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Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes, In Sixty Seconds, Thanksgiving Here's what's doing in the Los Angeles Times Food Section for Wednesday, November 26, 2008: Smile and say Cheese on Turkey-Day: Here's what you need for the perfect cheese plate on Thanksgiving. Where to buy artisanal cheeses in L.A. (hardly an exhaustive list, but a ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes, In Sixty Seconds, ThanksgivingHere's what's doing in the Los Angeles Times Food Section for Wednesday, November 26, 2008: Smile and say Cheese on Turkey-Day: Here's what you need for the perfect cheese plate on Thanksgiving. Where to buy artisanal cheeses in L.A. (hardly an exhaustive list, but a decent ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes Last night, I had dinner at Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's a restaurant that is a throwback (but in a very good, comforting way) to the 1980's. It takes up the bulk of an old brick rowhouse on the edge of the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, the downstairs dining room is lined in wood paneling and mirrors (thus ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes, Newspapers, in sixty seconds Here's what's cooking in the Los Angeles Times Food Section today: What's hot, what's not: Russ Parsons and Amy Scattergood weigh in on what a kitchen essential really is. Celebrity chefs will cut some costs to keep their restaurants afloat in this economy. But cutting quality ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes, How To, Cookbook of the Day, FallIf you're prone to chef crushes, you could do a lot worse than Matthew Kenney -- and that's solely on the basis of his food. Though Kenney is now a primary practioner of the raw food movement, foodies who found themselves in SoHo during the late 1990s/early 2000s will remember him ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes, Magazines, Gin Last night I went to a party at James, a lovely little restaurant in the Italian Market section of Philadelphia. It was in celebration of the fact that the chef and co-owner James Burke had been named one of Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs for 2008. It was a far swankier event than I am ...

Filed under: Juice, South America, Restaurants, Recipes, How ToUnlike Manhattan, which is revered for its cuisine, or Queens, which is famed for its ethnic variety, the Bronx is known for its outstanding little Italy, its collection of Puerto Rican cuchifrito joints, and little else. However, in my constant search for the ultimate neighborhood ...

I've returned from a whirlwind trip to Providence, and come to two conclusions: One: Rhode Island drivers may actually be more allergic to turn signals than New Yorkers. And two: Providence may be the friendliest New England city I've ever been to. I can honestly say that every person I met was helpful, laid-back and eager to spend a few minutes ...

Filed under: Restaurants, Recipes, Southern States, America Is there a less appetizingly named food than the 'Hot Brown?' Louisville, Kentucky's culinary claim to fame doesn't look like much either - an open-faced turkey sandwich topped with bacon and smothered in Sauce Mornay (Béchamel with cheese), it resembles nothing so much as a ...

You know when you take a bite of something and you realize that this is a taste you are going to crave? You know, like salted caramel ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery. It’s usually something you can’t get just anywhere. For me it often happens when I’m traveling somewhere and I won’t easily find that ...