Recipe: This Lechón with Mojo Is Anything But Your Average Easter Ham

Danny Godinez has always been working and learning. Born and raised in Acapulco, Mexico, he helped his mom to make pozole for her restaurant starting at age 5. It would take days to prep the hominy kernels, but his mother insisted on nothing less....

Tony Ruiz doesn’t know where he’s going to sleep tonight. Two months ago, the 31-year-old had a steady job as a line cook at the San Francisco Saloon, the long-standing bar and grill on Pico Boulevard, and was renting a room in a home near the...

Rosario Mazzeo says he hasn’t missed a single day of work in 70 years. The owner of Roma Market in Pasadena arrives at 4:30 a.m. and works until 8:30 p.m., seven days a week. “This is my life,” he says on a recent morning, sitting in a chair...

One From the HeartJeff Bridges shines as a country-music has-been. Will the elusive Oscar finally be his? Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 childrenNs movie SurfNs Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an...

Like most people who bake bread for a living, Dean Kim gets up at an ungodly hour and goes home when the rest of us are already in our pajamas. But he wouldn't have it any other way. “How many people do you know look forward to punching out?” he...