Samantha Bonar

Artists' center Machine Project in Echo Park will host a pop-up pie shop on Thursday, November 18th from 7 to 10 p.m. to benefit the Los Angeles Food Bank. The one-night-only event will transform Machine Project into a stylish pie shop where you can pick up a do-it-yourself holiday treat......

The Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills is offering a special "Pink Tea" throughout October to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The $55 tea service, with seatings at noon, 2:30 and 5 p.m. daily in the Living Room, will feature a special five-course menu, including fresh strawberries and whipped......

More than 30 percent of children with food allergies report being bullied or teased--often repeatedly--because of their eating restrictions, according to survey results published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, Time magazine reports. Teasing incidents include a fifth-grade Pennsylvania boy with a severe peanut allergy being taunted last......

The California Restaurant Association is giving two freshly scrubbed thumbs up to the enactment of SB 602, landmark food safety legislation written by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) and signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new law requires that all employees who handle food in restaurants earn a California Food Handler......

You mean it's not the foie gras with truffle oil on a bed of fettuccine? New research suggests that obesity may be caused by a contagious virus related to the common cold virus, the (UK) Independent reported Sept. 21. Scientists at UC San Diego say the discovery of this strain......

Join doctor of Chinese medicine Henry Jun Wah Lee and holistic chef Vicky Valencia for an evening of food and learning in Pasadena on Thurs., Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. There will be tasty (and healthful) dishes to sample, practical recipes you can use, and enlightening information on how to......

Not only are Americans not eating enough fruits and vegetables--something we've been nagged about for years--our diets are actually getting worse, according to a Centers for Disease Control report released September 9th. Not one state in the country comes even close to meeting federal guidelines for fruit and vegetable consumption,......

Seems "green tea-adjacent" doesn't really count. The Food and Drug Administration has told the makers of Canada Dry ginger ale and Lipton tea to stop making unsubstantiated nutritional claims about their green tea-flavored beverages, the Associated Press reports. In a warning letter sent Aug. 30th, the FDA takes issue with......

A new website, DealPop Los Angeles, will feature daily deals offering savings of up to 70 percent off at restaurants, bars and other businesses in the L.A. area. The site kicks off September 8 with deals from Seventeenth Street Café and Bakery in Santa Monica ($7 for $15 worth of......

Afraid of dirty restaurant kitchens? To paraphrase novelist Thomas Wolfe: Look homeward. The results of a two-year Web survey conducted by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health found that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of inspections that restaurants go through, the Centers......