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Hadley Meares
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Hadley Meares is a journalist specializing in history, art and culture. She loves exploring Southern California and introducing folks to new ways of looking at history through tours, trips and online classes sponsored by Atlas Obscura and Cartwheel Art. She is also a frequent contributor to outlets the Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair and Los Angeles magazine.
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The Bavarian hamlet off the Harbor Freeway is shutting down after 51 years of sausages, schnitzel and sweets.
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Before Rudy Ray Moore took it over to shoot "Dolemite," it was a posh hotel, a nexus for black culture and had a swinging music scene.
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Here's how a dude named Jim Baker rechristened himself Father Yod and planted the seeds for a food revolution.
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Sauerbraten. Diplomat pudding. Stuffed celery. Some dishes have stayed on the menu for 100 years, even as tastes have changes.
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Hint: It was all about tamales, abalone and hot dogs.
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Every day is like a sundae at The Ice Cream Shop, a sleeker, trendier extension of the family business.
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The former talent agent had a vision. "Everyone was stoned and had the munchies so he was always warmly greeted," his son says.
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Why do his stunning, historically themed works keep being displaced and destroyed?
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Here, in a paper-thin egg roll wrapper, is the tension at the heart of culture, cuisine and commerce in the U.S.
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He was a swaggering, foul mouthed, hard-drinking Texan who liked to brag that he never read.
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After traveling the U.S. as a Pullman porter, he became one of the first black chefs to write a cookbook.
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Settled by French and Swiss immigrants, it became a hub of California haute cuisine.
