Felicia Friesema

If you are an Angeleno with a love for morels, you have two options. You can either creep through the misty, moss covered forests of northern California (think hobbits at the break of dawn) to zero in on a treasured morel patch, assuming you have one, or you can visit......

So what is the best farmers market in L.A.? The answer depends on what's most important to you in a market: variety, number of organic vendors, quality of the bakers, sense of community, distance the farms have to travel to get there, available parking, etc. But since October of last......

You still have to wait a bit for those classic apricots, the Blenheims, to come into season (think mid-June). In the meantime, if you're a some-is-better-than-none kind of person, you may happily settle for the aprium. It's mostly an apricot, about 75%. And when you first bite into it, it's......

Update 5/20/2011 - The Hollywood Farmers Market will be at its usual full size this Sunday (and for the next three Sundays). Marta Segura (@martaspeaks) from Councilmember Eric Garcetti's office tweeted in response to questions about that status of the market's permit, "HFM permit corrected to the current footprint, and......

Corn is the stuff of fortunes, or lack thereof, depending on your point of view. It's one of the few food commodities (corn futures, actually) that the stock markets still pay close attention to, and by the way, it's rising like mad thanks to the miserable weather back east. In......

The sour plum is a typical Californian in that it's from somewhere else (Asia, specifically) and has been adapted to fit the likes of Los Angeles' multicultural mix. It's also one of the first stone fruits we see at the farmers markets, right after the cherries show up. Go the......

Springtime arrivals, like cherries, don't generally send us to the cookbook stash; they're eaten well before they get made into anything lasting. But we've been searching feverishly for ways to stretch out mulberry season. White mulberries just arrived at Mud Creek Ranch and will be shortly followed by the juicy,......

The earliest hint that the seasons are starting to switch from spring to summer is the baskets, bowls, and piles of early sweet and sour cherries on local market tables. We started watching the calendar when the artichokes showed up. Once artichoke leaves start to open up, it means that......

On Monday, Councilmember Eric Garcetti and SEE-LA Chairman Michael Woo announced that the Hollywood Farmers Market would get another extension on their street closure permit to nail down exactly what's going to be done. To quote their statement: "We believe that, after three months of discussion, we have made progress......