Score! Super Bowl Sunday appetizers

Score! Super Bowl Sunday appetizers

It's the biggest game of the year, but it's not all about the football. Spice up your game day with these recipe favorites.

Market Watch: Hothouse tomatoes from Ridgecrest, flavor included

Market Watch: Hothouse tomatoes from Ridgecrest, flavor included

The desolate, scrubby plain around Ridgecrest, where the Sierra Nevada meets the Great Basin and the Mojave desert, might seem...

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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...

Wine of the Week: 2010 Niepoort D&#243;cil Vinho Verde Loureiro

Wine of the Week: 2010 Niepoort Dócil Vinho Verde Loureiro

Here's an exceptional white wine made by genius Port producer Dirk Niepoort -- and it's priced well under $20.

Market Watch: Goatherd's life a rugged climb

Market Watch: Goatherd's life a rugged climb

— One of very few goat dairies in Southern California, and one of the newest and best cheese vendors at local certified farmers...

Hot Knives' new cookbook among those on cutting edge of L.A. wave

Hot Knives' new cookbook among those on cutting edge of L.A. wave

It's not often that you see a picture of an author swigging from a flask in a cookbook, but that's exactly what Evan George, one-half of the...