View more photos from The Taste's Sunday Block Party. Tickets for more events.

Wes Avila of Guerrilla Tacos will hold a cooking demonstration tonight at the Backlot Culinary Stage at 9:45 p.m.

You can read about Avila's cookbook and other L.A. cookbooks:

While it’s most always a good time to have a book about tacos, this book about tacos is especially welcome. We’re talking about Guerrilla Tacos, specifically, Wes Avila’s excellent taco truck that you’ll often find parked outside specialty coffee shops around the city.

Urban Block Gastronomy Experience Cooking & Mixology Demonstration featuring Danielle Bennett (Lady on the Rocks), Chef E Dubble (E Dubble Catering/Grilled Fraiche), Breana Jackson (Sugar & Spice: Baked by Bre), and Derrick Lewis (Not Your Mama's Kitchen)

Danny Trejo of Trejo's Tacos, Cantina and Coffee & Donuts, will be at The Taste today at the L.A. Times Culinary Stage at 8:15 p.m. interviewed by Jonathan Gold.

This story features Danny Trejo's favorite vegan cauliflower tacos:

There are many places where you might expect to find Danny Trejo. On-screen, in one of the 300 or so movies the 72-year-old actor has appeared in over his long career, including three “From Dusk Till Dawn” films. In commercials — here’s hoping he reprises his 2015 Marcia Brady imitation during the next Super Bowl. You might not expect to see Trejo working the line in a kitchen, even if it is his own restaurant.

Jason Fullilove will be at the L.A. Times culinary stage at 12:45 p.m. doing a biscuit baking demonstration with David LeFevre.

This story recounts his career and the origins of his restaurant, Barbara Jean:

Not so very long ago, a visit to a new restaurant meant something very predictable happened. You entered under specific signage through heavy doors into a swank universe. There a hostess or maître d' greeted you like a favorite relative, ushered you to a draped table, through a performance of uniformed servers and low music and diners clustered in geometric order. This is not a lost world, but it is no longer the world we live in. And, maybe more to the point, it is not the world most chefs live in, especially chefs wanting to open their own restaurants, without access to deep-pocketted investors and elaborate support systems.

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There were also sweets at The Taste. Whoopie pies, brownies and cookies were on the Susie Cakes menu. 

View more photos from The Taste's "From field to fork" event on Saturday. Tickets for more events.

Sang Yoon will be offering a cooking demonstration at the L.A. Times' culinary stage at 1:45 p.m. Saturday at The Taste.

This story describes Yoon's endeavor to make the perfect XO sauce: 

Chefs are by nature obsessive. It's a personality trait that tends to fit them, like their chef's whites, that knife collection, maybe some latent pyromania. You could argue that chef Sang Yoon has been better than most at channeling his kitchen fixations. He built his first restaurant, Father's Office, out of a network of them (the hamburger, craft beers, no ketchup). His second restaurant, Lukshon, allowed him to obsess about noodles, often repeating the same dish (dan dan mien, ramen) over and over, shifting one component, then another, sometimes for months, as if he were searching for some kind of Platonic ideal in his test kitchen.

Gangsta Gardener Ron Finley will be at the Los Angeles Times' Culinary stage cooking for The Taste audience at 12:45 p.m. Saturday. 

This story describes his success in growing organic produce in South L.A.: 

Ron Finley is standing in the deep end of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. The pool is empty, has been empty for years, the water long ago replaced by an elaborate garden. The garden overflows the geometry of the pool, growing up the sides, in and out of buckets and boxes and pails, around brightly painted artwork and a mural painted by one of Finley’s three grown sons, two of whom are artists. Above the pool there’s a network of more buckets, shopping carts planted with strawberries, a system of compost bins, beds of kale and oxalis, a nectarine tree growing in a layer of 18 inches of soil above concrete. Butterflies and hummingbirds dart through a pomegranate tree. If you didn’t know it, you’d think you were somewhere in the tropics, someplace like Macondo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s imaginary, lush, butterfly-filled town — not in South Los Angeles where Finley grew up and lives, a few hundred yards from the Farmdale Expo station.