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I don’t make it over to Silver Lake / Echo Park much anymore – it lost some of its allure once it got too trendy to find parking. But I’ve had it in mind lately to make a field trip to the new Lot 1 restaurant ever since I got a rave recommendation [...]

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She had the job I always wanted, as head of the Los Angeles Time’s test kitchen. But to tell the truth, I don’t think I would have had the stamina and savvy she’s shown over the last 28 years. Every week, for as long as I ‘ve been reading the L.A. Times Food section, [...]

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Oy vey!

I learned a few things about kosher meats yesterday, when I read the NYTimes story about an Iowa kosher meat processing plant and its management’s abuse of undocumented workers. I was then horrified to realize that I’ve bought many of this plant’s tasty kosher chickens at Trader Joe’s!. They [...]

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“ U R con-fuzing meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” bff Mary emailed me this AM. I had just spent 45 minutes the day before attempting to steady her wavering resolve to vote for Hillary in Tuesday’s Primary, then I forwarded an email from another friend who is trying to get out the vote for Obama. What gives? [...]

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Now that I’ve put Scrabulous in its place, I can get to the posts I wanted to write at the end of last year.
My top reads of 2007:
The books that moved me the most this year are ones that took me to a contemporary place revealing a world previously unknown to me.

In Martin Amis’s House [...]

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After weeks of hot winds, fires, and relentless sunshine (in L.A. there can be such a thing) it is cold enough today to turn the heater on. This is in addition to the extra layers of clothing and the warm slippers.
Finally the weather cooperates with my favorite convergence at the Farmers’ Market: fresh cranberry beans [...]

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Girlfriend looks as though she could use some dinner. I wonder if she would need to book a month in advance to get into Pizzeria Mozza the way I did. Pizzeria Mozza, in case you’ve been too busy analyzing the war in Iraq or something is the lovechild of L.A. foodie darling Nancy Silverton and [...]

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Where else can you get slow, organic, artisanal ice cream with Rechutti fleur de sel chunks for just $8 a pint?
I was there to see the Vivienne Westwood exhibit at the DeYoung Museum before it came down,and to celebrate my friend Bruce’s birthday. I stayed at the Mosser downtown, did a bit of shopping, got [...]

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