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  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Historic Plastic Bag Ban Vote Tomorrow Will Bring Heal The Bay to L.A. City Hall

    The L.A. City Council this week could make ours the biggest city in America to not only bag plastic bags at markets, but also prohibit paper bags. The body finally takes up the historic proposal on Wednesday. And environmentalists and supporters of Heal the Bay will be there:

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Q & A With Jam Maker Bill Manning: On Legislation Jams, Deborah Madison's Insights Their Advice On Starting Your Own Food Biz

    flickr user/ComeUndoneJam, Jelly or Confiture?​Bill Manning of High Desert Foods is the epitome of the organic apples-to-applesauce businessman. He's the sort of guy who cares about the broader societal and environmental impact of what he produces, yet he also appreciates that increasing the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Beverly Hills Casting Call Wants Rich People And Their 'Help' For Reality Show

    Bravo​Oh boy. If you think The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is disgusting, have we got a show for you. Well, actually, we don't. All we know is that this proposed Real Housewives poseur will focus on the relationships between the Westside's super rich and their help. Let's just hope they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Whole Foods Invades Scotland

    paulswansen​ Not wanting to deprive the rest of the world from exorbitant prices for locally grown goods, Whole Foods will open a store in Scotland this week, the first of its chain to open in the area. The store will open in Giffnock, a city near Glasgow. Londonites seem to love themselves so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Sugar Cane Making Your Own Sugar From Zombie Survivalist Max Brooks

    Felicia FriesemaBlack sugar cane from Central Valley Farmers (Fresno) at the Hollywood market.​It's not often we get to advocate eating sugar in this column. Often, it's the opposite: fruits and veggies. But sugar cane is finally in season, the last big seasonal sweet bomb before we hit the bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Grow Your Own Mushrooms: Urban Farming in a Box

    Back to the Roots​Back to the Roots is the kind of grow-your-own mushroom kit company that makes you wonder what you've been doing with your life. Founders Nikhil Arorahe and Alejandro Velez first got the idea in 2009 during their last semester at UC Berkeley when, just two months before their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Photo of the Day: Cheese Sculpture at Whole Foods

    David Fromme.A top student from Sparkle Boys Modeling Academy next to Whole Foods' cheese sculpture.​Over at the Whole Foods mothership on Lincoln Avenue in Venice, things are not only getting real in the parking lot, they're getting real in the dairy section. Somebody at the store has gone to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Hot Knives Cookbook: "Salad Daze" Kitchen Disasters

    Aaron FarleyFlour power: Hot Knives after another taxing day in the kitchen.​Today, our favorite Eastside vegetarian duo releases "The Hot Knives Vegetarian Cookbook: Salad Daze." The 128-page book ($25/Mark Batty Publisher) has, unofficially, been in the works for five years, as long as Alex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Real Housewives' Toxic Margarita Pulled from Whole Foods

    Skinnygirl Margarita.​Bethenny Frankel, "diet guru" and former "star" of "reality" show The Real Housewives of New York City, doesn't care that her "all natural" Skinnygirl Margarita contains potentially carcinogenic ingredients, which caused Whole Foods to pull the "drink" from its stores. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    Local Pantry: Zeta Za'atar Lavash Chips (Say That 10 Times Fast)

    JgarbeeZa'atar Zeta Hour​Hit your semi-specialty "local" national grocer (Whole Foods, we're talking about you) these days, and you can pretty much declare your local condiment duties done. But if we step away from the fancy Artisinal LA packaging and get straight down to tasting, finding top ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2011

    Got a Question for Test Kitchen? Food Photo Submissions

    Flickr/Nicholas​ Got a question about recipes or cooking techniques? Ask Test Kitchen. You'd think we'd get an avalanche of questions about recipes and cooking techniques, now wouldn't you? Yes, we do. Actually, we even try to avoid going out in public wearing chef's whites. While shopping for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/13-6/17

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I sleep better knowing that there is still fried pork leg with onions like this in the world." Ask Mr. Gold: Top 10 Pico Boulevard Eats. "Aside from Sun Chips and soda, Rite Aid's most noteworthy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    VIDEO: White Rapper in Prius Complains About West L.A. 'Whole Foods Parking Lot'

