Tien Nguyen

We recently covered 10 conveniently located eateries off the 10 between Downtown and Santa Monica perfect for those times when you'd rather eat than sit helplessly in traffic. The eastern stretch of the 10, between Downtown and the San Gabriel Valley, may not be as perpetually bottlenecked as the stretch......

It's not quite Star Trek's replicator, but it's getting close: In this week's issue of The New Yorker, writer Michael Specter takes a look at the research and development of "in vitro meat," fake meat cultured and grown in labs that scientists hope will look, feel, and taste like the......

Depending on whether you read Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP newsletter because you appreciate her recommendations or because you have a sadomasochistic curiosity to see how That Other Half lives, you either will love her cookbook, My Father's Daughter, or you will loathe its existence. Even Paltrow can scarcely believe it herself:......

We've been there. It's rush hour. Or, Obama's in town. Or, there's a terrible hip-hop band on the freeway. Or, everyone decided to leave work at the same time. Whatever the reason, the Google Map's all red, you're not going anywhere, and you want out of your car. In other......

The place: Pann's Restaurant. 6710 La Tijera Blvd. Los Angeles; (310) 670-1441. The Hours: Monday to Friday, 4 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $2.99 cocktails. That's right. $2.99. Turn the page to find out what we thought........

We love Salina's Churro Truck and Mr. Churro and other wonderful places that offer Mexican-style churros, but every once in a while, our sweet tooth gets a hankering for the type of churros you'd find served in parts of Spain and Venezuela. These are a smaller, a bit more delicate......

It's May, which means it's National Salsa Month, (it's also National Hamburger Month, but we already pre-celebrated in our original burger round-up in February). Apparently, this commemorative holiday comes courtesy Pace Foods, which invented the modern salsa.* In May 1997, the Texas company celebrated its 50th anniversary of the date......

Some people like their French fries au naturel, unadorned with any condiments. We are not those people. No, we prefer our fries dressed a little bit, usually with that great American classic, Heinz ketchup. After all, this is the ketchup that Malcolm Gladwell, in The New Yorker, noted as successfully......

The May 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine claims to give you the "100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of All Time!)." These are the "greatest" tips, presumably, because they come courtesy of "the top chefs in the country." Los Angeles represents well, with a number of our city's chefs offering their......

A great number of great things have come from Denmark. Hamlet. The Killing. Legos. To this we add: ice cream. Now open in Los Feliz, Paradis Ice Cream replaces the space vacated by Pinkberry on Vermont and brings Danish-style ice cream to the neighborhood. Paradis actually is a chain of......