Benjamin Caro

Bicycle Coffee's founders began making organic, locally roasted fair-trade coffee in 2009 in Oakland, delivering the beans by bicycle to grocery stores, including Whole Foods, across the Bay area. The concept developed a following online, and the idea spread. There's now a Bicycle Coffee in Tokyo. Andy and Kellen Ellis, the......

Though parents have always told their children to eat their greens, they might start telling them to eat off their reds. Scientists have found that when subjects ate off red plates, they tended to eat less than when eating from plates of any other color. The latest in the apparently......

Located deep in the industrial recesses of the thriving Brewery Artists Lofts, Hipcooks teaches hands-on cooking classes to the cooking illiterate and hungry for dinner. The class began 10 years ago when Monika Reti's friend told her he wished he could cook the way she did: no recipes, no stress,......

The Beverly Garland hotel in Studio City is currently under the knife, undergoing $20 million of renovation and emerging as the more colorful, retro-inspired boutique hotel The Garland. In May, The Front Yard, the new restaurant by chef Warren Schwartz of Westside Tavern, will rise from the sawdust. The hotel is......

According to research done by Jennifer Dube of the right-leaning National Media Research, Planning and Placement (NMRPP), our choice drink provides a pretty good indicator of our choice politics. According to CNN, Dube analyzed consumer data from 50,000 interviews from the past two years, and drafted a handy bubbly graph......

Most of us reach for some variation of cereal, coffee or eggs to get us out of bed in the morning. Only at brunch do we treat ourselves to a bloody Mary. Through history, though, there have been monks, soldiers and even children who drank booze at breakfast just to......

Pastor Rick Warren, author of the popular faith-based book The Purpose-Driven Life, as reported by USA TODAY, baptized 800 of his devoted followers at the Saddleback Church in Orange County, dipping their sizeable bodies into a pool of water. At the end of the day, he thought one thing: "Wow!......