Andrew Simmons

"Let them eat cake," Marie-Thérese, wife of Louis XIV, supposedly once said when she was informed that French peasants were without bread. Initially referenced in Rousseau's Confessions, the cruel suggestion that starving people who couldn't afford bread might stay alive supping on rich desserts and pastries provokes disgust, even now......

Featured in the upcoming November issue of Food and Wine, ArtBites founder Maite Gomez-Rejon has worked as a private chef and a museum educator. In 2007, after baking desserts for Aerosmith ("Janie's Got a Flan" was, according to Gomez-Rejon, a specialty Tyler, Perry, and company enjoyed) and getting an MFA......

We were walking home from the basketball court, sweaty, lurching, our headphones wrapped firmly around our head. It was just past 11 in the morning, and the air was already ribboned with an eye-stinging haze. The stink from the 99 Cent store on Fairfax was rising up out of the......

Bread People rises out of an Internet food-scape rich in strange, singular visions. As with Scanwiches and Slice Harvester, the blog's conceit is simple and bewildering: West Los Angeles-based Adam Malamut doles out yeasty makeovers to famous people and posts pictures of their modified countenances. Allow us to introduce you......

In honor of his late dog Rabbit, WeHo Tender Greens chef Eric Hulme is making dog treats now--bone-shaped, preservative-free slugs of rolled oats, peanut butter, canola oil, flour and eggs. They're available at all three restaurants, and he's charging $3 per dozen, which shouldn't bother the dogs of Los Angeles,......

To get more of its nearly six million eligible residents to sign up, California's food stamp program is changing its name and look. According to an October 24th Los Angeles Times article, the new handle -- CalFresh -- aims to evoke, not a welfare program, but instead a health and......

When we saw the menu for Ilan Hall's The Gorbals, we couldn't help but think the Top Chef Season 2 winner's team might require liquid inspiration to pull together the downtown restaurant's weird and wonderful tangle of Scottish, Jewish, and Spanish flavors. Tucked in there with the GLT, a mayo-slicked......

On October 25th, kids will still go to school.  Mail will arrive as it normally does.  Stores will remain open.  Although the state gives it little respect, World Pasta Day is coming on Monday, and people all over the world will celebrate--perhaps, we might suggest, by gathering at town centers......

As Kim Severson writes in Tuesday's New York Times, Southern Pacific Railroad big-wigs started Sunset magazine to express the idea of California living: sunshine, gardens, open spaces, clean air, and opportunities as wide-ranging as the state's epic coastline. The intent was less ephemeral. Content aimed to convince Easterners to bail......

"The aroma of pungent garlic coming from this restaurant caught my attention recently. My first sign of trouble here, however, came when asking for a to go menu last week. The girl working the counter was anything but friendly when handing one over and answering questions. Today, we arrived at......