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Last Night: The Italian American Museum's Taste of Italy

There was nothing little about Little Italy as the pasta-loving masses gathered downtown Saturday night to celebrate the 2nd annual Taste of Italy, an event benefiting the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles. The town square near the intersection of Main and Arcadia transformed into a piazza on which fest-goers......
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Best BYOB Burger Joint: The Fix Burger

Sometimes we build an entire outfit around a new pair of shoes, and in the same vein, occasionally we end up pairing a meal with a beverage, instead of the other way around. If that six-pack of microbrew is burning a hole in your fridge, consider carrying it down to......
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Out of This World

Ladies and gentleman (the one of you probably reading this blog post), we have located the aliens in Southern California. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills series premiered last night and as we watched, one question kept running through our minds: just how much Chanel concealer and Kiehl's and chemical......
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Skinny Shirataki: Are Zero-Calorie Noodles Too Good to be True?

At first we were repulsed by the bizarre feed bags that arrived in LA Weekly's mail bin, addressed to no one in particular, looking like they were ready to board a spaceship in some astronaut's lunchbox. We weren't really in the market for zero calorie, low-carb, low sodium, gluten-free noodles......
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Gourmandise School of Sweets and Savories to Put Down Roots in Santa Monica

Since its inception in 2006, Gourmandise Desserts has been a nomadic classroom, bouncing between kitchens at Surfas Restaurant Supply in Culver City and St. Joseph Center's Culinary department in Venice, teaching amateur bakers to make birthday cakes, eclairs, quickbreads and much in between. But owners Clémence Gossett and Hadley Hughes......
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Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School Faces Class Action Lawsuit

Updated after the jump with additional information about the change in curriculum. A class action lawsuit alleging fraud is currently pending against Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, which is owned by the Culinary School of California, a subsidiary of the Career Education Corporation (CEC). The suit claims the school leads......
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Outdoor Cinema Food Fest: Food Trucks + DeLoreans

There are only a few chances left to get in on the Outdoor Cinema Food Fest - the dual-themed event that's been uniting food and film lovers alike all summer - before it comes to a close for the season at the end of the month. This weekend the Fest......
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BEST EXCUSE TO SAY "ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER"


The Green Fairy, the Green Lady, the Green Muse. No, this time we're not talking about pot. We're talking about absinthe, and even if you think you're a rock-solid drinker, put on your seatbelt. For the inexperienced, the process of drinking absinthe goes something like this: 1) Fill glass with......