Food trucks are sweeping the nation, and in Los Angeles, there are a plethora of choices, including from Korean, Chinese, Mexican, New American, and many more. In true west coast style, many of them cater to the vegan and vegetarian population. Here's a roundup of 8 food trucks ...read more
It might not sound appetizing, but seafood from the Gulf of Mexico was the main course at Pres. Obama's White House birthday bash on Sunday, and the guests ate it up. I understand that the president wants to support Louisiana fishers, but think about it for a minute: over 200 ...read more
Here's our weekly round up of favorite stories from around the web that we love! At Tonic, Katie Leavitt reports on a study that shows how to maximize your brain power for the work week. According to a UPenn study, "recovery sleep" is a real thing, and if you have to go on on 4 ...read more
Here are two trends that I support: having good-tasting beef, and treating animals well, even if the eventual goal is to eat them. Grass-fed beef, for example, is a great thing. So why does the idea of giving wine to cows seem so strange? Janice Ravndahl, a rancher from Kelowna, ...read more
Jamie Oliver, the world-famous British celebrity chef, has set his sights on take-out food. Oliver's newest show will feature him cooking meals from scratch in half an hour, in less time than it takes to get a bag of take-out from a restaurant. These aren't going to be boring ...read more
The contest ended September 7, 2010. It's late summer and the grilling season is in full swing. The ideal late summer night: pour a glass of your favorite wine (or cocktail), have a few friends over, fire up the bbq, and eat some ridiculously, delicious organic foods. It ...read more
What are they going to serve? Who's going to be there? What will she wear? In America, the Clintons are probably the closest thing we have to royalty, so it makes sense that everyone—from politicos to paparazzi—is abuzz about Chelsea Clinton's upcoming wedding to Marc Mezvinsky, ...read more
Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) opened a new restaurant in northern California on Tuesday. Rustic is set in Geyserville, CA near his winery. Inside Scoop SF got a chance to speak with Mr. Coppola, the discussion ranged from the relation ...read more
LA Weekly reports that Iron Chef America has banned bluefin tuna from its menu because of the species' threatened status. A lot of restaurants are in a bind, because tuna is a popular ingredient, but organizations like the Monterey Bay Aquarium have been warning that the fish's ...read more
Quick, imagine a vegan guy. Let me guess what pops into your head: a scrawny, pale artist with horn-rimmed glasses whose closest brush with fame was playing in a mopey indie rock band. Yeah, that's what I thought of, too. How's this for a new vegan poster man: a tall, dark, and ...read more
Honey nettles and wild flowers for dinner? Exotic, but it doesn't sound very filling. The BBC has the scoop on a hot British restaurant where the star chef Sat Bains ordered an employee to use her foraging skills to expand the kitchen's repertoire. Rosy garlic and kitchen honey ...read more
You'd think that winning Bravo's hit show Top Chef would make you a celebrity in the SoCal food circuit, but you'd be wrong. Sign On San Diego reports that Michael Voltaggio, the champion of Top Chef: Las Vegas, ran into some trouble when he tried to get some fish tacos at San ...read more
Our friends are talking about cool eco-friendly stuff happening in big cities. We just had to share! Tonic covers the latest trend in green transportation: bike share programs. Major cities in Europe, Asia, Australia, and even the USA are catching on. Healthy, trendy, and green. ...read more
The Washington Post says environmentalists and culinary enthusiasts agree: we should chow down on lionfish. It tastes good and we need to get rid of it, for the sake of coral reefs. The invasive species was moved from the western Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic near Florida in the ...read more
Tom Colicchio, the head judge of Bravo's popular Top Chef show, came out in support of the Child Nutrition Act currently in a House committee. Colicchio is the son of a lunch lady himself, and he said that he's never had any trouble getting kids to eat healthy food—it just has ...read more
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution marches on! Better School Food announced that Washington, DC public schools will stop serving flavored milks this fall. Here's why: chocolate and strawberry milk, usually sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup, has as much sugar, ounce for ounce, ...read more
Summer! Time for road trips and family vacations. But if you're anything like me, it's the time of the year that you feel the pull of fast-food restaurants. After all, they're cheap, convenient, and filling, right? Wrong. You might have heard that some McDonald's toys were ...read more
The Seattle Times interviewed food movement hero Michael Pollan about his latest book, Food Rules, the state of the food in America, and Michelle Obama. About the first lady, Pollan says, She's a very important voice in the food movement now, and I think is raising people's ...read more
