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Valerie Gordon celebrates 20 years of the sweet life, and she’s just getting started
5 months, 1 week ago

Valerie Gordon celebrates 20 years of the sweet life, and she’s just getting started

LA Times  

Valerie Gordon at her Glendale bakery, cafe and flagship store. “I’m much happier with it now.” Gordon says she’s been making it all up as she goes since she was 8 years old. ‘A national brand from the get-go’ They put together elaborate gift sets for the holidays, complete with branding that read “Tall and Small Products.” Weightman is more …

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Baroo, innovator of Korean dining, is The Times’ 2024 Restaurant of the Year
6 months ago

Baroo, innovator of Korean dining, is The Times’ 2024 Restaurant of the Year

LA Times  

The third of six courses at Baroo — the dish where the momentum behind Kwang Uh’s modern Korean cooking, light and assured, becomes fully realized — is a ssam of fried sole, built on a leaf of butter lettuce that lives up to its name. In Los Angeles, where traditional expressions of the cuisine define the Korean restaurant ethos, Baroo …

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How we made tacos a Black thing in L.A.
10 months, 2 weeks ago

How we made tacos a Black thing in L.A.

LA Times  

One day when she was 12 years old, Barbara “Sky” Burrell, owner of Sky’s Gourmet Tacos on Pico Boulevard, saw a neon, taco-shaped sign in the window of a local restaurant in the town where she grew up. He’s called his pocho taco a tribute to the hard-shell tacos his mom made for him as a kid and “very authentically …

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Bake like Nonna: generations of L.A.’s oldest Italian society share their holiday cookies
1 year, 1 month ago

Bake like Nonna: generations of L.A.’s oldest Italian society share their holiday cookies

LA Times  

The stereotype of the Italian nonna, or grandmother, attempting to feed you until you burst holds true — especially at the holidays. “You talk with everybody, it’s not like you come here and you’re a stranger.” Michelangela 'Lina' Pompilio's Cartellate Time 1 hour 50 minutes plus several hours drying and soaking time Yields Makes about 2 dozen cookies “Versace” rainbow …

Family Holiday Society Christmas Italian Cookies Her Husband
‘We’re all family’: Angelenos tied to Maui gather in grief at Carson’s Back Home in Lahaina
1 year, 4 months ago

‘We’re all family’: Angelenos tied to Maui gather in grief at Carson’s Back Home in Lahaina

LA Times  

Even if you’ve never been to Lahaina, Hawaii, the interior of the restaurant Back Home in Lahaina in Carson can give you a sense of what it was like before fires devastated nearly all of the 13,000-person town in the deadliest wildfire the U.S. has seen in over a century. It’s all gone.” Sheryl and Ryan Mizukami of Lakewood, left, …

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Seasons of Preserves: Berry jelly
2 years, 6 months ago

Seasons of Preserves: Berry jelly

LA Times  

This is the last installment of “L.A. “Most of my berry preserve recipes are jelly recipes, because berries have a great level of pectin for setting jelly and most berries have lots of seeds that people don’t like to eat. People freak out about making jelly, but it’s really not hard.” Normandeau forages for berries like haskaps, saskatoons, chokecherries and …

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Our step-by-step guide for cooking jelly
2 years, 6 months ago

Our step-by-step guide for cooking jelly

LA Times  

This story is a component of the feature “Seasons of Preserves: Berry Jelly,” which is part of a four-part series on preserving fruit at home called “L.A. Then you want to strain the juice again through cheesecloth or a fine sieve; this helps rid the juice of any sediment or pieces of fruit that would make the final jelly cloudy. …

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The next phase in cannabis edibles is chef-driven and local
2 years, 8 months ago

The next phase in cannabis edibles is chef-driven and local

LA Times  

Enrique Olvera has been feeding his mole madre for years, replenishing the fine mix of black, red and green chilhuacle chiles with seasonal seeds and fruits for a complex, ever-changing flavor base. Rose often collaborates with chefs to create Turkish delight-style edibles, including : Enrique Olvera’s THC-infused take on mezcal-poached pears; Dominique Crenn’s CBD edibles featuring apple with passion fruit; …

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Years after moving to L.A. from Guatemala, her dreams of a mobile plant shop came true
2 years, 9 months ago

