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Meatless Mondays: Olive & Thyme's Roasted Beet Farro Salad Recipe

There's always a bustle when you stop by Olive & Thyme in Toluca Lake during lunch on an average weekday. By lunch, we mean anytime between 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This is a part of town where real entertainment business is discussed -- a little less have my people call your people and a little more we ne ... More >>

As Live Talks Los Angeles Turns Three Years Old, Its Founder Explains What Makes a Great Conversation

Ronald Reagan may have been the Great Communicator, but Ted Habte-Gabr is obsessed with conversation. Habte-Gabr produces Live Talk Los Angeles, a series of events that pair interesting names -- often of the literary world -- for sit-down interviews in front of hundreds of people. His first event ... More >>

Events: The Earth Day Edition

BlueGreen Earth Party Golden Road is debuting its Heal the Bay IPA at the BlueGreen Earth Day Party in honor of the non-profit organization. The IPA is described as bright and citrus-forward. It will be available for sale in 16-ounce cans at select retailers like Whole Foods Markets by mid-June. WHA ... More >>

Kellogg's Recalls Special K Due to Glass Pieces

Special K comes in flavors including blueberries, red berries, "chocolatey delight," "chocolately strawberry," cinnamon pecan, fruit & yogurt, oats & honey, and vanilla almond. And now you can add a new ingredient to the mix -- glass fragments. Coming right on the heels of Nestle's recall last week ... More >>

Lean Cuisine Recalled Due to Glass Shards

Lean Cuisine is recalling ravioli dinners because of glass fragments found in the pasta, the Food and Drug Administration reports. The voluntary recall of Lean Cuisine Culinary Collection Mushroom Mezzaluna Ravioli comes after three consumers reported they "found small fragments of glass in the ra ... More >>

Top 5 Triple IPAs of 2012: Pliny The Younger Be Damned

It seems that every year, brewers across the country align on some psychic wavelength that motivates those with adventurous spirits to expand on a new, emerging beer style. Last year, anniversary beers and specialty one-offs became double black IPAs -- roasty, hoppy, boozy guys that warm the soul wh ... More >>

Serious Drinking: A Boozy Gift Guide

Ah, Christmas. It comes but once a year, but the drinking it inspires is, well, inspiring. So too the spending on said drink, on bottles that otherwise might not justify such expenditure. But why not? There's hardly a better occasion than the holidays to drink something good or give something good t ... More >>

Q & A With Paige Reilly of Mohawk Bend: Mohawk Bend's Role in L.A. Craft Beer, Back to School Beer Classes Paying It Forward

When someone's business card says "Beer Champion," it's hard to know what to expect. But Paige Reilly -- who is in charge of keg ordering, education and events at Mohawk Bend, Tony's Darts Away and the Golden Road Brewpub -- just might define the term by her fast-talking love of beer and passion to ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Un-Thaied

Curtis Stone is, in the words of Derek Zoolander, "really, really, ridiculously good-looking," so not the type, we'd imagine, to get tongue-tied around the ladies. But leave it to hometown girl Dita Von Teese, L.A.'s (and the world's) queen of burlesque to make TV's reigning pin-up boy blush. Von T ... More >>

Cookbook Trends: New Quinoa Cookbooks, For Health Or Pleasure

Like so many pressing culinary issues, sorting through the wealth of new quinoa cookbooks -- the latest cookbook trend, it appears, second to cake balls on a stick -- all comes down to pie crust. Of the half dozen titles we've seen of late dedicated to the ancient seed with Aztec roots, two in part ... More >>

Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

Make the Poster for Meatopia 2012

Ever see a poster for a show, or even better, one of those gluttonous, $100-a-head food events, and think, man, is that ugly? Ever say to yourself, I could do better with some gnawed-up crayons and the back of an envelope? Now is your chance. Set to go down at Randall's Island in New York on Sept ... More >>

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Deschutes Brewery's L.A. Base Camp Week: Chainbreaker White IPA, The Abyss "Beer-lesque"

Meet Woody. He's a giant towable beer barrel-keg that doubles as an operable bar and comes complete with disco ball, sound system and his own Twitter account. Though the party-on-wheels might be a cutesy promo gimmick for Bend, Oregon's Deschutes Brewery (or the grown-up version of the Oscar Mayer W ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Planned Parenthood Food Fare, French New Orleans, Bacon & Sides, Beer Festival, Foie Gras Dinner, Paris Cookbook Fair

Planned Parenthood Food Fare If watching male politicians go into overdrive trying to limit women's access to birth control left you with a queasy feeling, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare. The headliner is chef Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern) along with an e ... More >>

Best Kimchi In a Jar: Granny Choe's Version Comes With A Ninja Pepper Bonus

jgarbeeGranny Choe's Kimchi​Of the Big Questions in life, we've long wondered why a really good store-bought kimchi is so hard to find. Until, that is, we stumbled upon Granny Choe's Kimchi at our local market. It's the best store-bought kimchi we've ever tasted, even better, it happens to be ... More >>

Top 5 Places to Eat Piroshki in L.A.

