And so the month of dieting, and best-selling diet books, begins. Judging by the stacks on our desk, this year's back cover theme is the anti-diet, with books li
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Last week, the Carpigiani Gelato Museum opened in Anzola dell'Emilia, Italy, just outside Bologna; the first in the world, it says, to “delve into the his
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Ran Zimon, owner and baker at downtown's newish bakery Bread Lounge, is something of a minimalist. His bakery is designed like the lofts that surround it, and hi
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If you've ever been stuck at the supermarket register with an apple that's lost its Price Look-Up Code sticker, and a cashier who, despite flipping laminated
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It's hard to flip through Made in Sicily without thinking of it as an island-specific version of Bocca, one of our favorite books last year. And not simply due
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Farmers markets and the vendors who populate them with table-bending piles of bumper crops and hard-to-find seasonal produce rarely sell every last item before it
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Mention vegetarian food to most carnivores and the result is often a pained expression followed by a series of jokes about sawdust and paper. You need to get these p
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Roast marrowbones with prawn sambal
In a year when Los Angeles cooking came together with a coherence it probably hasn
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It used to be that you just needed one hand to count all the truly outstanding coffee shops in Los Angeles. Now, thanks to a recent surge of brave coffee geeks-turn
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Google allows its engineers to devote 20% of their full-time jobs to “work on what they're really passionate about.” Similarly, Harvard & Stone
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600 pounds of bacon, 440 pounds of bread, 550 pounds of tomatoes, 220 heads of iceberg lettuce, 110 pounds of butter and 60 gallons of mayonnaise. That's what
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There are many books about cheese. There are plenty of books that depict mice, and their love of cheese. And countless children's book authors and illustrators
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