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Car Service Uber Delivers Ice Cream This Friday

If you spend any time around teenagers, you may be familiar with Uber, the car service that you can order from your smartphone. With only a tap of your phone, you -- or your teenager -- can order a swank car and private driver, at a cost that's not as......
tomatoes at Il Grano; Credit: A. Scattergood

Tomato Wednesdays at Il Grano: Happy Tomato Season in Los Angeles

Last week Il Grano chef Salvatore Marino kicked off his summer tomato season with his Tomato Wednesdays, which he does every year at his Santa Monica restaurant. Every Wednesday during summertime's peak tomato season, Marino puts on a show, constructing a menu built entirely around the tomato. These are not......
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Ruth Bourdain Unveiled as Food Writer Josh Friedland

Last Friday was a busy day -- Janet Napolitano traded Homeland Security for California, Edward Snowden apparently picked Russia -- and many of you may be forgiven for not realizing that one of the biggest mysteries of the food world was quietly solved. Or maybe not so much solved as......
knife art at Bucato; Credit: A. Scattergood

Bucato Opening This Month in Culver City: Pigs Heads + A Pasta Lab

If you've missed Evan Funke's glorious handmade pasta since he left Rustic Canyon in early 2012. If you've followed Funke's porchetta truck down the midtown streets, trailing not so much exhaust as high-octane pork fumes. If you've driven by the empty space in the Helms Bakery complex where Kazuto Matsusaka......
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Top 12 L.A. Pastry Chefs and Bakers to Follow on Instagram

Happy summertime in Los Angeles, time to head to the beach, eat even more gelato than usual, load your kitchen counters with Santa Rosa plums -- and bake pies with the flats of peaches and berries that you're doubtless bringing home from the farmers markets. And because nothing inspires a......