Andrew Simmons

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Eat This Now: Lukshon's Duck Popiah

Andrew Simmons
For people who eschew red meat yet eat poultry (you might hear them claim they "do it for the protein"), duck is a gateway drug, an opulent bridge between feathered and hooved things. It is the color of liver, encased in a scuba suit of fat, and drawn to fruit,......
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Cibo Matto To Serve Up Hits at the Hollywood Bowl

Andrew Simmons
When the reunited '90s band Cibo Matto heads to the Hollywood Bowl on June 26th, bloggers and writers will embrace the opportunity to indulge in shitty food puns. With songs like "Sugar Water," "Birthday Cake," and "Know Your Chicken," the band's set-list always resembled the menu of a surrealist buffet,......
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Marco Ugolini's Per Color: This Could Be Your Shopping Basket

Andrew Simmons
Artist Marco Ugolini sees the supermarket as a great enabler. In its aisles, across its shining expanses of tiles, he sees humanity wiggling under the thumb of corporations and their master manipulator marketing stooges. That may be the point of his arresting Per Color portrait series (done in collaboration with......
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Casserollin' With The Chuckwagon Cowboy

Andrew Simmons
Plenty of cooking show hosts talk about their mothers, but Ron Locke does so with a preacher's conviction, earnestly evoking her presence in his journey to the kitchen (and YouTube) almost constantly as he cooks. Known to his YouTube fans as The Chuckwagon Cowboy, Locke hails from rootin', tootin' Racine,......
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Your Guide to Eating the 2011 NBA Finals

Andrew Simmons
If his television appearances are any indication, Dirk Nowitzki's favorite dish is the white mouthguard he constantly bares and chews over the course of a game. Judging by his deft shooting (even in the face of Miami's rigorous defensive efforts, an injured finger, and a sinus infection) the large German......
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The NAFTA Dinner Series Comes to Los Angeles

Andrew Simmons
Innovative Portland-based publishing model Publication Studio is putting out a new novel by its founder, Matthew Stadler. A murder mystery set in the mountain city of Guanajuato, Mexico, the plot of Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha unfolds at sumptuous dinner parties and gritty bars. According to the author, "the deluded optimism......
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Top Five Giant Doughnut Sign Sightings

Andrew Simmons
In honor of today, National Doughnut Day, we look to a local landmark. A giant doughnut sunken into the roof of an otherwise unremarkable drive-through operation, the sign at long-running Randy's Donuts is not just a fine example of the programmatic architecture ethos or an Inglewood institution, it's iconic. We......
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"Breakfast Interrupted": A Little Morning Food Art

Andrew Simmons
BSS | Breakfast Interrupted from Bruton Stroube Studios on Vimeo. Commissioned by Marlin Network to create a promo for a breakfast event held back in May, advertising design firm Bruton Stroube came up with "Breakfast Interrupted," in which the day's first feed goes all Magnolia. Plump berries, perfect poached eggs,......
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College "Bar" Report: The 2-9 Cafe

Andrew Simmons
The Place:  The 2-9 Cafe, 2827 Hoover Street, Los Angeles; (213) 746-2929. The Digs:  The 2-9 occupies the interior and beautifully shaded porch of a Victorian in the West Adams district. Outside, a man in a cowboy hat dolefully tells his daughter that she has spent too much of his money......
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Here Comes the Sun (and the First Course): The Solar Kitchen

Andrew Simmons
First Day in Milan from LapinKultaSolarKitchenRestaurant on Vimeo. What does a solar kitchen have in common with the pop-up restaurant, the foraging party, and the neighborhood butcher shop? They're all artistic statements, necessities and practicalities born of economic and environmental circumstances that have become, for one reason or another, celebrated,......