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- Amy Scattergood L.A. Weekly’s Food Blog editor’s own site – not updated lately but some magnificent writing
- Biggest Menu Share Your Taste – a wide variety of global reader contributed menu items
- Epic Meal Time An over-the-top YouTube video channel featuring testosterone-fueled cooking
- Food Truck Times Real Reviews of the LA Lunch Trucks
- GrapeSmart Because Wine Doesn’t Have to Be Expensive to Be Good.
- Here, Eat This! Follow Kiki Maraschino on her adventures in Los Angeles and points beyond as she searches out the perfect catfish, the ultimate taco, and tries to avoid arrest.
- LA Foodie podcasts A great food-based audio program. LA Foodie is Drew Hubbard and Ben Waters, looking for the best eats in LA and usually finding them.
- Let Me Eat Cake Manila Machine co-founder. Cake lover. Donut fiend.
- Portland Monthly Magazine – Eat and Drink A definitive guide to dining in Portland, Oregon
- Sausages & the Like Everything you wanted to know about sausage from A to Z
- The Glutster A desmadroso food, booze and punk rock blog
- The Minty The Minty is a Los Angeles lifestyle blog focusing on the city’s dining, dating, arts and culture scenes.
- TV Food and Drink The blog that combines TV, food and drink for a cultural experience in your own home
- What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? A very vulgar and hilarious interactive site to help you choose what to make for dinner
Trippy Places
- Exotic Meat Market.com Exotic Meat market invites you to celebrate life with their exotic wild game meats, the product of their passion and dreams.
- Hop Woo Chinese cuisine extraordinaire in Los Angeles’ Chinatown district
- Kali Dining Site for the underground restaurant in the L.A. area by Chef Kevin Meehan
- Lindy & Grundy Local, Pastured and Organic Meats – your Los Angeles butcher shop
Trippy Travel Sites
- America's Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66 An interactive Google map of Route 66
- Atlas Obscura The Atlas Obscura is the definitive guidebook and friendly tour-guide to the world’s most wondrous places.
- Hometown America Your Guide to Offbeat, Odd America Travel Attractions
- Kansas Travel & Tourism What to see and do in Kansas
- LIVE_F>A>S>T Magazine LIVE FAST (Fashion, Art, Sex and Travel) is an independent cultural magazine delivering exclusive fashion editorials, interviews with up & coming and established artists, and conversations about sex and travel
- North American Basque Organizations Where to get your Basque on
- Oscar Mayer's Hotdogger Blog Wienermobile tracker Want to see the Wienermobile? Here’s how
- RoadsideAmerica.com Your Online guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions
- RoadsideArchitecture.com Buildings, Signs, Statues and More – If someone built it and it’s on the unusual side, you can find it here
- Travel Iowa: Quirky Sites and Stops Need we say more?
- Trippy.com A site where you can pin and share travel ideas in pictures
Category Archives: South and Central America
Fellowship of the Ring
Rosca de Reyes Mexico I was aware of the tradition of the King Cake, a Mardi Gras staple decorated with familiar gold, green and purple icing and hiding a tiny plastic baby Jesus like some confectionary Cracker Jack pastry where … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Trippy Food (Tasty flora and fauna)
Tagged Alex Peña, Bakemark, Bakery, bolillos, breadRosca de Reyes, Brioche des Rois, butter, CA, California, Candlemas, Catholic, cherries, chocolate, Christmas, cinnamon, conchas, corn, December, Día de La Candelaria, egg, Epiphany, Fat Tuesday, February, figs, flour, green apple, guava, Herod, January, Jesus, King, King Cake, Kings' Ring, L.A., LA, La Morenita, Los Angeles, Maraschino, Mardi Gras, masa, Mexican, Mexico, pan dulce, panettone, paste, plastic baby, proofer, quince, ring, shortening, sugar, syrup, tamales, tradition, wise men
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Holy Guacamole!
24th Annual California Avocado Festival Carpinteria, California The ever-popular avocado originated in Puebla, Mexico, where the family patriarch can still be found locally in the form of the small, black, gourd-shaped fruit called “criollo”. The Spanish were the first to … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Trippy Food (Tasty flora and fauna), Trippy Happenings (Events), USA
Tagged aguacate, alligator pear, avocado, buttermilk, cactus, California, Carpinteria, chayote, CJ Produce, Cold Stone Creamery, county, criollo, Fallbrook, Fallen Stars, festival, guacamole, guava, Guinness Book of World's Records, Hass, ice cream, Lilly Hoopz, Linden Ave, Lions Club, Mestizo, Mexico, Nahuatl, nopales, Puebla, Rainbow Ice Cream, San Diego, smoothie, teacake, testicle, tri-tip
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The Full Brazilian
Brazilian Day at the La Brea Tar Pits Los Angeles, California With no disrespect intended, mention “Brazilian” and some people think, “wax”, but in Los Angeles on the weekend closest to the anniversary of Brazil’s independence from Portugal, the sticky … Continue reading
Posted in South and Central America, Trippy Food (Tasty flora and fauna), Trippy Happenings (Events)
Tagged American lion, Bahia, Bella Vista Brazilian Gourmet Pizza, Bill Esparza, black turtle bean, Brazilian, Brazilian Day, Brazilian Exotic Foods, brigadeiro, California, Capoeira, cassava, Christ the Redeemer, collard greens, Consulate General of Brazil, Corcovado Mountain, coxinha, Culver City, dire wolf, farofa, feijoada, feijoadinha, FoodGPS, Gaiamum, George C. Page Museum, ground sloth, guava, Hancock Park, ice age, Joshua Lurie, LA, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, Los Brazilian Boys, mammoth, mastadon, Muamba, pork, Portugal, Renni Frores, Romeo and Juliet, saber-toothed cat, Sambajah, Sergio Mielniczenko, stew, Street Gourmet LA, tar, xinxim de galinha
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WARNING! Contains Cornographic Images
Huitlacoche (corn smut) Mexico It raises a few eyebrows when I announce that I’m headed to Los Angeles’ Koreatown to check out the smut, but in this particular case it’s corn smut (huitlacoche) I’m referring to. Huitlacoche has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Mexico, Trippy Food (Tasty flora and fauna)
Tagged CA, chapulines, corn, fungus, Gueleguetza, huitlacoche, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Oaxaca, smut, string cheese
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Blame It On The Bossa Nova
Ta Bom Brazilian Food Truck Los Angeles County, California To many of the non-Portuguese speaking Angelenos who see Ta Bom coming, the name emblazoned on the front gets alliterated to “The Bomb”. Ilse Marques and her twin daughters Jackie and … Continue reading
