Good Food

The LA Regional Food Bank saw a dip in demand at the beginning of the year, but as inflation drives up food prices, more people are lining up for food handouts.

The Pride Poets hotline writes custom, on-the-spot, free poems for anyone who dials in. This year, its creative team took more than 200 calls.

Historian and professor Natalia Molina reveals how her grandmother’s restaurant, Nayarit, brought the immigrant community together in 1960s Echo Park.

To reduce the amount of plastic making its way into the ocean, LA County is requiring that food service items be made of organic or recyclable materials.

Food scholar Darra Goldstein describes the evolution of Russian cuisine despite scarcity and isolation.

Local atheist volunteers started taking down illegally posted religious signs in public places less than a year ago. Now their plunders and crowdsourced maps are gaining traction.

Record inflation means the prices Angelenos pay for locally-made food are headed in one direction — up. Businesses that serve the budget-conscious really notice.

One reporter visited 10 of the most popular grocery stores in LA and found dramatic differences in prices for goods such as bread, avocados and coffee.

“I’ll Have What She’s Having” is a new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center that explains the roots of the Jewish delicatessen in New York and the migration of the pastrami sandwich…