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Grow your own salad

May 15, 2009

This is a box of lettuces, well, two, that took only a few weeks to grow. They’re set up atop a low table in the backyard, in soil that came from a large compost box about 20 feet away. The seeds are from a packet (you can see it there on a little stick; how’s [...]

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Still life of gremolata on a counter top

April 26, 2009

Fishing around for something to make for dinner the other night, or more accurately for something to spice up dinner, I made a quick gremolata on the counter top. Gremolata, the traditional garnish for osso bucco, is a simple fine chop of fresh parsley, lemon and garlic. The beauty of it is that it’s stunningly [...]

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My favorite pan

March 27, 2009

I had a wok in college, one of those big ones that sat on a separate base and was impossibly round; it was like trying to stir-fry with a bowl. Okay, maybe I just didn’t get the technique down, but still. Not fun. So a few years ago Vicki Fan (of Beacon in Culver City) [...]

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After pre-Michael Pollan Iowa cornfields and God and poetry and culinary school, Amy wound up in the vellum-and-indigo newspaper business. And thus to the blogosphere, because people still read. Don't they. If you check the masthead at LA Weekly, you'll find that I'm the food blog editor. (I want an Irony Cloud widget.) Got a story? Let me know.
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- Is The Varnish the Best Bar in the World? Spirited Bar Awards Finalists Announced May 17, 2013
  Hot on the heels of last year's Best American Cocktail Bar award at Tales of the Cocktail, The Varnish is this year a finalist for World's Best Cocktail Bar, along with 9 other finalists. Eric ... […]
- Koreatown's Beer Belly Throws a Three-Day Beer Party May 17, 2013
  When beer bars and gastropubs started sprouting up en masse across Los Angeles a few years ago, not many could have predicted the rise of Beer Belly. Hidden off of Western near the Titantic-th... […]
- 3 Kentucky Products That Should be Smuggled Instead of KFC May 17, 2013
  As recently reported in The Washington Post, al-Yamama, a Palestinian delivery company, has been sneaking Kentucky Fried Chicken into the Gaza Strip from Egypt: a three-hour journey and an extr... […]
- ABC's New Comedy Mixology on Track to Ruin Bartending, Television + Life on Earth May 17, 2013
  As far as we can tell, no one is very excited about much of the programming the major networks are launching this coming fall. But in an already sad lineup, one show stands out as having the po... […]
- 4th Annual L.A. Street Food Fest Coming in June May 17, 2013
  Six days post-Tacolandia is, maybe, more than enough rest to prep for the return of the largest gathering of street food purveyors in the Southland on Saturday, June 29. Returning to the Rose B... […]