Before you get too blasé about the launch of yet another food truck, you might want to check out the Ahn-Joo food truck, which rolls out this Friday. It's the brainchild of Chef Debbie Lee, one of the alums of The Next Food Network Star. Ahn-Joo, which loosely translated means......
Memorial Day weekend has become the unofficial kick-off both to summer and the barbecue season. But if you'd rather let someone else do the cooking, then check out the Valley Greek Festival. The festival is held at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Northridge. It's been running for 36 years......
From Brie to Buffalo, Tallegio to Tillamook there are hundreds of cheeses, from every country in the world for every palate. For close to 4,000 years people have found countless ways to eat their cheeses -- with a bit of bread, grilled or in fondue -- but if you've never......
The concept of an Outstanding in the Field dinner is simple: long communal tables, populated with food lovers who are being served a gourmet meal from the source, the ingredients often grown literally steps away. Your dinner is outstanding, and in a literal field, as well as the metaphorical one;......
If you're in the Valley and searching for some homemade borscht, Kaffir lime leaves, German beer and mustards, Indian spices or naan bread, or just some sweet Italian sausage, it's sometimes difficult to know which direction to head and exactly where to go. So, whether you're trying to get a......
About a day before a Chicks with Knives dinner, guests are emailed the address to a secret location. On the night of the event, they arrive at a home they've never been to before and knock on the door. And while they don't have to give a secret password to......
If the proliferation of pink and red everything at your local grocery store hasn't given it away yet, Valentine's Day is right around the corner. If you're looking to impress your sweetie without having to cook dinner yourself, we've rounded up a few spots in the San Fernando Valley where......
If you're hankering for a little Greek food in the near future, then the quintessential meal on the go is the gyro, what some call the original wrap. The ingredients are deceptively simple, like good tacos al carbon, but Mediterranean style. It's composed of roasted meat, usually spit-roast lamb; maybe......
Mattie's Southern Kitchen is one of the latest food trucks to hit the streets of LA. Serving up (you guessed it) Southern fare, the menu is made up of stick-to-your-ribs kind of stuff, like mac-'n-cheese, shrimp and grits, fried chicken and pulled pork. "People back home would make fun of......
If you've been anywhere near the Santa Monica pier lately, you know the circus is in town: dominating the landscape these days is the yellow and blue striped big top that is Cirque du Soleil. The troupe is in town with their new show Kooza. Chef Raphael Lunetta at nearby......
