The Place: Prince O' Whales. 335 Culver Boulevard, Playa Del Rey; (310) 823-9826. The Hours: Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $1 off all drinks......
We eat hamburgers rarely. That is, we eat them cooked rare and not very often, maybe once every few months. Why so infrequently? Because commercial ground beef, recalled, it seems, nearly as often as it is not, scares us more than serial killers. We don't want to end up a......
Due to their prominence in café sandwiches and the pages of health, food, and lifestyle magazines, we've long figured Americans ate more chicken breasts than legs, thighs, and those ragged, slithery bit parts one has to vigorously disengage from a carcass. We just didn't know how much more. According to......
It is 4:30 p.m. The Black Cat Bakery is closing in a half an hour and you can see desperation in the cashier's eyes. "Pick one," she says, beaming, sweeping a heavily ringed hand rapidly over a plate of cranberry-orange muffins. You ask for a cookie. "Great! Would you like......
In some dim corner of the country, every food has a festival. For three days each April, the World Grits Festival engulfs St. George, South Carolina. Waikiki holds the Spam Jam. In Clinton, Montana, there is the Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival, or "Testy Festy," a raucous, beer-soaked bash at which......
In other countries, McDonald's franchises sell different things. Big Macs are made with lamb in much of India. In Greece, a Greek Mac consists of several smaller patties tucked into a pita. In Hong Kong, you can get a burger sandwiched between compressed sheets of glutinous rice. At a McDonald's......
Ever since college, we've liked dives. In the semi-rural stretch of blustery Ohio where we spent four years reading and thinking, we eschewed the brick-walled "college" bar in the center of town and instead climbed into our cups at the gritty "inn," where Rolling Rock glazed the card tables, knives......
Somewhere in a smoke-filled boardroom, the Whey and Curds Committee is hunched over a heap of runny rounds with washed rinds, trying to figure out whether or not the Federal government ought to clamp down on cheeses made with unpasteurized milk. A recent New York Times story suggests that, in......
For all the technological wizardry of game telecasts and the high-level sideline scheming of coaches and coordinators, football remains, at its essence, a turf war waged between slabs of meat: big, strong, fast dudes in lines trying to push through and around each other. Super Bowl snacks should suit the......
Subsequent to the Golden Globes and SAG awards, with Oscar season in full swing, we've seen both good and bad films this year. With few exceptions though, movie theater food remains as uniformly vile as ever: Styrofoam packing chips doused with fake butter, called popcorn, and served in vats large......
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