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30 Burgers in 30 Days: Stout Burgers & Beer (Day 21)

Like raisins and chocolate, peanut butter and jelly or Morrissey and Johnny Marr, burgers and beer go together like... well, burgers and beer. They're so sympatico that when these kissing cousins aren't served together, something always feels strangely amiss. Stout Burgers & Beer knows, and capitalizes on, that classic pairing......
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A Very Cheesy Deal: Free Entry to Aquarium of the Pacific

With National Grilled Cheese Month only 31 days away, Tillamook's Baby Loaf bus, a convertible, bright orange VW bus refurbished to look like a block of cheddar cheese, will roll over to Long Beach this Saturday, where the first 100 fans who show up wearing orange, will receive free admission......
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Las Balkanieras Know What's Cooking: Borek

Kelis' milkshake may have brought all the boys to the yard in 2003, but in Germany, it's the börek that keeps the boys coming back to the yard. In this video for their song "What's Cooking," pan-European trio Las Balkanieras raps about the wonders of the savory meat pastry known......
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[Updated] I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Breast Milk Ice Cream

Updated, 03/01, 7:37 a.m.: The nectar of life flows no longer at The Iceacreamists in London. After receiving two anonymous complaint about "whether a shop should be selling edibles made from other people's bodily fluids," British government authorities have seized the shop's breast milk ice cream, reports CBS. Sold under......
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30 Burgers in 30 Days: Mom's Burgers in Compton (Day 20)

"If the paper turns clear," says Dr. Nick Riviera, holding up a fast-food wrapper, translucent with grease, "It's your window to weight gain!" The cheerfully incompetent doctor on The Simpsons would approve of Mom's Burgers. Served in brown paper bags with no formality or pretense at health, these are heaping,......
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Chef Kerry Simon Rocks Out with his Crocs Out for KCRW

Nearly two decades ago, David Bowie and Iman got engaged in Kerry Simon's kitchen. Last week, "rock 'n roll chef" Simon (Simon LA, LA Market) really got to rock out, stepping up to the mic for KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Following in the footsteps of Rick Bayless, who crafted a......
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Tacos Carmelita Closed

Sad news: One of our favorite Eat This Now finds has closed. Tacos Carmelita, a shoebox of a shop dishing tacos de guisado in the long shadow of Langer's has gone out of business. We fear that the attention (from us and other outlets) may have inspired The Man to......
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Food Truck Friday: Singaporean Street Food at the Street Hawker Truck

The Street Hawker Truck (@streethawkert) isn't much to look at. It doesn't roll out very often. And whoever runs the Twitter feed occasionally seems more interested in using it as a dating service than in telling customers the truck's location. Street Hawker does, however, serve a decent, albeit greasy, bee......
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Drink This Now: January Jones at Drago Centro

It won't conjure January Jones in a barely-there red dress, but Drago Centro's frothy January Jones cocktail is perfect for driving out the bitter chill of a Los Angeles February. (We realize how ridiculous the phrase "the bitter chill of a Los Angeles February" sounds to readers in Buffalo or......