Maral Tavitian

Kaitlin Mogentale’s Pop-Tarts-inspired invention has little in common with the buttery, jam-stuffed toaster pastries. Her recipe consists of gluten-free dough made with carrots and coconut oil, and a filling of cinnamon-spiced apples, dates and agave. On a recent Friday afternoon, Mogentale assembled the pastries and other snacks inside a nondescript commercial......

On a recent Saturday afternoon in Little Ethiopia, Hwaget Haile walked through the dining room of Messob Restaurant with a pot of freshly roasted coffee beans. The beans crackled and hissed, blanketing the room in a thick, fragrant cloud of smoke. Haile had just completed the first step of an......

Rosario Mazzeo says his prosciutto is the best in the world. The cured ham hails from San Daniele Del Friuli, a mountainous region northeast of Venice, Italy. “Very soft, like butter,” Mazzeo says. Mazzeo, 76, is the owner of Roma Market in Pasadena, an Italian grocery and deli of the......

Before Bonnie Tsang bites into her butternut squash toast at Blacktop Coffee in downtown L.A.’s Arts District, she takes out her iPhone. The toast — a thick slice of ciabatta piled high with squash puree, caramelized onions, arugula and balsamic reduction — looks like an intricate art project. She fusses......