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Print Breaking with his predecessor’s approach, President Biden wants the U.S. to take a lead role in the worldwide vaccine effort. TOP STORIES Biden Thinks Globally on COVID-19 President Biden will announce today his plan for the United States to contribute $4 billion to the global fight against COVID-19, stepping into an international leadership role that his predecessor had abandoned during the pandemic. Senior administration officials said that half of the money, which was approved by Con...

Last month, I picked up breakfast from Today Starts Here in Chinatown and spread out the haul on a table at home. Where to start? Daikon cakes flecked with shiitakes and fried shallots, or oblong shao bing filled with scrambled eggs, or dan bing, the rolled Taiwanese egg crepe filled with cabbage and corn? We’d get to them, but first my partner and I lunged for the purple sticky rice fan tuan. I’d cut the roll in half to reveal its center: crackling youtiao, revealing caverns of fried dough...

2018 Root One Cabernet Sauvignon #06-2021 Subscribe The Root One Cabernet Sauvignon from Chile is the bargain hunters dream come true. This ten dollar Cab from South America drinks like a fifteen and up Cab from California! It is not a great wine, but it sure was good with a dish of Chicken Parmesan with Spaghetti Marinara on the side. It is a pretty dark red in color, with a nose which broadcasts the scent of ripe berries. The flavors are dark berries, mixed with black cherry, and a taste of t...

Last week I was messaging with my friend Deno, who lives in San Francisco and was a chef in a previous life. We were texting about how much we were cooking, and somehow we rolled the subject around to peppercorns and I mentioned the spice brand Diaspora Co. He hadn’t heard of it. Go look up the black pepper they sell, I urged him. “I see the comments for the pepper say things like ‘aromatic as ----,’” he shot back. That Diaspora Co. was new to him was a good reminder that my job can ...

Wine Press - Aperture Cellars Focuses On Creating Outstanding Wines in Sonoma County Updated Jan 25, 2021; Facebook Share But if it wasn’t for photography, Jesse Katz probably never would have become a renowned winemaker. Katz’s long journey to becoming a winemaker can be traced back to his father, Andy, a professional photographer. “My father had always been a photographer,” Katz said during a recent interview. “He used to do rock and roll album covers for The Doobie Brothers and Da...

Race, restaurants and the messiness of friendship John O. Morisano and Mashama Bailey. (Marcus Kenney) Jan. 23, 2021 6 AM PT Print When the Grey opened in Savannah, Ga., late in 2014, the national food media instantly latched onto the restaurant’s unlikely origin story: New York venture capitalist and first-time restaurateur John O. Morisano purchased a once-grand former Greyhound bus depot that operated until 1964. Pre-renovation, he could see where waiting areas and restrooms had b...

Amina Khan, and it’s Friday, Jan. 15. Because of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, we’ll next be back in your inbox on Tuesday. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus, plus ways to spend your weekend and a look at some of the week’s best stories. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive pro...

Three spectacular pizzerias I hope will stick around The Patate — topped with potatoes, raclette and other cheeses and rosemary — from La Morra Pizzeria in Beverly Grove. (Bill Addison/Los Angeles Times) Jan. 16, 2021 6 AM PT “Numbers 22, 26, 24,” calls out one of the staff members at Elio’s Wood Fire Pizza. She stands at the front of a tent set up in the parking lot of Circle H Markets & Liquor; it’s on the stretch of Sunset Boulevard where Echo Park meets Silver Lake. Bo...

How do we even begin to make any larger, lasting sense of 2020 — the loss of lives and livelihoods, the government failures and the tapped reserves of fortitude and ingenuity and kindness? Flipping a calendar page to a new year doesn’t make everything suddenly better, but I’m going to trust the world won’t look quite as dire by next December. For the final 2020 installment of the Tasting Notes newsletter (thank you for subscribing and reading!), it felt appropriate to round up the year�...

Read the 101 online or in print (Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times) Dec. 12, 2020 6:30 AM PT The mega-project that Patricia Escárcega and I spend months on each year is here! Its official title is “101 Restaurants, Dishes, People and Ideas That Define How We Eat” — a mouthful of a name that barely expresses the devastation of 2020 and the resilience that the restaurant industry continuously puts forth to survive this crisis. Enjoying this newsletter? Consider subscrib...