Elina Shatkin

It's 95-degrees in Los Angeles, but it's autumn in our hearts. In fact, the appearance of maple-infused cocktails and squash-based dishes on menus are the only reasons we're certain it's actually November. It makes perfect sense. Until the modern era of refrigeration and factory-farming, seasonally-based cooking was the norm across......

It was only a matter of time. The super-smart robots that do everything from spellchecking our blog posts to manning our nuclear weapons facilities have finally grown weary of us. South Coast Today reports that researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University (on the Eastern coast of Japan, about......

Out of bao-based puns and approaching fullness after stops at Dean Sin Noodle World and Shau May, we only had to walk across the parking lot of Kang Kang Food Court to reach the final stop on our xiao long bao tour: Mama's Lu. In addition to an expandable stomach,......

You have to be brave at Shau May, a restaurant where the soup dumplings are large, slippery and served scaldingly hot. They're heavy and easy to drop (especially for those who haven't mastered advanced chopstick usage), and the splashback from the broth can be brutal. After Dean Sin Noodle World,......

What the George Foreman Grill did for cooking meat, the Babycakes Cupcake Maker hopes to do for cupcakes. Recently spotted in the Cambria Cove catalog, it comes in two colors -- Vanilla Cream or Pink (what, no red velvet?) -- and promises to make eight mini-cupcakes in 5-8 minutes. It's......

Xiao long bao -- the dish at the center of the San Gabriel mayoral mistress scandal -- is such a popular item with so many variations that in some stretches of the San Gabriel Valley, you can sample three top-tier dumpling houses in a two-block radius. On Monday, that's just......

As a huge football fan, CASA owner Mario del Pero and executive chef Alex Moreno were inspired by John Madden's annual turducken cookout to make a turducken of their own. Only this one is made in meatball form with a blend of Mexican spices. The restaurant's Turduckenizo Albondigas recipe, calls......

In the first part of our interview with Alex Moreno, CASA's newish chef talked about his attempts to bring updated versions of other taqueria's dishes onto the menu. In part 2, Moreno gives more details, including his spin on classic dishes like birria (made with beef short ribs instead of......

In Part 1 of What To Cook On A 2,500-Year-Old Boat, expedition artist Danielle Eubank talked about the basics of defensive cooking, the brazen roaches and why the Dutch oven was her best friend while she was sailing around Africa on the Phoenicia. In the second part of the story,......

When Danielle Eubank signed on as the expedition artist (a fabulous title I don't see often enough on resumés) for the Phoenicia, a facsimile of an ancient Phoenician vessel that would spend two-and-a-half-years sailing around Africa, she expected a lack of modern comforts. She did not expect her cooking skills......