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Anissa Helou's bulgur risotto is the perfect recipe for hot summer days
This is an interesting dish from Deir Intar in southern Lebanon, where bulgur wheat is cooked with vegetables and tomato sauce. I had never experienced it before as I had only cooked bulgur wheat in a fresh tomato sauce. However, the addition of spring onions and herbs here makes for a fresher and more interesting…
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What are the top dining experiences in LA?
Food is LA's love language. It brings us together across a network of neighborhoods and connects us to stories and cultures from around the world. There are the time-honored establishments we've always dreamed of dining at, where we're greeted by a tuxedoed head waiter and glimpsed Hollywood royalty lounging in red leather booths. The city…
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This bakery now serves some of the best breakfast food in LA
The heady smell of fried chicken and waffles fills the mid-morning air at Blossom Market Hall in San Gabriel. At 10 a.m. it's still dark for most of the other vendors, but behind the counter at Baking With Ish, Ishnoelle Richardson and her husband, Jeff, have been standing at their new stand at the market…
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Henrietta in Echo Park is home to LA's best fried chicken
Is there a place I should take my mom for her birthday that is trendy but also convenient and not too expensive and maybe less than 10 miles from downtown LA? My DMs are full of people I've never met who treat me like their personal Yelp. It's an occupational hazard I've accepted after years…
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This recipe for ume shiso spaghetti shines with butter
This hearty Japanese spaghetti is tart with pickled plum paste, rich in butter and fragrant with lemony-minty herbal shiso. Japanese pickled plums (Ume) have a distinctive sour-fruity-salty flavor so intense it's puckering. The effective umami goes well with butter and gives the sauce its glistening creaminess. The recipe is inspired by a version once served…
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Four LA restaurants were recognized on the World's 50 Best North America list
The World's 50 Best Restaurants, a renowned global restaurant guide curated by over 1,000 culinary experts, has just announced its 50 best restaurants in North America, including nine restaurants in California and four restaurants in Los Angeles. The results were announced Thursday evening at an awards ceremony in New Orleans that judged 50 restaurants across…
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Zahra Tangorra's Lasagna, also known as Zaza Lasagna Recipe
Lasagna is a love language, and it's easy to speak. I like to use fresh, uncooked pasta sheets as I find they give the finished product the perfect consistency and are not too runny, which can often be a problem with lasagna. Dried noodles that don't need to be cooked also work quite well, but…
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Rats and other vermin are causing significant restaurant closures by the LA Department of Health
Some of LA's most famous restaurants, clubs and markets were temporarily closed last month amid allegations of pest infestations. In April, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health sued Dan Tana's in West Hollywood, an event kitchen at San Vicente Bungalows, Jitlada in Thai Town and the rooftop restaurant at the Peninsula Hotel in…
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Gary Baseman draws on LA restaurant menus for his new show at Johnie's
Minutes before the opening of his latest exhibition, artist Gary Baseman, dressed like a retro diner chef in a red-and-orange jumpsuit, white apron and hat, walked through Johnie's Coffee Shop, moving art frames from one counter to another and adjusting the position of a cartoon cat stuffed animal. The exhibit, “Off the Menu,” taking place…
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Where to find the best fried chicken and lomo saltado in LA
On a Saturday night, the parking lot at Loli Farms in Pasadena is a maze of cars. People park three times at the entrance to the former gas station. Someone is blocking one of the entrances. Cars remain unmanned, hazard lights flashing, as their owners rush in to pick up food orders. Others simply lock…