Besha Rodell

As California's foie gras ban rapidly approaches, more and more media outlets are starting to pay attention. This morning, CBS ran a story about diners, protesters and the chefs in L.A. They interviewed chefs Michael Voltaggio (ink.) and Josiah Citrin (Melisse), and captured the tensions between diners and protesters outside......

There is something deep in our DNA that loves the hunt. Not the hunt in the sense of find-and-kill (although that's certainly part of it), but the hunt as in secret treasure. It probably has something to do with the millions of years we spent as hunter-gatherers. I'm a sucker......

If you've ever worked in a restaurant kitchen, you have undoubtedly had the irrational fear that you won't be able to get out of the walk-in, and you'll die in there. Turns out that fear isn't so irrational: Huffpost Food reports that a restaurant owner in Tennessee was found dead......

After what seemed like a year -- and was in fact a year -- of waiting, Jinya has finally opened its outpost on Sawtelle near the corner of Olympic. In the time it took them to open, at least three other ramen spots have opened nearby......

It could be a scene from Portlandia. The waiter's shirts say "quack" and depict a duck. Mother Dough quite literally put a bird on it. "Tonight's special is a lot like the margarita pizza," the girl in the bird shirt says. "Except it also has Japanese shishito peppers and crumbled......

It's cherry season! But it won't be forever. Here's a way to make it last a little longer: Make cocktail cherries. Luxardo cocktail cherries are in many ways hard to beat -- they're dense, almost raisinlike and totally delicious. But I also like a juicier, fatter cherry for some drinks......

The dish in front of me is devastatingly beautiful: a smattering of translucent, barely green syrup; some bits of slightly more solid orange gelée; dainty grapefruit segments; a soft crumble of pistachio mixed with coriander. Grounding it all is a large, barely pink sphere, a full moon of meat butter......

In what may be the greatest help wanted ad of all time, a group from Scotland advertises on Craigslist for an executive chef. But not just any chef. Here's just a taste, from the amazing 1,500-word fantasy novel-cum-help wanted ad: Can you make boneless chicken crispers that are so firm,......

There are all kinds of ways to gauge when something is done, dead, over as a trend. When your mom knows about it, when network news does a trend piece on it, when it hooks up with another stupid trend and makes disgusting trend babies. But nothing says DEAD for......

There are many things that go into waiting tables. Juggling a zillion things at once, both literally and figuratively; maintaining your sanity while acting as the go-between for petulant children (customers) and an angry parent (chefs); appearing to be pleasant when you've just been stiffed for something entirely not your......