Celebrity Chefs

This week we explore the richness of LA’s dining scene. Marvin Gapultos shares some of his favorite Filipino dishes from his new cookbook The Adobo Road and Roy Choi discusses his unabashed love of SPAM. Los Angeles Magazine Dine Editor Lesley Barger Suter offers tips on sushi etiquette and where to find some of the best sushi in LA. Jonathan Gold enjoys a deconstructed …

Last year, UCLA saw the likes of Rene Redzepi, David Chang and Nathan Myhrvold roaming the campus as they all took the podium for the Science & Food lecture series curated by Professor Amy Rowat. This year’s participants are equally as impressive. The lineup includes Chef Alex Atala, Chef Alice Waters, and culminates with a lecture close to the hearts of those of us at Good Food, The Science of Pie, with Momofuku’s Christina Tosi and Los Angeles’ very own Zoe Nathan…

Lately I have the feeling that if I started eating out every night it would take me about a year to try all the new, newish, not-so-new, and already classic places that somehow I’ve managed to miss.  Well, that’s what DineLA is all about, helping you catch up to what might become your new favorites.

Here’s what’s so helpful about it.  There is a list …

Executive Pastry Chef Sherry Yard (and headlining judge at the 4th Annual Good Food Pie Contest!) has been dubbed the “princess of pastry” by Wolfgang Puck. She worked at his restaurant Spago for over 18 years and reflects on her ascent in her Guest DJ set as she prepares to open her own bakery. From Don McLean’s “American Pie” to a song from Pink, which happens to …

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If you live in LaLaLand and fancy yourself a fine home cook, here’s your opportunity to be a Food Network star.

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Last week I spent 24 hours in Tijuana and Ensenada with a couple of colleagues.  The goal was to eat continuously with a break for sleeping.  The other goal was to not regret it on our trip home.  So this eating excursion was more about getting oriented to the excellence available close by in Northern Baja without getting all macho about consuming mass quantities. …

I don’t know about you but food movies inspire my culinary mojo as much as any cookbook or chef memoir.  Babette’s Feast, Tampopo, Eat Drink Man Woman.  All moving, strange sometimes dreamlike evocations of how love and/or use of food infects human behavior.  So I’m excited to get to spend some time with superb culinarian Michael Voltaggio on Wednesday evening (yes, tomorrow night) talking …

Last Saturday on Good Food, Laura Avery talked to Nyesha Arrington, Executive Chef at Wilshire, about her Aprium Chutney. Nyesha has made this chutney with other stone fruit before including plumcots and apricots. In this application she uses apriums and pairs it with chicken liver terrine, wild arugula and toasted brioche. She says paired with a glass of rose and a seat on Wilshire’s patio …