Andrew Simmons

Ever lost your mind standing in front of a chilly, carton-stuffed refrigerator case, trying to decide which organic eggs belong in your Sunday morning omelets? If your standards for sustainability, safety, and humane rearing conditions are silo-high, you might want to consider skimming The Cornucopia Institute's handy Organic Egg Scorecard......

The sight is familiar to anyone who has ever wandered down San Francisco's 18th Street corridor early in the evening: Neighborhood folks--and not a few commuters--lined up along the sidewalk outside of Tartine. They leave work early and take long detours home just to snap up the hissing-hot loaves of......

Five weeks ago, we packed our belongings into an orange-and-white truck and moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. We'd spent eight years in the Bay Area, a period of time marked by bowls of lime-sluiced birria at Mexican diners in the Mission, curly fried sausages at cozy Lao dives......

A Deacon Jones is a large, oblong apple with juicy, coarse-textured flesh. A Kazakhstan Elite refers not to the ruling class of Borat's home-country, but one of the original, edible apple varieties hailing from its wilds. They're all part of Jessica Rath's Take Me to the Apple Breeder project, but......

The author of over a dozen cookbooks, a cooking show host, and a part-time professor at the University of Copenhagen, Noma co-owner Claus Meyer has started a passel of successful food-related businesses over the past 20 years, including a vinegar factory, an orchard, a bakery, a coffee roaster, and a......

Regular tickets to this Sunday's Pier del Sol in Santa Monica cost $45. However, VIP tickets run a cool $150. As we always ask ourselves in these situations, what are the VIPs getting that the regular folks aren't?......

We've told you before. Food stamps are hotter than the flames that hissed around that truck of yams on I-5 Thursday morning (where was a marshmallow avalanche and a dusting of brown sugar when you needed them, right?). If you require further evidence, Daily News is reporting that, each month,......

At eight on a Sunday morning, when the world is still a little fuzzy around the edges, you may be in the mood for grass-fed bison, heirloom tomatoes, and raw milk cheese, but you are sometimes not in the mood for music, particularly the sort you hear at the farmer's......

We worked at a fish place for two years when we were in high school. When we walked into the Pico Boulevard fish market and restaurant Island Fresh--with its plastic starfish hanging from nets below the menu above the counter and the scent of batter and oil heavy in the......