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Sommelier Courtney Kaplan and her husband chef Charles Namba recently opened Ototo , a sake bar in Echo Park next to their popular izakaya Tsubaki .

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Bill Addison raves about the Michelin-starred Hayato at the Row DTLA

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Rick Bragg remembers his mother’s Southern table

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg has written a memoir about his Southern upbringing .

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She was the Queen of Creole, and a friend to civil rights leaders and U.S. presidents. Leah Chase passed away June 1, 2019 at the age of 96.

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California king salmon, or chinook, is back in season. This week Gillian Ferguson talks about the prized fish with Max Dornbush , a buyer with Gjelina Restaurant Group .

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