Felicia Friesema

We're hard-pressed to think of a more primal springtime food than the artichoke. Favas, maybe, with their gravid bean-filled pods, which showed up this week at the Hollywood market (Valdivia Farms). But after a winter full of braised chard, roasted root vegetables, and various brassicas cooked myriad ways, pulling up......

During the summer, allium family members, namely onions and shallots, dominate with pungency and volume, their gravid roundness an analogy for big season harvests. But in the winter, a slender, gentler cousin emerges. Leeks still carry that oniony umami-enchancer quality that make the more bulbous summer onions an essential component......

Updated, 4:00 p.m.: An e-mail statement from LAFS's Vice President of Marketing Albert Villalta: "The Los Angeles Film School continues to meet with representatives of the Hollywood Farmers Market and City officials to identify the most economical solution that allows for the school to have full access to its parking......

Ruth Reichl tweeted about the Hollywood market this weekend: "Stunned by abundance. Hollywood Farmers Market: strawberries, Kishus, tomatoes, oysters, avocados, herbs, lettuce, live crabs. LA in winter." 140 characters is pretty limiting, so we'll forgive the omission of one of the market's more uncommon products: locally grown macadamia nuts. They......

Updated, 2/22, 12:30 p.m.: The Dervaes family recently filed a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice to Google regarding content in The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knudsen. The authors of The Urban Homestead (which is now on backorder on amazon.com) and their publisher, Process Media......

Most of the winter greens at the markets are the sturdy, cold-loving varieties that can take a firm hand on the stove: leathery kales and chards, crispy cabbages, tightly bound Brussels sprouts. But as the chills start to dissipate and the Southern California sun warms the soil, tender pea tendrils......

In a land where the orange (think Washington navel and Valencia) is the stuff of legend, responsible for transforming swaths of California ranchos into tidy blossom-scented groves, it's a bit puzzling to wander the market stalls and find no trace of Sevilles. Yes, it's a bitter orange, one of several......

Molecular gastronomists take pains to showcase the science of food, cleverly manipulating the laws of nature to aid their efforts (hydrocolloids, anyone?). But the logarithmic spirals of the Romanesco broccoli are nature's own bit of scientific grandstanding. More tender than cauliflower, and more visually interesting than most of its fellow......

Thanks to the efforts of Master Food Preserver Ernest Miller and UC Cooperative Extension Nutrition Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor Brenda Roche, L.A. is finally relaunching its own Master Food Preserver (MFP) program after more than a decade of dormancy. While the USDA is doing a bang up job of......

During the later summer months, the mountains of peaches and plums at market stalls were heavy enough to deeply bow wood-topped tables, in part thanks to some pretty great rains during the previous springtime. The only thing different at the opposite end of the harvest calendar is that the crop......