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"Hell's Kitchen" Season 8 winner Nona Sivley steps behind the stoves today to start her new gig as chef de cuisine at LA Market, the in-house restaurant/bar at LA Live's JW Marriott. She'll be working with Kerry Simon (who, mercifully, seems much more zen than Gordon Ramsay) and his executive......

How infuriating is it to prepare all that fabulous food for a coterie of bone-thin, bobble-headed starlets who seem allergic to carbs, to fat, to anything that isn't mixed greens or plain-tart frozen yogurt? We may never know. Chef Suzanne Goin of Lucques is again preparing the menu for this......

For lovers only: Donut Man, one of our favorite donut men in all of Los Angeles, announced (via Facebook) that beginning tomorrow he'll suggest daily cheese and donut pairings in the run-up to Valentine's Day During the next few weeks, we will be posting tips and suggestions for matching Donut......

Update: After receiving "many threats," restaurant owner Mazon has decided to take lion tacos off the menu, reports Fox. He had planned to serve them on February 16, as part of an exotic game night. The original post, published January 21: You might think Los Angeles has every kind of......

On one side, there's the angry food truck owner. On the other, the defensive porn director. In the middle is porn star Ron Jeremy, who has the best perspective on the XXX taco truck. It began innocently enough when popular local food truck The Flying Pig began showing up in......

Former Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav is tackling his newest challenge: the fast food industry. The reality TV star and romance guru today launched the first outpost of Flav's Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa (no idea; and no, he's not secretly an alum of the Iowa Writers' Workshop), and he......

This is the soda we imagine ourselves drinking at our Borscht Belt summer lodge, while we chuckle at Jackie Mason jokes and our gawky teenage daughter dances inappropriately with her sexy but ultimately honorable dance instructor. In case that subtext was too subtle, we're trying to point out that Dr......

The accusations keep flying in the debacle over the Flying Pink Pig, a porn movie shot on the Flying Pig taco truck. This week, the conflict officially went legal, just as Flying Pig owner Joe Kim had been threatening when we last spoke to him. Kim sent distributor Metro Home......

There are two schools of thought among soda connoisseurs: Those who prefer their sodas as naturalistic as possible (cinema vérité) and those who prefer neon-hued creations not derived from any fruit flavors found in this world (science-fiction). A watermelon soda can fall anywhere along this spectrum, from a Mexican jugo......