Krista Simmons

As if sugary breakfast cereals weren't bad enough, a Southern California-based vendor will be giving them a dip in a vat of scalding hot fat. He's also introducing deep fried SPAM. Will you try a taste?

If you can't bear the lines over at Langer's, or you'd just like to do something good for your bod after eating a bunch of pastrami, head over to for M Café for a discounted macrobiotic dinner.

Study unveils the most unhealthy fast food lunches, one of which contains more sodium than 13 orders of McDonald's fries. Scotland's 9-year-old food blogger would not be pleased.

Today is National Lobster Day, so we've decided to compile a gallery of our favorite crustaceous dishes. Read on.

Our favorite of Giovanni Martinez's floats is made with Peychaud's ice cream and Sanbitter. The float is like a grown up orange cream, with just the right amount of tartness that comes from Sanbitter, a piquant and citrusy Italian soda.

You needn't hang around with a bunch of dried up lounge lizards in order to get a dose of some classed-up jazz here in L.A. There are plenty of restaurants and bars with a young, hip vibe that also happen to serve decent food and drink.

Last year a contestant was hospitalized for drinking the hot sauce, so this year they'll be doing whole habaneros. The winner gets a $200 gift certificate to the restaurant. We dare you to enter.

Joe Bastianich and Mario Batali have plans of opening up a version of Eataly here in Los Angeles by the end of 2012. There are rumblings that it will be located on San Vincente and Melrose in West Hollywood.

Do you prefer your pies to be hand made, or pumped out of a vending machine? Would you try these pies in a pinch?

Fans of both traditional and new-wave street food will gather on June 24 for the second edition of the L.A. Vendy Awards.