Weekly plant-forward bean recipes, plus essays, guides, and reviews on the Los Angeles food scene from a freelance journalist and independent restaurant critic.
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Spill the Beans #55: Kelly’s Sesame Oil Fava Bean Salad
Freelance updates: Next week, the long-awaited package “The New California Cuisine: 25 Restaurants to Eat at Now” drops in Alta Journal’s Issue 37! I’ve got five—count ‘em, FIVE—blurbs inside the guide, which also features former San Franci...
Spill the Beans #54: Freezer-Friendly Cranberry Bean and Cheese Burritos
Freelance updates: Resy published my Dish by Dish story, “Five Iconic Dishes from N/Naka, L.A.’s Game-Changing Modern Kaiseki Experience,” on September 18. It was great to chat with Niki Nakayama at length about the restaurant’s 15th annive...
Spill the Beans #53: Naz Deravian’s Baghali Ghatogh
Freelance updates: My interview with Franki Chan of IHEARTCOMIX, as well as my mini-review of the Tasting Kitchen on Abbot Kinney, went live on on September 10. The stories are paywalled—please reply directly to this email if you’d like to...
Spill the Beans #52: Rachel Gurjar’s Chickpea-Potato Chaat
Freelance updates: It’s been a long, arduous second half of August in my world, but my omakase guide on Resy went live on August 20. I also conducted an interview on Fine Dining Lovers with William Joo of LA’s famed, globally recognized Tok...
Spill the Beans #51: Yossy Arefi's Caramelized Zucchini and White Bean Salad
Freelance updates: Forgot to mention last week that my Dish by Dish feature on Morihiro went live on July 28! It might not look like much, but it’s basically a handy-dandy guide to the perfect a la carte order at the Victor Heights sushi re...
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