Best American Food In Los Angeles - April 2024

The L.A. Cookbook: Recipes from the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, and Bars in Los Angeles

From Boyle Heights to Malibu, Los Angeles is the most exciting food city in the United States. These 100 recipes from L.A.’s best chefs transport the California Dream to your table.Blessed by the abundance of sun, sea, and fertile agricultural land; vibrant Asian, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and European communities; and talent in up-and-coming mavericks, celebrity chefs, and bold restaurateurs redefining hospitality, Los Angeles is having an unprecedented food moment.Alison Clare Steingold has collected and curated 100 recipes from the most talked-about kitchens in town, many shared for... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847861678
• ASIN: 0847861678
• ISBN: 0847861678
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Los Angeles in Maps

An illustrated cartographic history of the City of Angels from the colonial era to the present. Los Angeles inhabits a place of the mind as much as it does a physical geographic space. A land of palm trees and movie stars, sunshine and glamour, the city exists in the imagination as a paradise; of course, the reality is much bigger than this. Through seventy reproductions of seminal and historic documents, Los Angeles in Maps presents the evolution of this almost mythical place. Maps featured include historic Spanish explorers’ charts from as early as 1791, as well as more recent topographic ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0847833917
• ASIN: 0847833917
• ISBN: 0847833917
• Brand: Rizzoli International Publications
• Manufacturer: Rizzoli

Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles

Jonathan Gold has eaten it all. Counter Intelligence collects over 200 of Gold's best restaurant discoveries--from inexpensive lunch counters you won't find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles' ethnic communities feed their own, including the best of cuisine from Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Burma, Canton, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam and more. Not to mention the perfectly prepared hamburger and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312267231
• ASIN: 0312267231
• ISBN: 0312267231
• Manufacturer: L.A. Weekly Books

The Way You Make Me Feel

From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a young adult laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck.Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad’s business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250308801
• ASIN: 1250308801
• ISBN: 1250308801
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (American Crossroads)

With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles’s and America’s culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new archival material, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai cuisine ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0520293746
• ASIN: 0520293746
• ISBN: 0520293746
• Manufacturer: University of California Press

Lights, Camera, Murder!: A TV Pet Chef Mystery (The Kitty Karlyle Mysteries Book 2)

Gourmet pet chef Kitty Karlyle must draw on more than her TV presenting skills when the producer of a new cooking show is found stabbed to death.   Pet chef Kitty Karlyle serves gourmet meals to pampered canines, cats, birds, snakes (ugh), Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, and most any other pet belonging to her wealthy and quirky LA clientele. This is a town where pets have their own psychologists, psychics and masseuses, so why shouldn’t they have their own chefs, right?   Kitty finds herself somewhat reluctantly hosting a new cooking show called The Pampered Pet on CuisineTV. While shooting ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0184KL9I4
• ASIN: B0184KL9I4
• Manufacturer: Severn House

The Best Things to Do in Los Angeles: 1001 Ideas - Revised and Updated 2nd Edition

The definitive guide for tourists and locals alike, this comprehensive guidebook draws on a lifetime of local experience for 1001 great things to do in Los Angeles. Probably more than any other major cultural metropolis, Los Angeles is a city for those in the know. A guide like no other, this is the first book to go beyond locations and events to tap into the variety of things only a local could know. The Best Things to Do in Los Angeles explores every aspect of Los Angeles life. Find the best spots to view the Hollywood sign or exactly where to catch postgame fireworks at Dodger Stadium. Tra... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0789338041
• ASIN: 0789338041
• ISBN: 0789338041
• Manufacturer: Universe

L.A. Mexicano: Recipes, People & Places

This “fascinating and inspirational” cookbook celebrates LA’s famous Mexican cuisine with recipes, a neighborhood restaurant guide, and much more (Evan Kleiman, NPR’s Good Food).   Richly photographed and truly local, L.A. Mexicano showcases the rich and complex Mexican-food culture of Los Angeles. Here you will find recipes for everything from authentic Black Beans to Taquitos with Avocado Sauce and Eastside Pico de Gallo. But L.A. Mexicano is about more than just the recipes. A James Beard Award–winning food reporter for Los Angeles Magazine, Bill Esparza takes you on an inside... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06WV9PTGY
• ASIN: B06WV9PTGY
• Manufacturer: Prospect Park Books

Dear S.O.S.:30 Years of Recipe Requests to the Los Angeles Times

Based on the popular Culinary SOS column. 250 tested recipes, many from L.A. restaurants. More than 27,000 copies in print.

