Andrew Simmons

At its best, a green-topped bottle of Huy Fong Foods Sriracha sauce means your fridge always harbors possibilities. Even a cheese sandwich or cold slice of pizza benefits from its hot-sweet kick. At worst, Sriracha is an addiction, a crutch you can't stop using. The heat and touch of sugar......

It feels strange to be moved by the sound of lettuce dying. When you were a very little kid, your parents may have personified your carrot sticks, wiggling them away from your pudgy fingers, yelping in what they thought was a funny carrot voice: "Please don't eatch me, nooooo." You......

Once people didn't even want to know how sausage was made. Now they not only make their own sausage, they also deign to wear it on their feet. No, chorizo flip-flops do not yet exist. (Think of the dogs that would chase the saucy orange trail you'd leave behind.) We're......

The Place: The Shack, 185 Culver Blvd., Playa Del Rey; 310-823-6222. The Hours: 11 a.m.-12 a.m. Mon.-Thu. and Sun.; 11 a.m.-1:30 a.m. Fri.-Sat. The Digs: There's a "shack" in every beach town. A few are sanctioned copies of the original four-decade-old Playa Del Rey location of The Shack, but all......

Does one dare eat a peach? Prufrock's parpahrased question is, of course, loaded, but taken on a surface level, it's one worth answering. Even in summer, the time of peaches, as we're often told, grocery store specimens often turn to mush with one bite. The flavor may be cloyingly sweet......

Lakers enforcer Metta World Peace has characteristically turned to social media to make sense of his imploding team's plans to jettison his $14.8 million contract. He's also chosen to wrap his commentary in food metaphors. First, there was this post, which led many Twitter followers to suspect the emotional player......

Kickstarter has changed the game. A touring musician disinclined to waste valuable songwriting time on a dreary day job can ask her friends for $20 apiece and end up subsidizing the next three months of her life. An artist with a big idea doesn't have to win a grant when......

After work, it's usually time head home, enjoy dinner, watch something on Netflix and hit the hay. Other nights, perhaps you'll go out for a couple of stiff beverages. Of course, a few drinks can easily lead to handfuls, and before you know it, you're waking up in the suit......

Along with painful sunburns and chlorine-stung eyes, a towering cone of ice cream signifies summer in all its glory. Japanese retail monstrosity Uniqlo is tapping into everything that a drippy dessert can evoke with a new line of 31 beach-appropriate bottom-wear designs inspired by Baskin-Robbins ice cream flavors. Considering that......