Tien Nguyen

Over the next week or so, it might be fun to wander into some place for breakfast, look around the room at the heavily bearded men eating pancakes and play "Hipster Guy or L.A. Kings Fan Growing Out His Playoff Beard?" Because although the city's closet is stuffed with jerseys......

In what gives us high hopes for the future of the tomato, Reuters reports that scientists in the Tomato Genome Consortium have decoded the entire genome sequence of a domesticated tomato breed named Heinz 1706 that, yes, is the same breed used to make Heinz ketchup. The genome of its......

Following up on our list of the 10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles, we decided to look onwards and upwards, toward the San Fernando Valley in search of even more great tacos. And find them we did, especially in Sylmar and Reseda. While you're never too far from a taco......

When you crave a fried chicken sandwich and a fast-food version just won't hit the spot, you have a few options. Son of a Gun makes one of our favorite upscale fried chicken sandwiches, as does Canele, though that one is offered only during brunch on the weekends. And if......

This weekend, you can haul out that backyard grill -- if it's not out already -- and join in on the great American tradition of grilling meat and vegetables (but mostly meat) to welcome the long days of summer. If, however, you have neither a backyard nor a grill, you......

Last month, we introduced you to The Chewing, in which New York magazine hilariously spliced together scenes of the The Killing's characters chewing on gum, chewing on chips, chewing on burgers -- well, you get the idea. To this growing list of Internet compilations dedicated to television characters in various......

Finally, the scientific reason that we associate Ron Swanson with manliness, other than the mustache and the whiskey: According to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research, there is a "strong connection between eating meat -- especially muscle meat, like steak -- and masculinity." Because of that connection, the......

"In our busy lives, almost all of us have to walk with a cup of coffee. While often we spill the drink, this familiar phenomenon has never been explored systematically." And so begins the abstract for a paper entitled, "Walking with Coffee: Why Does It Spill?" in which researchers in......

Call it ancient ale: Researchers from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland may be able to re-create 19th-century beer using live bacteria retrieved from bottles found in a shipwreck near the Åland Islands. The unnamed ship hit the bottom of the Baltic Sea sometime in the 1840s and was......