L.Aghajanian​On the post-Soviet streets of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, the piroshki is the fast food of choice. A fast fried doughy bun stuffed with warm, savory fillings like potatoes, meat or mushrooms, the piroshki boasts just the right amount of dough-to-filling ratio for your eating and h ... More >>

Italian Wine Pairings for Thanksgiving

Why not try an Italian wine with Thanksgiving dinner? Consider that most L.A. Thanksgiving dinners break away from the traditional heavier dishes of the East Coast and Midwest. It's highly doubtful that the cousins in Kansas are serving anything akin to Ammo's take home menu, featuring charcuterie p ... More >>

Hearst Ranch Winery: What Wines to Pair with A Castle Visit Free-range Zebras and Grass-fed Beef Burgers

Jeff KirshbaumBranding takes on its original meaning at the Hearst Ranch Winery ​ Free-range zebras, undeveloped California coastline as far as the eye can see and an epic house museum: Welcome to the Hearst Ranch Winery's neighborhood. Few California wineries can compete with the tasting room ... More >>

Cameron Slocum, the Eastside Tomato King His One-Man Urban Farm

Ted SoquiSlocum in his kingdom​ Heavy lies the head that wears the crown, especially when said metaphorical crown goes with the title Eastside Tomato King. Cameron Slocum could be dealing modern furniture or hustling to create and sell his own avant-garde artworks -- things the 53-year-old ... More >>

Top 5 Bizarre Beer Labels

MarcoD2/flickr​When it comes to craft beer, the labels are more predictable than what sloshes within the bottles. Battered helmets, grinning skulls, and thorny monikers straight out of Arthurian legend are common, as are pastoral scenes featuring serene woodland beasts. Mind-bending IPAs mee ... More >>

Watch Out, Odd Future, Pitchfork Protestors Are Waiting For You

Marguerite de BourgoingRight in the FACE​Odd Future's accustomed to having bottles thrown at them (watch the video after the jump) and Chris Brown taking Twitter beef to the street. But that's all in the name of anger teenage angst too much 18-year-old boy testosterone fun! When they arrive fo ... More >>

Eat Real Festival: A "Flying Knives" Competition, Bee Keeping, Pretzel Making A Whole Lot of Local Food

​We're all familiar with what it means to "get real." (Such as, in the Whole Foods parking lot.) But what does it mean to eat real? Well, according to the agenda of the Eat Real Festival, hitting Culver City on July 16th and 17th, it's about getting up close and personal with what's on your pl ... More >>

Potluck Purpose: New Hollywood Chapter Of Dining For Women Launches Tomorrow

Michael Sears, www.jsonli.jpgAfghani Culinary Themed Potluck At A Milwaukee Dining For Women​Charity dinners at restaurants are great presuming you can afford the high dollar price tag that comes along with them. For the rest of us, or at least half of us, Dining for Women's first L.A. chapter ... More >>

Your Aerosol Breakfast: Batter Blaster, or Pancakes in a Can

everview.comGetting Past The Reddi Wip Association Is Tough​ We are by nature wary of any nitrous oxide-propelled food product, a pressurized canned food prejudice that we blame squarely on one too many corn syrup and artificial flavor-laden Reddi Wip mustaches as kids. And so when it first h ... More >>

National Food News Roundup: Maggots, Robots, Sex, Hockey, and a Gingerbread House Recall

Flickr user motionblurA gingerbread house​--Whole Foods recalls gingerbread houses, though thankfully, not in California. Slashfood --Food writer Christopher Borrelli experiences foodie fatigue. ChiTrib -- Food stuck in neanderthal teeth illuminates early human eating habits. Discovery --Surve ... More >>

Adam C. Pearson Pulled Off Delta Flight At LAX Over 'Atom Bomb' Tattoo

Stuff AustraliaAdam C. Pearson isn't too happy with Delta Delta Delta.​A Los Angeles "food stylist" who creates tasty photos for the likes of the Food Network, La Brea Bakery and Whole Foods says he was taken off a plane over the weekend after a fellow passenger complained about his tattoos: ... More >>

A Better Bobble, Er, Bottle of Water

​ Between unnerving water quality reports, speculation that plastic water bottles leak phthalates, and even suspicious recalls of the supposedly safer metal thermoses, there's one clear takeaway message from the bottled vs tap water controversy: Damned if you drink, damned if you don't. Cou ... More >>

