Erin Behan

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Belcampo's New Santa Monica Restaurant Is a Carnivore's Fantasy

Erin Behan
The new Belcampo in Santa Monica is not a steakhouse — the bartender will remind you — although there is a 32-ounce shell steak for two on the menu, served with potato gratin and a classic blue cheese wedge salad ($140). No, it is a restaurant that serves meat.   Regardless......
Dead flies smaller than a grain of rice are glued to standard insect pins for intensive visual study.; Credit: Photo by Kelsey Bailey

Creepy but Gorgeous New Species in Your Backyard

Erin Behan
To the layperson, a fly is just a fly. But to a scientist with a microscope, it's a coffin fly that can dig two meters to find decaying flesh in which to lay its eggs so that its offspring can feed on the putrid tissue. It prefers lean over fatty......
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Hamburguesas Punta Cabras Puts a Mexican Twist on Your Burger

Erin Behan
Chefs Joshua Gil (Jonathan Club, Joe’s) and Daniel Snukal (LudoBites, Urasawa) — two accomplished L.A. chefs who currently run an underground supper club and have been hailed of masters of the fish taco on the Westside — opened their second restaurant, Hamburguesas Punta Cabras, late last week in a tiny......
101 Noodle beef roll; Credit: Erin Behan

Is the Chinese-Style Beef Roll an L.A. Invention?

Erin Behan
The beef roll — that inspired scallion pancake topped with slow-braised beef, scallions, cilantro and sometimes cucumber, then rolled up enchilada-style — works every inch of the tastebuds, mashing up layers of fatty, salty, crunchy and savory in ways that can only be rewarded by another bite. So why is......
Urban culinary farmer Courtney Guerra in Venice; Credit: Photo by Nanette Gonzales Castro

How Alma's Produce Grower Squeezed a Farm into Packed Venice

Erin Behan
There's farming, there's urban farming, and then there's urban culinary farming. Courtney Guerra, 33, has done the latter for two years in an assortment of raised beds, hydroponic cylinders and a makeshift greenhouse at her Flower Ave Garden. Its location? In the most unlikely of places — just off Lincoln......