Spooky Halloween recipes from Elvira and your local cemetery
Hosting a Halloween party, veganizing Korean cuisine at home, and the horrors of labor throughout the food system:
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark AKA Cassandra Peterson IRL dons her towering black beehive and blood-red lipstick for a collection of hair-raising recipes just in time for Halloween.
When we last talked to her, three years ago, Rosie Grant had already gone TikTok viral for prowling cemeteries to find the tastiest gravestone recipes. Now, she has an entire book devoted to these dishes as well as interviews with the families of the dearly departed.
Joanne Lee Molinaro AKA the Korean Vegan shares her love of tofu and a recipe for a Kimchi Queso Mac and Cheese in her newest cookbook.
Underpaid, undervalued, and unsafe — that’s the trifecta of problems plaguing food system workers, according to Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares, who chronicle labor across our food chain.
Memo Torres delivers an update on the fallout of ICE raids in the hospitality industry.
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A Diwali recipe to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights
Celebrating Diwali, Thai roots meet Nashville soul, a soju party, yaupon as a potential coffee alternative, and green satsumas:
Khushbu Shah shares how she celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, growing up in the Midwest, and this year's plans.
Chef Arnold Myint, who grew up at his family’s beloved International Market & Restaurant, which introduced Thai food to Nashville, has a new book, Family Thai, that's both a primer on Thai cooking and a tribute to the flavors he inherited from his mother.
At Orion Bar in Brooklyn, Irene Yoo and her husband, Nick, get playful with soju and upend Korean alcohol traditions.
How expensive does coffee need to get before we start looking for alternatives?
Writer KC Hysmith considers yaupon, the only caffeinated plant grown in North America, for its potential as a coffee alternative.
Chef Miles Thompson shops for green satsumas at the farmers market.
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Samin Nosrat Makes Good Things Better
Samin Nosrat discovers "Good Things"; a bar devoted to women's sports; winter squash at the farmers market.
Samin Nosrat chats about the pressure she felt following the success of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, relinquishing perfectionism, and the importance of ritual in connecting with others and yourself.
Married couple Janie Trinh and Stephanie Ellingwood founded Silver Lake's Untamed Spirits, a bar devoted to women's sports.
Gillian Ferguson takes us to the farmers market to meet Ben Norton, the chef behind Darling, Sean Brock's grill house and hi-fi lounge in West Hollywood.
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Fixing our broken food system and the glory of tacos
How do you fix a food system that isn't simply broken but has been captured, top to bottom, in the name of profit?
Our food system isn't simply broken, it has been captured, top to bottom, in the name of profit. Austin Frerick shares the stories of seven agricultural titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for the rest of us.
For almost a decade, renowned Mexican chef Enrique Olvera veered away from serving tacos at Pujol, his Michelin-starred Mexico City restaurant. Now, he celebrates them with taco omakase at the bar.
Oaxacans claim if you eat chapulínes (grasshoppers), you will return to Oaxaca. Anthropologist Jeffrey H. Cohen looks at the consumption of these insects and the women who make a living selling them.
Travel and food writer Caroline Eden hiked between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, discovering recipes along the way.
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Chef Jeremy Fox moves from vegetables to meat
Passionfruit, overlapping food crises, and what federal spending cuts mean for local food banks
Seven years after chef Jeremy Fox released On Vegetables, he offers a cookbook with a different focus, On Meat.
Michael Flood of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank explains what the massive cuts to SNAP, USAID, and DOGE mean for local food assistance programs.
Dr. Stuart Gillespie analyzes the cascade of overlapping crises impacting our food system — and he proposes solutions.
At the farmers market, passionfruit from Carpinteria goes into an LA mole.
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