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I went around the world that year, and the one meal that kept popping up in my head was this one." That's Phil Rosenthal, ...

For Kym Estrada, owner of San & Wolves Bakeshop in Long Beach, family-style means an excuse to gather with loved ones. “I’m Filipino and I grew up in a big family, which extends to our cousins, and we ...

Residents in some neighborhoods of Los Angeles live in food deserts, creating systematic barriers to healthy eating. The nonprofit organization Food Empowerment Project defines a “food desert” as a ...

LA's newest food hall is Maydan Market in West Adams, and it has big ambitions: it hopes to reinvent the way L.A. restaurants do business, even as it pays homage to founder Rose Previte's travels ...

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Muscoy is a semi-rural ...

Like so much that week, things quickly — and repeatedly — changed. Within a day, World Central Kitchen helped to mobilize a cohort of Los Angeles-based chefs to serve residents impacted by the fires.

"We rise early, work long hours and fuel industries that keep our state running. Yet over 43,000 of our friends and neighbors ...

Restaurants and chefs across every level of dining are donating food and services to feed displaced Angelenos and service workers. Some restaurants and bars have flipped their dining rooms into ...

Winter is almost here and as people get ready for the holidays they’re going to need some comfort food that’s going to keep ...

As a kid, I used to cringe when my mom would pull the car over on the side of the freeway. She’d spot something growing wild in the hills around Los Angeles and jump out of the car, searching for flor ...