Mexican Food

Taste of Mexico restaurants tout authentic flavors

2013-05-18 08:00:00

When Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu opened their Bell restaurant 15 years ago, some customers wondered if they knew how to cook. Accustomed to Mexican food laden with sour cream, melted cheddar cheese and mild salsa that has long been served...

Bertha Haffner-Ginger, godmother of the Mexican food craze

2012-04-21 00:00:00

Long before Rick Bayless, the Too Hot Tamales and even Diana Kennedy, there was another teacher and cookbook writer who introduced authentic Mexican food to a wider American audience. Though she is all but unknown today, at the turn of the 20th century...

Food FYI: 'There is no such thing as authenticity!'

2012-04-12 16:34:02

Festival of Books: Don't try to find authentic anything, food writers say

2012-04-22 21:35:53

[Chef Change] The Review: Red O

2010-08-05 00:00:00

Pull up in front of the new Red O on Melrose and, before deigning to take your car, a valet in an embroidered guayabera and natty straw hat will lean into the window to ask, politely, if you've got a reservation. It's Mozza all over again. No reservation,...

3 food events you should know about: Share Our Strength benefit at Test Kitchen; Taste of Mexico; dinner for Barbara Fairchild at Eva

2010-12-01 16:32:46

The joys of Mexican vegetarian dishes

2011-04-07 00:00:00

My Mexican grandfather used to say that salads were for rabbits. My Mexican father thinks a good steak cures any stomach ailment. And a Mexican friend used to joke that a pet pig that lived near my old Westside neighborhood would last approximately two...

Todos Santos: All you want — and less — in a Baja getaway

2010-03-07 00:00:00

Once upon a time, say about 1972, Cabo San Lucas was a sleepy little fishing town at the southern tip of Baja California. Then came the paved highway, the international airport, the marina, the golf courses, the raucous bars and well-heeled retreats. At...

With so many Zacatecans in L.A., why is the best cooking still found at home?

2010-03-18 00:00:00

I just heard the tragic news: My cheese smuggler died. He was from my dad's native rancho of Jomulquillo in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas, a quesero whom hundreds depended on for their queso a�ejo, a thick, salty fromage unique to the region...

A Mexican food quiz, meatless Mondays, Happy Meal hoopla and more

2010-05-05 16:32:53

Mayan tasting dinners at Chichen Itza restaurant

2010-02-19 21:32:49

Rocker Dexter Holland's spicy offspring: Gringo Bandito hot sauce

2009-01-07 00:00:00

The Red Hot Chili Peppers, fittingly, are singing about the City of Angels on the jukebox when Dexter Holland walks into a Long Beach bar at lunchtime, pulls off his sunglasses and reaches for a menu. Like the members of the Chili Peppers, Holland is a...

Tee Pee Mexican Food has been in operation for about 40 years, so customers sit in the same red pleather booths as did their grandparents, enjoying tacos, tostadas and a souffle-inspired chile relleno.

2013-04-23 16:28:24

This film reimagines Ang Lee 's "Eat Drink Man Woman" patriarch widower chef and his three daughters as Mexican-Americans dealing with issues of assimilation as well as their own tricky relationships.

2009-08-10 13:26:18

The verdolaga, cilantro, tomato and tortilla salad with cotija vinaigrette.

2009-06-21 11:23:36