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Can’t wait for tofu fest? Got a new mortgage and are looking for cunning, cost-savings? Then like me, you’re excited about the Pre-sale Tofu Festival Package:, it’s a $47 value for $30!!
Offer ends Wednesday, August 10 at 5pm
Pre-sale package includes:
• 2 General Admission Tickets
• 2 Raffle Tickets
• 15 [...]

We have a standing joke in my house. Whenever I absent-mindedly put on my Zankou Chicken T-shirt, my wife complains that I’m coming home late at night smelling like garlic paste–and where are the leftovers? It’s true that wearing a T-shirt that you got at a chicken place makes you look like [...]

It was people like me who laughed at the Wright Brothers too. Maybe someday, the joke will be on me, and the licorice industry will have layoffs, bankruptcies and labor strikes too.
The Glendale section of yesterday’s Times tells of the Colburn brothers, who have set down roots in Glendale and opened LicoriceExchange.com, [...]

This Saturday and Sunday is the 2005 Lotus Festival in Echo Park. And yeah, yeah, “Asian culture this” and “Lotus Flower that” I’ve only gone for the food. What’s nice about the fest actually, is the clubby, neighborhood feeling of it, the whole thing is very low-key and upbeat; with not much [...]

I’m not kidding, this is the best chocolate sauce I have ever tasted. It’s better than the good stuff you can get at the super market, it’s better than my wife’s hallowed Sander’s Sauce.

Dave’s Chilin-N-Grillin is making outstanding sandwiches at giveaway prices. Don’t believe me? Just ask Dave. He preaches like a man afire about the importance of using only the best ingredients.

They’ve got truly the best fries ever.

I just ran across two beautiful recipe blogs:
Browsing Our Patisserie is like a slow stroll along a French pastry case. Mmm, look, but don’t touch. It is a collective blog of four women, who also seem to be the only ones commenting as well, giving me the feeling that I’m eavesdropping on a [...]