A Man of Few Words Serves Falafel, Foul and Hummus at F & H Shack in Anaheim

I’ve been thinking lately about the ways that cuisines are transformed and reinterpreted when they’re translated from home cooking to a professional kitchen. It was the subject of my newsletter last week, in conversations with food writers Andy...

Theo Rossi is a pita bread and hummus connoisseur. The actor deems the pita and hummus at Bavel in the Arts District downtown to be among the best he’s ever tasted. He should know — he eats some form of the bread-and-dip duo every day. Rossi, who...

Everyone gets hummus at Les Amis, even if they don’t ask for it. It’s just a thimble of the paste, accompanied by a paper basket of shatteringly crisp pita chips for dipping, but it’s a welcoming gesture by Jinan Montecristo and her husband, Juan...

Appetizer sampler plate. Photo by Edwin Goei Before my visit to El Fishawy, the new Egyptian restaurant in Old Town Tustin, I did my homework. On Yelp, I found pictures of its menu, and since it provided no descriptions, I started Googling all of...

The man seated at the table next to me at lunch — born in Baghdad and now well into his 70s, I’d learned while waiting for our food — glanced at the bowl a server had just put down in front of me. He nodded in recognition. I’d ordered pacha, an...