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First food trucks, now ... coffee carts? It appears so. Cafe Dulce debuted one last week at Tuesday Night Cafe, a local performance arts series in Little Tokyo. Your photo comes courtesy of R.E.~, from our L.A. Weekly Flickr photo pool. The "mobile ...
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seafood taco at Prime Time
If you only started eating your dinner at taco trucks after Roy Choi revolutionized the food truck scene, you might not realize that food trucks have been lining the streets of this town for a very long time. In today's ...
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Pork shoulder presented three ways, competition-style
Legit barbecue contests like the ones you see on TV don't happen much in Los Angeles. Did you make it to the contest at Santa Anita Park we told you about? No? Well, the inaugural West Coast B...
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In this country, where super-sized portions are as normal as, well, being super-sized, it's difficult to keep perspective on the amount of food you're actually consuming. Between monstrously sized drinks and the seemingly endless parade of food in al...
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A few of the new booze books
Booze-themed cookbooks have never been terribly high on our everyday shopping lists, but there are those weekend moments when The Food of Morocco isn't quite what we're craving. OK, that's not really true. We'd be cont...
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Breakfast in bed
Mother's Day is on Sunday, which, depending on your relationship with dear Mom, is the best day of the year or just another day to hear, yet again, about all the pain you caused during childbirth and the ensuing 18-plus years ther...
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The Shawarma Initiative
Remember that scene in E.T. with the Reese's Pieces? It reportedly boosted sales of the candy so high in 1982 that Hershey Corp. was forced to keep a factory open minting the candies 24/7. The moral of the story? Featur...
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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 newsp...
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"Kimmmbap, ba-duba-dop kimbap"
Forget Lunchables -- the real cool kids in grade school were the ones had kimbap in their brown bags. Those loosely wrapped rice and seaweed rolls stuffed with this and that, a close cousin of Japanese futomaki, are ...
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Bee Yinn Low's pork dumpling soup
Macy's doesn't just celebrate holidays. It celebrates "months." Black History Month in February. Then Hispanic Heritage Month in September. For June, LGBT National Pride Month. Now, it's Asian Pacific American Her...
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L.A. Vegan Beer Festival
Sample beers from more than a dozen breweries, including Anchor, Epic, Fireman's Brew, Golden Road Brewing, Green Flash, Hangar 24, Karl Strauss and Smog City at this vegan-friendly event hosted by Tony's Darts Away,...
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Paula Wolfert and a pot of couscous
If you love couscous, Moroccan cuisine and the many glorious cookbooks of Paula Wolfert (not necessarily in that order), you have someplace to be this Saturday morning. Wolfert will be speaking at downtown's Cen...
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Last month, The New York Times' Ariel Kaminer announced an essay contest in the paper's op-ed section: Carnivorous readers must defend, in 600 words or less, why it is ethical to eat meat. Entries were judged by some of the foremost authorities on mo...
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Evan Kleiman
Angeli Caffe popped up Monday night with the same kitchen crew, the same servers, the same food and Evan Kleiman in charge, just as if it had never closed. Kleiman shuttered her Melrose Avenue restaurant in January after 27 years of ...
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Bar Ama
Most diners at Bco Mercat have probably tried to guess chef Josef Centeno's upbringing from what they see on their plates. Jonathan Gold has observed that the menu mixes "flavors from Italy, France and Western China, Georgia (U.S.) and Ge...
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Mandolin Wine
Mother's Day is on Sunday. Yes, this Sunday. No need to get into a Googling gift search frenzy, as we have already compiled a handy last-minute Mother's Day gift list. Only here, you won't find the typical clichs like roses or choco...
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Jamie Oliver on Meals in Minutes
We've pissed off Jamie Oliver again.
But this time, it not what we're allowing our children to be served in the school cafeteria, as was the case on Food Revolution. It's what we're serving them at home. It's what...
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Bottle opening sunglasses
Talk about literal beer googles. Brewsees Eyewear's 12'Oz'er sunglasses might not make the biggest fashion statement, but they definitely win points for being the most useful 2-in-1 product during a tailgate party. Can't ...
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Pedalers Fork
Bicyclists will have a new destination this fall when Pedalers Fork restaurant opens in the heart of Old Town Calabasas. Now under construction, its goal is to create a bike-friendly venue, offering food, coffee, drinks and even bike...
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Domino's new "gluten-free" crust
Domino's is proud to be the first national pizza delivery chain to introduce a gluten-free pizza crust for their "choice consumers." There's just one little hitch: They can't guarantee the pizza is actually glute...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
