1. Oprah features freeganism. Restaurants give away free food. Co-inky-dink?!?! Probably, but I like to point out anyway...Free burritos at Chipotle in Westwood! Free Pink's Hot Dogs! Free Red Mango yogurt! Free McDonald's McSkillet Burrito (uh, it's only $2.49, but hey, it's still...free!)
2. Kimchi Goes to Space (International Herald Tribune, 2.22.2008) - They had to make the kimchee resistant to mutation by cosmic (alien) rays. Trying hard...not...to...make obvious jokes....
3. Speaking of Koreans and aliens, At Other People's Kitchen Counters (Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reader Blog 2.29.08) is Asian girl's childhood envious memory of her white friends' kitchens (Oh, honey, I feel you)
4. List of Southern California restaurants who bought from Westland/Hallmark [pdf], the meat packing company that had 143 millions pound of beef recalled for weak, sick, and abused cows.
5. LA has the best tap water, but...
6. LA didn't make the cut for Cooking Light's 20 Healthiest Cities. Milwaukee did? And Vegas?!
7. Cooking Life at Epicurious.com - Another food blogger goes from blog to big
8. Martha Stewart Buys Emeril Lagasse - Bam! It's a good thing
9. Bacon Cups - Obviously, so awesome, it has to be Not Martha
10. Teindre Les Ouefs - It's not in English, but I'm pretty sure they're naturally dyed eggs for Easter
11. Coast to Coast, Restaurants that Count (New York Times Dining 2.27.2008) - Culver City's Fraiche makes Frank Bruni's short list. (By the way, the "double-click on any word, phrase or name" feature on the NYTimes.com site that opens the definition i na new window is totally ausome.)
12. Cooking with Coolio - Somehow, this scares me.
Baker's Dozen, no.13: Road Pro 12V Sandwich Maker that plugs into your car's cigarette lighter, because who doesn't get an arugula and mozarella panini craving while sitting in rush hour traffic on the 405?
tags :: food : and drink : cooking : restaurants : blogs : blogging : reviews : los angeles
sunjun says
I'm pretty shocked by the Cooking Light survey. How does Los Angeles, a city known for its near obsession with healthy living and physical fitness, somehow beat out a city like St. Louis (which is a pretty unhealthy city as a whole)? The only thing I can think that would have killed LA's score are the last two criteria: green space and ease of access by foot.
Baisy Mama says
MY SCHOOLS CAFETERIA IS ON THAT LIST!~!!!
Baisy Mama says
MY SCHOOLS CAFETERIA IS ON THAT LIST!~!!!
james says
Call me old fashioned, but I'll be damned before I accept the judgment of any publication that doesn't recognize chili as a basic food group.
Deborah Dowd says
Cooking with Coolio scares me too! What's next, "Fiddy's Food?"