Gloria Tamai: The Farmer Behind Some of L.A.'s Best Food
Everybody knows Gloria Tamai. She's the friendly face and familial force behind Tamai Family Farms. If you frequent any of the local farmers markets between Santa Barbara and the South Bay, you've...
View ArticleMarket Watch: There's a New Farmers Market on La Brea Avenue
Every professional and civilian chef in Los Angeles is as picky about their farmers market as they are their melons. We all have our favorties and our routines at the markets across town, most of which...
View ArticleCelebrating Clean and Dirty Drinking
Accomplice Bar beverage director and occasional L.A. Weekly author Gaby Mlynarczyk celebrated the launch of her new cocktail recipe book, Clean and Dirty Drinking, during last Sunday’s Mar Vista...
View ArticleGrape Expectations
The season for these precious balls of piquant sweetness is late July and into September if we're lucky. While I love to gobble them up as fast as possible, I also want to relish their fragrant...
View Article900 Chickens Perish at Beloved Kaliko Farms in Malibu
Kaliko Orian has seen her share of hurdles in the egg business, which can be unexpectedly brutal at times. But nothing prepared the mother hen of the popular Kaliko Farms for the devastation she...
View ArticleCelebrate Repeal Day and the End of Prohibition With Grapefruit Cocktails
It’s grapefruit season in Southern California and bartenders are taking advantage of the juicy orbs with a variety of cocktails. There are more than 20 varieties of grapefruit grown in the United...
View ArticleFarmers Market Watch: Thumbelina Carrots
Just in time for the holiday roasting season, sweet little Thumbelina carrots are popping up at farmers markets across L.A. County. Unlike their long slim cousins, this variety is a stubby little globe...
View ArticleSanta Monica Celebrates Persimmons This Week
Santa Monica Travel & Tourism’s signature culinary program, Santa Monica Restaurant Week, is back for its seventh year starting today and running through Sunday, Jan. 13, in conjunction with...
View ArticlePopping Up This Weekend: National Pizza Day, Hilary Duff's Puppy Party and...
National Pizza Day deals at Paperboy Pizza, Hilary Duff hosts a free Puppy Party at Platform and FeBREWERY FEST in Monrovia — here’s what’s popping up this weekend.
View ArticleTrejo's Tacos Goes Green, Smorgasburg Is for Vinyl Lovers and Neal Fraser...
Nothing says St. Patrick’s Day like tacos. But then every day is a taco holiday in L.A. Trejo’s Tacos and Cantina is celebrating with corned beef and fried avocado tacos. If you’re not into being...
View ArticleA Taste of Venezuela in Mar Vista at the Arepa Stand
Sundays at the Mar Vista Farmers Market are an Angeleno food lover's paradise. Aside from all of the gorgeous fruits and vegetables to choose from, there’s also a block’s worth of food stands that...
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