Noah Galuten

Oftentimes when you go out to a restaurant, and particularly an Italian one, your brain will try to steer you toward some of the more unique menu items. You've gone out to eat, your brain will plead, so you should be ordering something, at least, with a little meat or......

About a month ago, we interviewed Wolvesden mastermind and underground supper club chef Craig Thornton (part 1, part 2). As always, we ran a chef recipe too, for his dish "Wolves in the Snow." But Thornton, with his typical overachiever flare, sent us two other recipes as well. Since keeping......

--Whole Foods recalls gingerbread houses, though thankfully, not in California. Slashfood --Food writer Christopher Borrelli experiences foodie fatigue. ChiTrib -- Food stuck in neanderthal teeth illuminates early human eating habits. Discovery --Survey: women think about food more than sex. Time --Inside look, with video, of Chinese robot waiters. Singularity Hub......

It was Christmas on Saturday, and whether or not you celebrated the holiday, you probably still had dinner. People have different traditions -- whether it's turkey and stuffing, or Chinese food -- so we decided to check in with a few of L.A.'s food folk to see what they had......

Simone Walsh, over at LA Weekly's blog the Informer, is reporting that a Miami man is due in L.A. federal court today after attempting to smuggle cocaine, "in little pastel candies shaped like Easter eggs," at LAX. It would seem as though his plan has failed. When Border Protection officers......

Remember the food pyramid? It's the thing that told us to eat less sweets, fats, dairy, and meat, and more fruits, vegetables, and grains. Well, the food world is always changing, and so too are our diets. That's why the people over at GOOD recently held a competition to see......

Today's photo from the LA Weekly Flickr pool comes courtesy of djjewelz (he seems to take a lot of photos for us, doesn't he?). It is a picture of the burger over at Lazy Ox Canteen downtown, which LA Times food critic S. Irene Virbila -- who has been in......

There has been a push, over the last few years, for seasonal eating. Consuming locally grown, seasonally appropriate food will lead to a better environment, and perhaps more importantly, better tasting fruits and vegetables. But there is another kind of calendar-driven dining that happens across the globe: seasonal fast food......

A starch, stuffed with desirable ingredients, then baked, griddled, deep- or pan-fried until crispy, is a delightful thing. They straddle nearly every culture with seemingly infinite options: pupusas, samosas, gyoza, empanadas. Then there are Hot Pockets. Let us never speak of them again. In today's food fight, we take on......

If you read our interview with Library Bar and 1886 bartender Brady Weise (Part 1, Part 2), you learned that he is a man who knows his classic cocktails. While he can make you a very fine Old Fashioned, he also believes that bartenders should be innovative and develop their......