Health
This California veggie sandwich makes the most of the state’s summer bounty
I like to think of myself as someone who will eat just about anything. Organ meats? Love ’em. Raw seafood?...
200 years of service: The work lives of 5 El Cholo employees
Anyone who works in a restaurant will tell you: It’s not easy. And it’s increasingly uncommon to see restaurant workers...
How Tito’s Tacos makes its famous hard-shell tacos
You can count on nothing in life, but death, taxes and a line at Tito’s Tacos. Whatever the time of...
How Mexican restaurants became essential to California dining
If you’ve ever lived in Los Angeles, there’s likely a dish or an ambient aspect of a long-standing Mexican restaurant...
Old-school California Mexican restaurants, por vida
Avila’s El Ranchito restaurant in Huntington Park, seen here in 1996, was the family’s first, opening in 1966.(Ken Hively /...
L.A. has been obsessed with ‘healthy’ foods for a century — these cookbooks prove it
“This is ‘The Castelar Creche Cook Book’,” says artist Suzanne Joskow on a recent morning on the porch of her...
Bub and Grandma’s new restaurant expands the lauded bakery into an all-day diner
Bub and Grandma’s The anticipated restaurant from lauded bread retailer and wholesaler Bub and Grandma’s, which has served multiple local...
Let’s not demonize Roscoe’s after rapper’s killing
The restaurant was nearly empty.A day after the horrifying shooting death there of rapper PnB Rock, the Roscoe’s House of...
The soul food twist on ‘The Bear’-fueled Italian beef craze
Jerk Italian beef sandwich You won’t find the jerk Italian beef sandwich anywhere on the printed menu at Bernie’s Soul...
Op-Ed: What can save restaurants? Try hospitality
COVID and inflation have knocked restaurants to their knees, and everyone with a vested interest, from owner to chef to...
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