A cooking workshop at the Getty Villa prepares dishes that were the fusion of two millenia ago -- the merging of Gaul and Roman foods in modern-day France.
"We are demonstrating ... what role a great public research university can play to address a challenge for the state, for the country, and for the world."
Sure, come summer you can drink up beers with blonde or light or even worse lite in their names, or you can pour yourself something with some flavor that still won't weigh you down or heat you up
"For Chinese food to climb up in the gastronomical hierarchy, there needs to be more well-trained professionals, and we need more celebrity Chinese chefs."
It's a common national perception of Chinese food in Los Angeles: visitors seem perpetually surprised that the Chinatown of yesteryear has died, even though its death happened 35 years ago.