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      Review: ‘The Berghoff Café Cookbook’

      The Berghoff Café Cookbook: Berghoff Family Recipes for Simple, Satisfying Food. Carlyn Berghoff with Nancy Ross Ryan. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $24.99 (156p) ISBN-13: 978-0-7407-8514-6
      Family food history. A slice of Americana. Useful cooking tips. The Berghoff Café Cookbook has it all — and more. Chef, owner, and author Carlyn Berghoff had me at ‘Deviled Eggs with [...]

      A Farmers’ Market Menu with Chef Michael Reardon, Catch Restaurant

      Last week I had the pleasure of joining my friend Lori’s mother for a terrific foodie outing in Santa Monica. Lori’s mother, who lives in New York City, was given a very nice gift and asked me to be her guest for part of it. She spent three luxurious nights in a beautiful suite overlooking [...]

      Pimientos del Padrón

      Ingredients
      1 lb. Padrón peppers (80-100 peppers)
      3-4 cups olive oil
      Salt, large grain rock, Kosher, sel de mer, etc.
      Clean the peppers by rinsing them lightly. Dry them completely so they won’t splatter when they hit the hot oil. Leave the stems attached.
      Place the olive oil in a large skillet suitable for deep frying, like a cast iron [...]

      Review: ‘The Barcelona Cookbook’

      The Barcelona Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Wine and Life. Sasa Mahr-Batuz, Andy Pforzheimer. Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0740773945
      A cookbook about Barcelona? With recipes of all those great things I ate when I was there this spring? When I first heard about ‘The Barcelona Cookbook’ that’s exactly what [...]

      The Local Report – Auntie Em’s Kitchen

      4.2 miles, about 12 minutes, from my home in Atwater Village.
      I like my neighborhood. It feels like a neighborhood. In Los Angeles that’s saying something. Neighborhoods here can comprise large geographical areas. Maybe they’re actually more ‘areas’ than neighborhoods. I’ve lived in other areas of L.A.: the Fairfax district, Hollywood, [...]