Years after moving to L.A. from Guatemala, her dreams of a mobile plant shop came true

LA Times  

In our Plant PPL series, we interview people of color in the plant world. We are able to learn about others’ experiences and their stories through plants.” Vilma Alvarado, left, and her daughters Cindy and Wendy, right, at a pop-up outside Car Artisan Chocolate in Pasadena. “We would post plant things on our personal Instagram and people started asking us …

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The L.A. Times 2021 holiday cookies
3 years, 1 month ago

The L.A. Times 2021 holiday cookies

LA Times  

Each year, when I start thinking about the L.A. Times’ holiday cookies, I always ask friends what they’re wanting in holiday treats that particular year and try to let that inspire me. Holiday cookie time usually shuts out anyone not able to eat copious amounts of butter, sugar and flour, so it’s about time the vegans and gluten-free among us …

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Follow the leads of these L.A. activists. Write it all down so you know that it’s real
3 years, 1 month ago

Follow the leads of these L.A. activists. Write it all down so you know that it’s real

LA Times  

This story is part of Image issue 7, “Survival,” a collective vision for the L.A. of our dreams. At the root of any change is commitment, so we asked activists from Communities for a Better Environment, an organization fighting climate injustice in communities of color, and some of the organizers behind West Adams’ new radical bookstore and self-described help nexus, …

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21 food gifts that support local businesses
3 years, 2 months ago

21 food gifts that support local businesses

LA Times  

This is part of the L.A. Times 2021 gift guide. $50 | 👉 Purchase here Say Cheese custom gift basket or box This Silver Lake cheese shop will build a custom basket or box with cheese, wine, fresh fruit, crackers and anything else you’ll need to make the ultimate holiday cheese board. Prices vary | 👉 Purchase here Flamingo Estate …

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The most bizarre cactuses and succulents we saw at a crowd-favorite show
3 years, 5 months ago

The most bizarre cactuses and succulents we saw at a crowd-favorite show

LA Times  

The 35th Inter-City Cactus and Succulent Show and sale more than made up for a lost year this past weekend, with crowds of cactus-crazy people ogling exhibits of 1,300 strange and wonderful plants and buying up a storm from the vendors. One of the happiest takeaways for the organizers: More than half of the 118 entrants into the juried show …

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Kiano Moju’s ‘Afri-Cali’ Christmas
4 years ago

Kiano Moju’s ‘Afri-Cali’ Christmas

LA Times  

For Kiano Moju, cooking on Christmas Day is a high-stakes affair. “With Kenyan people, we only have one way of celebrating anything, whether it’s a wedding, funeral or Christmas — all of the celebrations and menu are the same,” Moju says. “We always have mandazi with chai — hot chai and mandazi, that’s the best,” says Moju. “Other families do …

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8 quick and easy salmon recipes to shake up your weeknight dinner routine
4 years, 10 months ago

8 quick and easy salmon recipes to shake up your weeknight dinner routine

LA Times  

Eight different toppings flavor slow-roasted salmon, with eight veggie-based sides, to shake up your usual weeknight dinner routine. Fresh Chile-Tomato Sauce Puree ½ cup roughly chopped red onion, 4 garlic cloves, 2 plum tomatoes, 1 serrano chile, ¼ cup olive oil in a blender until smooth. Add 2 tablespoons each honey and white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon Asian chile garlic …

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Five or Fewer: Keto recipes made for everyone
4 years, 11 months ago

Five or Fewer: Keto recipes made for everyone

LA Times  

Chicken thighs baked in olive brine and topped with kale and avocado fit into the keto diet but appeal to nondieters too. Ingredients 1 head cauliflower, trimmed and broken into bite-size florets Kosher salt 1 pound ground beef, preferably 80/20 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard Freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon everyday olive oil 2 cups heavy cream 3 cups grated …

Salt Greek Cream Cup Chicken Bake Dish
Review: Masterful tortillas make this Boyle Heights taco stand an L.A. essential
4 years, 11 months ago

