Urban Honking

Falafel sandwiches. As perfect a street food as you’re likely to find; a time-tested vegetarian staple for people of the Levant and drunk guys alike. New York’s got it. So does Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam. You can buy freshly fried herb-balls tucked into drippy bread from a late-night cart, stand or window in every most […]

We clearly show a great preference to cooking with alcohol over our second favorite drug, caffiene, and its carrier, coffee. This is a perplexing fact because we imbibe coffee over beer in overly unfair ratios. We drink coffee all day (really, at all times, right now too) every day, yet it rarely shows up in […]

Lodged somewhere deep in our pink fleshy cavities sit the remnants of our holiday partying: sugar, stuffing, gravy, fresh truffles, chocolates bobbing in a sea of buttered rum, and a regretful amount of palm-oil-agave frosting from a batch of pumpkin latte cupcakes. You too? For good reason, the first week in this foul new year […]

So what are you doing for the Holidaze? Visiting the ‘rents? Cooking for your own family of Urban-Orphans? Party hopping from an ugly sweater face-off to some wicked Nogathon before you hit an awkward secret Santa swap-meet? Don’t fret pets: we have answers to all of the above. As your official go too gurus of […]

You’re sick again? Us too! We’re pretty sure it’s an avian death bug, which the science blogs tell us has been carried from birds to humans through ferrets. We feed colds and we feed the flu, doctors can go fuck themselves. The question is only what exactly to eat? Besides KniQuil. Besides the obvious, “essential […]

The American system for producing food seems pretty broken at this point. In the October food and drink issue of NY Times Magazine, food writer Mark Bittman said that for people to eat well, live well and be healthy, for agriculture to be sustainable, for life in rural areas and even the way we live […]

Since the age of 12, I’ve been on a quest to find the most perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. My ideal cookie: slightly crisp edges, chewy center. This recipe delivers. My grandfather turned 85 this week. He is one of the best humans I’ve ever known. I’ve always admired and aspired to replicate his positive […]

*Things the bird was stuffed with. Thanksgiving is, and has always been, my favorite holiday. Every thanksgiving, my mom always invited people over who needed a place to go. There were friends who couldn’t travel to see their families, or folks who maybe didn’t even have families to spend the holiday with. We always had […]

We’re no strangers to the 6-hour Thanksgiving dinner, as you know from our digestive musings from year to year. But this fall we’re answering the cries of those less fortunate who either have to work on Thanksgiving, or sit behind the wheel of a car for several hours to make it home for the holidays, […]

This is my favorite time of year. Even L.A. gets its own kind of fall. The food mascot of fall (for me) is squash (all kinds). Last weekend, my love affair was with pumpkin. I seem to always have extra fresh and canned squash on hand, and this is a good way to use that […]