Tien Nguyen

If the OCD Chef's Cutting Board convinced you that everything in your kitchen needs to have some unit of measurement on it, see the natural evolution of the kitchen tool-as-caliper: Creative Kitchen's 6-inch Ruler Knife has a ruler printed directly on its blade (inches on one side, centimeters on the......

If you didn't initially order the taco al pastor at Taqueria Cuernavaca, surely you will after the trip to the salsa bar. Because while loading the small plastic cups with salsa and a few dark, dark red chiles de árbol, you'll probably glance into the kitchen. And in said kitchen,......

It's Tax Day, one of a few days this Election Year that you'll likely be remotely interested in tearing apart the finer parts of the so-called Buffett Tax and seeing how it would have directly affected you, or not. At least, that interest will hold for a few seconds, until......

If you're an hourly employee who works more than five hours a day, you are entitled to a 30-minute lunch break -- but, as the California Supreme Court just ruled, it's up to you to make sure you exercise your legal right to do so. The state Supreme Court's unanimous......

Happiness, apparently, is a warm embrace. At least, for Coca-Cola, which recently installed a "Hug Machine" that dispenses cold sodas in exchange for warm hugs on the National University of Singapore campus. According to Mashable, the huggable machine is part of the soda company's "Open Happiness" project to encourage consumers......

It's time for the lottery, again -- no, not that $640 million jackpot, though those mega millions certainly would help paying for this one: Chef Ludo Lefebvre will be cooking a 5-course, $105 per person "Best of LudoBites: Foie Gras Night" on Tuesday, April 17 at Gram & Papa's, the......

If you're going to Guisados, the Boyle Heights eatery that, along with Mariscos Jalisco, just won L.A. Taco's epic Taco Madness 2012, you undoubtedly are going for one, or two, or three of its famed stewed and braised tacos. But tear your eyes away from the long list of available......

When the Union Pacific blows past the Pub at Golden Road Brewing, screaming its horn and rattling the building, the new customers look up, startled, midsip: Maybe Megatron has assembled himself out of all the propane and machinery in the neighboring industrial yards. The regulars, meanwhile, simply raise their glass......

There is chef Jiro Ono, in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, dedicating 75 years of his life to the art of sushi, making and serving only one piece at a time at his tiny restaurant in Japan, and then there is this: Sushi robots that churn out 300 medium-sized rolls per......

This month, Cafe Dulce turns one year young, and what a first year it's been for the Little Tokyo shop: it was one of our favorite newish coffee shops to open in 2011, and we continue to adore its selection of Korean cheesesteaks, bacon doughnuts and other delicious savories. In......