Krista Simmons

PETA will host an adoption of 50 chickens that were rescued during the Turlock Raid, where 50,000 chickens were abandoned in battery cages.

Headlining the event will be Sherry Yard, LA’s own superstar Executive Pastry Chef of Spago Beverly Hills, who will be joined by Duff Goldman, Donald Wressell, Alice Medrich, Evan Kleiman, Carlos Enriquez, Marcel Vigneron, Jet Tila, Ricardo Zarate, Roy Choi, and Josiah Citrin, who will be signing his award winning cookbook, In Pursuit of Excellence.

The D.C. Kitchen provided 5,000 meals a day to its citizens, and founder Robert Egger hopes to expand on the scope when he opens the L.A. operation next year.

Chef Jeffrey Torin is taking traditional aphrodisiacs to the next level at his catering business Food Trilogy, where he applies theories from biology and psychology to provide a unique dining experience that arouses both sexual and emotional senses.

Though the conventional uses for liquid nitrogen might not sound all that appetizing, its popularity has picked up steam over the past few years with the rise of the modernist kitchen. The moral of this story is to make sure you're drinking at an establishment that's been trained to use these ingredients properly.

Here are some places around town that are celebrating our favorite German holiday in style.

New York may have a larger Jewish population, but the kosher options here seem far more exciting. The main attraction is Mexikosher, a Mexican restaurant that opened earlier this year.

Celebrities like Dave Matthews, Bill Maher, and Danny Devito are on board with the proposition, but the LA Times thinks the bill is sloppily written and singles out just one area of the food industry. Where do you stand on the argument?

What really wowed us on a recent visit is the restaurant's revamped sake menu. In addition to being incredibly varied in its selections, the menu actually decodes flavor profiles and styles, just like a education-focused wine bar would do.

The lighthearted approach to food is depicted in the Minimiam photography project, which portrays little people going through all sorts of obstacles, physical feats, and normally ho-hum everyday jobs, but on food.