    YouTubeDavid Wittman, aka DJDave​Something about this video -- an endless loop around the Whole Foods parking lot, as nerdily narrated by white rapper "DJDave" from the driver's seat of his Prius -- seems oddly familiar. Oh yeah! That's because we've spent half our lives on an endless loop aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Loafin': Top 5 Bakery Breads

    Amy ScattergoodChallah-in-process at Stoneground.​ "Don't fill up on bread," a few million parents have warned, seated around a trattoria table, a basket of steaming slices and a cup of olive oil at its center. Their children have never listened, and it's no wonder. Bread is a much better fo ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 7, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Mo-Chica

    Amy ScattergoodChallah-in-process at Stoneground.​ "Don't fill up on bread," a few million parents have warned, seated around a trattoria table, a basket of steaming slices and a cup of olive oil at its center. Their children have never listened, and it's no wonder. Bread is a much better fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: What's The Big Deal With Quinoa?

    Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: What's the big deal with quinoa? I couldn't even pronounce it right when I first saw it on the menu at Hugo's in Studio City. Then I saw it at Trader Joe's and then I saw it everywhere. It has probably been around forever, but has on ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 6, 2011

    Hunting Pheasant

    Celestino Drago's your man for the fancy fowl

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Ask Mr. Gold: Hunting Pheasant, or Celestino Drago's Your Man for the Fancy Fowl

    Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Where do you suggest we go for a meal of pheasant? In the Los Angeles area, please. --The Melczers Dear Mr. and Mrs. Melczer: It's odd -- several decades ago, pheasant was the ultimate in luxury meats, probably because of its connotatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Top 10 Kinds of Bacon in My Refrigerator This Morning

    Flickr/Chuck T.guanciale​ 10. Guanciale. Made by some guy in Colorado, or so says Rosario, the cured-meat impresario at Roma Deli in Pasadena. A nice, gamy pig cheek, anyway, suspiciously like the ones I used to get from Salumi Biellese on 8th Avenue in Manhattan.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Research Study Finds The Sight of Meat Calms Men Down

    SalSmilesStudy Finds Meat Calms Men Down​ Forget massages, soothing music or aromatherapy. If you want to calm down a stressed-out man, just show him a few photos of meat. Preferably just-cooked hunks of beef filet, lamb chop and T-bone steaks, still sizzling and etched with blackened grill m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Sushi Lunch Fight: Truck Vs. Japanese Market

    Really good sushi is expensive. And while we'd all love to eat at Urasawa during our lunch break, it's not exactly feasible (and not just because it costs a few hundred dollars -- they're also closed for lunch). So people can't always consume the freshest kohada flown in from Japan, but they do keep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Top 10 Kitchen Safety Tips (Excluding: "Don't Be a Moron")

    Flickr user Photography_1O1Is your meat being stored at the appropriate temperature?​ It is National Food Safety Education Month, because everyone knows that the best way to deal with a serious issue is to give it its own month. We also love giving out National Days (yesterday was National Cr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

    Food52's First Cookbook Wrap Up How To Win $1,000 In Groceries

    Food52.com​If you've been following Food52, you know that Cook's Illustrated won the pork shoulder and sugar cookie battle by a narrow margin. And that the year of reader recipe testing has wrapped up, with the "first crowd-sourced cookbook" off to the printer (readers submitted recipes on a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    The 70% Solution: Tasting Notes on Tcho "Fruity" Dark Chocolate

    Ben CalderwoodTcho tasting bar with proprietary flavor wheel visible on the package​ The 70% Solution intentionally fudges the numbers by a few percentage points (the pun, Mom's honor, is accidental) to introduce Squid Ink tasters to Tcho, the world's first internet chocolate. Producer: Tcho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Whole Foods Companion: The Cook's Indispensable Non-Cookbook

