Guides

The deeply flavorful heirloom apples from two longtime local apple farmers are perfect for fall, as is a drive up to Oak Glen, where you can pick your own.

Cherry Bomb peppers are more like mild jalapeños than the name suggests, and are unusually pretty and good for pickling too.

Yao Cheng Farm in Camarillo brings organic leafy greens, great for stir-frying, plus papayas, yellow watermelons and other vegetables to local farmers markets.

Head to the farmers market and get as many lychees as you can eat in a day or so. The fruit is best eaten close to picking and plain.

Sunrise Organic Farm in Lompoc brings heirloom cherry tomatoes and other produce to L.A.'s great farmers markets. Get its flowering herbs and make a one-pot pasta dinner.

Tenerelli Orchards in Littlerock brings outstanding peaches to the best L.A. farmers markets. The secret to getting mulberries and their other highly seasonal prized fruit? Email the farmers first.

One of my goals when I moved to L.A. was to try to commute to work by mass transit. Here’s what I learned.

Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about sake, plus what to buy and where to find it.

In 2019, Los Angeles’ bowls runneth over with birria, the Mexican confederation of recipes involving meat rubbed, roasted or slowly stewed in an alloy of chilies, herbs and spices.

Where to find excellent dumplings (sheng jian bao! xiao long bao!) in Los Angeles.

July 4 is here, and it won’t be all barbecues and beer.

From P.F.