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Do Right by Your Dad: Father's Day 2009 Tips

Hey kids, treat your dads right! Their Hallmark holiday comes up this Sunday, June 21, so here are some venues where you can honor thy father. Or at least treat him to a burger and beer. Royal/T, the Japanese maid-themed café and art space, is... oh, who cares. We've said......
Alex Weiser at the Weiser Family Farms stand; Credit: Amy Scattergood

Farm to Cell Phone to Table: Alex Weiser's i-Field

The path from farm to table is sometimes a convoluted one, with hours logged in the fields and on the highways to farmers markets. At Weiser Family Farms in Tehachapi, this path is also virtual. You can now follow your Russian fingerling potatoes on Twitter. And if Alex Weiser's potato chip experiments go well, maybe LA will have a potato chip truck soon too.

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What to pick next? Crowds mill about

The Raw, the Cooked and Everything in Between: Taste of the Nation

The raw and the cooked--and everything in between--were showcased at Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation fundraiser event in Culver City on Sunday. Many of the participating local chefs were big on crudo, while others preferred carbonizing their protein. The sheer number of chefs and food businesses meant that......