Jenn Garbee

Your mom's spaghetti recipe is the best, right? Well, maybe second to your own pasta alla bolognese. But what about chefs? Do they really dig their mom's meatloaf and apple pie? We thought we would ask around to find out. Enter a new series, Chef Family Recipes. Honest answers required......

Here's a fun game. The next time you're in the company of a wine buff, toss out a few challenging in vino veritas one-liners. Something like "How's your Tsitska?" usually does the trick (the response should involve white wine grape varietals native to the Republic of Georgia, not an update......

Apparently, donuts really are seasonal. At least at Wilshire restaurant, where pastry chef Jen Shen fries up several variations throughout the year. "I'm definitely more fruit-driven," she says, prying a rather ornery lemon-mascarpone cream tart from its ring mold (an impressive feat involving a blow torch, Cirque Du Soleil-style balancing......

This week's Name That Pastry Chef went to pastry school at the CIA Greystone in Napa Valley and earned her chops (or custard?) at Redd before returning home to Los Angeles to work for Spago pastry chef Sherry Yard. She's been making deconstructed apple galettes and frying up seasonal donuts......

Tavern pastry chef Breanne Varela spent four years at Lucques and AOC -- three of them as the head pastry chef -- with only a deck oven and stove top within reach of her small corner workstation. Now, a deck oven is perfect for making those glorious rustic fruit tarts......

In honor of taffy pullers and cotton candy twirlers everywhere, we're posting a special Halloween edition of Name That Pastry Chef. Guess promptly -- only six more days until these confections disappear. We'll start with the necessary edible costume supplies, followed by more clues after the jump......

Folks, we have a resident cyber pastry-guru in our midst. H.C. guessed correctly again. This week's Name That Pastry Chef is Jashmine Corpuz of Drago Centro. Not to worry, you all get the grand prize - Corpuz's amaretti cookie recipe. "I've always been passionate about pastry... when I was a......

Last night's Whisky Live tasting in Santa Monica was a rather buttoned-up affair in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - at least for the first hour. Tastings were politely dolled-out in exchange for drink tickets all night (a sort of grown up carnival ride system), thus cleverly keeping the tossing-back......

When Craft Los Angeles' opening chef de cuisine Matt Accarrino and pastry chef Catherine Schimenti departed the restaurant back in May, owner Tom Colicchio promptly replaced the dynamic agnoletti-gelato duo with Anthony Zappola and Shannon Swindle, the chef de cuisine and pastry chef, respectively, at his Craft Dallas branch (the......

Since it took you all of two minutes to guess last week's edition of Name That Pastry Chef (that shot of the bar behind Amy Brown's work station was a little too obvious, huh?), you're only getting a few prepped ingredients this week. Plus a few of the best bar......