Emily Dwass

Two worlds will converge this month, when Hanukkah overlaps with Thanksgiving. The mashup of, well, mashed potatoes and potato latkes is a once-in-a-lifetime event. As Time Magazine reports, the two holidays won't coincide again until the year 79811, due to the funky mathematics of the Hebrew and secular calendars. The......

If you've never had the chance to eat at one of Scott Conant's five Scarpetta restaurants (Beverly Hills, kind of pricey, etc.), you can still sample his much-praised food by cooking it yourself, using the recipes in The Scarpetta Cookbook. With 125 of his signature dishes (beautifully photographed by Brent......

More and more customer recycling bins are popping up in Starbucks around Los Angeles. That's the good news. The downside is that this may not be making much of a difference in the stream of coffee cups that end up in landfills. For starters, some of the local recycling bins......

Perhaps no cookbook author has done as much to glorify vegetables as Mollie Katzen, who is credited with changing the way many of us eat. Over the years her philosophy about food has evolved, inspiring her to rewrite her original Moosewood Cookbook as well as The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Now,......

There are a lot of quinoa haters out there. At least that's what The Wall Street Journal would have us believe. The front page of the Sept. 14-15 weekend print edition carried the headline: "Foodies' Ingrained Loyalty to Quinoa Sprouts a Backlash." While we liked the headline writer's clever play......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mien, cups of boba and......

You might assume that residents of the upscale community of Westlake Village have access to every imaginable amenity, but it seems something is missing -- what they really, really crave is In-N-Out Burger. This came up during planning discussions on The Shoppes at Westlake Village Center (which you know is......

The benefits of a Mediterranean-style diet have long been touted by many medical studies. As reported in The New York Times in February, new research concluded that about a third of heart attacks, strokes and heart disease could be prevented by switching to a cuisine "rich in olive oil, nuts,......

This week the Cheesecake Factory launches a new gluten-free menu, responding to growing consumer demand. There are more than 80 dishes in the separate spiral-bound booklet, including appetizers, sides, entrees, kids' meals and desserts. You can request the menu when you check in with the host or at the table......

Nothing gets us jazzed like a good discount coupon. We received one via snail-mail the other day for half off the food on the Starbucks Evenings menu. That was all the incentive we needed to visit a Calabasas store, one of two Southern California locations to feature the lineup of......