Tien Nguyen

Tonight, Melisse will take part in the "Northern California vs. Southern California Foie Battle," a six-course, $200 per person foie gras dinner that supports the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards and its efforts to repeal the upcoming statewide ban on the delicacy. But this will be a two-front......

Back in June 1865, Americans were reeling from the end of the Civil War, Charles Dickens was recovering from a near-fatal train accident at Staplehurst, and in London, the Langham opened its doors. The Langham was Europe's first grand hotel to serve afternoon tea, a tradition, it says, that began......

And the foie gras wars continue: According to Courthouse News, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and other animal-rights organizations filed a lawsuit this week against the U.S. Department of Agriculture for continuing to permit the sale of foie gras. The lawsuit claims that the federal agency's failure to ban the......

Los Feliz has a good handful of coffee shops, including Bru Artisan Coffee + Tea, Cafecito Organico and Gelato Bar; come this summer, the neighborhood will add one more place to get caffeinated: Caffe Vita Coffee Roasting Company. The Seattle-based roastery and coffee shop tells us that they expect to......

Depending on how you were raised, food dropped onto the floor was subject to the three-second rule, the five-second rule, the one-minute rule, or the before-the-dog-gets-it rule. That homespun yarn of a law, though, may not necessarily stand up under the rigors of actual scientific research. A few years ago,......

Mother's Day is on Sunday, which, depending on your relationship with dear Mom, is the best day of the year or just another day to hear, yet again, about all the pain you caused during childbirth and the ensuing 18-plus years thereafter. In either case, there are many, many restaurants......

If you want to amuse yourself, try calling Williams-Sonoma to ask what they're doing for Star Wars Day. You can imagine a nicely coiffed salesperson on the other end of the line, not completely understanding the question: "Star Wars what?" Or they'll laugh and ask if your kid put you......

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws," Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. To that short list of exceptions, we add sensationalized news, which seems to propel itself through the blogosphere on......

Say your company has top-secret information that it would like to contain within the confines of its campus. But your employees eat, as people do, at public restaurants. And at these public restaurants, they, as people unfortunately do, talk about their work, which often includes inadvertent disclosures about proprietary projects,......

In our first food quiz, we pulled a few quotes from various food reviews, mixed them with choice bon mots courtesy one of the great wits of our time, Dorothy Parker, and asked whether you could identify who said what. In today's quiz, we swap Parker out for Bill Watterson,......