A.M. Tacos

There are two kinds of weekend breakfasts: the kind where you're either up late enough, or hungover enough, that garlicky guacamole sounds A-OK, and the kind where you have to make do with a slice of avocado and a couple twists of black pepper. This past …

Saint Moylans

Happy Green Day! We celebrated last St. Patrick's Day with a bang, it was a Sunday after all, so rolling out of bed into a glass of Harp lager and frying off an Irish breakfast special was a lot easier. Still, we feel so guilty having nothing quirkier to …

Split Spear Salad

In the spirit of the first weeks of spring, that seasonal shred of time that all locavores, even us in L.A. share, here comes the asparagus. It's crack to Barbara Kingsolver and we agree. Here we nearly sliced the spears spider web thin and dressed 'em down for …

Tea Party

Reserved for the swankest occasions, the tea party is a gilded gift of spring. We go goo-goo over few party precepts like the garden soiree (it's a celebration) that's all finger treats and fragrant spirits and such. Fragfile toasts, like "To accomplishing …

Fa-latkes

Sometimes kooky fusion combos are better, more soulful, when improvised on the spot rather than pre-meditated. This one was borne from us being too tired, lazy, brain-dead and starving on a weekday night to be pithy or political with our pairings.

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Alex's Weekly Workout

Parmigiano-Reggiano is an unyielding behemoth of a cheese.

The eighty-eight pound monster you see above is two and a half years old, and took approximately 550 liters (145 gallons) of raw milk to produce. Portioning one of the Kings of cheese takes …