Dale's Pale Ale: Coming To A Convenience Store Near You The Theory of Relativity As It Applies to Canned Beer

J. Garbee​If you frequent L.A.'s better beer hangouts - The Yard, West Fourth and Jane, and The Surly Goat among them - you've probably had, or seen, a can or two of Dale's Pale Ale, America's "first hand-canned beer" (the brewery's words, not ours) from Oskar Blues in Colorado. But when you' ... More >>

Westsiders Experience Traffic Trauma In Wake Of Obama-Related Street Closures

Via Twitpic'Obama traffic' on the Miracle Mile.​Holy Obamanation: Westsiders haven't been this inconvenienced since Whole Foods ran out of almond scones in the Great Gluten-Free Shortage of '09. (The horror). Luckily, Westside street closures, including Santa Monica and Olympic boulevards thro ... More >>

Meeting Your Makers: Locally Made Mozzarellas

D. GonzalezBurricotta from Angelo & Franco​ The first time, it took a bit of nerve. A roadtrip down the 10, then the 60. The exchange was quick but friendly. The fresh mozzarella and burrata was worth it. But now burrata has become easier to find both at markets like Whole Foods and on r ... More >>

Mooi: Going Vegan & Raw in Echo Park

Lina Lecaro​Upon entering Mooi, the new raw vegan Echo Park restaurant from former club and events promoter Stephen Hauptfuhr, you might think you've fallen down the rabbit hole, but you won't find bland rabbit food here. The high-ceilinged corner space on Sunset Boulevard and Logan Street bo ... More >>

The 70% Solution: Tasting Notes on Theo Costa Rican Dark Chocolate

Ben CalderwoodInto the night: 91% theobroma cacao​ The chocolate valet returns with a distinctive ultra-dark bar from niche producer Theo of Seattle, Washington, originator of domestically manufactured fair trade chocolate. Producer: Theo, Seattle. Bean: Costa Rican single-origin. Content: ... More >>

Earth Day Round Up, Part 2

With Earth Day just around the corner, Squid Ink is sending out another reminder about the L.A. restaurants paying homage to Mother Nature tomorrow. And what better way to celebrate than with hand-crafted organic cocktails with happy hour prices. If you're not big on boozing, there is also discount ... More >>

Lapp Trance

Juustoleipiä the cheese, please

Ask Mr. Gold: Lapp Trance, or Jusstoleipia the Cheese, Please

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: A friend of mine went back to Wisconsin for the holidays and returned with a bounty of cheesy treats. I was introduced to juustoleipiä and totally fell in love with this funny, squeaky cheese with its baked, sweet, caramel ... More >>

5 Great LA Dive Bars: From the Lost & Found to the Wild Goose

A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters. Some dives are time machines, frozen in forgotten eras, while others make for the perfect spot to lose an hour or three or ten ... 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 >>

Top Chef Masters, Episode 2: Suzanne Tracht Should be on your Desert Island

BravoSuzanne TrachtLA's own Suzanne Tracht (chef-owner of Jar, Tracht's) handily won last night's Top Chef Masters battle, serving up a potluck plate of uni risotto and wild boar to the creators of Lost with a calm professionalism that could have been mistaken for indifference. Just the right attitu ... More >>

New Kid-Created Root Beer is All Bark, No Bite

Jessica RitzCute overload! Root beer, kitties and doggies at the Larchmont Larder. If only more kids' school experiments turned into successful entrepreneurial ventures instead of too often becoming emotionally scarring exercises in failure. Seven-year-old Oscar Youd's first grade soda making scie ... More >>

Cooking with all Things Trader Joe's: Crazytarian Recipes Made Easy

When I was in my early twenties and had the dual luxuries of copious time and disposable income, I loved to cook. I cooked different things all the time, experimented with various styles of cooking and ingredients, and wasn't afraid to take a chance on something exotic. "What's the worst that could ... More >>

It's a Brand-New Year, so Let's Protest the War, and Drink Solar-Powered Beer

What to do in LA this week

The Little Seed In Bloom

For eco-cool little sprouts

Ribbed for Her Pleasure

J N J has burgers, pies and brisket, but oh, those bones

Getting to the Gala...

When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate one, considering my sparse excuse for a wardrobe, overrun with tattered t-shirts, baggy jeans, moth-eaten sweaters and a few other shapeless th ... More >>

Austin City Limits

Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at SXSW 2007

Certifiable

Big organic versus the little guys

Apocalypse, Sweet Apocalypse

The Birthday Party

With good friends to help out, you can create your own magical celebration

WeHo Dining