Every week, Good Food’s Music Supervisor Gary Mecija selects a song to cook by. All of Gary’s music selections are added to Good Food’s Music to Cook By Playlist which lives on the right-hand sidebar of the Good Food Blog. This week’s selection is Lady You Shot Me by Har Mar Superstar . Enjoy!

Jonathan Gold’s much anticipated 101 Best Restaurants list hit the press this morning. The first-annual list published by the LA Times is a 68 page (ads included) love letter to LA’s best dining establishments. It begins and ends with two LA icons – Providence and The Apple Pan. In an interview with Evan Kleiman, Jonathan says that choosing 101 restaurants is not an easy task in a city of twenty to thirty thousands restaurants…

Every Thursday on the Good Food Blog we share a recipe from our archives.

Jean-Marie Josselin was the chef of 808 Restaurant. He first shared this recipe for Clear Black Chicken with Ginsent and Licorice on May 8, 2004.

I spent Sunday at the UCLA Science and Pie extravaganza.  It was pretty much food geek heaven.  The UCLA Science and Food class had a “science pie” competition for their last public lecture.  Students were asked to choose a part of pie making for scientific inquiry and present the results of their research for the public and a group of judges that included two scientists Andrea …

The Central Coast wine region of Paso Robles is noted for its Rhône varietals. So I was surprised to see booths pouring Cabernet Sauvignon wines outnumber Rhône wines at the 31st annual wine festival last weekend.

Want to know where Garcetti and Greuel stand on issues of food policy in LA? Here’s an informative Q and A by the Los Angeles Food Policy Council.

Every week on the Good Food Blog we celebrate Meatless Monday by sharing a vegetarian recipe from our archives.

Suzanne Dunaway is the author of Rome at Home: The Spirit of La Cucina Romana in Your Own Kitchen, published by Broadway Books. She first shared this recipe for Asparagus with Eggs and Parmesan on May 8, 2004.

This week on the show, Evan talks with Roy Choi, the chef behind the Kogi Taco Truck and Chego. He’s heading a new campaign for Hormel Foods promoting SPAM.

There’s a Ride-Share War raging in the loading zones of Los Angeles. On one side you have a fleet of flashy social media companies with names like Lyft, Sidecar and Uber, which offer car services at the swipe of a smartphone app. On the other side, you have the hardened professionals behind the wheel of United Independent, Yellow Cab and the like…

As promised, we have another pair of tickets to give away to see the new movie The Fruit Hunters.
The screening is tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Laemmle’s Monica 4 theater on 2nd Street in Santa Monica.
To win, comment below with the most exotic fruit you’ve spotted in Los Angeles, and where you found it. 
You can watch the movie’s trailer below.

The Fruit Hunters – Official …