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Gyenari Photo: courtesy of the restaurant There are two menus available at Culver City Korean Gyenari , one titled "Old World," the other "New World." And yet, there's a good deal of overlap between the two, both of which were Read More...
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Two decades after he opened his landmark Campanile with his then-wife Nancy Silverton, Mark Peel has a new cookbook called New Classic Family Dinners (written with Martha Rose Shulman) – an unexpected title from a chef famous for his refined Mediterranean Read More...
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Amy Knoll Fraser Photo: courtesy of Grace After seven years on Beverly Boulevard, Grace Restaurant is preparing to move Downtown in fall 2010. For those of us who had long written off the area as a culinary black hole, it's a sobering notion – Read More...
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Vincenzo Marianella That everything comes full circle in the world of food and drink is axiomatic – all you have to do is stand still, and the taste for whatever it is you crave, from beef Wellington to Spam kebabs, will come back into style. But Read More...
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Signs of Taste Photo: Courtesy of Amazon The other day, I came across a unique volume titled Signs of Taste: A Gastrological Guide and Recipe Book by Steven Mark Weiss, which attempts to connect the signs of the zodiac with culinary preferences. I've Read More...
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Mexico Restaurante y Barra Photo: Natasha Bedu The ebullient Larry Nicola has been a fixture on the Los Angeles dining scene for decades. Indeed, the Nicola family has been feeding the Southland pretty much since Pluto was a pup, having started out in Read More...
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The Bel-Air's famous swans will be taking a trip this fall. Photo: courtesy of the hotel As we recently reported , the Hotel Bel-Air will close September 30 for an 18-month renovation. Since its conversion to a hotel in 1946 (it was originally built Read More...
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Shin Okinawa Izakaya Photo: courtesy of the restaurant The island of Okinawa, in Japan's southern Ryukyu chain, is actually closer to China than it is to Japan. Which does much to explain the cooking of Okinawa, which is Japanese by default, but Chinese Read More...
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Dr. Hogly Wogly's Three Way Photo: Claire Thomas You'll find the city of Tyler at the east end of Texas, north of Galveston and Beaumont. This is prime barbecue country, gathering its influences from both the South and the West, from the beef Read More...
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John Sedlar Photo: courtesy of the restaurant Chef John Sedlar may have earned his stripes under the French legend Jean Bertranou at L'Ermitage, but he came into his own with the introduction of Modern Southwest cuisine at his first restaurant, St. Read More...
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Union Hotel Courtesy of the restaurant There's an obscure rhetorical concept known as "metonymy," which James Thurber described as a condition in which the container becomes the thing contained and, in a linguistic inversion, the thing contained Read More...
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According to this newswire item , during a recent visit to France, President Obama's meal was tested by a food-taster. It may seem like a story out of The Onion , but it's actually from AFP, a French news agency that dates back to 1835 and isn't Read More...
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Rao's Las Vegas Photo: courtesy of the restaurant For those of us who grew up in New York, Rao’s was the Holy Grail of Italian cuisine. Unlike the Holy Grail, we knew where to find it – at the corner of 114th and Pleasant Avenue in East Read More...
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Josie Le Balch Photo: courtesy of Josie Restaurant Chef Josie Le Balch grew up in a restaurant kitchen. Her father was chef Gregoire Le Balch, owner of the fabled Chef Gregoire Restaurant in the San Fernando Valley, and creator of one of the first French Read More...
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Photo: Matalyn In Los Angeles, going out to lunch is an option, and one rarely taken by some of the most successful people in town. Our attitude toward lunch proves that, despite the general condescension that the East Coast feels towards LA, we're Read More...
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