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Whole Roasted Cauliflower With Charred Lemon and Spicy Tahini Sauce

For the best flavor, lightly char the outside of a whole cauliflower, then drench it in a bright lemon-tahini sauce.




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Whole roasted cauliflower is the lazy cook's best friend

For the best flavor, lightly char the outside of a whole cauliflower, then drench it in a bright lemon-tahini sauce.




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Elliott: Olympian Mirai Nagasu finds hope in fight to keep parents' restaurant from closing

Olympic figure skater Mirai Nagasu, who grew up in her parents' restaurant in Arcadia, is determined not to let the coronavirus close the family business.




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Surviving the Shutdown: Brodard Restaurant keeps feeding Little Saigon

Sales are down at one of Orange County's most famous Vietnamese restaurants, but Brodard is adapting to survive




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California effort will employ restaurant workers to provide meals for seniors amid coronavirus crisis

The program will provide $66 a day per senior in funding for daily meals. Newsom said the effort will launch immediately, focused on seniors who are at risk for COVID-19 or have limited income.




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Famed Basque restaurant Noriega Hotel in Bakersfield to close permanently

The restaurant, which served traditional Basque cooking enjoyed family-style, had been in business for 89 years.




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L.A. looks to help restaurants by capping food delivery service fees at 15%

A new proposed Los Angeles city ordinance could set a 15% food delivery service fee cap.




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Half-Salted Steaks With Kale-Caper Sauce

An umami-packed green sauce made with kale and capers seasons expertly cooked steaks at home.




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Restaurant vendors are now selling to the public. Here's why it might hurt them instead of help.

Home cooks can get sushi-grade fish and dry-aged steaks for cheap, but at what cost?




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To safely reopen its restaurants, L.A. should transform its streets into cafes

L.A. should be taking inspiration from cities that are experimenting with public space to help businesses during coronavirus lockdowns.




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Tasting-menu gem Auburn closes for good, the latest restaurant casualty of the coronavirus shutdown

Chef Eric Bost's Melrose Avenue restaurant opened just 13 months ago.




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Is L.A. becoming a tlayuda desert? How COVID-19 is causing a shortage of Oaxacan ingredients

The COVID-19 shutdown is affecting the flow of essential Oaxacan ingredients to L.A.




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New project High Road Kitchens helps restaurants provide food on a sliding scale

High Road Kitchens funds restaurants to provide low-cost food and re-employ staff.




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Gjelina and MTN chefs launch Oaxacan pop-up in Venice

The team behind Gjelina, Gjusta and MTN has created a new Oaxacan-inspired pop-up, Valle, that debuts today in Venice.




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9 L.A. chefs and restaurants are named James Beard Award finalists

Nine Los Angeles restaurants and chefs, including Jessica Koslow and Jeremy Fox, are on James Beard Foundation's list.




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Column: 'Blue Highways' author William Least Heat-Moon on the art of traveling in place

A after visiting every U.S. county in the lower 48, William Least Heat-Moon is the master of the topographical journey. Now 80, he takes another trip through his new novel — into the imperfect history of American democracy.




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Mystery author Charles Finch gets stoned, masters Steely Dan and becomes a "candle guy"

In our latest quarantine diary, Charles Finch contemplates Kierkegaard, watches "Love Is Blind," gets the Led out and develops a candle habit.




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Tomie dePaola, beloved children's author and illustrator of 'Strega Nona,' dies at 85

DePaola wrote or illustrated more than 270 children's books, sold nearly 25 million copies and had his books translated into more than 20 languages.




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Harry Potter and the coronavirus crisis: J.K. Rowling launches a new activity website for kids

"Harry Potter" mastermind J.K. Rowling has launched a new website called "Harry Potter at Home" to help distract families from the coronavirus crisis.




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L.A. author Kathryn Scanlan on whether we're still 'The Dominant Animal'

Kathryn Scanlan, taut new story collection, "The Dominant Animal," probes power relationships in uncertain times. She talks about L.A. and COVID-19.




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Author Fanny Singer and chef Alice Waters talk food and family with L.A. Times Book Club

In a virtual meet-up, "Almost Home" author Fanny Singer and mother and famed chef Alice Waters join book club readers April 21 for a kitchen conversation.




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Ross Thomas, the criminally neglected spy-caper author behind "Briarpatch"

Ross Thomas delivered 25 novels populated by colorful, chameleonic characters. Among them: "Briarpatch," now a USA Network series.




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What authors are reading, hearing and watching in quarantine

Authors like Lionel Shriver, Alexander McCall Smith, Laura Lippman and Steph Cha are under coronavirus quarantine too. Here's what they're reading.




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Q&A: Author Cynthia Ozick will spend her 92nd birthday 'contemplating mayhem'

Cynthia Ozick, essayist and acclaimed novelist, shelters from coronavirus and discusses anti-Semitism, the Spanish flu and longevity.




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Review: Queer authors reinvent the artist biography as revisionist memoir

Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" and Mark Doty's "What Is the Grass," about Walt Whitman, are hybrid memoir-biographies.




