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What's available from L.A.-area farmers and beyond during the shutdown, and how to get it

A list of currently available produce from local farmers.




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9 L.A. chefs and restaurants are named James Beard Award finalists

Nine Los Angeles restaurants and chefs, including Jessica Koslow and Jeremy Fox, are on James Beard Foundation's list.




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The official Ben & Jerry's ice cream power rankings

One opinion on the best (and worst) Ben & Jerry's flavors




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All hail the old-school way of making Caesar salad

This classic Caesar salad recipe includes whole romaine leaves, homemade croutons and a coddled egg, but with an option to use mayonnaise instead.




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Kale Pasta Salad With Parm and Smoked Almonds

Kale, lots of crunchy vegetables and an assertive dressing make pasta salad worth eating again.




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Surviving the Shutdown: San Pedro Fish Market has sold over 15,000 shrimp trays since stay-at-home started

San Pedro's historic waterfront market is offering discounted shrimp trays to draw in customers




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You've named and fed it. Now what to do with all that extra sourdough starter?

Now that sourdough baking has become a shutdown trend, here are some suggestions for what to do with extra starter.




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How Newton Nguyen is inspiring a young generation of home chefs

Newton Nguyen (aka @milktpapi) talks Spam musubi, overnight virality and Los Angeles cuisine.




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Want to make dinner in five minutes? Then it's time for scrambled eggs

This buttery, silky scrambled egg recipe comes together in five minutes and uses chopsticks to make cooking easy.




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Column: As an L.A. newcomer, I adored Souplantation. I'm grieving its closing

Los Angeles magazine called it 'aggressively mediocre,' but its simple food and family-style seating reminded me of my Queens childhood.




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Cook with us! Introducing our new home for recipes and cooking newsletter

This weekend we're excited to launch a new cooking newsletter to help you keep up with all the great stuff coming from our kitchen team, led by Genevieve Ko and Ben Mims.




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Brown Butter-Cinnamon Crumb Cake

Brown butter and a generous dose of fresh cinnamon turn up the volume on crumb cake.




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A crumb cake that's worth digging into

Brown butter warms up a generous amount of ground cinnamon for the crunchy topping in this spin on a classic crumb cake.




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The best last-minute Mother's Day gift? Do the dishes (and do them well)

These cleaning tips will help you wash dishes efficiently and get them extra clean. Plus, they may help you find the joy of cleaning up.




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A co-working whodunit clips corporate feminism's Wing

Andrea Bartz's novel, "The Herd," is a mystery wrapped around a parody of The Wing




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Quarantined Laila Lalami tries "Middlemarch," falls asleep with "The Bell Jar" instead

In a coronavirus quarantine diary, 'The Other Americans' author Laila reads 'The Bell Jar,' recommends Kiese Laymon's 'Heavy' and watches 'Devs.'




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Indie bookstore Powell's Books rehires more than 100 employees as online orders soar

Portland's beloved indie bookstore Powell's Books rehired more than 100 employees after seeing a surge in online orders.




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Will the coronavirus outbreak lead to new L.A. crime fiction? The jury is out

Steph Cha doesn't expect much in the way of good crime fiction to spring from the coronavirus outbreak.




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Column: 'Blue Highways' author William Least Heat-Moon on the art of traveling in place

A after visiting every U.S. county in the lower 48, William Least Heat-Moon is the master of the topographical journey. Now 80, he takes another trip through his new novel — into the imperfect history of American democracy.




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Op-Ed: If marijuana is essential during the coronavirus shutdown, why not books?

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.




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Recovered from the coronavirus, Colton Underwood tackles a new foe: 'The Bachelor' franchise

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




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Review: César Aira, a novelist of obsession worth obsessing over

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




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10 crime writers to read while under house arrest

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




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Harry Potter and the coronavirus crisis: J.K. Rowling launches a new activity website for kids

"Harry Potter" mastermind J.K. Rowling has launched a new website called "Harry Potter at Home" to help distract families from the coronavirus crisis.




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Review: Canceled, creepy and still funny, Woody Allen shrugs

"Apropos of Nothing" is a mixed bag of rich memories, harsh defenses and tone-deaf reveries.




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James Patterson donates $500,000 as independent bookstores struggle with coronavirus

Author James Patterson is donating $500,000 to help indie bookstores across the country. For many L.A. booksellers, that could be a life saver.




