Eat, Drink And Be Merry
Drunk Food The Yard – Santa Monica, California Dean Vernon Wormer once advised, “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life”, but if you have made this your personal goal, then stagger over to...
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Lutefisk Norway Some foods strike fear into the hearts of mortals; with each cautious bite we visualize the grim reaper taking us one step farther down the black velvet carpet towards a carriage drawn...
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SWEA Swedish Christmas Fair Shrine Expo Center, Los Angeles California Back in 1979, Manhattan Beach, California resident Agneta Nilsson decided to host a Christmas celebration in her home for Swedish...
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The Glendon Los Angeles, California When I arrived at The Glendon’s new menu item media tasting, I noticed the fare for the evening was billed as tapas. Although tapas has a centuries-old history...
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Ray’s and Stark Bar LACMA, Los Angeles, California It’s comforting to know that as you leave the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you can now free your mind from trying to determine if those were...
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19th Annual Taste of Solvang / Solvang Centennial Celebration Solvang, California When Solvang, California was incorporated in the Santa Ynes Valley by three Danish educator expatriates in 1911 it...
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2011 Artisinal LA Spring Show Santa Monica, California Artisanal LA is the ulitimate gathering of local vendors of handmade and sustainable products having to do with good food, and at the Spring 2011...
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Cecconi’s West Hollywood (Los Angeles) California Los Angeles is a multi-cultural mélange of ethnicity represented by people with roots around the globe, but unlike major cities on the east coast...
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Extreme Chef viewing party Café Pinot, Los Angeles CA I was unfamiliar with the Food Network’s show Extreme Chef until I received an invitation to a viewing party of the episode featuring Chef Kevin...
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Scandinavian food at IKEA If the first thing you think of at the mention of the name “IKEA” is throwing a half-assembled particle-board desk down a flight of stairs with bruised knuckles and cut...
View ArticleI Do! I Like Them, Sam-I-Am!
Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza and Grill California/Nevada Do you like vegetarian and vegan that’s not shaped like SPAM? Will you eat pizza in a pan from a wood-fired oven, if you can? I love to eat meat,...
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The Dirty Mo at J Mo’s Sandwich Shack Carts on Foster, Portland, Oregon Portland’s food cart scene is as quirky as the city itself – it takes a special breed to command a trailer in the oft dark, damp...
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