On Souplantation's Cookies

While we hunkered down to get through the pandemic, a lot of us spent time working our skills in the kitchen. Between endless banana bread trials and fun pasta recipes from TikTok, we learned that cooking and baking can be fun and rewarding with a...

Around Easter, my social media feeds began marching out a steady parade of images featuring maamoul, the small filled pastries much loved in Lebanon, Syria and other swaths of the Levant. The algorithms know me too well. A lightly yeasted dough is...

For the last month, Patricia Escárcega and I have done little else beyond write, fret over, debate, cross-check, analyze, tweak and keep writing The Times’ annual list of the 101 Best Restaurants. We’ve been researching and thinking about the...

Name: Chips In Cup Origin: Korea Found at: H-Mart, Irvine Cost: On sale: 2 for $2.49 Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Sugar, Chocochip, Coconut Powder, Shortening, Egg Powder, Cream Powder, Salt, Acid Agent. ] Why I Bought It: Of the things I expected to...

I'm going to do my list a little different than my esteemed colleagues. This year, I'm not going to list them in a countdown order; I'm going to do mine alphabetically. Why? Well because it was hard enough to narrow down the hundreds of...