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We realize this could be a fool's errand for Butterball, since there are no aspiring actors or chefs in Los Angeles. However, for the first time ever, the company is looking for men to be, er, spokesmen for the company, and wannabe actors/c...
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Sure you can watch football or go to church on Sunday (same thing for some of us), but this particular Sunday, Sept. 29, you might want to head to West Hollywood, where the 12th edition of the West Hollywood Book Fair will be going on. Yes, books. We...
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Dried chiles at the Spice Station
Perhaps you aren't familiar with urfa biber, a Turkish chili redolent of chocolate and raisins, which works spicy wonders in homemade brownies or the morning's coffee brew. Or maybe you didn't know that it's poss...
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Lou's Wine and Provisions
In a smallish, spare room with unfinished wooden walls, a desk and a few stacks of wine boxes, Lou Amdur stands and talks about a mural he has planned for the far wall of the room. The mural will depict a flock of passeng...
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Despite what you may have heard, underground pop-up dinners in Los Angeles aren't extinct; they've just gone further down the rabbit hole. Hence the forthcoming expansion of Dinner Lab, a nationwide private pop-up dinner service that looks to marry t...
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Oxtail pho at Phorage
Bnh m is one of those sandwiches for which ratios are very important. At its best, a kind of alchemy happens -- a sandwich that is greater than the sum of its parts. But when those ratios are off, when the magic doesn't occ...
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Roy Choi at MAD3 symposium
In recent days, people have been talking and writing about Roy Choi's talk at MAD3, the food symposium that took place on Aug. 25 and 26 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Choi spoke passionately about hunger and, specifically, abo...
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The Slash Burger
With outposts in Oakland, San Francisco, Miami and New York City, it's easy to forget that Umami Burger is still actually opening locations here in the Southland. After expanding into the old Papoo's Hot Dog Show space in Burbank,...
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The Hart and the Hunter
Restaurant names, like baby names, book titles and colors, go in and out of fashion. Thus for every baby girl named Sophia, every book with "-land" in its title and every "new black," we seem to have a restaurant or bar nam...
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Beer pairings at Toronado in San Diego
Now in its 5th year, L.A. Beer Week seems to have become more than just an opportunity to ween people off of Miller Lite, graduating into a massive ten-day, two-county affair with emphasis on even more sophi...
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L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade, 2012
L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade
This is the fourth annual Alex's Lemonade, a huge and laudable event that benefits childhood cancer research. Hosted by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern) and David...
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Bernhard Mairinger at BierBeisl
It was only a matter of time: Bernhard Mairinger, chef/owner of Austrian restaurant BierBeisl in Beverly Hills, is making the jump into television. The very young, very tall chef will be appearing on two cooking sho...
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This fall, The New School of Cooking is branching out. The Culver City-based cooking, baking and all-things-food school is linking up with some of L.A.'s best chefs and food personalities to create a fall line-up of amazing classes, all of which are ...
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Perhaps no cookbook author has done as much to glorify vegetables as Mollie Katzen, who is credited with changing the way many of us eat.
Over the years her philosophy about food has evolved, inspiring her to rewrite her original Moosewood Cookbook...
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Pizza at Gjelina, one of the stops on Bon Appetit's L.A. grub crawl
After naming Alma as their best new restaurant of the year, Bon Apptit is bringing their "grub crawl" event to Los Angeles.
On October 26, the magazine will host both a day and...
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The Glamour Shot
Before the 65th Annual Primetime Emmys this Sunday there are, of course, the pre-parties. One of the most lavish is the one thrown at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills every year by HBO for the actors in their nominated (and other) s...
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Ground beef
Almost 60,000 pounds of ground beef produced in California and bound for the National School Lunch Program have been recalled because it contains pieces of plastic. And we're not talking Happy Meal toys.
According to Food Safety News,...
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Editor's note: As many of you know, Bravo debuted a new show about the L.A. food scene recently. Since some of us spend our Sundays Thursdays watching sports instead of reality television (yes, even if it's about food; especially if it's about food),...
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Corzetti with walnut pesto at Bucato.
Bucato is one of those restaurants where you could eat a fully vegetarian meal and not even realize it. Evan Funke's new Italian restaurant at Helms Bakery in Culver City (and the subject of this week's restau...
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The chicken and pigs at JiST Cafe
Right around the corner from Little Tokyo's strip of noodle shops on First Street sits JiST Cafe, a breakfast and lunch spot that opened quietly about three months ago. A quick walk from L.A. Superior Court and po...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
