Kale to the Chef at Healthy Junk

I have a love-hate thing with Frito-Lay. I hate some of their products but love others. Sun Chips goes in the “love” column. I don't buy into the idea that they're really any healthier than a regular snack chip. Junk food is junk food....

When I told my date we were going to a raw foods restaurant, her face wrinkled with worry. “You mean they don't cook the meat?” she asked. “It's a vegan place, so there is no meat,” I said. “Just raw organic veggies.” Then she brightened: A...

Photo by Edwin Goei When people ask me where to find vegetarian dim sum, I tell them it’d be easier to locate an Indian steakhouse or a healthy KFC. Dim sum, by its nature, is not vegetarian. Even if you avoid all the usual dumplings that have...

Have you ever heard of “Mole Tots”? Yes, that's “mole,” as in the legendary Mexican sauce made from more ingredients than you have fingers to count, plus tots, as in tater, the cafeteria staple you loved as a kid. Order it at Amor y Tacos in...

Tustin is dense with great restaurants, having perhaps OC's most eclectic collection of eateries that include not just the original location of the preeminent (and now increasingly ubiquitous) izakaya known as Honda Ya, but also Cream Pan, one of...