This episode of Munchies takes Aziz Ansari, Michael Rapaport, Ethan Suplee and Zach McGowan to Los Angeles’ Animal restaurant, the brainchild of chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. A 15-passenger van filled to capacity with the city’s finest stars tours the city’s moveable feast of Korean BBQ, vinegar chicken, cabeza tacos, ginger ale and caramel-drenched doughnuts. →

The Bloggomist: Acorn & Oak Tree
Fashion Opinion

What started as a movement to rethink the way Americans mass-produce and mass-consume food seems to be inspiring an even closer-to-home slow movement. For years we’ve all been buzzing over the vast internet’s triumph over quaint print media. Meanwhile, multitasking was made easier with the help of 43 folders, women’s magazines, as shrill as ever, insist we can do it all (so long as we organize it correctly) and Apple trumpets in on a daily basis yeah, there’s an app for that.

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The Bloggomist: Why I Love DC
Food Opinion

Ping Pong Dim Sum made it’s official U.S. debut a few weeks ago in DC, located between the Convention Center and Verizon Center on 7th street in Chinatown/Mt Vernon Square. As the very first location in the States, Ping Pong Dim Sum delivers a contemporary take on Chinese dim sum by introducing Washington to a 21st century tea house and dim sum experience. →

Machine Project recently celebrated the holidays in that time-honored Machine way by submerging food in boiling oil and frying till, laced with artery-clogging cholesterol. This year’s “Fry B-Q” was expanded with the addition of the “Freeze-B-Q” where liquid nitrogen was poured over things such as blended fruit. The nitrogen froze them instantly, resulting in frozen delicacies such as marshmallow pops and ice cream shots. →

Fungi Fest 2010 in Echo Park
Machine Projects – Los Angeles, CA
1/16 – 1/23/10

With eight to twelve inches of rain in Southern California’s  forecast, now is the time to brush up on your mushroom identification skills.  Mushroom hunting is one of my favorite hobbies.  Gourmet mushrooms are pricey and finding a bag full of Chanterelles is liking finding delicious gold nuggets.  Just make sure you have a competent mycologist properly identify them for you.  There is a  real art to finding mushrooms.  They blend in with the leaves on the ground.  They can be right in front of you, but you won’t see them.  →

The Bloggomist: Why I Love DC
Food Opinion

Technology has certainly influenced our lives in ways beyond traditional communication methods. Social networking is no longer for just friends and families to stay in touch with one another but also a great tool for connecting local businesses to their customers. With the rise of new media, many entrepreneurs have started to use online social networking websites like Twitter or Facebook to engage with their market. →

Celebrate the New Year with Fine Wine and Tacos
Silverlake Wine – Silverlake, CA
2/3/10

Join Silverlake Wine to ring in the new year with the first Sunday Tasting of 2010 (Twenty Ten). Featured wines are all from Argentina and the food is courtesy of one of the best mobile taco trucks in LA, TACOZONE.   The coveted truck can usually be found at its normal location in front of the Von’s on Alvarado @ Montana in Echo Park.

Reservations required 323.662.9024 $20 per person. Tasting starts promptly at 3pm. →

The Bloggomist: Today’s Dish/Yesterday’s Spam
Lifestyle Opinion

I wasn’t expecting “Risotto With Squid Ink and Ricotta” to pop up when I typed in Christmas + news into a Yahoo! search engine. Maybe I should have used Google, I don’t know. Regardless – this little pearl popped up as the first on the list of featured holiday recipes from the New York Times. →

The Bloggomist: Table of Content
Food review

Some women, when they crave, fantasize about sweets. Hot fudge sundaes, red velvet cupcakes, chocolate-covered anything and everything… but me? I want none of it. My hankerings typically run to the spice. If I can get that heat fried? Nice. Now if you can make it a chicken wing, oh, baby. You just might persuade me to do something I’d not in my right mind. →

Graffiti Gone Global
Art Basel Miami Beach – Miami, FL
12/4 to 12/6/09

Graffiti Gone Global, presented by SUSHISAMBA, will take place December 4 to 6, during Art Basel Miami Beach. Curated by James and Karla Murray, authors of best-selling titles Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, Miami Graffiti, Broken Windows and Burning New York, the exhibition will feature a selection of work from today’s top street artists. This groundbreaking exhibition, set to take place in a 4,000 square-foot venue in the Midtown Arts District, will be the largest of its kind in Miami. →