Tag: El Coyote
Chicken pot pie, steak Diane were favorites on 1960s menus
Food has become an obsession in America. Cooking channels. Foodie blogs. We buy five kinds of sea salt and frequent farm-to-table cookeries. But it wasn’t always so. In 1963 when this newspaper began to chronicle our neighborhood, the food scene was quite different. We were a meat-and-potatoes nation. Pot roast suppers, Swanson’s TV dinners eaten […]
‘Gourmet Ghosts’ by James Bartlett tells tale of city’s historic past
James Bartlett happened on the idea for his new book “Gourmet Ghosts” at a bar, which, he was told, has a ghost. He hasn’t exactly seen a ghost since he’s published the 274-page historic look at the city’s mysterious past. But he’s heard some good stories, sampled L.A.’s eclectic fare and sipped assorted beverages at […]
