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LOS ANGELES TIMES & LOS ANGELES TIMES MAGAZINE: Food/Arts/Entertainment
-“Chef, reinvented: If anyone epitomizes the idea of a Dadaist artist, it’s Roberto Cortez,” 2014
-“Big City Pickin’: Indie folk bands like Triple Chicken Foot take to the urban porch,” February 19, 2012
-“Rogues, nomads, dissident chefs: Underground restaurants are attracting an online generation of foodies,” November 8, 2006
-“Bill Okal, The congenial conjurer, still working his magic on street crowds in Santa Monica,” August 3, 2013
-“Clowning around: The next generation of clowns is ditching the Eight Clown Commandments, a code of ethics endorsed by the industry organization Clowns America International,” March 22, 2009
-“Popsicle furniture, the world of David Hrobowski, crafted one stick at a time,” May 7, 2014
-“Sisterhood of the Suds: Homebrewing calls to a new generation…and to women,” October 4, 2008
“The golden men’s club spa days: Aldous Huxley, Jim Backus and the era of hula hoop calisthenics,” October 10, 2009
-“Prudence Penny, Marion Manners: the first celebrity cooks when print newspapers took over the food airways,” Apr 22, 2009
-“The Artisan: A world of Turkish delight, tucked inside a strip mall shop, where C. S. Lewis’ “Chronicles of Narnia” fantasies come to life between the powder sugar-covered walls,” January 6, 2011
-“The Artisan: Marc Stambler of Pagnol Boulanger and the underground community of artisan bread bakers. May 31, 2011
-“The Artisan: Nanka Seimen; After a century, little has changed on the flour-dusted drying room where 75-year-old Soichi Sayano’s hand cut 100-foot-long noodles hang from racks and generations of family noodle makers, even neighbors in the most perilous war times, have kept tradition alive,” April 15, 2010
-“The Artisan: Master French pastry chef Yvan Valentin’s hand-crafted truffle magic is simple; ‘Respect the chocolate,’” February 10, 2011
-“The Artisan: At StoneGround Bakery, a staunch belief in rustic loves by one baker and an equally outspoken loyalty to buttery-soft challah by another unexpectedly unites the two,” September 2, 2010
-“The Artisan: A 1940s meat shop where a master sausage maker handmade German sausages share the counter with South African biltong and boerewors,” January 7, 2009
-“The Artisan: The go-to guy for hand-smoked fish was the chef at LA’s legendary L’Ermitage before firing up the smoker each day…but first, there’s his daily restaurant-worthy lunch to make for employees,” March 19, 2010
-“The Artisan: In East L.A., a family business built on community and chili bricks,” February 4, 2010
-“The Artisan: A former Chicago indie rock drummer has made—and gotten into—an awful lot of jams since moving to Echo Park nearly seven years ago,” March 24, 2011
-“The Artisan: A singsong sales pitch and a story about the invention of the cheeseburger at the former Pasadena diner Rite Spot begets a relish pivot,” July 1, 2010
-“The Artisan: Condiments with a side of 1930s Hollywood history,” May 13, 2010
-“The Artisan: The Cobbler Lady, cobbling things together, even when she had no place to call home,” August 17, 2010
-“The Artisan: La Mascota, a family-run Boyle Heights tradition that’s been serving up bolillos, tamales, and other Mexican classics for more than 50 years,” March 18, 2009
-“The Artisan: Kruegermann family’s peck of pickled products: At their hand-built, 60 year old Glassell Park factory, ‘fresh packs’ and naturally fermented sauerkraut are made the old-fashioned way,” June 17, 2009
-“Craft Beer: Craft brewers rethink rice in beer,” June 22, 2013
-“Craft Beer: American craft beer scene goes global,” June 17, 2013
-“Craft Beer: Hoppy with our honey wheat: brew-it-yourself booms,” September 13, 2006
-“Craft Spirits: Sober times for small artisan liquor makers,” February 11, 2010.
-Craft Spirits: “The swig easy: the history, the drinks; in New Orleans, it’s all about the cocktail,” December 30, 2007
-“Chefs, farmers join forces: beyond the farmers markets,” with recipes, January 22, 2012
-“Sotero Jaime always has a lunch date: The matriach of Jaime Farms still finds time each day to make a hot lunch for family, friends, and her crew of employees,” with recipes, April 29, 2010
-“Monkey Bread, it’s playdough for bakers:,” with recipes, October 21, 2009
-“Wildflower honey desserts: It’s a good time of year to be a honeybee,” February 9, 2009
-“Budino is BUDINO! It’s big flavor and texture hits you all at once,” with recipes, March 7, 2007
-“Sensuous, with smooth new style: Tapioca desserts are stepping out,” with recipes, October 4, 2006
-“A summer fruit-and-herb twist on pisco sours and caipirinhas,” with recipes, May 21, 2008
-“Cookbook watch: The plot thickens with dessert; Sherry Yard’s latest collection of recipes mark the milestones of her life,” February 13, 2008
“Prosecco cocktails: Juleps and ‘refreshers’ take on the negroni,” with recipes, June 6, 2007
-“Oysters…gone wild,” July 19, 2006
-“Backyard ‘cue basted in LA sensibility,” with recipes, June 28, 2006
TRIBUNE NEWS WIRE: Cocktail Columns (select)
-“Wine cocktails give second life to unloved vintages,” with recipes, January 28, 2009
-“Vinegar puts tang in your cocktail,” with recipes, May 7, 2008
-Garden variety cocktails, with recipes, August 8, 2007
-“These drinks pack a lighter punch,” with recipes, July 28, 2009
-“Chiles make cocktails of fire and ice,” with recipes, August 28, 2008
-“Prosecco cocktails,” with recipes, May 6, 2009
COOKING LIGHT
“Brassica and Brine: Old world fermenting meets Gen Y in these Los Angeles sauerkrauts”
“ChocoVivo, Patricia Tsai and the Stone Ground Revolution”
“Which came first, the jam or the gin? Nashville’s Bathtub Gin”
“Re:Find Distillery: Giving new life to grape juice from Paso Robles winemakers”
“California Farm Stays” “Redefining Freshly Ground: North Carolina’s Big Spoon Roasters