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I've spent many years covering food, wine, travel and hospitality topics, from trend articles to wine listicles, celebrity interviews and deep dives into what makes the restaurant industry tick. I've held past staff editor and writer positions for several print and online publications, including Resy, Green Entrepreneur, Zagat, Angeleno magazine, and Eater LA. As a freelancer, my work has appeared in Food Fanatics, The Hollywood Reporter, The Seattle Times, Skift, Eater, Taste, Los Angeles magazine, LAist, LA Weekly and more. I'm currently an associate editor for tasteofhome.com writing, editing and updating SEO-driven digital content.
► Climate change has touched every wine region in the world. Heat waves and unusually heavy rains in France debilitated whole swaths of grapes in Champagne, Alsace and Beaujolais, while extreme weather in Italy cut wine production by almost 10% in 2021. In the U.S., massive wildfires and drought have affected vineyards up and down California.
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Your favorite farmer's market chèvre producer turned their farm into a sanctuary-but the cheese still flows
L.A. is buzzing with kaiseki right now-the tradition of serving multi-course meals to celebrate the seasons with exacting technique and...
Trader Vic's, the original tiki chain, recently celebrated 85 years of of Scorpion Bowls and vaguely island vibes. To move forward, it'll have to adapt to a world that's questioning the sins of tiki
There's something magical that happens when you throw a whole yam in a pile of hot ash. The skin acts...
Any Los Angeles chef will tell you that a dish is only as good as its ingredients, from highly prized...
When Marc Rose first moved to Los Angeles almost 20 years ago, one thing he missed was the kind of...
Need to know which wine to serve with cheddar? Is port the only thing that goes with Stilton? Here are the wine and cheese pairings you need for every cheese board, party platter and picnic.
► The dedication some coffee aficionados take to brewing the perfect coffee is akin to chefs creating a runaway hit or winemakers developing an exquisite vintage. Coffee growers are now playing with an age-old fungus - koji - to bring something new to the market.
Los Angeles restaurants shape their communities, and the communities shape them. When I first moved to Los Angeles, a coworker wanted to introduce me to one of her favorite restaurants for lunch. Less than five miles away from our office, the restaurant was Angeli Caffe, a little Italian place owned and operated by Evan Kleiman since the 1980s.
Bubbles always keep the party going! Create a festive champagne bar with bottles of bubbly, plus mixers and garnishes so your guests can go wild with imagination. There's just something super festive about bubbles-even popping the cork is fun!
Los Angeles-born cousins and industry veterans Daniel Navarro and Chris Raba always hoped to team up to open a bar...
By Australian standards, Great White is about as Southern Californian as it gets. Equal parts great food, airy design, and...
The Stanley Tucci Negroni is now as famous as the actor himself. Learn how to make the cocktail, how to mix the perfect martini and batched drinks for a crowd, and what to serve at a party.
When the doyenne of seasonal California cooking calls on you to open a new restaurant in a new city, any...
Wine has famously inspired feature films and docs ( Sideways, Somm). Add in entertainment-themed wines ( The Walking Dead wine) and clubs (like TCM's wine club), and even more celeb-backed bottles swirling around right now, and it's clear that vino and film go hand in hand.
There are many reasons why people still flock to Musso & Frank Grill, the Hollywood Boulevard restaurant and bar celebrating 100 years: the unchanging decor, affable servers in bright red jackets and earnest busboys in green, the martinis and the sidecars, the flannel cakes, the lore.
If there's one thing the pandemic has afforded some people, it's a chance to start over, reinvent themselves or their...
Ask any Seattleite to meet at Pike Place Market on a Saturday afternoon, and the reply will likely start with laughter and end with a resounding, "No." The thought of maneuvering through thousands of people snaking around tight hallways and crowded stalls is, for most, a turnoff.
Nine wineries and tasting rooms from Duvall to North Bend? Yes, it's now a thing. With picturesque mountains and rivers, seemingly infinite miles of hiking and biking trails, visitors to the roaring falls and "the real" Twin Peaks, the Snoqualmie Valley doesn't quite fit the typical wine-country mold.
Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, author Christopher Isherwood, and painter Don Bachardy walk into a bar. This isn't a joke. It's...
The grain train's running through L.A.-here's where to hop on board
To veteran restaurateur and chef Josiah Citrin, the pandemic was just another wrench thrown in his 30-plus-year career. Having weathered...
In the days before COVID-19, there's a good chance you drove by El Cochinito a million times without noticing it....
For pastry chef Paola Velez, supporting Black Lives Matter was a no-brainer. Not only was she angered by longstanding racial injustice, set even more aflame by the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, but she has experienced overt and covert racism in the restaurant industry.
When Ashley and Tyler Wells opened All Time in 2018, it was done in waves: breakfast first, followed by expanding...
When chef Niki Nakayama quietly opened N/Naka in 2011, she intended to stay there until she retired, never opening a new spot again. But then, the pandemic. Nakayama and her wife (and N/Naka sous chef) Carole Iida-Nakayama found themselves rethinking their plans - and so N/Naka, a new izakaya in West Adams, was born.
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"We are still in the process of gathering information from our membership about how they fared in the fire," says Greg Barnett, president of the Malibu Coast Vintners and Grape Growers Alliance and owner of NaBu Wines in Westlake Village.
Imagine what you were doing after school at age 13. Chances are good it wasn't peeling carrots at Wolfgang Puck's...
When the Coronavirus hit, most food-conscious Americans fell into two camps: They stuffed themselves with comfort food like fried chicken, pizza and burgers - or they made a mad dash to find turmeric smoothies, grain bowls and healthy dishes to help combat any ailment. Sometimes it was both in one day because, you know, balance.
The popular L.A. restaurant was due for a glow-up. Resy has the details, in six new dishes.
Before you go to a restaurant, what do you need to know most? In our series The Rundown, we're sharing...
Some restaurants are so integral to a neighborhood, it's hard to believe they haven't been there for decades. Union is...
When Toscana opened, my wife, Jeanne, and I took our youngest - Reed, then 6 weeks old - for dinner. There was such a pleasant din, he slept the entire time. That night is symbolic of all our times at Toscana. It's remained a special place to us.
Having grown up in the Midwest, with post-college stops up and down the East Coast, I admit I didn't know much about food. I knew about restaurants, in I always tell people that Los Angeles taught me everything about food. In truth, it was Jonathan Gold who taught me everything.
Pozole Verde at Rustic Canyon Dylan + Jeni From bacon-wrapped dates to a simple roasted chicken We live in an age of menus that change with the seasons, but these iconic dishes have kept pleasing us through the years.
Patty Melt from Cassell's Hamburgers Photograph by Andrea D'Agosto If loving this L.A.-born diner delight is wrong, we don't want to be right Is the patty melt a burger or a sandwich? Experts disagree. "It's the highest form of the cheeseburger," argues Christian Page, who serves a traditional take at Cassell's Hamburgers in Koreatown.
Far East Plaza in Chinatown Lisa Corson 6 reasons to brave traffic for a great dinner out Like to stick close to your neighborhood? You're missing out. For a culinary adventure, explore six of the city's hottest dining locales. The confluence of Silicon Beach denizens and breezy beach types has turned the neighborhood into an arbiter of cool.
