Lara Rabinovitch
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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When a Foodie Feeds Her Baby
You are a mom and a woman! We get it! Find real world parenting advice and tips, fashion and beauty resources, and great conversation with moms like you! → Read More
This Couple Spent Six Months Eating Garbage
Premiering on World Food Day, the new documentary Just Eat It highlights American food waste from soup to nuts. → Read More
Recipes as Resistance
The man who invented the 'eggplant-parmesan rave' is out to save traditional Italian cooking. → Read More
When Foodies Fast
An interfaith panel of culinary experts sheds light on a time-honored spiritual practice. → Read More
Finally, Buckwheat Soba Porn
Watch the first videos from MAD4, the culinary world's most provocative gathering. → Read More
So You Think You’re a Foodie?
A sampling of the screwball comedies, sob stories, and sci-fis that anticipated our culinary moment → Read More
Politics by Yummier Means
Two chefs win over hearts, minds, and stomachs in Jerusalem. → Read More
The Last of the Famous International Nomads
While technomadism is growing, traditional nomadism is shrinking. Here’s a breakdown of some of today’s remaining itinerant peoples and their cultural traditions. → Read More
Why I Nominated Ron Finley for the GOOD100
Illustration by Lauren Tamaki Ron Finley, a.k.a. the “gangster gardener,” has a renegade approach to counteracting obesity and fast-food dependency: He takes over vacant or underused lots and uses them for urban farming. With aphorisms like “Drive-thrus are killing more people... → Read More
McDonalds: From the Golden Arches to the Golden Years
So McDonald's is now a cool place to hang for the above 70 years-old crowd. Apparently so cool that a McDonald's store in Queens, NY, just ignited a major controversy when managers called in police to remove a crowd of regular old timers allegedly loitering and taking up valuable real estate duri... → Read More
From Marley to Michelin: The Evolution of Weed Cooking
We've come a long way since herb-y pot brownies but are you ready to dine on foods like pumpernickel-marijuana croutons or hemp-smoked soft cheese at your next meal? At restaurants around the world gourmet cannabis is on the next frontier of, er, buzz-worthy cuisine. → Read More
Where Are The Women in Professional Kitchens? Some Advice for Future Female Chefs
One of the great ironies in the food industry is that even though millions of women around the world cook and provide meals to their families daily, there are few women employed in professional kitchens (outside of pastry). And the few high profile female chefs often get overlooked, as was the... → Read More
Best of 2013: The Year in Food
In the food world, 2013 may go down as the year of the cronut, but here are my picks for best food ideas of the year. Best Tech Innovation: Cultured Beef Funded in part by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the world’s first in-vitro hamburger, created by tissue engineer Dr. Mark Post, debut... → Read More
Why the Growing Movement to Legalize Food Carts in Los Angeles is so Important
Do you eat street food? I mean food served literally on the street--from shopping carts, bicycles, or makeshift stands--not just from bougie food trucks with wraparound graphics. There's a growing movement in Los Angeles to legalize sidewalk vending and this slideshow and article gives a sense of... → Read More
Manna from Minivans? A Roadkill Manifesto
This writer says we should all eat roadkill, or "accidental" meat. For example, over a million deer die each year in the United States to road accidents, why not make use of this otherwise wasted food? → Read More
Six Lessons from Street Food Pioneer Roy Choi
In Roy Choi's new memoir, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food, the Kogi food truck impresario lovingly describes the role of food, traditions, taking risks, and exploring your city. Here are six lessons Choi learned on his way to becoming a leading chef on → Read More