Jessica Ritz

Cookbook, the greengrocer on Echo Park Avenue that just opened Tuesday, harbors big ambitions in its 500 square-foot space. To find it, don't look for any LCD displays or flashing lights. Instead, mint plants hang from I-beams in each of the storefront windows. And eventually, when Cookbook's owners, Marta Teegen......

Commissary has been pouring coffee near Fairfax and Melrose in West Hollywood, a location co-owner Tyler King describes as an "area that's under-served for coffee," since April. And while they've been using excellent beans from local roaster New Frontier for the house blend, over the last couple weeks, Commissary baristas......

If you happen to be cooking your way through the tomes of Madhur Jaffrey, Claudia Roden, Paula Wolfert, and other authors who mine the depths of specific cuisines, you know the ups and downs of assembling ingredients. Some days it's a joy to stop at three different shops to find......

The Great Fire of London. Khrushchev's visit to Cedar Rapids. The origin of computer viruses. Muhammad Ali's skirmishes with the U.S. military. The creation of the peace sign. No, these facts aren't from a Jeopardy! audition drill, but instead trivia you could be learning from the Dinner Party Download, the......

Long before names like Chanel and Kitson came to be associated with upper Robertson Boulevard, there was Michel Richard. The patisserie and café became one of the few sources for top quality pastry in Los Angeles after it opened in 1977. The building that originally housed Richard's celebrated Citrus restaurant......

It's that time of year again, when Dwell on Design takes over the aesthetically challenged L.A. Convention Center with many food-centric events during the weekend of June 25th through 27th. First off, finalists for the sixth annual Restaurant Design Awards sponsored by the AIA Los Angeles are set, and online......

When aiming to open their new Los Feliz location of Gelato Bar in late spring/early summer, owners Gail Silverton and Joel Gutman have achieved the near impossible for food business proprietors -- they will soft open around their target window date, namely today. While some finishing touches remain to be......

Events focusing on specific wine niches are off to a strong start in the month of May. Next it's natural wine's turn, when the first ever Los Angeles Natural Wine Week kicks off today. "The natural wine movement is an organic offshoot of people becoming more aware of the food......