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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 subscribing to the Los Angeles Times Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most. short essays...

Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Intensive care unit bed capacity continues to diminish quickly in Los Angeles County, even as the county continues to reach new daily highs in coronavirus infections. The new one-day case total for Thursday stands at a staggering 12,741, while ICU availability fell to 7.7 percent — nearly 50 percent below the threshold set by California’s statewide Department of Public Health that led to the current stay-at-home order and regional shutdown of things like on-site outdoor dining. Per the Los Angeles Times, LA County is seeing double the num...

Rams Player's $50,000 Donation Helps Inglewood's Black-Owned Serving Spoon Restaurant Stay Afloat Gordon Tokumatsu Patrons pick up food at the Serving Spoon in Inglewood on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. Angela Johnson teared up as she put out a plea to help save the Serving Spoon that she and her husband, JC, have owned for four decades but was heading for disaster during the COVID-19 pandemic. "This is one of the hardest things I've had to do ever," she said as she choked back tears in a video posted on gofundme this week. "I don't want to sound like I'm begging. I'm just crying o...

Rams' Andrew Whitworth, wife donate $50K to Inglewood restaurant following emotional plea INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Rams' tackle Andrew Whitworth and his wife, Melissa Whitworth, donated $50,000 to The Serving Spoon in Inglewood following their emotional video plea asking the community to save their restaurant. The Serving Spoon is a well-known, Black-owned restaurant in Inglewood, serving the community for 37 years. During the pandemic, the restaurant has struggled like many restaurants across the country and in LA County. Melissa Whitworth saw the video plea from Angela Johnson on Wednesday throu...

Courtesy of Subject; Courtesy of Loloi Rugs Left: 'Station 19' star Boris Kodjoe, with son Nico, wearing masks by Gymwrap, a fitness brand the actor founded with wife Nicole Ari Parker. Right: Jungalow’s Justina Blakeney. "I’ve been pretty surprised that a lot of the support has been sustained," she says. While one owner says "'support Black' was just a fad for some" amid the summer’s racial justice protests, others report a continued increase in sales. Following the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 and the subsequent Black Lives Matter uprisings that swept the U.S., there was a...