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Well, damn, since we’re covering all the axis participants in WWII (Italian food has been covered so many times already, anyway), I’ll throw my two cents in for Mitsuwa in Torrance. Mitsuwa is a chain of Japanese grocery stores, but their flagship is located in Torrance, on Western Ave. Outside of alphabetically neighboring J & [...]

A brand new Marukai marketplace, formally known as Marukai Pacific Market, celebrated its grand opening this weekend.

…mini-morsels of pure perfection.

Our local Italian trattoria, Mezzomondo (Studio City), has a jovial owner/chef named Elio who occasionally treats us to a sample of his special bottle of extra virgin Italian olive oil.
Well, pretty soon we couldn’t do without the stuff, so we asked him to hook us up.
That entailed becoming a member of the Italian Olive Oil [...]

When the herb garden spills over with dill (or you find it for cheap at the farmers’ market), you can snip a few fronds, then serve a lemon and dill cream sauce over grilled salmon, or maybe make some dill pickles. Or you can do the only thing I ever do with dill - make [...]

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, [...]

Two Bastille Day celebrations worth storming.

I will admit: I never knew where Gardena was before that day I stepped into Guiliano’s Delicatessen and Bakery (that said, I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area for 24 years, and have lots–lots–to learn).
So it was that came across Guiliano’s, via a friend who decided to take me out to lunch. We drove from [...]