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Laurie Ochoa is general manager of Food at the Los Angeles Times.

Jonathan Whitener, celebrated local chef of Here's Looking at You and All Day Baby, has died at age 36.

This roving trailer serves perfect flautas Los Dorados L.A. owner Steven Orozco Torres, center, and his crew members Dru Barrera, bottom, and Pablo Perez. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) April 3, 2021 6:30 AM PT The flautas that pass through the window from the trailer of Los Dorados L.A. come two to an order. Long, thin and fried to shattering, they are filled with your choice of four fillings: lamb barbacoa, chicken tinga, seasoned potato or homemade chorizo. Owner Steven Orozco...

What We’re Into: The brilliant namesake tahchin from Golden Rice Co. [Los Angeles Times] This week on our video series “What We’re Into,” we’re talking about the gorgeous specialty of Golden Rice Co., a weekend pop-up operating out of Bootsy Bellows in West Hollywood. This is Farah Parsa’s variation on the traditional Iranian dish tahchin, saturated with the flavor and color of saffron, light from the addition of yogurt and given crunch from a dome of tahdig, the crisp layer of rice...

This week on our video series “What We’re Into,” we’re talking about the gorgeous specialty of Golden Rice Co., a weekend pop-up operating out of Bootsy Bellows in West Hollywood. This is Farah Parsa’s variation on the traditional Iranian dish tahchin, saturated with the flavor and color of saffron, light from the addition of yogurt and given crunch from a dome of tahdig, the crisp layer of rice formed on the bottom of the pot. A few handfuls of ruby barberries have been scattered o...

Here’s your weekly rundown of Eastside dining and shopping news. Tamale sales have dramatically declined due to families not gathering during this holiday season, the Los Angeles Times reports. One restaurant that is feeling the hit is Tamale’s Liliana in Boyle Heights. Owner Juan Manual Santoyo said that he normally sells 40,000 tamales on Thanksgiving Day, but this year he hasn’t even reached 20,000. KCRW spotlights Silver Lakes El Conchinto restaurant in its Good Food serie...

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...