The L.A. Times blog "Daily Dish" today described a meal at a very trendy restaurant with a twist: it's based on recipes from...

Alice used the recipe in her take-home reading book, and made these cookies.

The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant explores both the dark side and the light side of clothing and fashion. In many ways she makes the po...

I read that the Getty Museum in L.A. has a show " Tasteful Pictures " about food photography. From the Getty website: "Spanni...

Last week the New York Times wrote about food bloggers photographing every bite: From the New York Times Dining and Wine Section . The L.A...

Barbara Kingsolver's recent novel The Lacuna is a fictional biography of a fascinating man, Harrison Shepherd. Several dimensions of Sh...

"Twinkies' buttery flavor provides the richness we expect from cake and likely also helps to mask their oiliness. Since due to cost...

Harold McGee has done it again! The newest "Curious Cook" column -- " Cilantro Haters, It’s Not Your Fault " -- provides...

I'm impressed by this article: " How to make amazing mashed potatoes " in the Salon.com food section. The article includes a l...

After all my reading & talking about Chinese food, we went with our friends Alice, Byron, Abby, and Peter to enjoy some of it. We all wa...

In writing my recent lecture titled "Who won the war between gefilte fish and chop suey?" I learned just how much of an icon chop ...

Trends! Sometimes the papers say blogging is obsolete, replaced by some other social medium. Twitter, maybe -- those tiny brief recipes. Or ...

Thanks to Louise , I'm aware that this is the day Twinkies were invented in 1930. The funny thing is that I remember thinking they were ...

"Chairman Mao adored red-braised pork," Fuchsia Dunlop learned from the dictator's distant relative -- also named Mao. She fou...

This is Peeps Day among other things, and Peeps belong on this blog because they are edible and some people even view them as food. So I sea...

Stouffers To Include Suicide Prevention Tips On Single Serve Microwavable Meals