For third-generation farmer Maria Inés Catalán, agriculture is her culture. The 55-year-old owner of Catalán Family Farm in Hollister is carrying on a tradition passed down from her grandfather, who was a farmer in Mexico, to her father, who came to...
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Today, March 5th, marks the beginning of California's first official Food Waste Prevention Week in an attempt to bring awareness to the staggering amount of food waste that occurs not only statewide but across the nation as well...
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Westchester is a neighborhood of neat houses and well-tended lawns—the kind of place
where you can still go next door to borrow a cup of sugar. The Holy Nativity Episcopal Church sits in the center of this residential area, a low-slung building with a riot of feathery flowers outside. The church functions as a community center with a yoga studio, garden, and spaces for...
What a great way to celebrate the arrival of early winter citrus and the season’s holidays: tender roast chicken burnished with a sweet-hot rub of silan, or date syrup, and harissa, and perfumed with tangerines that are caramelized...
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The stress of holiday cooking and shopping should never overshadow all the excitement and quality family time abound! We've made lists of holiday essentials, from the perfect place to make reservations on Thanksgiving or New Year's Day to our favorite pies, eggnogs, and festive treats...
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When the weather gets nippy, I want to be some place cozy and elegant, eating my new favorite comfort food. The place is Flame Persian Cuisine. The food is ash—pronounced “ahsh”—a thick Persian stew made with garbanzos, kidney beans, white beans, and lentils...
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Eggplant is still in season through the early fall and it truly makes a wonderful, earthy salad (one that won't wilt!) for any occasion.
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The way this simple pudding comes together feels a bit like magic. All the ingredients go into a blender and, after just a brief moment, you somehow have thick, creamy pudding—the very same texture as a cooked custard...
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Wanderlust Hollywood (wanderlusthollywood.com) will be hosting a series of dinners celebrating mindful eating, no matter what your diet. Culinary forces like Anya Fernald, CEO and Co-Founder of Belcampo, James Beard finalist Seamus Mullen, and Food & Wine ..
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So it finally happened. Like a game of dominoes, California, long known as one of the bluest states in the nation, has followed suit behind its left-coast neighbors - and a handful of other states - in legalizing recreational marijuana. And no matter how you feel about it, at this point in the evolution of this issue, resistance...
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Food waste fighter Ben Simon, who founded the Food Recovery Network at the University of Maryland in 2011, turned a kernel of an idea into a full-fledged campus movement—with chapters at 150 colleges and counting across the country. The former head of the largest student-run...
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Los Angeles River High School (lariverschool.com) has been around for six productive years now. Its principal, Kristine Puich, dressed in black with high boots, gold hoops in her ears, and a chattering walkie-talkie swinging at her belt, strides on ahead during my tour...
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Chef Jeremy Fox, who first came to Michelin-star fame at Ubuntu in Napa - a vegetable paradise - is now here in LA at the helm of Rustic Canyon (rusticcanyonwinebar.com) in Santa Monica, among others. In his new cookbook, On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen (Phaidon, 2017), which was released in April, Fox treats these plants with the utmost respect...
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The Impossible Burger has popped up very slowly at just a few select restaurants across the nation, so when it made its Los Angeles debut at Tal Ronnen’s famed Crossroads Kitchen in West Hollywood, we marched out with the team to give it a try. What arrived at the table, topped with all the appropriate accoutrements...
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While Windrose Farm may be located up in San Luis Obispo county, owners and farmers Bill and Barbara Spencer have been supplying some of the most iconic LA restaurants with their famed tomatoes as well as a variety of other produce since the 90s. They've also been a staple of the Santa Monica Farmers' Market since 2002...
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