Health

Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here’s how it fuels climate change Each day, an army of trucks delivers tens of thousands of pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables to Mexico City’s Central de Abasto, one of the world’s largest wholesale food markets. Most of the produce finds its way … Read more

Tepary beans come in a wide range of colors, but white and brown are among the most common. (Romulo Yanes/ Condé Nast via Getty Images) Thanksgiving, our national harvest celebration, is a good day to remember our collective food history, and an even better one to taste it. Teparies are native to the Sonoran Desert … Read more

Chicken and rice from Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice at the Maxwell Food Centre hawker center in Singapore. (Jenn Harris / Los Angeles Times) Who makes the best Hainanese chicken rice? It depends on who you ask. The poached chicken and rice dish was invented on Hainan island, China’s southernmost province, but it appears on … Read more

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The Jazz Café at Cipriani Beverly Hills sits above the Italian restaurant’s dining room, and offers live music, a full bar and a short food menu. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times) You enter Cipriani through the main entrance but head straight for the staircase toward the back of the dining room. Walk past the … Read more

As American as … apple crisp. Easier than apple pie When I was 16 and got my driver’s license, I’d often pile friends into my silver VW bug for Sunday road trips. Our destination: Julian, to sit in a pine-paneled diner and eat apple pie. Julian, a historic gold mining town known for its apples … Read more

Re-creating a family tradition one walnut at a time Fifty years ago my great-grandfather Carlo Portolan hauled down from the roof of his Lincoln Heights home a glass jug full of fragrant black booze, warm from 40 days in the sun. He decanted it into smaller bottles, affixed to each a masking tape label inscribed … Read more

Enjoy high tea and watch an abridged one-hour live performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet at the historic Langham Huntington this holiday season. (The Langham Huntington, Pasadena)

A Silver Lake staple since late 2019, restaurant All Day Baby will close Dec. 15 — but not without a few parties and pop-ups first. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) In a year marred by tragedy and continuing financial difficulties, one of L.A.’s most creative neighborhood restaurants is closing. All Day Baby, the innovative … Read more

Close-up of Grimmway Farms logo on a bag of organic carrots. The CDC announced a recall of organic carrots following an E. coli outbreak in November 2024. (Getty Images) One Los Angeles County senior has died amid a national recall on carrots found to be contaminated with E. coli. Two additional local cases are under … Read more