• ASIN: 1883792061
• ASIN: 1883792061
• ISBN: 1883792061
• Manufacturer: Los Angeles Times Syndicate Books

Two Dudes, One Pan: Maximum Flavor from a Minimalist Kitchen: A Cookbook

Just one pan? No problem! You’ll need only a single skillet,a roasting pan, or a Dutch oven to make any of the 100 knockout recipes that have made this team the hottest culinary duo west of the Rockies. Today their restaurants  are the toast of Los Angeles, but Jon and Vinny still remember what it was like to cook with a minimum of space, time, and equipment. And they know that it is the feel-good, homestyle favorites that win raves from their clients and will make any home cook’ s reputation. In Two Dudes, One Pan they show you how to prepare a surprising array of dishes—from finger f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307382605
• ASIN: 0307382605
• ISBN: 0307382605
• Brand: Shook, Jon/ Dotolo, Vinny
• Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter

Lala Pettibone's Act Two

Lala Pettibone, a forty-something widow whose outrageous antics befit women half her age, has been imagining her sexy boss, Gerard, is as smitten with her as she is with him. Enter Gerard’s fabulous girlfriend from Paris. After spending the rest of the day drinking wine straight from the bottle, Lala attends the monthly meeting of her Greenwich Village co-op, where the residents are informed that a toxic wasteland has appeared in the building’s basement and everyone needs to pony up forty grand by the end of the week. Ever the one to make limoncello out of lemons, Lala reluctantly decide... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1944995072
• ASIN: 1944995072
• ISBN: 1944995072
• Brand: Amberjack Publishing
• Manufacturer: Amberjack Publishing

Thug Kitchen 101: Fast as F*ck: A Cookbook (Thug Kitchen Cookbooks)

The creators of the New York Times bestselling cookbook series Thug Kitchen are back to deliver you the sorta gentle, but always hilarious shove you need to take the leap into healthy eating. Thug Kitchen 101 includes more than 100 easy and accessible recipes to give you a solid start toward a better diet. TK holds your hand and explains ingredients from chickpeas to nooch so you'll feel confident knowing exactly what the f*ck you're cooking. This kickass kitchen primer also serves up health benefits and nutrition to remind everyone, from clueless newbies to health nuts, how a plant-based life... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1623366348
• ASIN: 1623366348
• ISBN: 1623366348
• Brand: RODALE
• Manufacturer: Rodale Books

L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food

• ASIN: B00BATIKN4
• ASIN: B00BATIKN4
• Manufacturer: Anthony Bourdain/Ecco

L.A.'s Legendary Restaurants: Celebrating the Famous Places Where Hollywood Ate, Drank, and Played

L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants is an illustrated history of dozens of landmark eateries from throughout the City of Angels. From such classics as Musso & Frank and The Brown Derby in the 1920s to the see-and-be-seen crowds at Chasen’s, Romanoffs, and Ciro’s in the mid-20th century to the dawn of California cuisine at Ma Maison and Spago Sunset in the 1970s and ’80s, L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants celebrates the famous locations where Hollywood ate, drank, and played.Author George Geary leads you into the glamorous restaurants inhabited by the stars through a lively narrative filled with ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1595800891
• ASIN: 1595800891
• ISBN: 1595800891
• Brand: Santa Monica Press
• Manufacturer: Santa Monica Press

The Library Book

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 “A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post “CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING.” —The New York Times * “MESMERIZING…RIVETING.” —Booklist (starred review) A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution—and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries—from th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476740186
• ASIN: 1476740186
• ISBN: 1476740186
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Los Angeles Street Food: : A History from Tamaleros to Taco Trucks

