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Event Alert: Support the Bocuse d’Or USA Foundation
What: Sometimes called the Olympics of culinary competitions, Bocuse d’Or (named for French chef Paul Bocuse) takes place every year in Lyon, France. Groups of chefs representing different countries...
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Forget Pumpkins, Wild Game Offers a True Taste of Fall
What’s the deal with pumpkins in 2014? Understandably it’s a popular seasonal item, and so media outlets are somewhat obligated to cover it. But it seems to have reached fever pitch in a way that’s...
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The Owners of La Dolce Vita and Mélisse on the Intersection of Food and Driving
A love of cars isn’t a prerequisite for working in the food business, but it doesn’t hurt, especially if you’re based in Southern California. Recently, I had a chance to spend some time with two men...
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Foie Your Consideration: Chefs Rejoice and Make Their Foie Gras Orders
It didn’t take L.A.’s chefs long to start re-planning their menus after today’s momentous news that selling foie gras is legal again in California. “We are really excited to be given the opportunity to...
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Santa Monica Farmers Market Report: Cherimoyas, aka Ice Cream Fruit
If there were a contest for the weirdest fruit at the farmers’ market, cherimoyas would take home the gold. The name alone is a hurdle, and then there’s the fruit itself. The skin is at once bright and...
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Eat Caviar and Pudding for a Cause
For the second year in a row, Eat (Red) Drink (Red) Saves Lives will be raising money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS with the help of L.A. restaurants, bars, and food trucks. The month-long event...
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Josiah Citrin Just Wants to Make You Some Really Tasty Chicken
There are blackened heads of cabbage splayed out on a slab of dusty, unfinished wood. Like most of the dishes that will populate the menu at Charcoal—Josiah Citrin’s fire-obsessed restaurant set to...
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You’re Invited to Josiah Citrin’s Super Chillaxed Backyard Barbecue
When we hung out with Josiah Citrin a few months ago, he spoke about Mélisse the way a band might speak about a hit song it can’t quite escape: “With Mélisse, people say they crave it and they want to...
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7 Food Events Not to Miss in March
PPLA Food Fare This annual food and wine event returns this year with big culinary names, like Brooke Williamson and Nick Roberts, Celestino Drago, Suzanne Goin, Joe Miller, Susan Feniger, Mary Sue...
View ArticleJosiah Citrin’s Reimagined Melisse Debuts Alongside Sister Spot Citrin
In the middle of 2018, chef Josiah Citrin was at a crossroads. The lease for Melisse, the Santa Monica tasting-menu institution he had operated for nearly two decades, was ending in 2019. He had earned...
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