Los Angeles Khachapuri Worth Seeking
Khachapuri is a cheese bread that takes many forms in its native Republic of Georgia and goes by names like ajarakan beyond Georgian borders. The savory delicacy is frequently boat-shaped in Los Angeles, a...
Great Takeout Options to Share With Your Roommates in 10 U.S. Cities
Now that we’re eight months into a pandemic and people are no doubt burned-out on home cooking, it’s time to consider tantalizing family-style dishes and desserts from restaurants to share with your roommates (and...
Grilled Dishes Worth Seeking at Los Angeles Restaurants
Summer calls for grilling, gathering with family and friends while the kids take cannonballs in the pool or just running under the sun, playing ball in the park. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, and steak...
Decoding the L.A. Restaurant Scene: 20 Years Past and Future
I recently spoke to the Culinary Historians of Southern California at the LAPL Central Library. My talk, titled “Decoding the L.A. Restaurant Scene: 20 Years Past and Future” assessed the past two decades and...
Hamlet’s Kitchen Baby Pork Wrist
“This above all: to thine own self be true.” Armenian-Russian owners Nick and Mila inherited a Shakespearean name when they took over Hamlet’s Kitchen in 1997, but that famous quote certainly applies to their...
Su Beoreg Sini-Monta
“In Armenia, this is every child’s favorite food.” Grant Yegiazaryan waxed poetic about monta, a specialty of his family at Su Beoreg & Monta Factory in the Armenian hotbed of north Pasadena. “When you...
