Tien Nguyen

Morning glory, hollow as a reed and as deeply green as Robin Hood's cap, grows bountifully throughout the waters of Southeast Asia. Most Southeast Asian dishes, then, make ample use of morning glory in their cuisines in some way or another; one of the more popular morning glory dishes is......

Say you find yourself at dinnertime with, oh, a dozen Brussels sprouts, what's left of the frozen shrimp, a wedge or two of some cheese, and your everyday assortment of pantry items. If you have no idea how to bring it all together, forget about trying to plug the contents......

The only thing that has stopped us from buying an iPad -- besides lack of money -- is our paranoid fear that we'll use it in the kitchen and accidentally knock it into the simmering pot of chicken stock. Or helplessly smudge it with flour-dusted fingerprints. Or absentmindedly put the......

Cookie Monster probably is going to rethink those cookies: on Sunday, Sesame Street will air a primetime special, Growing Hope Against Hunger, in which the Sesame Street residents learn about hunger issues in the United States. As part of the special, Elmo, Grover, and special celebrity guest Brad Paisley meet......

"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love" was French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand's perfect cup of coffee. And ours too. Fortunately, that black, hot, pure, sweet cup of coffee requires only the right tool, great beans, water, and the willingness to try......

Google allows its engineers to devote 20% of their full-time jobs to "work on what they're really passionate about." Similarly, Harvard & Stone has a "R&D bar" for visiting mixologists to beta test drinks. The closest thing to a coffee shop equivalent of the above may be Intelligentsia's slow bar......

As much time as we seem to devote to eating - this town has turned the two hour lunch into an art - most of us spend only about 5% of our day noshing. Our earliest ancestors, though, spent upwards of 48% of their day chewing the fat. Literally. Why......

The tater tot means an an awful lot of things to many people. Advocates for change in public school lunch programs, for example, tout the tot as a symbol for all that is wrong with cafeteria food ("We don't serve Tater Tots," a Central Valley school district official sniffed, proudly)......

After opening 14 years ago on a then-relatively empty strip along Rowena Avenue in Silver Lake, the colorful The Coffee Table served its last cup of coffee this past Sunday. The cafe was a popular meeting spot for neighborhood residents, who now will have to look elsewhere for their cup......