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A week from today the Los Angeles Fire Department is hosting its 8th Annual Hope for Firefighters. The family event is designed to bring the downtown community together and benefit the Widows and Orphans Fund of the Los Angeles Firemen’s Relief Association.
This year’s fundraiser will host over 25 food booths. Fire stations from all over [...]

The cook at Dona Rosa in Pasadena really needs to watch his back. Apparently he hasn’t seen Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico in which Johnny Depp, who plays CIA Agent Sheldon Jeffrey Sands, shoots a cook for making a perfectly slow-roasted pork dish.
Agent Sands’ rationale: “It just happens to be [...]

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is demanding that Governor Schwarzenegger pull a political commercial off the air that promotes the junk food products of his campaign contributors. The TV ad, released in May, features Schwarzenegger talking to people in a lunchroom, and places Pepsi and Arrowhead Water in prominent spots next to the [...]

One of my friends is rather fond of Korean food so the other night, we went to Tofu House. A Google search reveals that it is a chain with locations in California and South Korea!
We shared Original Soon Tofu with Pork, Seafood Soon Tofu and Bibimbab Soon Tofu Combo requesting mild spice level. [...]

Jules: Crème brulée can never be Jello. You could never be Jello.
Kimmy: I have to be Jello!
Jules: You’re never gonna be Jello!
It’s a scene from My Best Friend’s Wedding, which, though I shall forever be a bitter bridesmaid, is one of my all-time favorite movies. Julia Roberts’ character, Jules, is trying to convince Kimmy, played [...]

Los Angeles Daily News reporter Dana Bartholomew covers Nate ‘n Al’s 60th.
Bartholomew spies a herd of disgruntled septuagenarians, a birthday cake of chopped liver, waitresses in loaner diamonds, and iconic sitcom stars.

In a cross between a Worth1000 Photoshop contest and a Hot or Not voting site, Taco Bell, has launched a Food Sightings Museum. The breathless press release burst forth from the bowels of Irvine:
“Taco Bell invites customers to share their food sightings and submit a photo and description of any edible item bearing an image. [...]

Chloe is such an aesthetically pleasing name. It’s in a place mostly unknown to me–Playa del Rey. The interior of Chloe was a little cramped and the acoustics somewhat frenetic and slightly unbearable for my tastes, but that was cured by the good company and libations.
Half a bottle of chardonnay accompanied our meals. [...]