Noisy chips ... Mark Peel's "The Point" ... best milkshakes in the Empire ... Soup that's probably too hot for humans (sane ones, anyway) ... Eat-LA-Off-Ramp Collaboration on Goat and Global Pizza ... Michael Cimarusti's "What I Learned on my Japanese Vacation."
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• 1:43
John Rabe was trying to work as his cubicle-neighbor, Nihar Patel, was digging into a bag of sun chips. The snack giant Frito Lay is marketing its packaging as "noisy with a cause."
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• 4:58
In the latest installment in the Eat-LA/Off-Ramp collaborative, Off-Ramp host John Rabe visits Strawberry Cones with Miles Clements to taste one of their weirdest pizzas. COME INSIDE for info on all the non-standard pizza joints Miles sampled for his LA Times Food section piece "Pizza Goes Global," and to find out why it's called "Strawberry Cones."
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• 3:41
KPCC's John Rabe talks with famed LA restaurateur Mark Peel (owner of Campanile and Tar Pit) about his latest venture, The Point, a breakfast and lunch joint in Culver City. Mark and John bravely did the interview dozens of feet in the air, atop an Eric Owen Moss art tower next to The Point. COME INSIDE for the movie.
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• 7:32
Off-Ramp's Queena Kim goes to Little Tokyo's Orochon Ramen, home to what many consider the spiciest ramen in Los Angeles. Check below for some of Queena's video footage!
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• 8:34
The downloadable Dinner Party Download, with Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam, always features an "icebreaker," the joke that will help you on your way to becoming the life of the dinner party. The best part is that these are not just jokes, but the favorite jokes of people like The Watson Twins, Leslie Caron, Tom Jones, and Billy Bragg. These jokes have bona fides that guarantee your success, or at least an alibi. (Shrugging, nonchalantly, "Well, Tom Jones thought it was funny.") Now, for the first time, DPD collects these hilarititans together. Come inside to find out who is telling the jokes.
No. 1 on Jonathan Gold list: Providence Restaurant's Michael Cimarusti's life-changing trip to Japan
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• 42:29
Michael Cimarusti, owner/chef of Providence, the two-star Michelin restaurant, is a damn good chef. But he's a humble one, and came back from a fellowship to Japan with a new respect for the thousands of years behind Japan's cuisine. Come inside as he gives Off-Ramp an exclusive travelogue of his trip.
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• 6:30
So far, the Eat-LA/Off-Ramp Collaboration has brought you pubs and pizza. Now, with the help of Eat-LA contributing writer Linda Burum, who also writes for the Times and LA Magazine, we check out the number one meat-on-the-hoof in the world - goat. COME INSIDE for more pics and a full list of goat restaurants and sources.
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• 3:57
As Queena Kim and writer Jeff Girod report, the answer might surprise you, click through to find out.