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The Mexican celebration of Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, goes beyond trick-or-treat to honor those who passed, and remind us of what they loved and why we loved them.

Don Guerra, a leader of the local-grain movement in Tucson, is challenging others to reimagine craft baking with an eye toward its Latino and Indigenous roots.

Chef Melissa Ortiz used to cook at the Afghanistan consulate in Kabul, and now she’s launching one of Long Beach’s most ambitious new dinners

Eddie Sanchez There’s a surprising new restaurant to know about in Arcadia this week, as the Le Méridien Pasadena Arcadia hotel prepares to open its anchor restaurant Mélange to the world. The project is centered around the food of chef Makoto Tanaka, a Japanese native and longtime Angeleno who opened Chinois on Main with Wolfgang Puck before emerging as the executive chef of Spago pre-2000. Tanaka also ran his popular namesake restaurant Mako for more than a decade in Beverly Hills, before...

Kristin Colazas-Rodriguez, owner of Colossus Bread, which has one location in San Pedro and is opening another in Long Beach. (Josh Solis) If you had told Kristin Colazas-Rodriguez five years ago that she would one day become a major player in the Long Beach bread scene, she probably wouldve rolled her eyes and shrugged it off. After earning a bachelors degree in history and economics from Cal State Long Beach, she spent three years working as a pastry cook, sous chef and bread baker, first in ...

Governor Gavin Newsom appointed native Angeleno Alex Padilla to the vacant California Senate seat left behind by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris yesterday, marking the first time a Latino U.S. Senator has emerged from the state of California. Padilla, a San Fernando Valley native, has often discussed his immigrant parents over the years, including in a press release sent wide yesterday, but here’s where things get interesting: Padilla’s father, Santos, was apparently a longtime, beloved ...

Fabulous desserts for the holidays 70 Recipes Life is uncertain. Make dessert first. Dec. 20, 2020 Remember how, as a kid, you would painstakingly eat every last carrot and pea on your dinner plate only to have your mom give you a slice of cantaloupe or a banana at the end of the meal and call it dessert? Don’t get me wrong. I love fruit. But fruit is not dessert, even when eaten at the end of a meal. As I child, I had difficulty articulating the argument, but some ye...