Los Angeles is the uncontested street food champion of the United States, and it isn't even a fair fight. Millions of hungry locals and wide-eyed tourists take to the streets to eat tacos, down bacon-wrapped

• UPC: 45757640

America: Gerry Beckley (vocals, various instruments); Dewey Bunnell (vocals, acoustic, electric & nylon-string guitars).Additional personnel: Andrew Gold (vocals, various instruments); Timothy B. Schmit, Robert Lamm, Carl Wilson, Jeff Foskett, Robbyn Kirmsse, Serena Nelson (vocals); Phil Galdston (various instruments); Paul Livant (acoustic guitar); Hank Linderman (6 & 12 string electric & slide guitars); Ira Siegel, Michael Thompson (electric guitar); Henry Diltz (clarinet); Brad Palmer, Jason Scheff (bass); Phil Jones (drums); Willie Leacox (bongos).Producers: Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, Hank Linderman, Phil Galdston.Engineers include: Gerry Beckley, Hank Linderman, Dom Maita.Principally recorded at Human Nature Studio, Sherman Oaks, California; East Wing Studio, New York, New York; Roman Foods, Los Angeles, California.All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.Twenty-six years after their debut album, America's HUMAN NATURE proves that their formula--boyish harmonies with a debt to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, lots of acoustic guitars, vaguely cosmic lyrics--still works. Nothing here is as instantly memorable as their early hits, but the songs are uniformly well-crafted and hook-laden, in particular the highly atmospheric "From a Moving Train," and the jangly "Wednesday Morning." There's next to no tinkering with the basic America sound here. In fact, unless you listen extremely hard, these could easily be outtakes from the '70s (the modern drum sound is the only giveaway).

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• UPC: 3476982

Baco : Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles (California Cookbook, Tex Mex Cookbook, Street Food Cookbook)

130 recipes that redefine the way we think about flavor. Visually stunning and conceptually fresh, this is the cookbook of the season from Josef Centeno, the chef credited with capturing the myriad tastes of Los

• UPC: 55802461

The L.A. Cookbook : Recipes from the Best Restaurants, Bakeries, and Bars in Los Angeles

From Boyle Heights to Malibu, Los Angeles is the most exciting food city in the United States. These 100 recipes from L.A.'s best chefs transport the California Dream to your table.Blessed by the abundance of

• UPC: 508523154

Seoul Food : Short Stories of a Korean American Living in Los Angeles

Seoul Food is a creative non-fiction book about the lives of second-generation Korean Americans growing up in Los Angeles County-the Mecca for diversity of cultures. Targeting a young adult readership, Seoul Food captures snapshots of

• UPC: 53416926

Food Lovers' Guide to Los Angeles : The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings

The ultimate guide to Los Angeles' food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors

• UPC: 21053614

Los Angeles Street Food - eBook

Los Angeles is the uncontested street food champion of the United States, and it isn't even a fair fight. Millions of hungry locals and wide-eyed tourists take to the streets to eat tacos, down bacon-wrapped

• UPC: 112384578

The Grand Central Market Cookbook : Cuisine and Culture from Downtown Los Angeles

Founded in 1917, Grand Central Market is a legendary food hall in Downtown Los Angeles that brings together the many traditions and flavors of the

• UPC: 55961346
• Rating: 5.0

The Food of Campanile : Recipes from the Famed Los Angeles Restaurant: A Cookbook

For eight years Campanile's handsome interior and matchless cuisine have drawn breakfast, lunch and dinner crowds, loyal customers, and rave reviews. Anyone who appreciates the art of eating well will want to own this essential,

• UPC: 31131295

Los Angeles Wine : A History from the Mission Era to the Present

The renowned California wine industry, famous for northern vintages, actually was born near El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Spanish missionaries harvested the first vintage in 1782 at Mission San Juan Capistrano and then cultivated enormous

• UPC: 21470652