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What Rigoberto González is reading, hearing and watching in quarantine

In quarantine, mystery poet Rigoberto González




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Kathy Valentine's hair-raising memoir 'All I Ever Wanted' recounts the Go-Go's wild ride

Kathy Valentine's hair-raising memoir recounts life before, during and shortly after the Go-Go's ascended to become the darlings of the MTV generation.




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Meet the heartland Evangelicals who feed America

Marie Mutsuki Mockett's 'American Harvest' looks at the divide between the heartland and those who seldom think about where our food comes from.




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Union calls Powell's Books announcement of staff rehires 'misleading'

A union statement is "disappointed" with how Powell's Books has been informing the public about staffing after laying off most of its employees.




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Patricia Bosworth, actor turned celebrity biographer, dies of coronavirus

Patricia Bosworth, an actor who went on to chronicle lives including Jane Fonda's, Marlon Brando's and her own, died from coronavirus. She was 86.




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Patricia Bosworth, 'as big in life' as the stars she wrote about

A tribute to Patricia Bosworth, who died of complications from COVID-19. The actress and biographer of Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando was 86.




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21 new and classic books to keep you in touch with the natural world

Books about nature to read while avoiding the coronavirus — from classics by John McPhee and Annie Dillard to the upcoming "Book of Eels."




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What Susan Straight is reading, hearing and watching in quarantine

Quarantined in Riverside, novelist Susan Straight watches "Gunsmoke" and "Gentefied" and gives away Judy Blume and National Geographic.




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Don Winslow drops a new book, 'Broken,' your quarantine read for our fractured times

The bestselling crime novelist plans a virtual book tour for his new title, "Broken," as the coronavirus keeps him home in Southern California.




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L.A. author Kathryn Scanlan on whether we're still 'The Dominant Animal'

Kathryn Scanlan, taut new story collection, "The Dominant Animal," probes power relationships in uncertain times. She talks about L.A. and COVID-19.




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Author Fanny Singer and chef Alice Waters talk food and family with L.A. Times Book Club

In a virtual meet-up, "Almost Home" author Fanny Singer and mother and famed chef Alice Waters join book club readers April 21 for a kitchen conversation.




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What authors are reading, hearing and watching in quarantine

Authors like Lionel Shriver, Alexander McCall Smith, Laura Lippman and Steph Cha are under coronavirus quarantine too. Here's what they're reading.




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Q&A: Author Cynthia Ozick will spend her 92nd birthday 'contemplating mayhem'

Cynthia Ozick, essayist and acclaimed novelist, shelters from coronavirus and discusses anti-Semitism, the Spanish flu and longevity.




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Alexander McCall Smith reads up on solitude — and shares a new song — from Scotland quarantine

In his quarantine diary, "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" author Alexander McCall Smith writes lyrics, reads Auden and watches "Brideshead Revisited."




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The L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony will be virtual, and free, this year

Winners of the L.A. Times Book Prizes will be announced in a special, virtual Twitter ceremony this year because of the global health crisis.




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Roast chicken recipe perfect for scaled-down virtual feast

Recipe: Writer turns to Fanny Singer's "Always Home" for comfort chicken during family's Seder.




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The Silent Book Club, a global meet-up for introverts, now connects them remotely

A book club for people who don't like book clubs, founded in 2012 in San Francisco and now boasting six chapters in L.A. County, has moved online.




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Tiger Woods makes golf history at the 2019 Masters: A look back

Sunday is when Tiger Woods made golf history, but Saturday is when he won the 2019 Masters and reestablished himself as golf's king.




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Review: Queer authors reinvent the artist biography as revisionist memoir

Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" and Mark Doty's "What Is the Grass," about Walt Whitman, are hybrid memoir-biographies.




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Q&A: What do people ask a librarian in a pandemic? L.A. Library's InfoNow has the answer

With libraries closed, L.A. librarians now work from home to help people find free ebooks, music and movies during the coronavirus crisis.




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Home wrestling, masked dinners and lots of books: Kevin Wilson's Tennessee quarantine diary

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




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Review: How L.A.'s '60s movements fought for justice — and sometimes even achieved it

In "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," Mike Davis and Jon Wiener track the uprisings, outrages and elections that shaped the city.




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Apocalypse, you say? Writer Mark O'Connell has been there, done that

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




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Cooking in quarantine: 'Always Home' author Fanny Singer retreats to Alice Waters' kitchen

Fanny Singer's stories and recipes, 'Always Home,' show life growing up in the orbit of her mother, farm-to-table chef Alice Waters.