1+ hour, 6+ min ago  (429+ words) The founder and owner of the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, Evan Marks, is a certified Deadhead. A tape listening station and Grateful Dead posters reside in a room at the farmhouse visitor center on campus. There's a certain…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (111+ words) Los Angeles Times When it comes to salt, don't trust a recipe blindly Cody Reiss tells you why it's time to throw your salt shakers in the trash. Cody Reiss is the cooking editor for Los Angeles Times Food, making…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (995+ words) My most vivid food memories involve overcooked spaghetti in a wooden bowl, and my grandmother Phyllis. For decades, my grandmother's wooden bowls sat stacked in the cabinet next to the refrigerator in her old, two-story home in Gardena. They followed…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (418+ words) Like so many Americans, who collectively eat 5. 95 billion pounds of pasta a year, I love spaghetti. Spaghetti is the No. 1 best-selling shape in the U. S. , according to industry-giant pasta makers, followed by penne (not my favorite tube) and angel hair (too…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (117+ words) Bring a pot of water to boil over high heat. Add the spaghetti and cook according to package instructions until al dente. Drain. In the same pot, soften half a stick of butter on low heat and add the pickled…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (459+ words) Hell's Kitchen," the Alicia Keys musical that has landed at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in a blaze of rousing sound, deploys the R&B star's glorious treasure trove of work in the service of a semi-autobiographical version of her coming-of-age…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (839+ words) Bringing a piece of New York to Los Angeles doesn't intimidate Alicia Keys. "We spent 13 years developing this piece," Keys said. "I believe in this deeply. I stand behind it. I stand for it." "She saw the show early, and…...

11+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (930+ words) It has been a brutal stretch for L. A. restaurants. Since 2023, hundreds of notable spots have shuttered amid escalating costs for food and labor, and a weakening economy. More recently, the local scene has also been roiled by the January wildfires, which…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (525+ words) This year's must-read food memoir isn't from a celebrity chef, a longtime restaurateur or even someone who finished culinary school. It's from a woman who survived a harrowing, near-death experience to open her first and only restaurant at 26 years old....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (525+ words) I have made oceans of marinara sauce in my life, and I have loved all of them, even the ones I have accidentally burned because I totally forgot they were cooking and went on to doing something else. I have…...