Richard Parks
This Wine Bar Is a Thai Restaurant in Disguise
Wine is an unlikely powerful element of Kris Yenbamroong’s restaurant Night + Market Song, the place that brings authentic, rarified Thai street food traditions to LA. Wine has no place in those traditions, and in Thai food, generally, it has hardly...
How to Eat Climate Change
Considering all of the recent talk about global warming, it’s time to start considering what will happen when the freeways collapse and the Pacific Ocean starts to boil and the La Brea tarpits open up again. What will we eat in LA?
Shilling for Summer in Sin City
Don't waste time with pre-packed baskets. A real picnic is all about scrambling to the store for a slab of paté, a chunk of cheese, and a $10 bottle of vinho verde, and eating it all off of a Frisbee.
Prison Food Is Pure Power in ‘Orange Is the New Black’
The thing that makes me most anxious when I think about the possibility of going to prison is the food. The kitchen is the seat of power in Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black. And food is the currency of power that is used equally as both...
The Secret Ingredient in Larry David’s Favorite Chicken Is Murder
Sliding into a tub of garlic paste, matricide, and Curb Your Enthusiasm at Zankou, the best roast-chicken joint in LA.
Vin Scully’s Playing a Dodger Dog Flute in Hog Heaven
Vin Scully is synonymous with televised baseball in LA. For the last fifty years, his wonderfully mellifluous tenor has been the voice of the Dodgers and Farmer John’s sausages, bacon, and Dodger Dogs®—almost like a magical Dodger Dog® meat flute...
Musso and Frank Grill Is Better Than Anything In Hollywood
At Musso and Frank Grill, the martinis are dry, the steak is perfectly charred, and the history is pervasive. It's the best restaurant in Hollywood because it's so un-Hollywood. No wonder Mad Men loves it.
Here's the Rub Behind the (Slightly) Racist Ribs in 'House of Cards'
Welcome to our new column, FAT TV, in which we dissect the relationship of food on the small screen. For our first installment, we turn to Netflix's House of Cards, where even the most chillingly devious of politicians can't resist a nice rack...