Sarah Bennett

Craft beer might be getting all the attention right now, but it's all cider all the time at Great Society Cider & Mead, the first bar in Southern California dedicated to sourcing and serving America's historic boozy beverage in all its modern-day glory. The long-awaited bar and eatery opened in......

With new breweries opening in L.A. County at the same rate as taco trucks, it's hard not to get jaded by the onslaught of above-average pale ales and West Coast IPAs. But when a local, Belgian-loving contract brewery that's had bottles on shelves since before #LAbeer was even a thing......

The first thing you notice when you open the door to tiny Uncle Henry's Deli in Downey is the hypnotizing wall of taps along the back wall. With three rows of more than 30 handles each closely stacked on top of one another, it's hard for beer lovers not to......

As soon as I entered this sprawling suburban home, I was handed a glass of red wine and a sautéed tomato hornworm. "Want one?" urged Kevin Bachhuber, the co-host for tonight's dinner, with a view of twinkling Simi Valley below. The owner of the country's first farm to raise crickets......

Summer might be almost over, but if you’re looking for that one last vacation, may we suggest making it the most refreshing kind — a beer-cation. Beercations are those in which the breweries, not the city sights, are the destination, and with places from San Diego to Sonoma littered with......

Over the last decade, a new kind of Mexican-inspired California cuisine has emerged. And Los Angeles is its hub. Food writer Bill Esparza once dubbed the Southland's modern Mexican revolution "Alta California cuisine" to distinguish it from a movement happening in Mexico itself, where contemporary chefs are reimagining menus and......

Craft beer might be getting all the attention right now, but it’s all-cider all the time at Great Society, the first bar in Southern California dedicated to sourcing and serving America’s historic boozy beverage in all its modern-day glory. The long-awaited bar and eatery opened in downtown Long Beach Thursday......

Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is a lush, verdant landscape where for thousands of years the sophisticated Mayan civilization lived, worked and grew four main crops: corn, beans, squash and chile peppers (as if the area’s sweltering weather wasn’t hot enough already). The land mass is also the home of the habanero, which has......