Chez Panisse reimagined the way we eat. Is that enough?

Last Wednesday, I finished my final bit of writing for this year’s 101 Best Restaurants in L.A., and then I met a friend for dinner at Bicyclette in Pico-Robertson. The 101 is always a gargantuan task, a guide that’s as much about celebrating the...

Mark Peel, the revolutionary chef who helped pioneer California cuisine and establish Los Angeles as a dining destination, died Sunday afternoon. He was 66. Peel died at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Sunset Boulevard, his...

This week The Times published my roundup of places to order takeout for a splurge — for a birthday, anniversary or any other special occasion (including a difficult day) that might show up on the calendar in these unnerving times. Most of the...

While the Eric Schlosser's book, Fast Food Nation, was hailed as a muckraking expose on the food industry in the same mold as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, I thought it failed as a film.  Here now is Food Inc., made by Robert Kenner, produced by...

Massimo Navaretta, Onotria Onotria chef and owner Massimo Navaretta appreciates farmers a bit more than your average chef—he was raised on a farm in Calabria, Italy's southernmost province. Besides the fact that supporting local growers is good...