Earlier this month Josh Scherer cooked a corned beef sandwich and a few gelatin-encased shrimp in a nod to foods that have been to space. Earlier this year he served Gordon Ramsay a beef Wellington, a deep-fried Mars bar, an In-N-Out burger and everything else the chef decreed would be his ideal last meal on … Read more
How to make Michael Twitty’s matzoh ball gumbo, a soup of Black and Jewish cuisines With a rainbow knitted kippah affixed to the crown of his head, Michael Twitty is paced and intentional as he moves through the test kitchen at the L.A. Times. He’s here to make one of his classic Passover dishes, matzoh … Read more
Nancy Silverton in the L.A. Times Test Kitchen demonstrating her twice-baked croissant recipe from her cookbook “The Cookie That Changed My Life.” (Cody Long / Los Angeles Times) Food lovers and cooks will have plenty to explore at this year’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books April 20 and 21 on the USC campus. Here’s … Read more
A new Mediterranean cookbook from José Andrés celebrates ‘dishes that belong to the people’ José Andrés spends much of his time contemplating the unifying nature of food, both in and out of the world’s most dangerous conflict and disaster zones. Days before an Israeli airstrike killed seven members of his aid organization working to feed … Read more
Joan Nathan is more than a Jewish cookbook writer. Her new memoir reveals why The morning after Joan Nathan’s 80th birthday party last year — a long-table Palm Springs gathering on the grounds of a hacienda-style compound where Samuel Goldwyn, Lucille Ball and Judy Garland are said to have lived at various times — guests … Read more
(Illustration by Yiting Nan / For the Times) 1 New cookbooks crop up like superblooms in spring, when the vitality of the season propels us to get into the kitchen. In the same way that each spring feels like life anew, every book is yet another way of looking at how we cook. (It’s why … Read more
A Salvadoran cookbook from a major publisher is finally here. Why did it take so long? Food never happened in a vacuum for Karla Tatiana Vasquez. Stories always followed. Whenever her grandmother or mother cooked, Vasquez knew something special was coming. Their food unlocked memories, especially about El Salvador — the homeland they’d fled in … Read more
Want to cook vegetables better? The new Kismet cookbook shows us how Call them the vegetable whisperers. Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer are the two produce-obsessed chefs behind Kismet restaurant in Los Feliz, the growing chainlet of Kismet Rotisserie takeout shops (there are three across L.A. now, where the tahini roasted cauliflower is as popular … Read more
Police are shown at the scene where a person was found dead on Prestwick Terrace in Calgary on Monday, April 8, 2024. Brent Calver/PostmediaPhoto by Brent Calver/Postmedia /Brent Calver/Postmedia A man was killed on Monday in the southeast community of McKenzie Towne, Calgary police say. The incident took place in a residence on the 300-block … Read more
The flat croissant from Coin de Rue in Koreatown. (Jenn Harris / Los Angeles Times) I am a serious newspaper food columnist. I am not tempted by the next viral pastry trend. I will not spend money on something simply because it is larger or smaller than it should be, or a hybrid of two … Read more