Jenn Garbee

Yup, you were all correct. This week's Name That Pastry Chef is Amy Brown. The 30-year-old pastry chef served up late-night ice cream sandwiches at Magnolia in Hollywood before taking over the dessert menu at Provecho downtown in March. She's also the owner of the virtual bakery BrownSugarLA. On our......

For this week's Name That Pastry Chef, we're heading east. That should be a pretty big clue, if not for the little issue of those last two pastry chefs hanging their whisks in Santa Monica. So this round you're also getting a photo with a panoramic view of the restaurant's......

Ever seen a room full of beer geeks fight to the ale for a limited release bottle? The Bruery will release Black Tuesday, an Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels for more than a year, on Tuesday, October 27. Trust us, you won't want to miss it. Like Black Tuesday's......

We are all mourning the loss of Gourmet (particularly now knowing we'll be able to "look forward" to doubling up on Bon Appétit until our Gourmet prescription subscription ends). In the meantime, we must move forward with Name That Pastry Chef and the rolling out of flaky pie crusts. If......

For the inaugural week of "Name That Pastry Chef," we pulled out our protractors to measure the obtuse angles in a chef's chocolate crémeux. This week, we're shadowing a pastry chef who has been baking a multi-layered following with her buttery stone fruit cobblers, rough-hewn berry crostatas, and glassy crème......

Santa Monica's Wine Expo has, in addition to wine, a collection of over 70 100% blue Weber agave tequilas. What they also have is a lot of peculiar signage. Is there any connection? A distinct possibility. The wine shop has been screwing around with semantics ever since it opened nearly......

Part Two of the first edition of "Name That Pastry Chef" should begin with revealing the chef's identity, if not for the small matter of ruining the surprise with pesky little tags. Waiter, another blini. Straight up, please. As for Park, the pastry chef at Riva (and as of two......

Welcome to the first edition of Name That Pastry Chef... and Chocolatier, Candy Maker, and Bread Baker (if you thought we wouldn't interpret the term democratically). The rules: No clicking on "Post a Comment" until you've read the entire post, no tossing credit to the executive chef where pastry chef......

If your friends keep sending you Facebook requests to aid their Mafia Wars endeavors (how to politely say you are fonder of Italian wine than virtual wiretaps?), the solution may be as simple as getting them outdoors to play what is perhaps the greatest, and virtually suspense-free, wine country game......

The casting call for contestants for season two of the Absolut vodka and LX.TV/NBC reality series "On the Rocks: The Search for America's Top Bartender" is being held tomorrow at Seven Grand. The winner will head to Las Vegas with seven other regional finalists to battle it out with an......