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Culinary Cool Kids
WEST COAST(L-R): Tara Kolla, Sylvia Yoo, Craig Thornton, Robert Edwards, Homa Dashtaki, Ariane Resnick, Emily Cofrancesco, Alessandra Innamorato, Erika Nakamura, Amelia Posada, Jeremy Raub.Enlarge imageBackyard Famer: Tara KollaBack in 2009, L.A.'s Silver Lake Farms, and…
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The Food Networks: People's Grocery
"Healthy food for all," is the motto behind People's Grocery, which is not actually a grocery store. At least, not yet. Nikki Henderson, 27, is the executive director of this nonprofit whose mission is to…
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The Food Networks: M. Wells
In its short life, from 2010 to 2011, a chrome-sided diner called M. Wells was like a magic bus. Everyone came along for the ride: artists, plumbers, chefs, doctors in scrubs just off their shifts…
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The Food Networks: Boulettes Larder
Tucked away in a corner of San Francisco's renowned Ferry Building, the market mecca of America's local foods movement, one of the country's most seasoned chefs, Amaryll Schwertner, can be found coaxing the best of…
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The Food Networks: The Fat Radish
"It all began by selling sandwiches from a basement," says Phil Winser. Back in 2008, Winser was sleeping on the floor of his friend Ben Towill's tiny West Village apartment. "We had just a few…
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The Food Networks: Five Leaves
In the past five years, Greenpoint, Brooklyn has transformed from a largely Polish neighborhood into an artsy community with a Summer of Love-meets-Left Bank aesthetic. At the heart of this metamorphosis is Five Leaves, an…
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The Food Networks: The Pizza Project
On paper, Madeleine Fitzpatrick and Evan Shively seem like a classic case of "opposites attract." He's a quiet, thoughtful Harvard grad raised by academic parents in Boston, while she's a farm-reared Irish spitfire who is…
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The Food Networks: Mission Chinese
It's a few weeks before the New York outpost of Danny Bowien's popular San Francisco restaurant Mission Chinese is set to open on the Lower East Side, and the chef is belting out Avril Lavigne's…
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The Food Networks: Scribe Winery
Andrew Mariani isn't your typical Sonoma winemaker -- and that's not just because he's running a vineyard at the tender age of 28. While many of his neighbors aim to create high-octane wines that meet…
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SCRIBE WINERY MISSION CHINESETHE PIZZA PROJECTFIVE LEAVESTHE FAT RADISHBOULETTES LARDERM.WELLSPEOPLE'S GROCERYEast Coast styling by Logan Horne / West Coast styling by Ben and Chris Ospital for Modern Appealing Clothing.…
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Ask Mr. Mickey
Mr. Mickey's look of the month is a collection of royal snaps from the new book, Dear Ellen: Royal Europe Through the Photo Albums of H.I.H. Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia, by Arturo E.…
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Note from David
Social Media ManiaI'm only now coming up for air. For the past six months I've been immersed in the all-encompassing world of social media. In the short history of the digital revolution three periods stand…
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Note from David
Miles Davis' seminal album Birth of the Cool was released in 1957, signaling a break with the past that reverberated for some 50 years, flipping the script and turning our lexicon upside down. Before Miles…
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Daniel Fuller
There are several Daniel Fullers. The first is the Hawaii-born kid who left school at 15 to become a pro surfer. Found on the cover of Transworld Surf and each year at the Billabong Pipeline…
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Amaryllis Fox
Amaryllis Fox credits two epiphanies, 13 years apart, with having led to the creation of Mulu.me, a site equal parts social networking, e-commerce, curation and fund-raising. The first took place back in 1998, at the…
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Haley Tanner
Following in the grand tradition of literary duos -- Franny and Zooey, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer -- are the title characters of Haley Tanner's immaculate debut novel, Vaclav & Lena. A short story she…
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Jordan Kahn
It's not surprising that Jordan Kahn's Red Medicine is considered one of the best new restaurants in L.A. He's been a foodie since he could walk. Growing up in Savannah, Georgia, he regularly helped his…
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Mark Macinnis
As a modern day Johnny Appleseed, documentary filmmaker and food activist Mark MacInnis has sown the seeds of change from his native Detroit to his new home in Los Angeles. MacInnis' documentary, Urban Roots, which…
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Supermodel Pets Part 3
Fashion photographer Richard Phibbs is back with another batch of adorable adoption glamour shots for the Humane Society of New York. Since shelter animals with flattering photos tend to be adopted quicker, Phibbs donates his…
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Eric Garcetti
At times, L.A.'s most viable mayoral candidate seems straight out of an episode of Portlandia. "My wife and I grow almost all of our own food," explains the former L.A. City Council President. "Chickens are…
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