There's a lot of pineapple going around in the bars of Los Angeles, for a couple of good reasons: Because it's spring (almost summer), and because the city l
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The Santa Ynez Valley's bread and butter is food and wine. Tourists flock to the area just north of Santa Barbara to indulge in fine vintages and a bonanza of locall
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What makes a pie? There's the classic double-crust, with the bottom crust as well as a top crust, whether it's a sheet of dough or a lattice or repeating pat
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Despite the fact that Los Angeles is the undisputed leader in Chinese cuisine in the United States, it has historically been lacking in one area: upscale Chinese res
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Chengdu Impression, a chain of 30-odd restaurants and upscale hotels in China, opened its first U.S. location earlier this year in Arcadia. The restaurant serves Sic
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Mark Peel spent much of his career cooking in L.A.'s temples of fine dining, but in the past couple of years he began exploring high-quality fast casual, as all
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Sean Raspet, co-founder of non/food, a Los Angelesbased company that is developing micro-algaebased food products, says the concepts he's working on are as much blue
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Pizza Buona, an Echo Park landmark practically since its opening in 1959, closed its doors a few years ago, shortly after a car crashed into its storefront on the so
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If you happened to be the director of culinary research for a large chain of upscale Japanese restaurants, do you think you might be a little obsessed with omakase?
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Now in its 44th year, Topanga Days is a neighborhood music, dancing and all-around love fest that over the last few decades has started to attract people from all ov
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The more things change, the more they stay the same ? it's a trite saying, but it seems to be the case at the Proud Bird Food Bazaar and Events Center near LAX.
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When you think of dishes from China's Sichuan Province, the meat-intensive ones probably come to mind: cumin-seasoned bits of lamb on toothpicks, fried chicken cubes
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