Angela Matano

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty,  Roy Choi’s Commissary, Michael Pollan, Mark Bittman and certainly Deborah Madison all have one thing in common: vegetables. One of the biggest changes in the current vegetable trend has been in elevating the vegetable from side dish to main course. Diana Henry fuels the fire with her new......

Location, location, location. This adage is especially true if the restaurant in question happens to feature an airport, old fire station or vintage train car and especially if you are eating with children in tow. Dining out with kids presents its own set of problems that could read like a......

Popsicles are having a moment in the spotlight, just in time for the next heat wave (otherwise known as our permanent summer). More sophisticated than the classic ice pops bought off your local ice cream truck, this new breed of frozen treats showcases luxurious ingredients (Valrhona chocolate), farmer’s market finds......

Nothing says summer like biting into a fresh, sweet cob of corn and letting the butter drizzle down your chin. Piping hot or tossed into a cold salad, corn is extremely versatile and appeals to just about everyone. The season, which is July through October for most varieties, is just......

Food and cinema have always paired well together. From a starving Charlie Chaplin consuming his shoe in Gold Rush to this summer’s food-centered movies, Chef and The Hundred-Foot Journey, film can be a great medium to convey the visceral experience of eating and cooking. Whether the intense beauty of a......

Capitalizing on two converging trends — food trucks and Twitter — Natasha Case and Freya Estreller alchemized ice cream into gold. In their new cookbook, Coolhaus Ice Cream Book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which came out May 20, the two L.A.-based creators of the Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck share their recipes......

First of all, there is absolutely nothing wrong with liking, loving, even obsessing over childhood favorites – hello, Kraft macaroni and cheese. Sometimes, nothing tastes better than a Rice Krispie treat, even laden with margarine and jet-puffed miniature marshmallows (although salted, browned butter is nice). A trip down culinary memory......

Marina del Rey goes all out with their annual 4th of July show, launching fireworks from a barge in the waters of the main channel between the Breakwater and Fisherman’s Wharf. The show lasts about twenty minutes and can be viewed many places throughout the area, depending on the weather,......

Foraging becomes an unlikely salve for heartbreak in Ava Chin’s memoir Eating Wildly, published in May from Simon & Schuster. Adrift after a breakup and the illness of her beloved grandmother, the author retreats into the parks of New York, looking for a connection with her past and hoping to secure a writing......