Margy Rochlin

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A Cake Wreck for Matt Groening

Margy Rochlin
At this point we all know that last week The Simpsons creator Matt Groening decided to say so long to his 32-year-old syndicated comic strip, Life in Hell. But how did he commemorate the retiring of the anthropomorphic rabbit Binky, his girlfriend, Sheba, and their illegitimate son, Bongo (as well......
Larry Silverton and Dario Cecchini; Credit: Anne Fishbein

More Fun With Dario Cecchini: His Dinner at Nancy Silverton's House

Margy Rochlin
It was at the 30-year anniversary of Chez Panisse where Nancy Silverton first met Dario Cecchini. At the time, Silverton knew him only as the famed Dante-reciting butcher of Chianti, but since then an international culinary friendship has been forged. Every year when Silverton visits Italy, she makes the two-hour-plus......
Lou's Pig Candy; Credit: Ron Dollette

A Recipe From the (Now Itinerant) Wine Guy: Lou's Pig Candy

Margy Rochlin
Several weeks ago, when it was announced that Lou Amdur was selling his wine bar, LOU, we offered a parting culinary keepsake for Squid Ink readers -- the recipe for LOU's famous pig candy. Want to know the origin story of this sweet, bacon-y side dish? If so, forget about......
Culture Gabfest's Julia Turner

Q & A With Andy Bowers, Exec Producer of Slate's "Culture Gabfest": The Granola Off, Cereal Tackiness + Proper Clump Size

Margy Rochlin
What is it about Slate's weekly Culture-Gabfest/127344920678771?sk=wiki" target="_blank">Culture Gabfest podcast that makes it so entertaining, sometimes exasperating and yet always compulsively listenable? Maybe it's that the hosts -- Slate's critic-at-large Stephen Metcalf, movie critic Dana Stevens and deputy editor Julia Turner -- are your know-it-all friends who will take on......
Thee Slut; Credit: M. Rochlin

Eat This Now: Eggslut's Coddled Egg in a Jar

Margy Rochlin
We might have started off our morning exercise with a brisk walk up Crescent Heights but when our looping route took us up to Santa Monica Blvd and then back down Fairfax Avenue and we passed the Eggslut truck, thoughts suddenly turned to breakfast. Their signature dish, Thee Slut, is......