The Pantry

hunted for it at various stores before finally ordering it on Amazon. Sharon Lieblein admires her baked bread at her home on April 9. (Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times) A surge in pantry stockpiling has triggered a run on flour and sugar, according to the

| Food & Recipes (@eatthelove) on Apr 10, 2020 at 5:02pm PDT He stopped going grocery shopping for several weeks to avoid the danger of spreading the virus to his mother. “I had to dig deep into my pantry. I began baking with ingredients I didn’t even

Many Los Angeles restaurants have reinvented themselves as neighborhood markets to survive the ongoing coronavirus shutdown, but one Whittier taquería is taking things a step further by selling medical safety gear — including KN95 masks, the

respirator masks that the FDA recently approved for use in hospital settings. Masataco is selling the masks to doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel. Customers must present a hospital ID to purchase one of the respirator masks, which cost $5. On

, sometimes decorated with the words “Free Food” in colorful lettering, nearly always stocked with fresh produce, pantry staples — milk, bread, apples — and, sometimes, sanitary items such as soap and tampons. Free-food fridge programs have mushroomed in

In early June, my colleague Sam Dean sent me an enthusiastic yet slightly cryptic Slack message: “The fridges are spreading!” He attached a link to an Instagram post of a refrigerator in front of what looked like a machine repair shop, the words

researchers. Starbucks plans to offer free coffee through May 3. To find a food pantry near you, check out the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank.

Thousands of Los Angeles restaurant employees have lost their jobs due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Below is a list of L.A. restaurants offering meals to people in the hospitality industry who have been laid off or had their hours cut due to

restaurants, and the Boyle Heights group helping undocumented workers during the coronavirus crisis. — Here are 14 Passover Seder recipes featuring your trusty pantry staples. — Finally, Lucas Kwan Peterson checks in with 15 chefs and restaurant owners around

Weddings, birthday parties, baby showers — the coronavirus outbreak has put many of these celebrations on hold. It’s bad news for everyone, including the businesses that provide the food and drink at these special events. Recently I spoke to Sarah

Central as an Afrofuturist paradise. It made more sense for me to use that energy to do something tangible and immediate,” she said. A record number of families in L.A. County have turned to food banks and food pantries since March, a clear marker of the

the most beautiful produce in Southern California. The bounty included pallets of bright gold-yellow beets, leafy bouquets of rainbow Swiss chard, crates overflowing with strawberries and raspberries, oversize bags stuffed with fragrant skeins of fresh

Late last week, when I needed a fast lunch, I remembered I had a tin of mussels in pickled sauce on hand. I’d picked them up while buying wine at Tilda, the new Echo Park bar that has shifted to retail during the shutdown. (My visit became part of a

story published this week on how Los Angeles wine bars have pivoted and innovated.) Next to the bottle selection, visible through a glass wall from an adjacent atrium, there were also shelves filled with a small assortment of groceries. Items included

That tingly itch you get on the top of your head when you swallow a spoonful of hot, spicy green curry. That soothing, creamy comfort of a fast swig of Thai iced tea. That aromatic swoosh that fills the room when you pop the top of a container of

tom yum with fresh prawns. The sweet, nutty scent of jasmine rice and the sour, exciting tang of green papaya salad. Despite all that’s wrong with the world right now, all of these things are still currently available. Here are the 10 best Thai

Bangkok Kitchen    Chada Thai    Issara Thai    Jasmine    Lucky's Thai    Sumran Thai    Street Thai    Thai Avenue    Thai & Laos Market    Thai Nakorn   

L.A. restaurants that have turned empty dining rooms into ad hoc corner markets — selling pantry staples, dry goods and more to stay afloat amid a forced shutdown — can continue to do so for takeout or delivery, according to an email from the Los

Angeles County Department of Public Health. “Public Health is allowing restaurants to offer grocery items as part of their menu for takeout, pickup and delivery,” a department representative wrote in the email sent to The Times on Tuesday. The Los Angeles

Sushi Bar is hard to find by design. The speak-easy-inspired sushi counter is tucked into the soaring, open-air Encino Place mall, a beigy fortress of high-end boutiques and half-empty cafes. You ride the escalator to the second story, where you’ll

find a cluster of nondescript storefronts that make up the bulk of chef Phillip Frankland Lee and pastry chef Margarita Kallas-Lee’s San Fernando Valley restaurant headquarters. There’s Scratch Bar & Kitchen, Lee’s flagship tasting menu restaurant, and