Elina Shatkin

After Komodo and Coolhaus, the latest food truck to open a brick and mortar restaurant is Flying Pig, which will open its 77-seat Little Tokyo cafe some time in June. The Flying Pig Café will serve lunch and dinner, offer larger portions of the truck's signature items as well as......

We have no idea why this exists or where it's from, but we can, without a doubt, say that it is the best food art/automobile hybrid ever conceived in the history of humankind. Spotted yesterday in a Santa Monica parking lot, it's hard to miss this Oldsmobile 98 with its......

We brake for coffee. We visualize whirled peas. Our child is always student of the month. As longtime proponents of living life by bumper sticker slogan, we try to eat dessert first -- especially now that we're living in end-times. Why bother with freeze-dried beef stroganoff or pad Thai (yup,......

Ever yearned to recreate Vincent Van Gogh's famous "Starry Night" painting in something other than boring, old paint? Of course you have. Now, Instructables teaches you how to do it in bacon with this handy four-step guide. The result is a beautiful piece of food art, albeit one that may......

Son of a gun, Jon Shook can fish. But can he cook what he catches? Picking through the wreckage of a recalcitrant sanddab riddled with bones, the chef (Animal, Son of a Gun) at one point in the short documentary Fish turns to a pal and laments, "What I got......

The Heirloom LA food truck (@wpheirloomla) is something of a paradox, nudging at the boundaries of mobile cuisine while undercutting its basic precepts. Street food should be simple. It should be quick and easy to scarf down. And it should definitely be cheap, or so the thinking goes. Heirloom LA......

Where did we go when we wanted a likeness of Bob Dylan painted on a cake for the cover of this week's LA Weekly? To Kate Steffens, the DJ and chocolatier who specializes in rock 'n roll cakes via her company Straight Outta Chocolate. From Billie Holiday and Dr. Dre......

World Cocktail Day, the culmination of World Cocktail Week, is tomorrow, May 13th, but in true tippler fashion, we're starting the celebration today. Didn't even know you had an excuse to drink, did you? Why May 13th? Our pal at Thirsty in LA tells us that the date coincides with......

One of our favorite cooking shows ever, right up there with the Galloping Gourmet when he was still a drunk, is finito. Alton Brown announced yesterday that after 249 episodes, his Food Network show Good Eats is done. (Chicago Tribune reports Brown announced it as his first post on Twitter,......

We don't, for a second, believe in huckster Harold Camping's prophecy that May 21st will be Judgment Day, but we're kind of hoping he's right. See, we're planning a long weekend getaway, and if the Rapture arrives, our editor says we can have those days off-the-books. If it does arrive,......