Happy Meals, a new semi-regular series where I, an LA native, revisit places I ate as a kid, indulge in food and nostalgia, and see what’s changed and what hasn’t. When I was a kid, we lived near Lake Hollywood, so Honeybaked was about three minutes from our house. My earliest memories of the place was picking up sams there and heading to the beach. I developed my beach taste on the east coast.......

Years ago, I found a book called Sister Crazy, wedged in on an unassuming shelf in a used bookstore called The Cabin, in a small town called Three Rivers CA. Finding the book reminded me of when I was a kid and I used to root through the old books at my grandparents' house, or wander through the library during the summer. (Yes, I was a nerd, basically Hermione.) But it has since become my......