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Curtis Stone and Norbert Wabnig tasting cheese dishes from last night's Quickfire Challenge.
Norbert Wabnig, cheese expert and owner of the Cheese Store in Beverly Hills, made an appearance on Top Chef Masters last night, serving as the cheese cha...
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She Likes Brownies
When we left off with the prolific -- and fantastic -- cookbook author and home baker extraordinaire Maida Heatter, she was telling us about her worst baking disaster. Or not telling us, actually ("You know, I can't think of a b...
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Long ago, in a time before the Venti Half-Caf Skinny No Whip Mocha Frappucino, there was tea. Not the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf or even the Teavanas of today, but unadulterated, delicate green leaves blended only with hot water. While this may seem li...
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-- Royal wedding sparks fruitcake boom in U.S. [Fox News]
-- Dunkin' Donuts rolls out the Royal Wedding doughnut. No pun intended. [Orlando Sentinel]
-- Where to Watch the Royal Wedding in Los Angeles. [The Feast LA]
-- Coronation prawn vol-a...
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An egg sandwich from Auntie Em's
Even though Hipsteropolis has completely arrived as a desirable part of town (at least if celebrity residents and real estate prices are any indication), it hasn't yet lost that little-brother, underdog feeling. ...
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He wore a flattened white toque tilted slightly to the right. He made meatballs, turtle soup, and frog legs. You couldn't understand most of what he said, but he was cute, strange, and creepy. At a time when New Nordic fare is enjoying its moment ...
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granola
A good granola is hard to find. The supermarket selection, no matter what the flavor or brand -- organic or otherwise -- tastes like stale oat flakes. And the proliferation of low fat granolas -- don't even bother with those, unless you e...
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Ph? at Noodle Guy
As some of us have mentioned before, you can never have too many noodle palaces in the San Gabriel Valley, nor can you read too many reviews of them. And thus to this week's Counter Intelligence and Jonathan Gold's review of Noo...
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What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this pap...
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You can click here to apply. Keywords for your CV: "fresh," "thoughtful," "passionate," "excited." Full job description after the jump.Mario Batali's Production Coordinator
* Preparation for shoots (research contacts, costs, restrictions, and locatio...
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Early cherries from Murray Family Farms
The earliest hint that the seasons are starting to switch from spring to summer is the baskets, bowls, and piles of early sweet and sour cherries on local market tables. We started watching the calendar wh...
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Some former employees had complained they were not paid.
Cimino told the station Flav was "a fraud" who was trying to get rich off of his ideas and work.
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The Hours: 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. Sunday - Thursday; 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. Friday - Saturday.
The Digs: Hank's is a little hole on the first floor of a residence hotel with gummy black booths in the back. The bar area has more funky mismatched wood than a sh...
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the invisible restaurant critic
Dear Mr. Gold:
I had okonomiyaki in Hiroshima a few years ago. It's a stand-alone wonderful hangover food, and I'd imagine it's even pretty great with high-quality ingredients. Any recommendations to find this trea...
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Essex, when it was still up and running
When a new bar is about to open in Hollywood, we can't help but imagine the scene in Back to the Future III when Marty McFly gets his coffin size measured before a showdown with Mad Dog Tannen. With such a ...
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Joseph Mahon in the Bastide kitchen
The trajectory of a fine dining chef these days is circuitous -- see: Ludo Lefebvre -- more often than not encompassing pit-stops, pop-ups, food trucks, food festivals, fried chicken epiphanies, grilled cheese ...
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Gummy skull
Silver trembling fetus ornaments and posters screen-printed with human blood--the colorful antics of The Flaming Lips' promotions are well documented. In January, Lips singer Wayne Coyne announced the band was planning to release smal...
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Five Guys fans, get excited: We just confirmed that the next location opens in Culver City's Westfield Fox Hills mall this Friday at 11 a.m. Unless you live near Cerritos, Carson, Thousand Oaks and other outlying areas, this is huge.
For the uniniti...
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Deasy and Oliver sat on the couch and played well together. See part one on YouTube (above), and part two here. Deasy agreed that flavored milk (which Oliver has particularly vilified) is a bad thing to serve schoolkids, and said that he will recomme...
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Wolfgang And Maida At The 2006 South Beach Food And Wine Festival
There is a beautiful irony in knowing that all those years Betty Crocker boxed cake mix devotees were strolling the grocery store aisles in a fruitless search of the perfect pre-mi...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
