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4 Great Baja Chefs Coming to Tacolandia

Amy Scattergood
If you're planning on spending the afternoon of June 23 watching a baseball game (the Dodgers will be in San Diego anyway) or catching a matinee of World War Z, you maybe haven't been paying attention. You have tacos to eat. TiVo the game, watch the movie later, after you've......
peaches at the farmers market; Credit: A. Scattergood

It's Peach Season: 5 Great Recipes

Amy Scattergood
If you've spent any time at local markets lately, you'll know where you are on the seasonal flowchart: citrus is about over, great tomatoes aren't quite here yet, and we're in the midst of what's looking to be a terrific stone fruit season. Cherries and apricots and nectarines are everywhere,......
tsukemen and matcha tea at Tsujita Annex; Credit: A. Scattergood

Tsukemen Alert: Tsujita Annex Now Serving Dip Ramen

Amy Scattergood
Sometimes the ramen gods hear you, don't they. Tsujita Annex, the little ivy-covered outpost of the larger Tsujita L.A. ramen palace across Sawtelle Boulevard, opened recently serving big bowls of tonkotsu ramen and not too much else. The lunchtime bowls of tsukemen, or dip ramen, were the province of the......
Jacques Pepin; Credit: Valley Performing Arts Center

Jacques Pépin Gives a Cooking Demo: A Comedy Routine, With Knives

Amy Scattergood
Recently Jacques Pépin, the acclaimed French chef, veteran of PBS cooking shows, friend of Julia, author of many brilliant cookbooks, dean of special programs at the French Culinary Institute in New York City and general culinary living legend, took the stage at Cal State Northridge's Valley Performing Arts Center to......
Morihiro Onodera; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Morihiro Onodera: The Chef Throws Pots

Amy Scattergood
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. For the first decade of the 21st century, people who loved sushi in Los Angeles made a pilgrimage to Mori Sushi, a minimalist restaurant on Pico Boulevard. There, owner and......
A Prime Time Cuisine food truck customer; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Jon Favreau to Start His Own Food Truck

Amy Scattergood
From the Department of Verisimilitude, or maybe the Ministry of Silly Hats, comes news from Variety that Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens, Iron Man, Swingers) is starting his own food truck. Or at least he'll play a guy starting his own food truck, which is close enough, right? Favreau will......
Eloise Klein Healy; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Eloise Klein Healy: L.A.'s Poet Laureate

Amy Scattergood
href="https://www.laweekly.com/microsites/people-2013/" target="_blank">One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "I could go on about the choices I've made," Eloise Klein Healy writes in her 1991 poetry collection, Artemis in Echo Park, "and all the other elements of my......