Most single-focused food magazines don’t hold much of my interest nowadays as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and even Slate are all producing more interesting reads, until this piece.

Taipei Family Style came in the plastic wrapped May issue of Saveur. It was actually a really short read, and I really suggest anyone who’s any remotely obsessed with street food (this is way dirtier than the hawker stands of Singapore!) to give this a read. Above is a bowl of “lu rou fan”, ie, slow soy stewed ground pork over rice. Please note, Saveur’s recipe is CLEARLY wrong, as no one I know makes this dish with “soybean paste”. Soy sauce yes, soy bean paste, NO.

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SoCal Culinary Historians are hosting a free public talk on the “golden era” (cause it’s always better back in the days) of LA Times Food Section.

The Culinary Historians of Southern California present

Betsy Balsley, Donna Deane, Rose Dosti and Barbara Hansen:
The L.A. Times Food Section Gals speaking on
The Heyday of the Food Section at the Los Angeles Times

Saturday, April 10th, 10:30 am at the Los Angeles Public Library
Mark Taper Auditorium, Downtown Central Branch
630 W. 5th St.

Free and open to the public

With over 100 work years of combined experience, the team of Betsy Balsley, Donna Deane, Rose Dosti and Barbara Hansen produced the Los Angeles Times Food section in its heyday beginning in the late sixties, into the 1980′s. During this era the food section had 40 to 50 pages every week, with popular columns such as Culinary SOS and Borderlines and dozens of original recipes. Recipes were prepared for publication in a magnificent test kitchen. The LA Times Food Gals will reminisce about this extraordinary era of food journalism, the resources they had to produce a great food section.

FWIW: Ms. Hansen’s still actively writing for the LA Weekly.

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Monsier Egg, after a few weeks of vacay, is back in full force all over Downtown.

Back from my hiatus’ hiatus. Found some self dyeing organic eggs courtesy of farmer david from edendale farms

Some of you may remember the brunch picnic he held at Elyssian Park a couple of months back. It was a blast. If the DTLA office workers keep visiting for breakfast/brunch

Catch Monsieur Egg here!

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Finally, hot on the trail of:

comes:

As all previous Cause on the Rocks event, all proceeds from the night goes to a charity, which will be Meals on Wheels. Since it’s already spring in LA, the pool at Viceroy will be open, hence everyone can be enjoy the shimmering water by sipping their mojitos poolside. Good times!

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