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Bennett's
Last week, we took a look at the six remaining hot dog stands that had been featured in a June 1972 Los Angeles Times article titled "Biting the Dog." Not long after, the Times did a similar feature focusing on ice cream.
In that piece...
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Crab and Shrimp Ceviche at TLT Food
The success just keeps coming for the Lime Truck, Orange County's first big name to emerge from the food truck wars of '10. After a winning run on the second season of the Great Food Truck Race, the Lime Truck ...
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The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to Josiah Citrin, chef and owner of Mlisse.
When asked about his favorite cookbooks, it's hardly surprising that Josiah Citri...
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The bar at Allumette
Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos an...
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Cookbooks aren't just vessels of cooking know-how. More and more, they mythologize their authors, or perhaps more accurately consecrate the mythologizing process the Internet has already sent into full swing. Marcella Hazan is a mythological charac...
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Mango sticky arsenic rice
After years of worry, we may finally be starting to get some answers on how safe our rice really is. For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has tested a broad array of rice products for arsenic. In more than...
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Jeremy Fraye
Ros is having a bit of a "moment" right now. On al fresco tables around town, you'll spy bottles of pink wine sweating in the late summer heat; there is no more perfect companion for a picnic. Ranging in color from light onion-skin ...
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There's something seriously strange going down at Govinda's Natural Food Buffet in Culver City, and it's not the meals they serve.
One recent evening, a woman in a large robe told a young girl sporting a shaved head, "Because of Krishna, you are my ...
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FlatJacks Chicken Snacks
It's rather quiet out there.
The entire fast food media (which is a thing that we pretend exists so that our parents will think we have real jobs) is holding its collective breath in anticipation of the launch of McDona...
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The Doughnut-Dog at Currywurst
Is this what it's come to, Los Angeles? We were doing so well, what with Alma being named America's best new restaurant by Bon Appetit, and the never-ending bounty of our farmers markets. Now, we're all back to eati...
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Churros at Churros Jalisco
Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish ta...
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Pretty pretty wine
Good news for winos oenophiles! Alcohol is a depressant, but drinking wine in moderation may lower your risk of depression, according to new research.
The Spanish study followed more than 5,500 light to moderate drinkers, betw...
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Last we checked in on the strip malls of Koreatown, there were unfortunately named pizza places, spicy fried chicken wings and a Thai spot with a bus parked inside. This time, we've headed south of Wilshire to a strip mall brimming with fresh fish, r...
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Beets and berries salad at Girasol
CJ Jacobson excels at many things at his new restaurant Girasol (the subject of this week's restaurant review). But interestingly, one of the things the restaurant really excels at is delivering interesting meat-...
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Transcendent crabapples from Windrose Farm at the Hollywood market
All this wretched heat is one long stretch of disappointment for the autumnally inclined among us. Take comfort in the last of the summer bests. The Trazee peaches at Peacock Famil...
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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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Fried chicken liver salad at Hart and the Hunter
Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (coming out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and b...
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Japanese homemade dinner
It's a Saturday evening and Yoko Isassi takes two slender bottles out of her refrigerator. Inside are dark waves of kombu, or kelp, sitting in a faint greenish brown broth.
"This the dashi stock that I made," she explain...
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Chobani
Chobani is recalling some of its Greek-style yogurt cups after some customers were sickened by mold, the Associated Press reports.
The recall comes about a week after the company started asking retailers to pull the products from shelves...
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Hamachi with citrus at Girasol.
This week, our review considers Girasol, the new restaurant from CJ Jacobson in Studio City. You can read the full review over in the food section, or get an abbreviated taste below.
Chef: CJ Jacobson is best known...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
