Sweet and savory: Surprising recipes to enjoy California avocados
Avocados are rich in healthy fats and can be used for a variety of surprisingly sweet and savory recipes like avocado pie, chopped salad, and panzanella.
5 Songs to Hear This Week: Adrian Quesada, Moby, Corinne Bailey Rae
In need of some savory sounds to make your holiday week as smooth as possible? From acid-riffs to sweet soul, KCRW’s 5 Songs to Hear This Week has you covered.
Ribs, baked beans and hot links make up LA’s barbecue memories for one reporter
A new series from Eater LA looks into the barbecue boom in LA — where it started, who’s making some of the best eats, and whether the Southland has its own style.
Honoring the tamalada — the Christmas tradition of making tamales
From the ancient history of the tamal (which existed before the tortilla), to the variety of fillings, to regional twists, to different methods of preparation, Indigenous culinary…
Jesca Hoop first attracted national attention in the early ’00s, when her unusual backstory — the daughter of musical Mormons, she’d served a long stint as nanny to Tom Waits‘…
Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean: Tasting the influence of history
“Memories of life in old rural worlds live on in the cooking like ghosts hovering in saucepans,” writes Claudia Roden, who began collecting recipes over 60 years ago when she moved to…
Martin Phillipps’ LA Story: 30 Years of The Chills’ ‘Soft Bomb’
On the subject of his influential New Zealand indie outfit, The Chills, and their brief, near-stratospheric ascent in the late ‘80s, frontman and sole mainstay Martin Phillipps is…
Lifting the flavors of Middle Eastern cuisine in the Bavel cookbook
Chefs Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis said they were born into the concept of Bavel, their Middle Eastern restaurant in the Los Angeles Art District, pulling on memories with…
TV Girl Can’t Throw Away Their Memories of Their Exes
It’s easy to fall in love with the sparkly pop sounds of TV Girl. The LA-based trio’s new album, Who Really Cares, is sonically sweet, catchy, and just a fun time. Perfectly…
I’m used to the reaction now: a snicker, a raised eyebrow, and a pause, as they wait for the punch line. My husband, Jan, and I couldn’t possibly run something…
