Tien Nguyen

So far in our food flowchart adventures, we've assembled diagrams to try to organize the many, many choices you have for Vietnamese food and fried chicken. Today, we tackle the pizza landscape of Los Angeles, with its fantastic variety of New York-style slices, Chicago pies and pizzas fashioned in the......

Back a lifetime ago in 1994, McDonald's was sued over the temperature of its coffee when a woman accused the fast food chain of serving coffee so hot, it gave her third-degree burns when the cup spilled on her legs and groin. Now it's déjà vu all over again, as......

A Day in the Life, a Hulu original series created by Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, is, as the title suggests, a documentary-style show that follows various, usually famous, individuals as they go about their everyday routine. Monday's episode featured a day in the life of Mario Batali, shadowing......

Tonight starting at 5:30 p.m., BBC America will host a free food truck fest at the Santa Monica Food Truck Lot at Main and Ocean to promote the premiere of No Kitchen Required. The new reality competition show is a sort of Top Chef-meets-Survivor battle in which a trio of......

If you've misplaced your cellphone, chances are, you probably lost it the same way you lost your retainers in the 9th grade: sometime during lunch, because you were distracted and forgot to take it with you before you went back to fourth period. Based on Lookout Inc.'s study of lost......

If you're one of the more than 3 million or so proud owners of the new iPad, you also are the proud new owners of a coffee warmer. All you need to do is visit the HotPad website and hit Run; the site then will run a script to purposely......

Back in January, Seattle-based Starbucks endorsed a Washington bill to legalize gay marriage in the state (it eventually passed and will take effect in early June). Predictably, the National Organization for Marriage, one of the largest anti-gay marriage groups in the country, flipped out ("Americans should be able to drink......

Apparently, one can guess whether you are happy or unhappy with your health based on your decision to have chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A rather than from McDonald's. That is, according to the BIGinsight™ Monthly Consumer Survey, which ranked the happiness level of certain fast food customers on its "Unhappiness Index."......

Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now 140 million......

Johneric Concordia, a former community organizer who now runs The Park's Finest BBQ with his family in Historic Filipinotown, likes to tell his customers how he and his family got started behind the grill. "This was a rough neighborhood, in the '80s, '90s. BBQ kept us out of trouble. It......