Topic Archive: Food
Media in the Bay Area have been reporting all weekend on the difficulty of finding the unleavened crackers for Passover, due in part to big-box...
Posted April 21, 2008 01:24 PM
Seal of approval from, yes, the National Yogurt Association comes through. Lesley Balla at Eater LA dishes it up....
Posted April 17, 2008 04:47 PM
Every so often we get a glimpse of how things really work, without the cautionary impulse and spinning that takes over when people are talking...
Posted March 26, 2008 11:55 AM
When the season opens next Monday, Canter's will have a stand selling corned beef and pastrami on the third-base side of the field level at...
Posted March 24, 2008 01:15 AM
In another of those generic magazine roundups claiming to know the best of something, but really an exercise in geographic diversity, Details includes Square One...
Posted February 25, 2008 08:56 AM
In case you were wondering, Slate explains why that order to recall meat sent to schools from Hallmark Meat Packing wasn't as pointless as it...
Posted February 20, 2008 12:01 PM
San Pedro's best-known Greek restaurant has been targeted by Marie Callender's, and the Community Redevelopment Agency and the local councilwoman sound excited. "If it works...
Posted February 18, 2008 10:42 AM
Larry Lipson wrote up restaurants for the Daily News starting in 1958. From his exit column: Sure, there have been editors who have leaned somewhat...
Posted February 15, 2008 01:25 AM
In his last piece left in the can for the LA Weekly before taking his keyboard to Mexico, Daniel Hernandez uses Elizabeth Palacios's troubles with...
Posted February 12, 2008 11:18 PM
Trader Joe's will give up single-ingredient items from China, such as garlic and frozen spinach, by April 1. Products that include ingredients from China will...
Posted February 11, 2008 02:35 PM
Downtown blogger Angelenic has the scoop (and some nice photos): Wilshire Boulevard institution La Fonda will reopen on Valentine's Day. The new version won't appeal...
Posted February 6, 2008 08:05 PM
The bad run continues for founders of Southern California's fast-food icons. Yancey, who died Jan. 26 at age 96, and a partner reportedly used scrap...
Posted February 2, 2008 03:22 PM
Councilman Ed Reyes stopped in at 7th and Alvarado before noon to dedicate the intersection as Langer's Square. No dummy, he loaded up on the...
Posted January 24, 2008 08:31 PM
Maybe their dogs aren't up to Cupid's or Pink's, but the LAT Food section makes the hot dogs at the Let's Be Frank cart parked...
Posted January 16, 2008 08:41 PM
Carl Karcher essentially grew a single hot dog cart in Los Angeles into the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain. He and his wife Margaret opened Carl's...
Posted January 11, 2008 08:59 PM
Nine dollar French toast is a little too upscale for one Palisades blogger's taste. You might know it as the deli that's been featured often...
Posted January 10, 2008 07:56 PM
Jonathon Gold, in the course of praising the new French brasserie Comme Ça, on Melrose in West Hollywood: The cheeseburger paradigm has shifted a lot...
Posted December 13, 2007 12:44 PM
Ciudad's culinary guide to Latin dining in the November issue ranges from La Casita Mexicana in Bell to La Super-Rica Taquería in Santa Barbara, and...
Posted November 13, 2007 01:20 AM
Joel Rubin's first-person Column One in the Saturday L.A. Times described — in tasteful but descriptive detail — how he ended up in the ER...
Posted November 4, 2007 11:24 PM
During the readers survey, someone asked for the Los Angeles County health department's restaurant closures list that used to run in the Times. Here it...
Posted January 30, 2007 02:12 AM
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