Breakfast just got a little less sweet

By Elena Conis, Special to the Los Angeles Times

Want to feed your kids a healthy breakfast without drowning them in sugar? It's a challenge — but it's getting a little easier.

Olive oil 101

By Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times

When life gives you olive oil, Theo Stephan has a suggestion: Make a pie. Or a tart. Or cookies.

Skee-ball is the name of game in Brooklyn

By Jason S. Mandell

The odd coupling of tradition and trendiness that characterizes Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood is perhaps nowhere more evident than at...

The American craft beer scene goes global

By Jenn Garbee, Special to the Los Angeles Times

While craft beer fans hedge their bets on whether Sunday's Super Bowl play-by-play is more suited to hopped-up IPAs or intensely flavored...

The Review: A-Frame

By S. Irene Virbila, Los Angeles Times Restaurant Critic

In late 2008, Roy Choi and his buddy and partner Mark Manguera dreamed up the Kogi Korean BBQ truck and harnessed Twitter to send out a...

The Garbage Maven: Talking trash (and recycling)

By Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times

Now you see it. Now you don't. It's an adage that applies to many things in our ultra-efficient...

Jack LaLanne was a healthy showoff to the very end

By James Fell, Special to the Los Angeles Times

Jack LaLanne was an incredible showoff, and with good reason.