Katie Robbins

To combat the biblical torrent of the last few days, we've been indulging in all sorts of rainy day comfort food. Soupy ramen, mac 'n cheese, hot toddys. When we woke today to yet another gray, blustery morning, we knew we needed to branch out. So we engaged in a......

The place: Miru 8691, 9162 W Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills (310-777-8378) The hours: Daily, 5-9:30pm The deals: From the website, "Drive off town to search for cheap eats or put your self out on the street with food truck or Drive back to Beverly Hills and enjoy 16 oz Sapporo......

Though we love red and green frosted sugar cookies as much as your average Christmas-crazed six year-old, given our fair city's bounty of ethnic eats, it would be a shame to let our holiday dessert dining become, well, too cookie-cutter. For a trip around the world in festive sweet treats,......

Like movie previews or Hendrix opening for the Monkees, sometimes the intro act can overshadow the main event. Such is the case with a really well-stocked stocking. We're particularly partial to the pre-tree practice because holiday stockings tend to be crammed full of loads of small but deliciously potent nibbles......

Menudo. Borscht. A greasy two-pound breakfast burrito. Given the sheer number of culinary cures for the common hangover, it was only a matter of time before a cookbook dedicated solely to this particular brand of fatty, flavorful fare hit the shelves. And who better to attempt to solve our morning......

You know how you always thought there might be something wrong with that friend who eschews Brussels sprouts and onions in favor of white bread and peanut butter? Well, it looks the American Psychiatric Association agrees. "Selective Eating Disorder," the medical term for adult picky eating, is under consideration for......

What's black and gold and bread all over? Breadbar's seasonal Black and Gold bread, available now through December. While we'll admit to being partial to the squid ink that gives the classic pain de mie its shocking ebony color, we're equally won over by the loaf's glistening metallic crown, made......

Pizza and bagels -- two of culinary history's greatest bready triumphs. And while an abomination to connoisseurs of both of these carby creations, their hybrid child, the pizza bagel holds a special place in our childhood memories as a comforting, if slightly gummy snack -- the kind you eat alone......

At long last there is validation for those of us who find the beauty of a multi-course French meal (avec wine pairings bien sûr) on par with the Great Barrier Reef or the Walled City of Baku. UNESCO, the UN cultural organization, which designates cultural and natural sites worthy of......

Love fish custard, but wish it didn't keep you saddled to the table? Silom Supermarket, the grocery store in Hollywood's Thailand Plaza, may have the answer you've been looking for: ho mok. This popular Northern Thai street food, which slightly resembles a cupcake, combines bite-size morsels of white fish with......