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Cooking in quarantine: 'Always Home' author Fanny Singer retreats to Alice Waters' kitchen

Fanny Singer's stories and recipes, 'Always Home,' show life growing up in the orbit of her mother, farm-to-table chef Alice Waters.




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New manga subscription service launches with a quarantine-friendly 2-month free trial

Read "Attack on Titan," "Somali & the Forest Spirit," "Fire Force," "Arte" and more with Mangamo, a new mobile manga subscription service.




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Laura Lippman comforts herself with old YA, actor Venn diagrams and costume selfies

What crime novelist Laura Lippman is reading and watching in quarantine




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Watch the L.A. Times Book Club's virtual meet-up with author Fanny Singer and chef Alice Waters

'Always Home' author Fanny Singer worries more about running out of garlic than toilet paper.




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Their beautifully curated vintage-book pop-ups were thriving. Along came coronavirus

Nick Capizzi and Jenny Yang founded A Good Used Book in 2018 as an itinerant book-browsing mecca. Now they're surviving on hope and Instagram.




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'Station Eleven' author Emily St. John Mandel joins the L.A. Times Book Club May 19

Emily St. John Mandel chronicles a global pandemic and financial crisis in her novels, 'Station Eleven' and 'The Glass Hotel.'




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Letters to the Editor: Austin Beutner's LAUSD leadership amid crisis is winning over skeptical teachers

An LAUSD teacher who once campaigned against Austin Beutner gives the superintendent credit for his leadership during the pandemic.




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Letters to the Editor: Being a scientist while placating a narcissist — Anthony Fauci's impossible job

Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves something like combat pay for guiding the nation with his scientific expertise while also doing enough not to get fired.




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Feedback: What readers think about petition to name Dr. Anthony Fauci 'sexiest man'

Calendar Feedback: Is competence sexy? Readers on whether it trivializes Dr. Fauci to call him 'sexy.' Plus, differing opinions on the Peter Zumthor design of LACMA.




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Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus might cause us to eat less meat? Good

The COVID-19 pandemic is a full-blown disaster, but if shortages mean Americans eat less meat as a result, then so be it.




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Letters to the Editor: Yes, Democrats will brush off the Joe Biden assault allegation

Republicans didn't seem to care that Trump had multiple credible allegations against him; why should one accusation against Biden derail his candidacy?




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Letters to the Editor: Trump can't handle a pandemic because he doesn't care about other people

The fact that Trump refuses to wear a mask, a precaution meant to protect other people, is evidence of his lack of empathy.




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Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden's supporters need to explain their treatment of Brett Kavanaugh

You can't explain away your support for Joe Biden despite a sexual assault allegation without talking about Brett Kavanaugh.




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Letters to the Editor: Trump is behaving exactly like the autocratic Chinese leader he opposes

The president brooks no criticism and disregards inconvenient facts, much like the Chinese government he opposes.




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That dramatic 'Marriage Story' speech that Laura Dern makes? Here's how it came about

As a divorce lawyer in 'Marriage Story,' Laura Dern calls out societal bias against mothers. She helped craft the speech with writer-director Noah Baumbach.




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Feras Fayyad almost couldn't visit the U.S. because he's Syrian. Now he's going to the Oscars

"Did you know this is the 'Pretty Woman' hotel?" a publicist asked Dr. Amani Ballour.




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Oscars 2020: Stars step out in sustainable looks by Louis Vuitton and Laura Basci

Kaitlyn Dever, Léa Seydoux and Oscar-winning director Elena Andreicheva are this year's ambassadors for Suzy Amis Cameron's Red Carpet Green Dress initiative.




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Elton John picks up his second original song Oscar, this one with Bernie Taupin

It's only fitting that Elton John shares the Oscar song award with Bernie Taupin for "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from "Rocketman," the movie largely about their 50-year collaboration.




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Audience demands 'Parasite' team gets to finish Oscars speech

When the Oscars telecast tried to cut off the "Parasite" team's speech after winning best picture, the audience rallied to let them continue.




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Oscars 2020: Five major beauty moments on the red carpet

From Janelle Monáe to Billie Eilish, bold beauty was the name of the game at Sunday's Oscars.




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Author Dennis Lehane inks a deal for Westchester home

After putting his Playa del Rey home on the market, writer Dennis Lehane has purchased a Westchester house three miles away for $2.395 million.




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Auto titan's Bel-Air estate sells for $19.5 million

The longtime Bel-Air home of late automobile executive Lee Iacocca has sold for $19.5 million.




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Shel Silverstein's whimsical houseboat floats onto the market in Sausalito

In Sausalito, a World War II-era balloon barge fashioned into a houseboat once owned by poet Shel Silverstein is asking $783,000.




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Midcentury haunt of NFL's Milt Davis offered at $2.2 million

In Hollywood Hills, the glass-covered Midcentury home of late football player Milt Davis is on the market for $2.199 million.




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James Franco's former home across from Chateau Marmont sells for $4.65 million

Just above the Sunset Strip, a 1920s villa once owned by actor James Franco and filmmaker Francis Lawrence just sold for $4.65 million.