Rachael Narins

Since candy canes are the holiday season's favorite edible striped crooks, we started out looking for locally made ones and were amazed to find there is no local source. Sure, you can go to Logan's in Ontario to watch the candy made right before your eyes (and if you have......

It's happened to all of us. Trapped on an a long flight (it's the holidays after all), you've already watched the film and your iPad is inconveniently in the overhead compartment. Your seat-mate is asleep and there isn't anything to look at outside the window. After a glass or two......

After three years in business, Atwater Village Farm Market will be closing on December 16th.  Owner Piper Goldstein made the announcement via Tumblr and Instagram earlier this week. Goldstein, an urban farmer, personal chef and community activist opened the store on a shoe-string budget with funds raised on Kickstarter in......

If you live in Los Angeles and you're interested in hobbies like raising chickens or baking with locally milled flour, you've got to drive around and do lots of online research just to start out. Roe Sie did that, too, when he first got serious about fermenting foods and setting......

Los Angeles is a salad-loving town — we practically invented the genre. You can find salads everywhere, in convenience stores and white tablecloth restaurants. But finding one that's worth eschewing the rest of the menu for is a bit trickier.  And because a salad has a pretty broad definition, we......

In 2011, when private chef and urban farmer Piper Goldstein decided to open her grocery store, Atwater Village Farm, she raised money on Kickstarter to help with the initial costs. Now, she’s raising funds again, but this time through GoFundMe, because she’s busy fighting cancer, taking her focus away from her......

Chocolate chip may be the top choice for American cookie lovers, but peanut butter is still a strong contender in that popularity contest. Introduced widely by George Washington Carver as part of a plan to promote peanuts, the cookie has remained a bakery staple since the 1910's. The beauty of......

After one year of operations in the western end of Culver City, Red Bread, the small-batch bakery, shop and café, has closed. But don't despair: It will be re-opening in the fall, in a different location. In the mean time, its popular wild-yeast breads and pastries will still be available at the......

For more than 28 years, the Yingst family — headed by Nancy and her late husband Charles — have grown some of the finest heirloom fruit in Southern California. Sadly, due to a combination of factors, including the  family urging a move to Arizona, Mrs. Yingst, who is 80, has......

Admit it, when you started your food blog, you daydreamed that it would be the key to your glamorous new career as a food writer - or better. For Bay area native Gabi Moskowitz, her blog Brokeass Gourmet really did swing open doors and change her life. Since it launched in 2008, she......