Elina Shatkin

Go west, young cheese cart. LQ's cheese cart is taking a trip, rolling out of its current home at Starry Kitchen in downtown L.A. to visit Hancock Park wine shop Domaine LA. The cart will have almost 40 cheeses, and the sommeliers at Domaine LA will pair up to a......

In a crime-riddled area of North Long Beach, The Growing Experience has transformed a former trash dump into one of the state's most successful urban farms. This week, TGE was honored with an an Award of Merit from the California State Association of Counties for its innovative methods of providing......

As Thursday morning's preliminary court hearing for the "Rawesome Three" draws near, raw milk activists are holding a teach-in and rally designed to promote their agenda of unpasteurized dairy. Three of the movement's leading activists will speak tonight in advance of a rally planned for tomorrow outside the county courthouse......

Today, on National Taco Day, we honor the humble taco. Not some fancy, "perfect taco of griddled shrimp with tamarind" or some culturally authentic delicacy so regionally specific it can be pinpointed not just to the neighborhood but to the block where it originated. No, today, we honor the most......

After an aborted attempt to launch an Urban Farmers Dinner pop-up on a downtown L.A. rooftop (landlords and such), Black Cat Bakery chef Nick Coe is launching a more permanent pop-up inside Senor Fish in Little Tokyo. Three nights a week starting (probably) on October 27th, Molonay Tubilderborst (more on......

If an army marches on its stomach, on what do social activists march? Pizza, apparently. The puckish protesters of Occupy Wall Street and its West Coast offshoot, Occupy Los Angeles, are hungry, and they want your help fueling this case-study of situationism in the age of the monoculture. They're asking......

Domenico Ristorante in Silver Lake has closed. Last night was the last supper at the two-and-a-half-year-old Italian restaurant. In a short, charmingly typo-filled note sent to patrons, owner Domenico writes: I want to thank you so much for your support, friendship and thrust... We had a rocking 2 1/2 years......

Here are five alternatives to the numerous Oktoberfest-ivities happening this weekend. Fried Cereal & PJ Party: LA's perpetual retro kid Charles Phoenix will be prepping and serving up his latest recipe, Fried Cereal. A mix of Froot Loops, Trix, Apple Jacks, Honeycombs, Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms and Cap'n Crunch tossed......

Wanna move more fruit? Arrange it in bright bowls, suggests a recent study from Cornell University. Marketers, graphic designers and fashionistas have long understood the crucial role of attractive packaging, but applying these same techniques to lunchrooms and cafeterias could lead to a marked increase in fruit consumption. Research presented......