Tien Nguyen

Golden Road Brewing's canned beer; Credit: A. Scattergood

Hipsters, Rejoice: More Americans Drinking Canned Beer

"We want to change the way people buy craft beer in L.A. County," Golden Road Brewing's president and co-founder Meg Gill told us upon release of the brewery's canned beer earlier this year. As it turns out, they may not have too much trouble convincing people to make that change:......
Hebrew National Hog Dogs; Credit: Stephen Cummings/Flickr

Lawsuit Alleges Hebrew National Products are Not Kosher

"We answer to a higher authority" is Hebrew National's slogan, but at least eleven consumers in Minnesota aren't so sure: The group is suing ConAgra Foods, Inc., the parent company of Hebrew National, alleging that Hebrew National's products are not kosher. According to Reuters, the lawsuit alleges that ConAgra's meat......
Cognoscenti Coffee at Hotel Normandie; Credit: T. Nguyen

Cognoscenti Coffee Pops Up at the Normandie Hotel

In the middle of the lobby of the Hotel Normandie in Koreatown is a piano. And if you are the type of person who considers an unplayed piano as tragic as an unread copy of The Master and Margarita and thus sit down to tickle the ivories, maybe, just maybe,......
Guinness; Credit: Iain Farrell/Flickr

Happy Bloomsday 2012: Celebrate With Guinness, Offal + Water

Tomorrow is Bloomsday, an annual holiday in which James Joyce fans rejoice and celebrate one of the author's greatest works, Ulysses. For those of you who have never read the book, or only pretended to read it in college, the epic story follows one Leopold Bloom as he goes about......
Krispy Kreme doughnuts; Credit: R.E.~/Flickr

Study: Losing Sleep Results in Unhealthy Food Choices

If you've ever stayed up too late, got up too early, and grabbed, say, a pint of ice-cream rather than a cup of yoghurt for breakfast, there may be very good reason for your morning sweet tooth: In a study exploring the relationship between obesity and sleep deprivation, researchers from......
BLT Sandwich and Classic BLT Lays; Credit: T. Nguyen

Lay's Classic BLT Flavored Chips vs. a BLT Sandwich

We love potato chips. We love BLTs. Usually we eat our BLTs with a side of chips; sometimes we put the chips in our sandwich, just for a little extra crunch. But what if the sandwich could be put in the chip, instead of the other way around? Lay's helpfully......
Soft opening of Cafe Dulce's pop-up; Credit: R.E.~/Flickr

Grand Opening Party for Café Dulce's Downtown Pop-Up Tonight

Café Dulce has been serving fine coffee and pastries to the Little Tokyo community for a little more than a year now, and, starting tonight, also will have a presence in the South Park neighborhood of downtown. The shop will launch an indefinite pop-up coffee bar in an empty, converted-warehouse......