Amy Scattergood

Here's a terrific photo, tweeted to us by a reader, valeriesee, with a sense of humor. The owner of this unidentified coffee shop has a pretty good sense of humor too, by the looks of it, although perhaps less so than the DCFS, which agency would probably get notified before......

Veterans returning home face many problems of transition, and in this economy, just finding a job can be one of them. According to PR Newswire, currently more than 250,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are unemployed, and the rate of unemployment for veterans ages 18 to......

On the current menu at Mo-Chica, along with risotto made with quinoa instead of the customary arborio, and the absolutely stunning ceviche, you'll find Aji de Gallina, a homey dish that Mo-Chica chef Ricardo Zarate says dates to when the Spanish brought African slaves to Peru. The slaves were installed......

For everyone eagerly awaiting the opening of Red Medicine, the new "punk Vietnamese" restaurant coming soon to the ethnic food epicenter of Beverly Hills, you can now go get your bowls of Fugazi-inspired phở without having your Vietnamese grandmother, or your friends' Vietnamese grandmother, promptly disown you. Adam Fleischman (Umami......

In the first part of our interview with Ricardo Zarate, the Mo-Chica chef talked about, among other things, his upcoming Peruvian skewer bar, Anticucho, which he plans to open in September in the neighborhood of Beverly and Pico if all goes as planned. In the second part of the interview......

From Fooducate, a blog dedicated to "providing practical advice for buying healthy food at the supermarket," we have this marvelous visual aid: A Visual of Twinkie's 37 Ingredients. Fooducate also provides a handy list of the 37 ingredients (see below), with the suggestion that, by way of a fast food......

Go slightly south of downtown, to a concrete and warehouse neighborhood just off the 110, inside the colorful market of La Paloma Mercado, and you'll find, in addition to the last remaining outpost of Chichen Itza, Mo-Chica, undoubtedly the best Peruvian restaurant in Los Angeles. Behind the casual counter and......

True, the meat industry is not particularly known for having a sense of humor. But a 12 page cease-and-desist letter from a law firm in response to an April Fool's joke? About unicorns? Seems that on April 1st, online retailer ThinkGeek launched a unicorn meat product -- under its Radiant......

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