Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) had launched their gastronomical ambitions last Tuesday, August 17th, in our very own neighborhood, Echo Park, at the new raw food restaurant, Mooi.  If you’ve missed this event, you can still support our local farmers every week, or even every other week, and pick-up locally grown produce.  CSA sticks with seasonal fruits and vegetables and, of course, everything is organic.  Produce is available every Tuesday from 3 pm to 5 pm and each bag is $25. Please spread the word!

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Interview with Chris Ziegler (L.A. RECORD)
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Chris Ziegler is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of L.A. RECORD, West Coast Editor of PAPER magazine, freelance writer and DJ. He writes widely about arts and culture in Southern California, and through L.A. RECORD, he has documented the goings-on of the L.A. music scene with rare and hard-hitting interviews. Currently, he DJs at the Black Boar in Eagle Rock as part of a weekly Monday night series called Big Freak. In this interview, Chris talks about the future of alternative press and the best and strangest interviews of his journalism career. →

One summer, Matt Allen of Ashland, Oregon, decided he wanted to become the most famous ice cream man in the world. With his 1969 Chevrolet Step Van, he then moved to his hometown of Long Beach, California, to start fulfilling his dreams. →

Evil Monito Interviews the Big Cheese Himself
LA is in the grips of a cheese wave. The Foundry chef, Eric Greenspan’s, planned grilled cheese restaurant is on the ZagatBuzz list of most anticipated LA restaurants. Grilled cheese food trucks roam the city drawing huge lines and even the fast food chains are trying to get in on the action.

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The 24th Annual JazzReggae Festival
Intramural Field (UCLA) – Los Angeles, CA
5/30 to 5/31/10

The 24th Annual JazzReggae Festival held at UCLA will feature Damian Marley & Nas, Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip, Barrington Levy and more as-of-yet unannounced artists. Since capacity has been reduced from last year, pre-sale tickets are recommended →

Each week, the amiable British celebrity chef , Jamie Oliver, attempts to save Americans lives in his new ABC series “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.”  During the course of six weeks, Oliver visits Huntington, W.Va., a town referenced as one of the most obese cities in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. →

Echo Park PDA
Echo Park Ave. – Grafton St. to Champagne Terr.
4/3/10

This month, the neighborhood of Echo Park will be hosting another art walk. Local galleries, ateliers, boutiques and restaurants will open their doors to visitors and shoppers for a day of artwork and discounts. Visitors are encouraged to participate in an Easter egg hunt at each stop of the art walk. Each egg will feature a coupon to a neighboring store (10% discount, free coffee, etc.), so make sure to visit as many galleries and stores as you can for more savings. →

Photo courtesy of Dan Phiffer, licensed under Creative Commons

Annual College Night
J. Paul Getty Museum – Los Angeles, CA
4/7/10

The Getty Museum welcomes local college students for a night of exclusive lectures, art exhibits, live music and food. Curator Anne Lyden will host a tour of the ongoing exhibit A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans, artist Soo Kim will speak to students about her panoramic photographs of Reykjavík, Iceland (from the exhibit Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim) and a special chef guest speaker will discuss the aesthetics of food in conjunction with the exhibit In Focus: Tasteful Pictures. →

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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