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Monica Lee’s restaurant Beverly Soon Tofu is part of LA culinary history. Now she’s published a cookbook called “Sohn-mat: Recipes and Flavors of Korean Home Cooking.”

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Today we are celebrating songwriter and guitar wizard Christone “Kingfish” Ingram ’s latest Grammy nomination, this time in the Contemporary Blues category, for his stunningly recorded…

Today’s Top Tune: Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - ‘She Calls Me Kingfish’

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Fanatic! The tour is done. It started in March of last year and went until a few nights ago. 260 shows in 27 countries. I wish it was starting over again.

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Fanatic! The tour is done. It started in March of last year and went until a few nights ago. 260 shows in 27 countries. I wish it was starting over again.

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