L.A.'s street vendors are grounded and facing a new Goliath: COVID-19.

Food gives us the immediate sense of satisfaction and comfort. Most important, it shows us that there is still beauty in simple things.

The program will provide $66 a day per senior in funding for daily meals. Newsom said the effort will launch immediately, focused on seniors who are at risk for COVID-19 or have limited income.

The restaurant, which served traditional Basque cooking enjoyed family-style, had been in business for 89 years.

During coronavirus, these baking tips for those quarantine baking will reduce anxiety about the process and guarantee delicious results.

A new proposed Los Angeles city ordinance could set a 15% food delivery service fee cap.

Cooking editor Genevieve Ko teaches deputy Food editor Andrea Chang and columnist Lucas Kwan Peterson her beer-braised chicken recipes on a Zoom call.

Home cooks can get sushi-grade fish and dry-aged steaks for cheap, but at what cost?

These simple sweets hit the spot every time.

Lincoln Carson has decided to close his lauded Arts District restaurant permanently because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Chef Eric Bost's Melrose Avenue restaurant opened just 13 months ago.

The COVID-19 shutdown is affecting the flow of essential Oaxacan ingredients to L.A.

Scallion pancakes are a savory Chinese stovetop bread that can be a fun cooking project. They use a dough that doesn't require yeast.

During the coronavirus crisis, food producers, distributors and retailers in California, producer of much of the U.S. food supply, scramble to adapt.

Make these dishes for your mom at home or pack and ship treats to wherever she's quarantining.

As are bread and milk, gas and aspirin, alcohol and marijuana, books should be available, with safety precautions in place, at the usual places we buy them in our neighborhoods.

In his new book, Colton Underwood — who was recently diagnosed with coronavirus — talks about being manipulated by producers on "The Bachelor."

César Aira's latest novel, "Artforum," is about the art magazine and also the universe

Authors Steph Cha and Joe Ide swapped crimes stories and favorite books during the L.A. Times Book Club's first virtual event.

In the second installment of the United We Read project, a homebound writer travels a quarantined country through books.

Julia Alvarez's "Afterlife" is her first novel for adults in 15 years. She talks about loss, fragmentation and "American Dirt."

Chelsea Bieker's 'Godshot,' a surreal debut novel set in the parched Central Valley, depicts a fundamentalist rain cult and sex worker resisters.

The author of "Nothing to See Here" enjoys BennY RevivaL, furniture-breaking wrestling moves and lots of books in his quarantine diary.

The best series of books in four categories — including highbrow ('Wolf Hall'), L.A. favorites (Easy Rollins) and epic histories (Taylor Branch).

Author Mark O'Connell visited preppers, paranoiacs and prophets worldwide for "Notes From an Apocalypse." Now he says "the world will go on."

In "The World Without Us," Alan Weisman imagined how the Earth would look if humans vanished. Is the COVID-19 lockdown making that a reality?

On Tuesday, Simon & Schuster announced it will publish Alex Trebek's memoir, "The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life," on July 21.

Read "Attack on Titan," "Somali & the Forest Spirit," "Fire Force," "Arte" and more with Mangamo, a new mobile manga subscription service.

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, winner of the Times Book Prize in history, spent a decade on "They Were Her Property," about women slave owners.

Writer turns to guided journal for Michelle Obama's "Becoming" to grapple with anxiety and cabin fever during coronavirus crisis.

The journalist has plenty of space in Alabama, but it still gets lonesome. Luckily there's Larry McMurtry, Humphrey Bogart and Jerry Lee Lewis.

What crime novelist Laura Lippman is reading and watching in quarantine

The journalist ("The Looming Tower") and playwright ("My Trip to Al Qaeda") discusses his frightening and eerily prescient novel, "The End of October."

In 'Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery,' the critic travels to Nordic cities to investigate the society that shaped a global phenomenon.

In an excerpt from "Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery," the essayist Wendy Lasser recommends her favorite writers in the booming genre.

Colson Whitehead, Ben Moser, Jericho Brown, Anne Boyer and Greg Grandin are the 2020 recipients of Pulitzer Prizes for books.

He's interviewed Neko Case, Jeff Tweedy and Maria Bamford about depression. With his new memoir, "The Hilarious World of Depression," John Moe looks inward.

Easing sanctions on Iran, hard hit by the coronavirus, would be a humanitarian act that reminds the world of what America truly is.

Free college was common in the U.S. until the 1960s and produced alumni that included Nobel Prize winners and accomplished statesmen.

Bears, deer and other animals are roaming freely in areas once packed by Yosemite tourists. It appears the coronavirus is teaching us something about humans.

A program for one-time assistance to undocumented workers affected by the pandemic is a start, but California must do much more.

The Postal Service is as important to the United States as its language and its highways. Losing it would forever change the country for the worse.

When doctors are given N95 masks but the nurses who frequently come into contact with sick patients do not, you know something's wrong.

Participants in the Stanford study self-selected, among other flaws. Its results do not reveal anything meaningful about the coronavirus.

Calls to close streets to automobiles show the demand for exercise. Too bad all local trails have been closed to hikers.

The state isn't doing right by undocumented immigrants with a financial relief program that does nothing to address abusive labor practices.

A 2006 law requiring the Postal Service to pre-fund future retirees' health benefits has accelerated the agency's financial decline.

The spouses of immigrants need economic help too so they can stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

Rarely does any group of people draw so many howls of protest from readers as the anti-lockdown demonstrators.

Publishing photos of maskless tourists romping in poppy fields does not help the cause of social distancing.