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Chef Govind Armstrong cracks into spiny lobster while celebrating a classic seaside restaurant's 25th anniversary.

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Bill Addison dives into pad see ew and other iconic Bangkok street food dishes at Holy Basil.

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Dakota Kim embraces the modern boom in an ancient Korean drink — makgeolli.

Fizzy, low-proof makgeolli enters its artisanal spirit era

Dakota Kim embraces the modern boom in an ancient Korean drink — makgeolli.

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Pastry chef Sasha Piligian uses olive oil and farmers market citrus in a cake destined for a charity bake sale.

Try an upside down cake with cara cara oranges and California olive oil

Pastry chef Sasha Piligian uses olive oil and farmers market citrus in a cake destined for a charity bake sale.

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Monique King mourns the loss of Fox's, a family restaurant in Altadena, while trying to support her staff.

Will Altadena restaurant Fox's rebuild after the Eaton Fire?

Monique King mourns the loss of Fox's, a family restaurant in Altadena, while trying to support her staff.

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Bethany Harris puts the squeeze on farmers market citrus.

Pucker up! Lemons in all shapes and sizes have hit farmers markets

Bethany Harris puts the squeeze on farmers market citrus.

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Valentine’s Day can mean not just romantic love, but kindness. Get a little something for that person who showed up for you this past month.

Valentine’s Day: Express kindness with these gift ideas

Valentine’s Day can mean not just romantic love, but kindness. Get a little something for that person who showed up for you this past month.

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Baker and chocolatier Valerie Gordon explains how she sugars rose petals for her bestselling petit fours.

Valerie Gordon stops to smell the roses at the farmers market

Baker and chocolatier Valerie Gordon explains how she sugars rose petals for her bestselling petit fours.

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Mandu. Mante. Pelmeni. Gyoza. Gyoza. Xiao long bao. LA is filled with delicious dumpling spots. Here are a few of the best.

Dozens of dumplings for your dumpling from LA's best dumpling restaurants

Mandu. Mante. Pelmeni. Gyoza. Gyoza. Xiao long bao. LA is filled with delicious dumpling spots. Here are a few of the best.

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Good Food looks back on a conversation with Slanted Door chef Charles Phan, who paired local California ingredients with elegant Vietnamese food.

Remembering pioneering San Francisco chef Charles Phan of The Slanted Door

Good Food looks back on a conversation with Slanted Door chef Charles Phan, who paired local California ingredients with elegant Vietnamese food.

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Randy Clement, who owns Good Neighbor Bar, used wine delivery software to canvas Altadena, informing neighbors whether or not their homes had survived.

How one Altadena bar owner helped his neighbors after the Eaton Fire

Randy Clement, who owns Good Neighbor Bar, used wine delivery software to canvas Altadena, informing neighbors whether or not their homes had survived.

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Eat out to support restaurants that lost business due to the Palisades Fire. Here are recommendations for west side eateries participating in DineLA, which is happening now.

Eat out: Palisades Fire-adjacent neighborhoods edition

Eat out to support restaurants that lost business due to the Palisades Fire. Here are recommendations for west side eateries participating in DineLA, which is happening now.

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LA transplant Vanessa Anderson, aka The Grocery Goblin on Tiktok, documents the city by visiting its markets.

The Grocery Goblin takes us on a sociological journey through LA via its grocery stores

LA transplant Vanessa Anderson, aka The Grocery Goblin on Tiktok, documents the city by visiting its markets.

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Chef Travis Hayden lost his home in the Palisades Fire but is finding time to feed first responders and other fire victims.

At the farmers market, chef Travis Hayden starts rebuilding by feeding others

Chef Travis Hayden lost his home in the Palisades Fire but is finding time to feed first responders and other fire victims.

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Monica Motta runs a small house cleaning business and has lost her clients in Pacific Palisades, an area that accounted for two-thirds of her income.

Domestic workers: Loss of Palisades clients, renewed deportation threat

Monica Motta runs a small house cleaning business and has lost her clients in Pacific Palisades, an area that accounted for two-thirds of her income.

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Only by patronizing neighborhood restaurants can we keep them afloat and our communities vibrant. Here are some eateries located in neighborhoods adjacent to the Eaton Fire.

Eat out: Eaton Fire-adjacent neighborhoods edition

Only by patronizing neighborhood restaurants can we keep them afloat and our communities vibrant. Here are some eateries located in neighborhoods adjacent to the Eaton Fire.

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Dina Samson offers perspective on how the fires are impacting LA's already struggling hospitality industry.

How will the wildfires affect restaurants in LA?

Dina Samson offers perspective on how the fires are impacting LA's already struggling hospitality industry.

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Teddy and Andy Leonard look back on their Malibu restaurant, which succumbed to fire after 36 years of selling seafood on the Pacific Coast Highway.

Remembering the Reel Inn, a century old building, lost to the Palisades Fire

Teddy and Andy Leonard look back on their Malibu restaurant, which succumbed to fire after 36 years of selling seafood on the Pacific Coast Highway.

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Christine Moore, owner of Little Flower in Pasadena, fought flames in her neighborhood and is now feeding the community while navigating her own displacement.

'I just knew it was biblical,' says restaurateur Christine Moore of the Eaton Fire

Christine Moore, owner of Little Flower in Pasadena, fought flames in her neighborhood and is now feeding the community while navigating her own displacement.

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Wendy Escobedo of World Central Kitchen explains how the organization mobilizes — with a little help from chefs and restaurateurs like Roy, Choi, Kim Prince, and Greg Dulan — to feed…

Local chefs team up with World Central Kitchen to feed evacuees of the historic LA wildfires

Wendy Escobedo of World Central Kitchen explains how the organization mobilizes — with a little help from chefs and restaurateurs like Roy, Choi, Kim Prince, and Greg Dulan — to feed…

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