Beverly Hills, just in time for the booze marathon of the holidays. Shopping in Beverly Hills requires a drink for many of us anyway. The bar concept i ... More >>

Can't Get To Bouchon Bistro? Stay Home and Make Your Own Chocolate Bouchons

If you haven't made it to Thomas Keller's 3 week-old Beverly Hills bistro yet, or are waiting for the swank bar downstairs to open (next Friday) to make the trek, you may perhaps be in need of a chocolate bouchon fix. Happily Bouchon pastry chef Scott Wheatfill has provided us with the recipe for ju ... More >>

Pomp and Circumference: Bouchon Is a Corker of a Restaurant

Bouchon Bistro Opening Tonight: Like You Needed A Reminder

If you need to be reminded, Thomas Keller's Bouchon opens tonight in Beverly Hills. Last we checked, the bistro was booked a month ahead. But you never know; they might have a cancellation. Maybe the next time you think about making a reservation and don't, you might consider the message on each of ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/9 - 11/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But I'm not one of those people out in Southeast Asia looking for whatever, fermented chickens in their shells'" Q & A With Thomas Keller, Part 2: The Best Meal He Ever Cooked, The Importance of Fernand Point Lightbu ... More >>

Photo of the Week: Breads at Bouchon Bistro

As Thomas Keller week comes to an end, we'll leave you with an interior shot of one of the rooms that comprise Bouchon's massive kitchen. This is the baking room, where on Monday night were stacked an impressive array of breads. More went in and out of the oven: épis and wreaths, snipped with sciss ... More >>

Q & A With Thomas Keller, Part 2: The Best Meal He Ever Cooked, The Importance of Fernand Point Lightbulb Moments

Deborah JonesChef Thomas Keller​Thomas Keller's Los Angeles Bouchon Bistro, which opens a week from tonight, will serve the same menu, more or less, as his other two Bouchons, in Yountville and Las Vegas. But Keller says that even though the menu has stayed pretty much the same, the space has ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Thomas Keller's Chocolate Chip Cookies

As Thomas Keller writes in Ad Hoc At Home, his latest and fourth cookbook, "a crème brûlée is something you get introduced to, often when you're eating out: 'Oh, this is a crème brûlée.' But unlike crème brûlée, cookies have been there since the beginning. There's a comfort in things that a ... More >>

Q & A With Thomas Keller: New Restaurant, New Cookbook Why He Loves Broiled Lobster With Mayonnaise

Deborah JonesChef Thomas Keller​Thomas Keller is a busy man right now, between opening his new Bouchon Bistro (the third) in Beverly Hills, going on a national book tour for his new cookbook (the fourth), Ad Hoc At Home, and running what can be described as a small empire. It's a very organize ... More >>

Thomas Keller In Town: The Chef Will Be Signing Copies of Ad Hoc At Home, His New Cookbook

Amazon.comAd Hoc At Home​It's Thomas Keller month in Los Angeles (and everywhere, really). The famed chef (The French Laundry, Per Se, Ad Hoc, Bouchon) is in town the next two weeks, to open Bouchon in Beverly Hills, which premiers November 18th, and to do a few book signings. His new Ad Hoc A ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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 on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Thomas Keller Update: Bouchon Beverly Hills Opening in 2 1/2 Weeks, Reservation Line Open Today

Thomas Keller​If you're the sort of person who's beaten a path to Yountville the last few years, to visit Thomas Keller's troika of restaurants, The French Laundry, Bouchon and Ad Hoc, you can start saving on gas money soon. Keller's Los Angeles incarnation of Bouchon finally opens its doors o ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What'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 on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Play With Your Food: Burger Games, Con't.

There is a mystique to the hamburger in this country, a reverence born of childhood and road-trip, of inchoate memory and embedded emotion. I get it. I read Proust. (Or at least all the interminable paragraphs that dealt with food.) But I'm sorry, I do not understand the myth of this one, I don't ca ... More >>

Live-Tweeting the French Laundry -- Four-Hours in 140 Characters or Less

Beware All Ye Who Enter: Food-and-wine-induced stupor may occur. My iPhone has grown into an extension of my hand (see: day job). So when I first stepped inside Thomas Keller's famous French Laundry in Napa Valley, I wanted badly to Tweet my amazement, to Flckr the restaurant's discreet filigree ... More >>

Lost in Translation

James L. Brooks’ Spanglish