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Forget the many buzz-inducing gummy candies and chocolate bars. More and more cannabis consumers are opting to drink their drug of choice. The cannabis beverage market, worth $901.8 million in 2018, has grown 45 percent annually in the past two...

With new COVID cases surging to record highs in Los Angeles and the county’s health department stemming the spread with a ban on outdoor restaurant dining, the owner of one beloved South Bay eatery is serving up defiance—with a side of mockery....

Is it too early for New Year’s resolutions? I think not. My first resolution for 2021 is to eat more banana pudding. I’d forgotten just how good banana pudding is until last week when I ate a pint of it from Beale’s Texas BBQ in Huntington Beach....

If you screwed up the pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving, don’t take your chances with the rest of the holiday season. Hit up one of these local bakeries for something perfectly sweet. Kyle David Moreno Margarita Manzke’s Strawberry Roll features...

For years readers have been asking where in Orange County they can find a great chile relleno. And for years I’ve been responding, “I keep searching but I haven’t found it yet.” Well, I just found it at the new Pour Vida in Anaheim. Chef Jimmy...

For Jacob Shaw and other restaurant owners in Los Angeles, the holiday season was going to be a welcome boost to business. And even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which restricted in-person dining to outdoor seating, there was hope that the next few...

In a devastating blow to Los Angeles' struggling restaurant and hospitality industry, L.A. County public health officials on Sunday announced they will suspend outdoor dining at restaurants amid a surge of new coronavirus cases. Few segments of...

“And when I cook, I never measure or weigh anything. I cook by vibration. I can tell by the look and smell of it. Most of the ingredients in this book are approximate. … Different strokes for different folks. Do your thing your way.” By the second...

“Turkey bone gumbo is not a specialty of Louisiana as much as it is a given there,” Sara Roahen wrote in “Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table.” Her book, published in 2008, is a masterful hybrid of genres: a case study of...

Every year, my grandmother's fried rice is the star dish on the holiday table. The family marvels over the large CorningWare vessel (the same one every year) full of fried rice flecked with lap cheong sausage, shrimp and mushrooms. After dinner,...