    Chelsea Green Publishing​Dianne Onstad's invaluable compendium of natural eats, the thick paperback Whole Foods Companion (no affiliation with Whole Foods Market), is a must-read reference for farmers marketers, curious cooks and lovers of unprocessed foods in all their myriad forms. This is n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    The Many Names of Mariscos Guillen La Playita

    Ben CalderwoodChicharron and asphalt​ It may have two or possibly three names, or no proper name at all--regulars call it the blue shack, and that will do nicely. Nothing at this cash-only Venice/Santa Monica taco stand is renegade, or even all that spicy. I fear a hissing shamble of Yelpers-- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Don't Look, Just Eat: The Grocery Store Edition

    Tuesday seems like a fine day to release a new miniseries, so Squid Ink is offering up the first in its limited run "Don't Look, Just Eat (or Drink)" series. This dramedy's main characters are those edibles that taste so much better than they look (yes, heaping bowl of stewed tripe, we're talking ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Love is in the Aisles: A Valentine's Day Mixer at Whole Foods

    william c hutton jr via Flickr​Tonight you can pick up more than vanilla rice milk and whole grain Puffins at Whole Foods. The organic health foods market in Venice is hosting its second annual Valentine's Day singles mixer at the in-store wine tasting bar from 6-7:30 p.m. Though you may not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    2010 Hangover Cures

    LA Weekly Flickr Pool Member: A.C. Thamer​ Every New Year is a time for contemplation, resolution and for celebrating the infinite possibilities of the next 365 days. But for many, the end of one year marks the chance for limitless imbibing in the new year. As we prepare for the leap into a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Drink and Give: 'Tis the Season to Give a Bottle with a Shot of Generosity

    Ehlers Estate​Not so long ago, "charity-driven" wineries could get by with donating the occasional case or two of merlot to local fund raising auctions (did you get a taste last year's YMCA "Riesling"?). Today, product donation is hardly worth singing the most famous Christmas aria in history ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Just Desserts: Top Chef Spin-off Show For Pastry Chefs Announced Today

    Padma with chocolate​If you've been sitting through all those Top Chef elimination and Quickfire challenges just to get to the desserts, Bravo has the show for you. Today network executives announced that a Top Chef spin-off series has been picked up. Top Chef: Just Desserts (the same drill, o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Cooking With Kids, and Watching Movies With Them Too: The Joys of Ratatouille

    PixarRatatouille ​If you have young kids, and have much spent time making sure they know their way around the kitchen, you probably know the drill. Buy them some kids' cookbooks, maybe sign them up for a kids' cooking class, invite their friends over for kitchen projects. My kids' have gone to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/9 - 8/14/2009

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Designing a menu for Mars is simply a scientific problem to be solved like any other." This is not Buzz Aldrin's Astronaut Food. "We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    How To Be An Asshole, L.A. Version

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Designing a menu for Mars is simply a scientific problem to be solved like any other." This is not Buzz Aldrin's Astronaut Food. "We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 19, 2009

    The Curious Palate: A Quizzical Lunch Spot

    The squash soup is vegan, but the egg salad comes with guanciale baco bits

  • LA Life

    July 3, 2008

    Confessions of an Aspiring Kept Man: Is That a Cucumber in Your Shopping Cart?

    It's not easy trying to be cougar bait

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    Trees stripped down in Venice

    Los Angeles Unified School teacher Michael Zeno was sickened when he pulled into his regular shopping area at Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue in Venice, only to find a beautiful stand of longtime trees slashed to the ground. This latest bit of urban renewal is thanks to "density hawks" in Mayor ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 20, 2007

    In the Eco Chamber

    Shopping at the Eco Gift Expo

  • Eat+Drink

    November 15, 2007

    Dining à la Cart at Whole Foods

    Market values

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    No-Escape Best Looting On the Eve of Destruction

    Crossbows, medical pot and American Apparel

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Smoked Out

    Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Best Way to Reap What Others Sow

    Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

  • Eat+Drink

    September 28, 2006

    Home Is Where the Flat Iron Steak Is

    Larchmont Grill

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Party Resources

    Larchmont Grill

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    The Checkout Line

    Larchmont Grill

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Tightwad City

    80% free, 20% cheap

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