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Recipe: Candied kumquat mojito

2013-05-22 17:55:00

� Total time: 20 minutes, plus macerating time Servings: 1 Note: From Peter Birmingham at Norman's, where the drink is made with Ron Matusalem Platino rum. Birmingham also recommends Bacardi Silver or Cruzan Estate Light rum. You'll have enough...

Destination Cocktail: Horchata Colada

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Sometimes a cocktail is as good as a meal. That's certainly the case with a big, bold summer drink called the Horchata Colada. Created by Paul Sofsky for the new Mexican restaurant El Corazon de Costa Mesa at the Triangle in Costa Mesa, the concoction...

Pineapple tempura, Stella Barra morning bun and other things we want in our mouths now

2013-05-06 14:42:00

If you have a stomach, Monday morning's #Weekendeats chat on Twitter was guaranteed to make you hungry. Bacon doughnuts, pineapple tempura, morning buns covered in sugar and everyone's Cinco de Mayo eats made for a seriously envy-filled discussion. Here...

From Lakers insider to food truck driver

2013-02-28 17:16:00

The hand that once wrote about daily NBA schedules on a greaseboard in the Lakers' locker room now composes daily specials on a surfboard propped against a sunset-colored truck. Kona Sunset Shrimp Tacos, two for $7. The distinctive voice that once...

Jamba Juice tries new stores (drive-throughs!), juices (kale!)

2013-02-28 05:00:00

Jamba Juice is about to live up to its name. The Bay Area company is best known for smoothies such as Mango-a-Go-Go and Razzmatazz. But starting Thursday, it’s throwing the blender at fresh-squeezed juices and expanding its current lineup of...

Alec Baldwin at odds with a photog, but bringing home the melon

2013-02-18 17:21:00

Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, have a paparazzi problem again, one that on Monday had him running to the store — literally — and her pulling out of teaching yoga classes for a week. Baldwin on Sunday reportedly had an incident...

Sundance 2013: David Gordon Green, back after 'Pineapple Express'

2013-01-22 00:00:00

PARK CITY, Utah — “It’s been awhile,” director David Gordon Green said as we shook hands on Sunday. Indeed it had. It was, in fact, 10 years almost to the day since I’d interviewed Green at the Sundance Film Festival, and...

After morning showers, clear skies expected for Southern California

2012-12-03 06:24:08

Heavier rain headed for Los Angeles this weekend, forecasters say

2012-11-30 09:03:57

Homegrown pineapple? In L.A., it's possible

2012-11-06 20:10:00

Nancy Howell has been at Ocean View Farms community garden in Mar Vista since it opened in 1977. She grows crops common to many plots -- artichokes, squash and beans. However, one neat planting box contains something strikingly exotic: pineapple. When...

Starbucks' Evolution Fresh to open Rancho Cucamonga juice factory

2012-08-15 13:05:00

Starbucks is opening a hi-tech juice-making facility in Rancho Cucamonga next year that the company said will quadruple the production and distribution capacity of its Evolution Fresh business. The 260,000-square-foot factory will create 160...

Dietary cleanses rise in popularity, but there are risks

2012-06-09 00:00:00

To the rational mind, the notion of willingly depriving oneself of food for days on end seems illogical, at best. Basic biology, after all, dictates that calories are necessary to sustain everyday functioning and that low levels of, say, iron or potassium...

Pineapple tempura, among has the crunch of the tempura and the sweetness of the pineapple.

2013-05-06 12:34:57

Here's what I know about these drinks. They cost somewhere around $69, you see no less than 12 people drinking out of them at every fest you go to, yet none of your friends have ever tried one. Pineapple people, you are the true outliers.

2013-05-02 08:47:00

The leather gaiters worn by a young George Morikami in this 1907 file photo were typical of pineapple farmers and served to protect the lower legs from the stiff spiny leaves of the pineapple plant.

2013-04-24 14:57:00