Krista Simmons

This Saturday, October 20th from 12-2p Ojai Olive Oil will be popping up at the Market on Holly in Pasadena for a tasting and meet and greet.

The multi-course dinner will emulate what the organizers are calling a zombie epidemic progression. Five uniquely themed beers will be brewed for the event as well.

The recall that cited Trader Joe's peanut butter has now been extended to include 71 other peanut products, including raw and unshelled peanut products from the New Mexico plant.

The Spice Table will continue its dinner service until it's forced to move, which should be within the next 6-12 months. In the meantime, Ng and his team will go full steam ahead with launching their second project, which had been in the works long before the Metro and plumbing issues arose.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Regardless of wether the winner is truly deserving of the title or not, we're stoked to see L.A. getting more love. Seems like our food scene is really on a roll.

Over 30,000 people turned out for last year's Feria, where snaking lines waited to sample black gold from both the Puebla and Oaxaca regions of Mexico.