Author: Lucas Li

Events & Festivals

LA Weekly’s 4th Annual Gold Standard Food & Wine Event

LA Weekly‘s 4th annual cuisine celebration, Gold Standard, returns to the Petersen Automotive Museum. Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold has selected his 40 LA restaurants which include Animal, Drago Centro, Little Dom’s, MB Post, Short Order and more for you to sample in one location. The Wine House will also be representing over 30 […]

TV

Andrew Zimmern looking for guest stars

If you’ve ever wanted to chow down with Andrew Zimmern, you chance is finally here. The Star on Bizarre! Contest will be choosing two contestants to join Andrew in Las Vegas to sample the wilder cuisine out there. Entry is easy, submit a two minute or less video about what food you find bizarre, which […]

The Gift

ÖKO water bottle

The way we see it, a water filter is a simple concept: you put nasty water in, and tasty water comes out. So when they say that it works in 120 countries, we were a bit confused. But when you think of how nasty water gets in third world countries, it makes sense. ÖKO uses […]

News

Cochon 555's 4th annual event comes to Napa

The traveling culinary competition, Cochon 555, features five chefs, five pigs, and five winemakers. This year’s event will be stopping at Napa on January 29, 2012 at 5 PM. The evening will include whole heritage pigs; butcher demonstrations, an interactive tasting contest with Le Creuset, ice-cold Anchor Brew and a new C555 Perfect Manhattan Bar […]