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Maybe it’s the new fiscal quarter. Maybe my email address has been sold to a new list of PR companies. Maybe there are really some not-to-be-missed openings and events coming up. Whatever it is, I have been hit with a cavalcade of emails from PR companies lately. Just the other day, I received no fewer [...]

I I spent this past Sunday exploring the culinary offerings at the Great Tastes in Brentwood festival. About 20 restaurants in and around Brentwood set up booths that boast some of their signature fare. It’s only $2.00 to enter the event and then you purchase “scrip” to taste the food … 1 scrip is $2.00 [...]

LA loves all things deemed “trendy.” Parc combines many past and present trends, in hopes LA will show it more love than the previous restaurant that opened here, BlackSteel. French Asian fusion served tapas style, caviar/champagne menus, urban eco-friendly ambiance, and a stunning bar area, are all under one roof just waiting for the approval [...]

There’s a new Crumb in town and this bakery means business!
Opening first in New York and the Hamptons with ample praise, I was hoping this bake shop wouldn’t disappoint me as so many “trendy cupcake boutiques,” have lately. Located mere blocks from the “almighty,” albeit overrated Sprinkles, I figured this gutsy little bakery must really [...]

So the LA Times might not know how to hook up with the local food blogging community but they sure know how to throw out some blog-bait with today’s article Restaurant critics are blowing their own covers.
Where to start? First, I answered one of my questions from the last post. I had asked why Gastropoda [...]

A while back we took the LA Times to task for not including local foodbloggers in their foodblogging article. Now comes the next blunder by The Times.
While I applaud their journey into the world of blogging (direct link removed, see below), and am impressed with the Daily Dish food blog (direct link removed, see [...]

I’m trying out a new service from Odiogo.com which automatically converts posts to audio files. The speaking voice is fairly natural, with some quirks here and there. That is to be expected from computer generated text-voice translation.
You can view the available audio (and listen on the page) here:
la.foodblogging audio post page
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I received a great reader question about dining alone:
I like eating alone at home and I like eating out, except for some reason eating out alone for dinner just does not feel right and I just am not brave enough to do it as frequently as the urge strikes me (mostly after reading la.digesty). I [...]