Jessica Ritz

The parking and campus can be a bit overwhelming, but the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA is always worth the minor hassle, especially since they show some food love. This year's Culinary Stage on Saturday, April 25 features a farmers' market cooking demo at 11 a.m. with......

L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook: Meet Me at 3rd and Fairfax by JoAnn Cianciulli brings the focus of L.A.'s famous gathering place back to where it belongs. Instead of waxing poetic about the dancing fountain, shiny retro trolley, and other tools of faux urbanism that have hogged attention since the......

Earth Day-related events can sometimes seem frequent and plentiful enough to make April feel more like Earth Month. Here's another one to add to the calendar on Wednesday, April 22 (Earth Day itself) at 7:00 p.m. Locali, the compact "conscious convenience" store on Franklin Avenue that's overflowing with good intentions,......

Even though this is the land of backyard paradises, not everyone in L.A. has enough land for a garden. But there is still a way to cultivate your own summer bounty before planting season ends. Local entrepreneurs are thinking creatively about the intersection of design and food cultivation to help......

For nine evenings in a row at his Santa Monica restaurant Wilshire, chef Andrew Kirschner will warm up for his big night at the James Beard House in Manhattan on April 30. Kirschner is cooking a prix-fixe menu April 16 through April 25, excluding Sunday, in preparation for the event......

After staying apace with the rash of bar and restaurant openings in downtown Los Angeles over the past few months, now it's time to track the specials and events that these joints are offering to encourage the ballyhooed era of the "new" downtown. John Rivera Sedlar's Rivera rolls out the......

Cheese maven Andrew Steiner, whose eponymous Santa Monica shop is conveniently close to Rustic Canyon restaurant, helps curate a Local Artisan Cheese Dinner there on Monday, April 20. Steiner's selections provide some interesting jumping off points from which chef Evan Funke and pastry wizard Zoe Nathan (also of Huckleberry, Rustic......