Every week, Good Food’s Music Supervisor Gary Mecija selects a song to cook by.

Jason Wise’s SOMM takes audiences inside the Court of Master Sommeliers, the prestigious organization of the world’s best wine experts. What does it take to pass the Master Sommelier Exam? A whole lot, you’ll learn, at this advance screening and wine tasting at Montage Laguna Beach this Saturday, June 15, from 5:45 p.m. to 9 p.m.
That is, if you win our ticket giveaway. Snag a …

Could you feed your family on $22.26 for four?  That was the gauntlet we threw down for four LA chefs last week.   Asked to create a meal spending the amount budgeted under SNAP, the food assistance program all chef’s bought produce provided by local farmers Alex Weiser and Phil McGrath (who work to support the Council). Last Friday was CelebrateLA, a big public party …

Every week on the Good Food Blog we celebrate Meatless Monday by sharing a vegetarian recipe from our archives.

Abby Dodge is an editor at Fine Cooking magazine. She first shared this recipe for Apricots with Moscato and Thyme Syrup on June 19, 2004.

Summertime always brings us lots of opportunities to support great organizations by eating really well.  All we have to do is choose our event and buy a little something to eat. This Sunday there are two events I’d like to share.  If you have good time management skills you could even manage to do both of them.
You can start your morning at The Hollywood Farmers …

Today on Good Food, Chef Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy talks about the challenge of cooking vegetables versus meat. She explains that unlike meat, vegetables are mostly water and often uniform in structure. To achieve the same satisfaction we get from the Maillard reaction when cooking a steak, she suggests smoking your veggies.

We’re going on a Dosa Hunt folks and it’s happening on Instagram.
After interviewing Amrit Singh about his short film Dosa Hunt, Evan and I could not get dosa out of our heads. Evan calls this “suggestive eating” and I call it a hazard of the job.
In an effort to find the best dosa in the Southland, we’re starting our own dosa hunt on instagram. …

This week on the Market Report Chef Brooke Williamson talks to Laura Avery about the Grilled Artichokes with Umami Butter that she serves at her restaurant The Tripel in Playa del Rey. She first steams the artichokes in acidulated water, then grills them until charred. Before service she sautees a few tablespoons of housemade “umami butter” (recipe follows) with radishes and serves them atop …

Los Angeles is known for great street food and those craveable ears of grilled corn slathered with mayo, chile and grated cheese are one of our most iconic street eats.

In their new cookbook Lust for Leaf: Vegetarian Noshes, Bashes and Everyday Great Eats – the Hot Knives Way, Alex Brown and Evan George (who go by the alias Hot Knives) update this summertime treat for the backyard.

Have you heard of 3D printers? The newfangled machines have created everything from clothing to guns using a digital model to print layer upon layer of material.

Well, now they’re printing food!