The end of August is high season for stone fruit in Southern California, with peaches in particular loading the stalls of L.A. farmers markets. Peaches, pluots, plum
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The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. A chef puts his art on the plate, the white expans
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Danielle Keene has always had a fondness for retro. Back when she ran the dessert kitchen at Wilshire, she instituted Ice Cream Shoppe night. She often favors a '
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If two of the things you love most in life are football and tacos, as is true for some of us, you have someplace to be on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 8. This is, as
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Ice cream lovers now have another quadrant of town to frequent, one that's probably a bit more on the beaten path than, say, northern Altadena (see: Bulgarini).
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If you're a fan of noodles -- as most of us have been since the age of maybe four -- then Los Angeles is a pretty great place to eat. Specifically, noodles of th
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If you've ever been depressed, and I mean truly depressed, you'll know how serious an issue it can be. Therapy can help. So can dessert. And so can your frie
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Oh, for the glory days of arranged marriage, matchmakers (see: Fiddler on the Roof), and drunk hook-ups in bars and grad school seminars. In the modern era of online
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Most pastry kitchens are tiny. A convection oven; a proofing rack; a giant Hobart mixer, looking like a squat, gunmetal-gray R2-D2; a long prep table (in marble for
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Check out our annual restaurant issue, which this year celebrates desserts, out this Thursday, August 8.A great dish can define a chef or a restaurant, can install i
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Pasadena is a pretty good place to live if you're a farmers market junkie: The Saturday morning market at Victory Park is terrific, and the Thursday evening mark
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Bucato, Evan Funke's long-awaited temple to pigs, porchetta, pasta and rustic Italian cuisine, opened last night in the Helms Bakery complex. For those of you wi
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