Skip the hype: Whip up a D.I.Y. Valentine's Day

Skip the hype: Whip up a D.I.Y. Valentine's Day

Instead of overpriced flowers and cards, costly boxes of candy, or an hourlong wait for a pricey restaurant meal, how about a...

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Inside the Grammys

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Thursdays @ The Globe

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The real 'Downton Abbey'

The real 'Downton Abbey'

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Braising is an ideal way to savor the season

Master Class: Sang Yoon talks braising

Surprising tastes of the Santa Rita Hills

Surprising tastes of the Santa Rita Hills

At the Lompoc Wine Ghetto, a homely set of corrugated buildings in California's south Central Coast, a handful of Santa Rita Hills...

Critic's Choice: Where to go for dumplings

Critic's Choice: Where to go for dumplings

Love dumplings? The soupy, Shanghai-style ones filled with juicy pork? Puck-shaped Beijing ones with beef? Pan-fried? Steamed? Boiled? There...

YouTube sees food videos as recipe for success

YouTube sees food videos as recipe for success

So you're hosting a Super Bowl XLVI at your house and you're looking for some tips to spice things up. (Please, not another seven-layer dip!...

The California Cook: Getting creative with citrus

The California Cook: Getting creative with citrus

I'm writing this column having just spent an hour with our local fruit gleaner picking tangelos from my tree. We must have pulled at least...

Heard over lunch with Joshua Bell

Heard over lunch with Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell is such a poster boy for his generation of classical musicians that fans tend to know pretty much everything about him: His...

When diners' eyes feast on their cellphones

When diners' eyes feast on their cellphones

Ding. Bzzzt. Bap. Beep. That's the sound of conversation in restaurants these days. Where cellphones once posed a nuisance as people chatted...

<i>Dashi</i>, the heart of Japanese cooking

Dashi, the heart of Japanese cooking

At the heart of so much of Japanese cooking is the fragrant broth called dashi. And at the heart of dashi are the delicate...

Critic's Choice: Southeast Asian noodle restaurants

Critic's Choice: Southeast Asian noodle restaurants

Southern California's one big bowl of noodles for anyone who loves Southeast Asia's many incarnations. And we're not just talking about...

Market Watch: Mushroom vender's crop fits in a trailer

Market Watch: Mushroom vender's crop fits in a trailer

Although most of the larger farmers markets in Southern California have at least one vendor of cultivated mushrooms, the great majority of...

Chefs, farmers join forces

Chefs, farmers join forces

It's ironic, in a rosemary-infused sort of way, that in today's farm-to-table restaurant era few chef-and-farmer relationships have...

Critic's Choice: Restaurants with wood-burning ovens

Critic's Choice: Restaurants with wood-burning ovens

Pizza joints, many boasting wood-burning ovens, are popping up all over the Southland like chanterelles after a rainstorm. But they're not...

Need a hostess gift when invited to dinner? The Times' S. Irene Virbila has a few ideas

Need a hostess gift when invited to dinner? The Times' S. Irene Virbila has a few ideas

When I spent some months in Venice, Italy, years ago, my friend Paolo would show up at dinner parties with prosciutto. I'm not talking about...