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The picture on the wall says it all – there’s Redding restaurateur Jim Gironda, age 5, learning the art of pasta-making from his grandmother in her kitchen on Chicago’s South Side. “One grandmother was the best baker in the world, the other the best cook,” Gironda recalls. Since he was discharged from the Marines in 1969, he dreamed of opening his own restaurant and using some of the recipes …

Sheila Lukins, food editor of Parade magazine and long time food writer, has a new cookbook “Ten: All the Foods We Love and Ten Perfect Recipes for Each.” Recipes from this book could give your meal planning a lift.

The end of a Fallbrook strip mall is an unlikely place to find exotic food, but at Rosa’s Mexican Restaurant one can order “Pulpo a la Veracruz” (Octopus Veracruz style), “Milanesa” (a special breaded steak) and a few other unusual dishes. The menu also lists traditional Mexican dishes such as enchiladas, tortas and menudo. However, traditional doesn’t mean boring – these are dishes packed with …

Rice & Beans Cocina Latina is a little taste of owners’ home P igs are flying, and something somewhere has frozen over. There is an independent nonchain restaurant smack dab across from Waterford Lakes Town Center, and it’s thriving.

The picture on the wall says it all – there’s Redding restaurateur Jim Gironda, age 5, learning the art of pasta-making from his grandmother in her kitchen on Chicago’s South Side. “One grandmother was the best baker in the world, the other the best cook,” Gironda recalls. Since he was discharged from the Marines in 1969, he dreamed of opening his own restaurant and using some of the recipes …

An homage to doberge

Since Oswald restaurant opened almost exactly two months ago, a great debate has raged among local culinary connoisseurs: Old Oswald versus New Oswald.

Sheila Lukins, food editor of Parade magazine and long time food writer, has a new cookbook “Ten: All the Foods We Love and Ten Perfect Recipes for Each.” Recipes from this book could give your meal planning a lift.