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The Kern County Public Health Department said that a local restaurant was temporarily closed due to a salmonella outbreak.

Police are searching for two men who tried unsuccessfully to rob a pizza stand on the University of Miami campus Thursday.

The legal fight over who owns the recipes and ideas that made the BLT restaurant empire a great success may not be so simple. Earlier this week, BLT Restaurant Group sued its former executive chef and partner, Laurent Tourondel, because he opened a copycat restaurant to BLT Burger—called LT Burger. The complaint alleges that the menus and basic concept behind Mr. Tourondel’s new eatery in tony …

This is nuts but Mike Masnick at Techdirt has the lowdown on a whole new level of stupid when it comes to this copyright madness. It seems that bartenders are being encouraged to try and copyright their drink recipes. Of course it helps that lawyers specializing in restaurant law are the ones that have raised the [...]

Back to school we go. If you are thinking about making some healthy snacks, it is a great time to think great granola recipes. One place to get some ideas is from Molly Dawson, of Ada.

Rosh Hashanah will be celebrated next week. It’s the first of the two major Jewish holidays observed in the fall.

Culinary SOS is one of our most popular features — you ask for a restaurant recipe, and the L.A. Times Test Kitchen does everything within the letter of the law to get it. Well, over years, one of the most…

At Daily Breads, nestled into the lower level of a building off Orange Street, the aroma of cookies, muffins, breads, croissants, and other fresh-baked goodies permeates the air.

Reader Warren Findley admits he’s not a connoisseur of Mexican cuisine, but he knows a good thing when he spots it.