Tien Nguyen

You could, if you really wanted to, create a Harper's Index of sorts based just on Takeru Kobayashi's culinary feats: Number of eggs eaten in 1 minute: 32. Number of Twinkies eaten in 1 minute: 14. And, of course, the one that made him famous in 2001: Number of hot......

Tyler King, the owner of Coffee Commissary in West Hollywood, has been busy: Not only is he putting the finishing touches on a Commissary outpost at Siren Studios -- a latte art throwdown will be held there on July 11, if you're into that sort of thing -- but he's......

It's officially summer, which means -- in theory, anyway -- vacation and lots and lots of free time. And while you probably plan to use that free time binge watching a television series, maybe you should try to pull yourself away from Battlestar Galactica for a moment and read a......

While you're waiting for the Supreme Court to issue its ruling on the gay marriage cases -- it'll probably be around the end of June, so plan your cautiously optimistic celebrations accordingly -- there are lots of things you can do. Like, say, pick up a few bottles of wine......

G&B Coffee officially opened last week at Grand Central Market, a sizable stand that greets you if you enter from the Hill Street side of the market, maybe fresh off a ride down Angels Flight, maybe on your way to a courthouse to fulfill your duties as a juror, or,......

Diep Tran, the chef-owner of Good Girl Dinette, talks in paragraphs. Nice paragraphs, punctuated by a lot of laughter and a story or two, often about growing up in the back of one kitchen or another: Her family started the Pho 79 restaurant chain after they immigrated to the United......

If you're a dog owner who likes to bring your dog with you when you go out to eat -- because your dog needs socialization as much as you do, because your dog is your muse, etc. -- no doubt you've developed an instinct for good and bad places to......

If you've been eagerly awaiting the new season of Arrested Development, no doubt you've already made plans today to go to downtown Culver City sometime between noon and 7 p.m. today to check out the frozen banana stand. For the uninitiated, that would be Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand, or......

Trader Joe's now has its own house brand of Sriracha sauce. Which, if you walked into the store with hummus on your mind and thus were not prepared to see rows and rows of the sauce innocuously lined up next to packages of dried kimchi (also apparently a new item,......

Tomorrow is May the Fourth, which means it is Star Wars Day (say the date quickly if you don't get it, or go to the comic book store for Free Comic Book Day and say the line out loud. Surely someone will fill in the blanks (see also: Pee-Wee Herman......