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OK, let's all make fun of the Valley now and get it out of our systems. Because here's the thing: there's a lot of fun history here, and some interesting restaurants.
That I'm writing my harvest column a month earlier than last year, which featured winemakers talking about the surprisingly early 2014 harvest, is a hint something historic is afoot. Welcome to Drought Does California, 2015 edition.
A small school district in Marin County is paving the way for a school lunch revolution. Even for districts without deep pockets.
This tree-lined little slice of yoga-panted civility in the middle of the city has a surprisingly varied food scene. And only some of it will make you roll your eyes.
By most accounts, the first Japanese-owned business, a restaurant owned by a former seaman, opened in Little Tokyo in 1886, in an era when racial covenants barred people of color from living in many neighborhoods. Now everyone wants to be here.
Before it was called "America's first suburban Chinatown," Monterey Park was home to white and Mexican settlers and Japanese farmers. In the 1950s it was called "the Mexican Beverly Hills."
Fermented tea leaf salad is popular up in the Bay Area and is starting to pop up on the menus of trendier fusion restaurants here in L.A.
Pinot noir and chardonnay from the Santa Lucia Highlands Appellation are finally getting attention and appreciation from wine drinkers.
"A monoculture system doesn't actually provide very good conditions to support our native pollinator communities."
Ice cream is it, everyone. Los Angeles has moved on from frozen yogurt and is ready for the big guns. The big full-fat guns.
Hiking on the San Luis Obispo county's innumerable miles of trails takes in many of the Central Coast's subtle beauties, from mountaintops to remote beaches.