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For bakery business maven Candace Nelson, Cupcake Wars isn't just another tedious Food Network show, it's a real life legal saga. The founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, the popular cupcake shop she opened in Beverly Hills and now has locations in 10 cities, filed suit on Friday against a Pink Sprinkles,......

Americans remember President Ronald Reagan as any number of things: The Great Communicator, a proponent of trickle-down economics, a hack former actor with a penchant for chimpanzees. Few, however, know of his greatest political act: making National Ice Cream Day an official holiday in 1984. It's celebrated the third Sunday......

Chef Debbie Lee must like running the Ahn-Joo food truck because she's launching another truck, only this one is Canadian not Korean. Along with partner James MacKinnon, the Food Network regular will debut The Poutine Truck (@thepoutinetruck) this weekend at the Little Tokyo Design Festival......

It's summer. You want to eat ice cream. Here's a map to help you do it. From Altadena to Artesia, from Santa Clarita to Redondo Beach, from Echo Park to Venice, it's a roundup of all the places we visited on our 30 Scoops in 30 Days quest, plus a......

Bacon is the gateway drug, not just for vegans who become specialty butchers, but for Jews who grew up in kosher (or at least non-pork-eating) households. Writing in Jewish daily The Forward, author Lenore Skenazy grapples with thorny issues of appetite and cultural identity, exploring the love/hate (mostly love) relationship......

When Korean filmmaker Kim Jae-hwan has an idea, he commits. Kim opened his own restaurant, installed hidden cameras then filmed brokers taking large bribes so the eatery would be featured on TV shows. It was all in the name of exposing corruption in Korea's broadcast industry, where criticism of the......

Look closely at Niko Alm's driver's license. That's not a yarmulke on his head. That's a pasta strainer. After a three-year battle, the 19-year-old Austrian man, a self-professed Pastafarian, has won the right to wear a colander on his head in his driver's license picture......