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Raos Meatballs

via Forbes

There is no doubt that Los Angeles has some of the best restaurants and foods in the country. If you live there or are heading there soon, you should try to check out some of this stuff. And, though the ramen festival is already over, there are still some killer ramen shops around the city you need to check out.

 

Baking season has arrived, and the oven is beckoning. So we've asked some of L.A.'s best pastry chefs for home recipes to ease bakers into fall. Their recipes call for 10 ingredients or fewer but are desserts worthy of bringing to a party, even Sharlena Fong's marshmallow-studded campfire scones from Semi Sweet Bakery. ("Brunch is a party," Fong says. "And scones are fancier than muffins.") Karen Hatfield of Hatfield's and the Sycamore Kitchen shares a rich, rustic-yet-elegant brown butter cake with dark chocolate and hazelnuts. The traditional pecan pie is re-imagined by Genevieve Gergis, pastry chef at Bestia, with a filling and crust that's improved with a little crème fraîche. Roxana Jullapat of Cooks County makes a pumpkin mascarpone fool that is creamy and cool. And Gjelina Take Away pastry chef Nicole Rucker's apple custard crumb pie, spiced with cardamom, is sort of genius. Rucker uses dried apples so "you don't have to peel, core and cut them," she points out. Easy. Read More

 

If you are the Mayor of New York City, the Empire State’s Governor, or a starter (benchwarmers take heed) for the Mets or Yankees, you have almost certainly dined at Rao’s, and your photo may even be on the wall. If you are not one of the above, or at least a longtime A-list New Yorker celebrity like Woody Allen, chances are good you have never (and will never) experienced a meal in this legendary Italian-American eatery, as Rao’s, the 100-plus year old East Harlem institution, is simply the toughest restaurant reservation in this country, if not the world. But it’s far from snobby or exclusive: Rao’s is tiny, and its longstanding cadre of regulars, stretching back decades, have priority. And they eat here a lot. Read More

 

The first sign that everybody loves ramen at least as much as you do was clear from the parking lot: The line just to get into the festival was wrapped around the building, and then some. At this point, you had to decide whether you are the type of person who likes food festivals and/or wars of attrition, or whether you are the type of person who dislikes food festivals and/or long, long lines.

In the case of the former, you probably stuck it out in line and more than likely Instagrammed photos of the line; in the case of the latter, you probably got back in your car, went to another ramen joint in Torrance and Instagrammed a photo of that bowl of ramen. Because when in Rome. Read More

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