Sarah Bennett
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Music Tastes Good is Changing the Way Chefs do Fests
From the beginning, Music Tastes Good declared itself something different. As the number of boutique music fests exploded in the summer of 2016—each with its own impressive lineup and curatorial angle—the late Long Beach musician Josh Fischel got a team of local culture lovers together (along with a → Read More
Jonathan Gold solidified O.C.’s culinary reputation by naming Taco Maria Restaurant of the Year
If O.C. is not the uninspired suburban sprawl and chain restaurants frequented by soccer moms and church dads (as all the clichés say), then what, exactly, is it? → Read More
O.C.-based vegan Mexican pop-ups are having a moment right now
A pop-up culture more aligned with the new wave of modern Mexican is seeing both immigrant and their second-generation children rethinking what traditional Mexican food can and should be. About a dozen or so vegan Mexican chefs and bakers are eliminating meat, eggs and dairy from their food. → Read More
Want a doughnut with that hamburger? Orange County shops offer the peculiar duo
More than a few places in Orange County have a sturdy reputation of serving the strange duo of doughnuts and burgers from behind the same counter, a concept that continues to work for businesses both new and old. → Read More
Tux & Chucks Makes Loaded Fusion Food in Long Beach’s Fabulous West
Tux & Chucks started as a weekends-only catering company in 2013 with little more than a portable grill manned by three guys wearing tuxedo shirts and Chuck Taylor Converses. → Read More
Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken Opens Third West Coast Location in Long Beach
Long Beach marks the 24th outpost of the rapidly expanding “hot and spicy” fried chicken brand, which landed in L.A. with its much-hyped first West... → Read More
Long Beach's Pizzanista Caters to Skaters But You Should Eat Slices There Too
At the 2-year-old Long Beach location, its second, East Coast style lives on in both the rare selling of individual slices and the New York aesthetic... → Read More
Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice is hearty winter comfort food
Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice opened its first restaurant in Ji Nan, Shandong Province in 2011 and has since franchised more than 6,000 locations across China, Australia, Japan and Singapore, with its first U.S. location opening in Tustin in September 2017. → Read More
The Success of Today's Latin Artists Moves Music Further Toward Its Multicultural Future
From our perch in Southern California, there is no new Latin invasion, no Latin explosion and no Latin boom. → Read More
Chef Roq Is Back in Long Beach, Cooking Global Comfort Food at Lasher's Kitchen
Lasher’s Kitchen might look more like a wine bar than a full-on restaurant, yet it’s secretly home to some of Jubran’s most exciting work yet. → Read More
Cooking up healthy recipes and teaching culinary skills at a children’s cancer hospital
For five years, nonprofit MaxLove’s culinary medicine program, known as Fierce Foods Academy, has offered monthly cooking classes for pediatric cancer patients hosted by some of Orange County’s biggest chefs. → Read More
Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters continue to pop up alongside food in O.C.
Visitors to Tanaka Farms’ annual pumpkin patch and Christmas tree lot this fall were greeted by a few familiar, if unexpected, faces: Hello Kitty, Pochacco, Keroppi, My Melody and Chococat. → Read More
Sariñana’s Tamale Factory churns out thousands of traditional treats
At Sariñana’s Tamale Factory in Santa Ana, descendants of of the original owners — who immigrated to Orange County in 1921 — spend all of December in the building's industrial kitchen, kneading and rolling thousands of tamales. → Read More
Romeo Chocolates Is Long Beach's Own Globally Inspired Confectioner
Romeo Garcia is Filipino and an avid world traveler, lending his chocolates a global perspective not often found in the hipster-clichéd bean-to-bar... → Read More
With Tea Samplers and Bangkok Street Food, Manaow Is Long Beach's Coolest Thai Restaurant
Nothing about Manaow's menu or setting relies on cliche. → Read More
Here’s how to start exploring Buena Park’s Koreatown restaurants
Buena Park's growing Koreatown is becoming a counterpart to Garden Grove's Little Seoul, offering an increasing diversity of dining options. → Read More
Long Beach Has a New Place for Cheap Mariscos and All the Hot Sauces You Could Ever Want
Playas Ceviche & Tortas, on the corner of Carson and Norse Way just a block from Long Beach City College. As the name implies, this airy storefront... → Read More
First Taste of Cambodia Town Will Use Produce From Maye Center's Healing Garden
For the Cambodian immigrants who have made this community center into a second home, the process — of working with the earth as a way to work through... → Read More
Tropicalia Festival in Long Beach Was a Celebration of Latinx Music and Culture in 2017
Even with a lineup heavy on heritage acts, from The Delfonics to Los Tigres del Norte, the new festival felt like a glimpse of America's future: young,... → Read More
Six Old-School Latin Acts Not to Miss at Tropicália Music and Taco Fest This Weekend
Though the lineup includes local Latin-alt newcomers like Chicano Batman, Cuco, Buyepongo and Thee Commons, the most impressive lure for Tropicália is... → Read More