Want to go out for Thai food? Tacos? Pizza? Sure. For Turkish food? What’s that? Turkish cuisine is just not known in Los Angeles, even though Turkish ingredients are easy to get–I even found pomegranate vinegar from Izmir at my neighborhood 99 Cents Only Store. Izmir is Turkey’s third largest city. To put ...
It was a tough competition. Food bloggers were showing off their finest treats at the annual dessert cookoff staged by Melissa’s Produce. I worked all one afternoon to produce a glorious lemon cake, which I dusted with powdered sugar, then glittery gold sprinkles and surrounded with candied lemon slices. It looked beautifu...
Home cooking today isn’t what grandma, or maybe even mom, used to cook. Page through “Sara Moulton’s Home Cooking 101” (Oxmoor House, $35) and you’ll see the difference. How many moms of the past made ghee, or paneer cheese? Only those who lived in India, probably....
Prosecco always seems like fun, more informal than Champagne, bright, casual, and often cheap. I was thrilled to find a bottle marked down to $5 at my supermarket. But later, I tasted Italian sparkling wines at their best....
Love cookies? Then what you need is “Dorie’s Cookies,” the latest book from baking icon Dorie Greenspan. It was pure heaven to sample the contents when Greenspan appeared for a signing and demo at Melissa’s Produce. Imagine taking your pick from platter after platter of fantastic cookies, not just gooey t...
Imagine going all the way to Turkey to learn about its fabulous cuisine and falling in love with–French fries. This happened at Orkide Ibrahimli, a restaurant in Gaziantep in southeastern Turkey. The fries appeared there at a brunch for journalists attending Gaziantep’s first bulgur festival....
Look at this tempting arrangement of Spanish food. Everything on the table was prepared under the direction of Juana Gimeno Faraone, the founder of La Española, the market and meat processor in Harbor City that has provided Spanish ingredients since 1982....
Here’s a new way to make nachos. The idea comes from Conrad Aguilar, the new chef at Aro Latin in South Pasadena. Instead of the usual plate of tortilla chips drowning in cheesy sauce, Aguilar layers crisp corn tortillas with scallops, shrimp and roasted yellow bell pepper sauce....
Can’t read Chinese? It doesn’t matter. You can still get one of the best lunch bargains around at My Way Deli in Monterey Park. The blackboard (at top) lists four dishes. Reading from the top down, they are beef, pork, chicken and fish, which come with soup, a couple of vegetable dishes, rice and tea, […]...
If you sneer at cooking with canned soups and packaged seasoning mixes, “Upscale Downhome” is not for you. This regional American But if you’re a busy mom carting kids around, juggling schedules, maybe working too, you will love this book. And so will anyone forced to get food on the table fast, figure what t...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 