Review: Masterful tortillas make this Boyle Heights taco stand an L.A. essential

LA Times  

Walter Soto stood under a makeshift tent in an industrial corner of Boyle Heights, making tacos in rapid batches of four. He laid speckled, just-made flour tortillas atop the cheese, flipped them over, applied slicks of refritos and then crowned them with meat: chopped carne asada, ropy-soft birria de res, or chile colorado that glowed a radioactive red-orange. Soto and …

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Here’s all the great Mexican food from the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list
5 years ago

Here’s all the great Mexican food from the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list

LA Times  

Of the many excellent restaurants on this year’s 101 Best Restaurants list, where can you go for exquisite carne asada, mole Oaxaqueño, a steamy bowl of fideo, Zacatecas-style burritos, or maybe a taco tasting menu? Food Ray Garcia wants to combine old-school soul and new-wave ingredients at Broken Spanish Ray Garcia says his new Broken Spanish restaurant in downtown Los …

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Welcome these newcomers to 2019’s 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list
5 years, 1 month ago

Welcome these newcomers to 2019’s 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list

LA Times  

Nearly a quarter of the 2019 edition of 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. are newcomers. 8532 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, 302-0225, hasibarestaurant.com The classic hummus at Hasiba, a hummusiya and pita restaurant in Los Angeles’ Pico-Robertson neighborhood. 923 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, 626-8888, nightshadela.com Pizzana Daniele Uditi is one of the city’s most accomplished pizza maestros. 11712 San Vicente …

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Review: Knife Pleat is the perfectly tailored French restaurant Orange County needs
5 years, 1 month ago

Review: Knife Pleat is the perfectly tailored French restaurant Orange County needs

LA Times  

On Black Friday of all days, I had just finished eating lunch at Knife Pleat, the 6-month-old French restaurant inside South Coast Plaza, when the lights flickered and then stayed off in the dining room. Knife Pleat’s owners Yassmin Sarmadi and Tony Esnault at their fine-dining French restaurant inside Costa Mesa’s South Coast Plaza. The couple relocated to Orange County …

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Review: L.A.’s next great sushi destination is a tiny, stripped-down Encino charmer
5 years, 1 month ago

Review: L.A.’s next great sushi destination is a tiny, stripped-down Encino charmer

LA Times  

Chef-owner Taketoshi Azumi doesn’t pad his omakase with farmers market treasures, vegan derivations, truffle salt or A5 wagyu. After spending a few nights across the counter from him, I’m convinced that Azumi is a vital player in the Los Angeles sushi arena. Azumi prepares only omakase for Shin’s dinner service, and the restaurant is reservation-only: Would-be customers regularly stroll through …

Rice Fish Japanese Shin Encino Sushi Silvia Razgova
Nigerian jollof rice and other joys at Mid-City’s Aduke African Cuisine
5 years, 5 months ago

Nigerian jollof rice and other joys at Mid-City’s Aduke African Cuisine

LA Times  

Aduke Oluwafunmilayo Oyetibo’s egusi with goat meat rises from its plate like a jagged hill bathed in sun rays — a terrain of golds and reds and browns threaded with flashes of green. A spread of dishes at Aduke African Cuisine includes, clockwise from left, ofada rice with ayamase stew; jollof rice combo with fried chicken, plantains and spinach; ewedu, …

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En el distrito de la Piñata, un mercado de comida callejera es un escenario que deleita los sentidos
5 years, 5 months ago

En el distrito de la Piñata, un mercado de comida callejera es un escenario que deleita los sentidos

LA Times  

Mucho antes del amanecer, El Cuba llega con sus gafas de sol oscuras, sus pesadas cadenas de rapero de oro y su vieja escoba. “Los vendedores me cuidan y yo los cuido a ellos.” El Abuelo del Maíz Es difícil decir cuándo o cómo comenzó el mercado de alimentos en la calle, o más significativamente, quién llegó primero. Candelario Padilla, …

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In the Piñata District, a street food market is a theater that overwhelms the senses
5 years, 5 months ago

In the Piñata District, a street food market is a theater that overwhelms the senses

LA Times  

Long before dawn, El Cuba arrives with his dark sunglasses, heavy gold rapper chains and his old, beat-up broom. “The vendors take care of me and I take care of them.” The Abuelo of the Corn It’s hard to say when or how the street food market started — or more significantly, who got here first. Some street vendors sell …

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