Since igniting on January 7, multiple wildfires in Southern California have burned through over 30,000 acres, killed at least five people, and destroyed nearly 2000 structures, including iconic Los ...

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Like so much that week, things quickly — and repeatedly — changed. Within a day, World Central Kitchen helped to mobilize a cohort of Los Angeles-based chefs to serve residents impacted by the fires.

Residents in some neighborhoods of Los Angeles live in food deserts, creating systematic barriers to healthy eating. The nonprofit organization Food Empowerment Project defines a “food desert” as a ...

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Muscoy is a semi-rural ...

Food banks in L.A. saw an increase in demand after January's fires. Then the federal government halted millions of dollars in funding for food banks, forcing some groups to make tough choices on food ...

For Kym Estrada, owner of San & Wolves Bakeshop in Long Beach, family-style means an excuse to gather with loved ones. “I’m Filipino and I grew up in a big family, which extends to our cousins, and we ...

Restaurants and chefs across every level of dining are donating food and services to feed displaced Angelenos and service workers. Some restaurants and bars have flipped their dining rooms into ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

The invention of the French dip is one of the most contested debates in Los Angeles food history: Two LA restaurants — Cole’s French Dip and Philippe the Original — have both made the claim that they ...

As a kid, I used to cringe when my mom would pull the car over on the side of the freeway. She’d spot something growing wild in the hills around Los Angeles and jump out of the car, searching for flor ...