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You may or may not have noticed, but I haven’t been posting around here much. I have fizzled out a bit on la.foodblogging and am starting up a new project to get my food writing juices flowing again.
As long as our contributors are willing to write and share their finds with the readers, I [...]

Earlier this year – actually, during summer – I made my way down to Santa Monica to try a restaurant that I’d heard rave reports about. A young, new chef, Evan Funke, had just taken over the kitchen at Rustic Canyon Wine Bar. Word on the street was that he had studied [...]

[photo by Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times]

After learning from Daily Candy and Chowhound about this hot new watering hole in my ’hood (that had replaced the rather cool Sapphire lounge) we strolled over to Laurel Tavern one Thursday, just over a week ago, to see what the fuss was about.
We sauntered in around 6.30pm [...]

Mmmmm. Root Beer! Early versions of root beer were made by settlers and later popularized by Charles Hires in the late 19th century. Before the rise of The Cola, it was the most popular soft drink in America. Root beer is the tasty result of fermented roots, barks and herbs and to the palates of [...]

A few days ago, I went to celebrate a friend’s birthday. He is an avid fan of Sushi Nozawa. In fact, he was the one who took me there for my birthday last year. For his birthday, he said he wanted to try a new place, sugarFISH… by Sushi Nozawa. [...]

I’m a carnivore, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.  A leg of lamb, studded with garlic?  Delicious.  A juicy steak, cooked to a perfect medium rare?  I’m in.  But, in the end, I’m a food lover.  Period.  I love all food, and my only criteria, truly?  It’s got to taste good.  So when I [...]

Last year my feelings about Indian food went from 0-10 in a matter of one week. Prior to that time, I ignorantly assumed all Indian food was “covered in curry,” which was, in my mind, a thick, pungent green sauce I’d tried in Australia and quite disliked. Eventually a friend convinced me to try Electric [...]

Do I like Greek food?  As my best gal pal Vanessa would say:  does a one legged duck swim in a circle?
The answer is a resounding  Ne! (which sounds like no, but is actually yes, in Greek.)
Now that my Grandma has passed I don’t get Greek food cooked for me nearly as often as I [...]