Ever whip up a batch of cookies, tomato sauce, bread or chocolates and think "I wonder if I could sell this"? Many good home cooks with...
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Alex Palermo grew up with a German mother and an Italian father, but unless his dad was out of town, Italian cuisine always won. Palermo, food...
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When I met chef Noah Rosen, a native southern Californian whose resume includes stints at Melisse, Patina, Wilshire and BLT Steak, he was running the...
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People magazine named TV chef Curtis Stone one of its sexiest men of the year, and for good reason. Even if blond surfer dudes aren't normally your...
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Ray Garcia, who heads the kitchen at FIG restaurant in Santa Monica, gave up law school for cooking and has never looked back. Good thing, too,...
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Tongue is an unusual thing to find on Los Angeles menus, but it’s only one of the “exotic parts” dishes Ray Garcia serves at FIG in...
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Dana Slatkin, who used to make airline food (yes, really), wears many hats these days: cookbook author, cooking teacher, entertainer and mother of...
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Gisele Perez, owner and chef of small pleasures catering, worked in restaurants and hotels for more than 20 years before going to culinary school and...
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[Note: Daniela Galarza left Breadbar to pursue other culinary opportunities shortly after this interview.]You might do a double take when you hear...
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When Nathan Lyon sent me his photo for this feature, it took me a few minutes to figure out where he and I had met. Turns out it was at a Santa Monica...
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