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Posted in Breaking the 4th Wall, The Land the Times Forgot on Dec 22nd, 2010
Restaurant critic for the LA Times has been outed! Her feelings about food are no longer secret! S. Irene Virbila, the L.A. Times’ restaurant critic for the last 16 years, was visiting Red Medicine restaurant in Beverly Hills when the manager took her photo, and ordered her and her 3 companions to leave the restaurant. [...]
Posted in Creatures, People who don't know any better on Jul 1st, 2010
Zocalo recently posted a chat in the weekly updates and announcements they send out, called What is the Cruelest Food You’ve Ever Eaten? I haven’t been to Zocalo in a couple of years, but they do have some good events and free food, (which isn’t cruel at all). Their lectures are free, and they tackle [...]
Posted in Creatures on Mar 16th, 2010
Found on CNN: Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of Santa Monica’s The Hump, and chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose. Although it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whales — an endangered species — is [...]
