This weekend several celebrity chefs and award-winning cookbook authors will demonstrate recipes as well as sign copies from their latest cookbooks at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This year’s lineup includes Thomas Keller, TV personalities Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet), Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes), Bob Blumer (The Surreal Gourmet) and Fabio Viviani (Top Chef All-Stars), and Academy Award-winning producer Laurie David. more ›

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues its series “Hollywood’s Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939.” On the big screen is the John Steinbeck classic Of Mice and Men with Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie and Burgess Meredith as George. The tickets are $5 and there’s a “Buck Rogers” serial chapter at 7 p.m. and the feature presentation at 7:30 p.m. All screenings will be held at Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. more ›

LA-based food writer Jeanne Kelley knows her way around a recipe (she develops them for Bon Appétit) and knows how to present food in its most glorious state (she's a food stylist) - so it should be no surprise that her just-out cookbook, Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden, perfectly combines these talents. more ›

Following up on my last post, here are five favorites I return to time and time again. All are reliable sources for good eating! more ›

Welcome to a two-part review of the year’s best cookbooks. In part one, I’ll list five new books that inspired me in the kitchen in 2007…part 2 will include five rediscoveries that you might want to add to your shelf. more ›

Those of you living meat-free, rejoice! October is World Vegetarian Awareness Month. Some vegetarians are doing it for the health reasons, some to support animal rights and live cruelty-free, and others to protest the increasing McDonald-ization of the world's food supply. The World Vegetarian Day website is offering a free trip to Vegetarian Summerfest for one lucky winner who contributes a story about what they are doing to celebrate their lifestyle choices this month.... more ›

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