Jenny Peters

Tucked into a strip mall just on the edge of Palos Verdes in Torrance, Hey 19 Public House feels like it has been there forever, even though it just opened in November. It’s a casual, cozy, retro kind of place (“Hey 19” refers to the 1980 Steely Dan song) that......

Davy Crockett never made it to California, but you can bet that if he had, he’d have eaten a raccoon or two along the way. Back in the old days, in California and beyond, both Native Americans and frontier settlers all hunted and ate the medium-sized mammal – and wore......

In love with bacon, pulled-pork BBQ and a lovely pork chop now and then? Then buyer beware, as some of the pig products coming to grocery butcher shelves and restaurant refrigerators may not be getting the proper inspection needed to prove they're not contaminated with some pretty disgusting stuff. The......

The Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to caramel apples, which was first reported just before Christmas, turns out to have originated in the apples themselves, which were grown in central California and are now part of a widespread recall of the processor's Granny Smith and Galas. The United States Food and Drug......

Gluten haters, rejoice! Pizza Hut, the world’s largest pizza chain, has succumbed to the gluten-free trend in a very major way. Beginning January 26, Pizza Hut will add two 10-inch gluten-free pizzas to its recently expanded menu of pie choices. And unlike Domino’s, which cannot guarantee that its gluten-free crust......

There could be a piece of metal in your meat, if you recently bought frozen ready-to-eat sukiyaki beef or gingered pork made by Unibright Foods Inc. of Bell Gardens.  The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued an extra-serious Class 1 Recall on January 8 of approximately 48,139 pounds of two of the......