We Spent the Day With Tristan Aitchison, Providence Restaurant's Chef de Cuisine
On Sundays, Tristan Aitchison, the chef de cuisine at Providence, starts work at 10 a.m. by pulling his cream-colored Volkswagen camper bus into the parking structure on the corner of Sunset and Ivar...
View ArticleChefs Are Changing How Farmers Markets Operate — But Is It for Better or Worse?
“The first person I ever sold anything to was Nancy Silverton,” explains James Birch of Flora Bella Farms. “I called her at La Brea Bakery, and I drove there in my station wagon. And she bought this...
View ArticleL.A.'s New Smorgasburg Market Brings a Bit More Brooklyn to the Arts District
In 2007, when Eric Demby and Jonathan Butler first had the idea for the Brooklyn Flea, an outdoor market stocked with handmade goods and antique finds that a certain type of Brooklynite was beginning...
View ArticleIn Watts, the Fight for Healthy Food Is a Long-Term Battle
On a Sunday evening last August, in the over-air conditioned Regent Theatre, Roy Choi and two other chefs worked methodically on a stage cooking dishes to hand out to the packed house. Audience members...
View ArticleRoy Choi's Locol Isn't the Only Project Aiming to Bring Healthly Food to Watts
On a Sunday evening last August, in the over-air conditioned Regent Theatre, Roy Choi and two other chefs worked methodically on a stage cooking dishes to hand out to the packed house. Audience members...
View ArticleLocal Bananas Return to Santa Monica Farmers Market After Decades
It’s just a few minutes past 8:30 a.m., and a stand piled with bananas at the Santa Monica Farmers Market is mobbed with customers hurling questions. “Which of these is ready for eating right now?”...
View ArticleRoy Choi's Locol Isn't the Only Project Aiming to Bring Healthy Food to Watts
On a Sunday evening last August, in the over-air conditioned Regent Theatre, Roy Choi and two other chefs worked methodically on a stage cooking dishes to hand out to the packed house. Audience members...
View ArticleEvery Farmers Market in L.A. Will Now Accept Food Stamps
One of the hurdles in helping low-income families gain access to affordable, healthy food has been cleared. On Friday, L.A. City Council unanimously approved legislation that would require farmers...
View ArticleFruity Ice Pops Offer a Taste of What's in Season at the Farmers Market
Picture your morning: you've arrived at the local farmers market planning to fill your bags with just-picked produce. It's warm out and you realize that all of that artfully displayed bounty has made...
View ArticleHeritage Grains Are Infiltrating L.A.’s Dining Scene — and Maybe Your Kitchen
California was once full of wheat and grain crops. They're now making a small but might comeback.
View ArticleSpice Station Is Back With Its Perfect Herbs and Spices
The fantastic little shop is no longer. But the spices are still available.
View ArticleThe Yamashiro Farmers Market Is Back for Summer 2017
This is a lovely way to spend a summer evening.
View ArticleA South L.A. Native Experienced the Food Desert — Now She's Trying to Fix It
"The easiest way to kill some people without being implicated for murder is through food."
View ArticleThis Is What You Should Eat This Summer
Quick and easy recipes for late summer's most delicious harvests.
View ArticleFighting South L.A.'s "Food Apartheid" With the Help of Urban Agriculture
South L.A. has a long-standing reputation as a food desert (a term that many in the community reject). After years of disappointment and false starts in attracting grocery stores to the area, the...
View ArticleThe Altadena Farmers' Market Embraces the Backyard Grower
Urban homesteaders who want to sell at the market go through the same certification process as commercial farms.
View ArticleSmorgasburg L.A.'s 2018 Vendor Lineup Includes Burritos La Palma, Baohaus,...
New vendors joining the lineup include Mideast Tacos, a Mexican meets Middle East concept from the family behind Glendale’s Mini Kebab; Daddy’s Chicken Shack, a new fried chicken sandwich concept from...
View ArticleFarmers Market Watch: Purple Ninja Radishes and Tangy Kumquats in Santa Monica
We’re lucky to live in a city that offers at least one farmers market for every day of the week in every neighborhood, many of which you can get to on foot. We’re on market watch and will keep you...
View ArticleFarmers Market Watch: Blood Oranges and Fennel in Culver City
If there ever was a Mediterranean match made in California heaven, it’s blood oranges and sweet fennel. From Sicily to Silver Lake, both need sun and warmth to thrive. And like an old married couple,...
View ArticleFarmers Market Watch: Succulent Stone Fruit
Even if May is gray, summer is swinging into the farmers markets with stone fruit this week — cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums and pluots by the basketfuls. Cherry-picking season is...
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