Margy Rochlin

On the corner of Highland and Melrose, somewhere in the murky depths of a well-known restaurant's back kitchen, in the farthest reaches of the walk-in hidden behind three rolling racks, there hangs a secret treasure. Behold Osteria Mozza's Wall of Guanciale (say gwan-chi-ALL-ee). Sometimes referred to as the magical Roman......

This week, we approached our favorite wine guy, Lou Amdur of Lou, with a fizzy question: What's the difference between Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti? ... And was that a groan I heard, Lou, when I mentioned Asti Spumante? But first: Apropos of nothing more than a little mood enhancing,......

When I heard today's news that Bea Arthur had died, the first thing I thought of was roast leg of lamb. This isn't as odd as it might seem at first. Arthur's one-woman show, Bea Arthur On Broadway: Just Between Friends began with a recipe for leg of lamb. According......

This summer, Meryl Streep will appear as the food world's warbly-voiced icon Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. The movie is based on Child's autobiography and Julie Powell's Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, in which she tells how she cooked and blogged......

Everytime Jar chef/owner Suzanne Tracht and her chef de cuisine Preech Narkthong visit Narkthong's hometown of Bangkok, Thailand, they return with ideas for new dishes, antique silk purses and fairly crazy-sounding tales of two massages a day and 3 a.m. runs to eat from the hundreds of food stalls in......

The throngs who attended last year's Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational at Griffith Park returned home with a few gripes about parking problems, bad signage, elbow-throwing crowds, no booze and the desire to fill their tummies with a few more gooey, cheesy samples. (They also hailed the first-place winner in the......

Online polls close Sunday at midnight in LAtaco.com's first-annual Taco Madness tourney. In the championship's final round, it's all about Los Feliz versus Santa Monica. Yuca's or Tacos Por Favor? Will this contest be about rallying neighborhood support, or about the place that inspires taco love citywide? At this writing,......