Husband and Wife Team Offer Exciting, Eclectic Menu at Setá Dine:Lounge
A perfect pair are infusing ethnic cuisines to create a contemporary American menu and drinks at Setá Dine:Lounge in Uptown Whittier that breathes new life in this neighborhood’s restaurant scene. As we walked into the upscale and hip restaurant at 13033 Philadelphia Avenue, Executive Chef Hugo Molina came out to greet and personally take us to […]
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MICHELADA RECIPE
I can’t even begin to tell you how an ice cold Michelada has rescued me. It’s 11 a.m. on a Saturday morning. My eyes burn, stomach turns and even my teeth hurt. The only audible sound is the leaf blower from my neighbor’s gardener. Anything past 2 a.m. is a blur. Slowly, I crawl out of bed […]
Continue ReadingBook Review: Try This
Try This: Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table By Danyelle Freeman Dear Foodies, you personally may or may not need the following book, but I think it is an important book in the new culinary landscape that is America. Try This is a restaurant guide that aims to help people break out of a restaurant […]
Continue ReadingPorts O’ Call in San Pedro May Be The Closest Thing to Puerto Nuevo…Maybe
Road trip!! A smile washes over my face when I think about weekend road trips to Baja California with friends. Those were some of the best times in my life. Three hours away from Los Angeles, we’d pull off the highway onto a dirt road leading into a small village called Puerto Nuevo, the self-described “Lobster Capital […]
Continue ReadingNo Bake Bliss
I love to bake, but the last place I want to be in this heat is baking in a hot kitchen. But I still gotta eat dessert, right? The time of year when the leather bar stools at your breakfast bar brand your derriere, it is time to reconsider those “no-bake” dessert lists that crop up every time the […]
Continue ReadingEast LA Meets Napa: Carnitas & Cabernet
Now, we knew carnitas and an ice cold cerveza combine beautifully. We hadn’t considered carnitas and a robust red wine paired just fine. The East LA Meets Napa event in Los Angeles definitely changed our minds. Set in the enclosed garden patio, AltaMed’s sixth annual East LA Meets Napa event, which is easily one of the best Latino fundraisers in town and […]
Continue ReadingLong Beach Street Food Festival 2011
Saturday was a bright day in Long Beach (a bit too bright if you ask me) for these two LatinoFoodies, who just spent the night before in LA gorging ourselves with gourmet Mexican food and imbibing in way too many wine tastings. Yet we put on big boy shorts, you know, the expandable kind, swallowed anti-acid, […]
Continue ReadingEver Try Tlayudas a.k.a. Oaxacan Pizza?
I came across a great little article in the June 2011 issue of Psychologies Magazine, about Thomasina Miers and her passion for Mexican street food. Thomasina Miers emerged as an authority in Mexican cuisine by winning the UK cooking game show MasterChef in 2005, and later by opening four Wahaca Restaurants and has plans for a […]
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Around the World in 8 Guacamoles
With the delectable fruit drooping from trees, we’d be fools to let avocados go to waste this season. The simplest thing to do would be to make vats of guacamole and buy Costco-sized bags of tortilla chips and go to town…with a few of your closest friends of course. But to change it up this […]
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The Delectable Avocado
The following article was submitted by contributing writer: Norma Vega. Yet another fruit from the Americas! First the sinful orb-the tomato-then the dirty orb-the potato-now the testicular one: the avocado! Yes, avocado in náhuatl, the language of the Aztecs is , ahuacatl, which means testicle or ball sack, a direct reference to the way avocados […]
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