Jonathan Gold's top dishes from 31 days of great chefs around L.A.? Potatoes cooked in earth

If you’d been with me at Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, last spring, you would have tasted sardines that turned out to be mysteriously crisp fish sandwiches, an eel flanked by the things it might have swum past in the Po River, and an...

Restaurants have so overused the buzz phrases farm-to-table and farm-to-fork over the past decade that they have pretty much lost their meaning, as a devastating exposé by the Tampa Bay Times recently showed. When someone told me about Oceans &...

Empress Pavilion is the biggest restaurant in Chinatown, a glittery, hangar-size seafood palace built at the height of the late 1980s boom. In its early years, you would typically wait an hour or more for a table on dim sum Sunday mornings, and in...

Not so long ago, the greatest chefs were defined by their crawfish gratins, truffled soups and elaborate pheasant galantines. At the moment, a chef’s seriousness may well depend on his or her skill in preparing carrots. Daniel Patterson, of San...

The pleasures of veganism, not so long ago the far frontier of meat-free dining, are not as elusive as they used to be. The strictures of raw-food enthusiasts, macrobiotic restaurants and paleo devotees make the demands of vegans, who demand only...