chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Animal
This tiny neighborhood bistro is a full-on salute to pork, and that doesn’t seem to bother the owners of the kosher bakery next door.
10.21.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- first taste,
- los angeles,
- jon shook,
- vinny dotolo
food + cooking
Zucchini, and Then Some
This offer comes with a recipe from Nancy Silverton that’s as easy as it is delicious.
09.22.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- ingredients,
- produce,
- nancy silverton,
- summer
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: Anisette Brasserie
With a glorious selection of French favorites, it’s impossible not to like chef Alain Giraud’s new restaurant.
08.29.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- first taste,
- los angeles,
- alain giraud,
- french
food + cooking
A Huckleberry Milkshake Epiphany
My recent trip to Montana taught me that the huckleberry’s finest use is in milkshakes—frothy, pale-lavender delights.
08.18.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- ingredients,
- fruit,
- ice cream,
- summer
chefs + restaurants
The Taco-Truck Crackdown Begins
A new Los Angeles law targets mobile food vendors and kills their chances of succeeding.
07.01.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- restaurant notes,
- culinary culture,
- los angeles,
- mexican
chefs + restaurants
Saying “I Do” to Doughnuts in L.A.
For their wedding “reception,” my friends Dave and Alonso staged a feel-good feast at Bob’s Coffee and Doughnuts.
06.27.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- restaurant notes,
- los angeles,
- culinary culture,
- dessert
food + cooking
Cooking Under Pressure
In a new film, three inner city teens transform themselves by mastering seven-sided potato tournées.
06.18.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- culinary culture,
- chefs,
- los angeles,
- film
food + cooking
The Best Tortillas in Town
The thinnest, most delicate flour tortillas you’ll ever taste come from a butcher shop.
04.14.08
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- ingredients,
- mexican,
- shopping
chefs + restaurants
First Taste: LAMILL Coffee Boutique
On paper, LAMILL Coffee Boutique sounds like a send-up of Los Angeles chic as imagined by a Saturday Night Live sketch writer. The truth is, the vibe is full-on enthusiastic coffee geek....
02.20.08
- Keywords
- first taste,
- margy rochlin,
- beverage,
- los angeles
magazine
Les Is More
From Louisiana Cajuns to Polish polka enthusiasts, filmmaker Les Blank uses cuisine as a backstage pass to other ethnic worlds.
September 2004
- Keywords
- margy rochlin,
- southern u.s.,
- travel,
- film,
- culinary culture