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Whole Foods Coming To Silver Lake

The rumors have abounded for months, that Whole Foods would take over the 2520 Glendale Boulevard location in Silver Lake currently occupied by Ralphs. Today, the Eastsider reports that a company spokesperson for Whole Foods has confirmed that "there is a commitment to occupy the ... location." Timi ... More >>

Whole Foods Pledges to Label All Genetically Modified Food by 2018

On Friday, Whole Foods Markets announced that all products in their stores with genetically modified ingredients will be clearly labeled within five years. They say they're making the move to meet consumer demand for GMO labeling, and that the five-year time frame is to give their suppliers time to ... More >>

Top 10 Food-Centric YouTube Clips

The way to a music video audience's heart, it seems, is through its stomach -- or at least that's the route these videos take, with varying degrees of deliciousness. From rank amateurs trying to grab a little YouTube stardom to established rock stars, food is a good way to establish a connection w ... More >>

[Updated] Whole Foods Recalls Smoked Salmon

Updated: 1/30 1:54 p.m. Whole Foods is recalling an additional lot code (for a total of two lot codes) of Whole Catch Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon (4 oz.), UPC code 0 99482 40880 0, cold smoked and sliced, because it may contain listeria. The second lot code is 7425A2297A. The recall has also expande ... More >>

Proposition 37 Election Results: Monsanto Money, Lawsuit Worries Sink GMO Labeling Advocates' Hopes

California voters rejected Proposition 37 last night by a margin of 47% to 53% with 98.5% precincts reporting.

Proposition 37 Genetically Modified Food Fight

Could spawn endless lawsuits against small shops

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

Hunting Pheasant

Celestino Drago's your man for the fancy fowl

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

How To Be An Asshole, L.A. Version

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It's not easy trying to be cougar bait

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 >>

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