Julia Child

Jean Stapleton dies at 90; was Edith Bunker in 'All in the Family'

2013-06-01 17:40:00

Jean Stapleton, the actress who endeared herself to viewers in the 1970s as Edith Bunker, whose sudden bursts of truth regularly cut through her husband Archie's bluster on the groundbreaking television series "All in the Family," has died. She was 90....

Jean Stapleton, beyond Edith Bunker: a devoted theater actress

2013-06-03 06:30:00

Before her caterwauling duet of "Those Were the Days" with Carroll O'Connor became a signature moment of CBS' "All in the Family," actress Jean Stapleton had already sung her way through a number of now-classic stage musicals in her career as a New York...

Jean Stapleton was the sum of many parts: An appreciation

2013-06-02 11:19:00

Jean Stapleton, who died Friday at the age of 90, was 48 when she became famous as Edith Bunker in "All in the Family." By the time that landmark sitcom premiered in 1971, she had been acting for 30 years on the stage, in movies and on television,...

Good Girl Dinette serves breakfast; 'Dead Chefs' at The Residency; La Brea Bakery grilling

2013-05-31 15:21:00

Here are a few highlights from a flood of food events and news just in time for summer. ‘Dead Chefs’ at The Residency: Micha Wexler (formerly at Mezze) and Mike Kassar will combine forces with Umamicatessen’s The Residency in a “...

'Summer Tastes' at Jar, 'Dead Chefs' series, a Border Grill mescal dinner

2013-06-05 18:07:00

'Summer Tastes' at Jar: Chef Suzanne Tracht and her team are offering "Summer Tastes" at Jar, a three-course menu of seasonal eats. The menu, priced at $40 per person, will change each month and will be available nightly. The latest "Summer Taste" menu...

Ottolenghi and Tamimi's 'Jerusalem' named best cookbook by IACP

2013-04-10 12:17:00

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi’s “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” was named the best cookbook of the year by the International Assn. of Culinary Professionals on Tuesday night in San Francisco. The book focuses on the shared flavors and foods...

Recipes that speak plainly

2013-04-06 00:00:00

Ever since I picked up my first Elizabeth David book, I've been enamored of her prose recipe style. And by that I mean recipes written in a minimalist way, not in numbered steps, almost as a narrative. No long reel of ingredients. A few sentences or...

5 Questions for the Buffalo Club's Patrick Healy

2013-04-01 08:00:00

Patrick Healy is executive chef and managing partner of the Buffalo Club in Santa Monica. After training under chefs such as Alain Ducasse, Jean and Pierre Troisgros, Michel Guerard and Roger Verge in France for several years, Healy worked in Los...

Sorrel: Ancient edible wonder -- and potential headache

2013-02-12 08:40:00

For the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, sorrel soup was a harbinger of spring. The wild perennial, a plant tough enough to endure snow, has fed humans in Europe and Asia for thousands of years. Today, domesticated varieties are essential for...

Black truffles at Patina, Karneval at Wirsthaus, a Julia Child talk

2013-02-06 08:25:00

Patina’s black truffle dinners are back: Downtown L.A.’s Patina will be offering three-, five- and seven-course tasting menus during the restaurant’s annual black truffle dinner series today through Friday. This year’s menu will...

52 ways to leave your blubber

2012-12-29 00:00:00

This is the year you will resolve to ditch the diets, the "all or nothing" mentality and the "no-pain, no-gain" fitness goals. This is the year you will resolve to use common sense to eat less junk food, move more — and have fun doing it. Remember...

Could you work at Downton Abbey?

2013-01-04 11:32:00

I would bet you shillings to cents that at least 90% of the people who watch “Downton Abbey,” which returns to these TV shores on Sunday, would rather be the “upstairs” folk, the titled Crawley family, than the “downstairs&...

The standard: Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is such an iconic book that few publishers have used similar titles. Cookbooks that use the wording invite scrutiny, say industry insiders.

2013-05-29 08:21:28

The front of Julia Child's former home, now a cooking school run by Chef Kathie Alex, in Provence.

2013-05-21 16:39:21

Savory side: Julia Child taught us everything we know about crepes: They cook in less than a minute, they can be made days ahead, and they taste great sweet or savory.

2013-04-27 15:06:20