Category: Events and Festivals
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Best Bites of LA Times The Taste 2016
Los Angeles Times‘ annual multi-day food festival The Taste took place over Labor Day weekend this year (and I think every year). Last year I attended four events, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. This year, I was able to add the Friday night Opening Night event to my repertoire. View this post on […]
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Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival 2016
Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival is one of two multi-day festivals at the end of the summer–the other is Los Angeles Times The Taste (see my September 2016 food event round-up post for more info on that event). It is literally a red-carpet event, with Grand Avenue blocked off between 1st and 2nd Streets […]
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September 2016 Food Events and Festivals
September kicks off with a huge multi-day event over Labor Day weekend, then follows up with an intimate yet world-class fundraiser, another event benefiting culinary education and programs, and in the midst of it all is a series of guest chef dinners across different locations of one of the most popular gastropubs in town. September […]
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California Spirit 31 for American Cancer Society (2016)
California Spirit is an annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. In it’s 31st(!) year, the event is relatively small in scale, with only a dozen or so participating restaurants, but they managed to raise over $100k this year. The event was chaired by movie studio executive Sherry Lansing, co-creator of Everybody Loves Raymond and […]
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Plate by Plate 2016
In 2014, I did my first ever piece for a major web publication, when I covered Plate by Plate that year for Eater LA. Since then I’ve written pieces for LA TACO, which I’ve linked to, as well as Blackboard Eats, Los Angeles Magazine, and Los Angeles Times, which I haven’t linked to because those […]