If you're interested in cool technologies that could help stop global warming, or just celebrity spotting, I've just a couple of events for you. Director and activist Josh Tickell is holding a major press conference in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Mayor Villaraigosa, the ...read more
The First Lady Michelle Obama took her daughters out to Los Angeles restaurant Lucques for Sunday supper. Obama Foodorama reports that Michelle, Malia, and Sasha made the trek up from the Camp Pendleton Marine base in San Diego County to have dinner in the city of angels. Good ...read more
Don't you think the world would be a better place if everyone did a little gardening? An unexpected group is coming around to that idea—prison administrators. The Natural Resources Defense Council's Smarter Cities Project reports that prisons across the country are harnessing the ...read more
Help protect your pets from dangerous chemicals! Research shows that many flea collars for sale at major pet stores contain chemicals known to cause cancer and neurological damage to humans and pets. Luckily, there's a nation-wide consumer-led movement underway to get PETCO and ...read more
The White House has a plan to get better food to students! Man oh man, it would've been nice if Bush or Clinton had thought of this back when I was in school. The First Lady announced a new program that should help get healthier and tastier food in public schools. Around the ...read more
"No evidence organic foods benefit health: study." That's the headline of a story that Reuters published on Monday. Really?! If true, this would've been news to me, so I checked it out. Sure enough, they elaborate in the first sentence that "there is currently no strong evidence ...read more
Having trouble on that crossword? Don't turn to Google for an answer—spend some time in the garden, instead. BusinessWeek reports that Sage Colleges researchers found that mice who were fed a bacteria naturally occurring in soil made it through a maze twice as fast as the ...read more
rhett maxwell/flickr Local and organic food-growers need your help! Bill S. 510 is an overhaul of the food safety system that will hurt small-scale organic producers. The bill would require a $500 registration fee for all farms, regardless of size, and would require complicated ...read more
showbizsuperstar/flickr From time to time, people have criticized Nicole Richie for being something of a ditz, for only being famous because she's famous, and for keeping bad company, but I'd like to send kudos her way for her recent decision to raise her children — 2-year-old ...read more
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) called for the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the safety of Triclosan, a chemical found in everything from socks to soap to toothpaste. The European Union has banned the chemical, and according the Environmental Working Group's Cosmetics Safety ...read more
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has fanned the flames of discontent. In a post yesterday Klein recounted a tale where he asked for a vegetarian option at a Washington, DC restaurant and they offered him a "grilled vegetable plate," or GVP. He rejected the dish as tasteless, ...read more
Wasted food is a huge problem in the US. Americans waste a ton of food — every 0.7 seconds, to be exact. Our friends over at OnEarth have an eye-opening article on food waste that really shows how this problem translates into other wasted resources: 25% of the water we use and 4% ...read more
First Lady Michelle Obama wants to garden, and nothing can stop her, not even a couple feet of snow. The White House chefs just got done with their spring harvest. Over the winter, the White House's garden grew close to 50 lbs of its own turnips, spinach, lettuce, arugula, and ...read more
A new study says that it's fine to have eggs and waffles for breakfast, but you might want to skip the cake and ice cream after dinner. If you're eating Special K and skim milk for breakfast, only to pig out on Häagen-Dazs at night, you might be fighting your body's natural ...read more
Just a few days after being ridiculed by David Letterman on national TV, British Chef Jamie Oliver's nutritional efforts are being vindicated back home, according to the Guardian newspaper. Jamie partnered with Parliament to institute his "Feed me Better" campaign in 2004, and ...read more
We all know that too much sugar is bad for us, but it turns out that not all sugars are created equal. A new Princeton study gave three groups of rats three different diets: normal rat food, water with table sugar (sucrose), and water with high-fructose corn syrup. They found ...read more
Are you serious about getting healthy? You better ditch that hand sanitizer. New research suggests that germophobia is bad for the heart. A study by scientists from Northwestern University shows that infants who were exposed to more dirt, germs, and even animal feces grew up to ...read more