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Icelandic cuisine, endangered foods, tamal carts
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Food & DrinkArts journalist Carolina Miranda asks in her essay remembering California native Joan Didion.
LA foster kids get stylish in donated prom dresses
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Low-alcohol cocktails, delivery app quandary, halloumi
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Roy Choi: Food allows everyone to confront inequalities
Food & DrinkRoy Choi discusses the pandemic impact on food service workers, the role of restaurants in gentrification, and why his business almost closed.
Of 200 unhoused Angelenos evicted from Echo Park Lake, 9 have permanent shelter 1 year later
HomelessnessIt’s now a year after LA’s police-led homeless encampment eviction. Controversy –– and fencing –– still surround Echo Park Lake.