Animal Restaurant – Meat and Greet on Fairfax
Knowing I would be at loose ends in L. A. with our 8 year old on a summer Saturday night, I seized the chance to visit Animal restaurant on Fairfax, white hot popular and still bustling since their opening in … Continue reading -
Barley Pea Soup Recipe
Even fancy grocery stores have humble, bargain ingredients. Case in point, smoked ham hocks were on special at our local Gelson’s, where the parking lot is littered with high end cars. Apparently, even the staff has swanky rides. …... -
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Macaroni and Cheese Recipe
This is such an American staple it’s easy to forget that basically it’s Italian, being noodles tossed with a few readily available ingredients and amenable to being doubled and tripled to feed a crowd. Mac and cheese is so …... -
Meatloaf Recipe
Meatloaf is hard to do really badly, as long as you follow a few basics. My rule of thumb for getting the texture right is that all the ingredients, once assembled, should have the consistency of stiff cookie dough. … Continue reading -
Bibigo Beverly Hills
Chinese food is everywhere. Indian food is everywhere and who would have thought people would be eating seaweed and raw fish in every major city in America? So Korean food may be next. I was in on a so-called … Continue reading -
The Wood
I met an old friend for dinner at The Wood, one of the many casual dining spots in Culver City, a subsection of west L.A. that has its own mayor, city council, and white hot food scene that gives Silver … Continue reading -
Potato Salad Recipe
Whatever market force brought the Yukon Gold potato to the grocery stores over the past decade or so, I am grateful. They take potato salad to a whole new level, well away from the realm of the mealy, runny and … Continue reading -
