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Café La Boheme seduces its guests with its movie set-quality ambience, show-stopping cuisine, and headline-worthy happy hour specials.

Yamashiro is Los Angeles’ “Mountain Palace,” treating us all to a satisfying taste of history through its iconic architecture, cuisine, and views. In addition to serving up consistently impressive Cal-Asian fare and picture perfect sights, Yamashiro has a few specials and events on the proverbial menu to share.

Nothing says spring like the soft saccharine glow of Marshmallow Peeps lined up for an entertaining, tasty, and potentially undignified end by human consumption. Read on to learn a bit about your favorite seasonal sweet treat.

The weather is finally beginning to reflect what the calendar has been saying for weeks now: spring is here! LA chefs and restaurants are rejoicing in the latest variety of ingredients to pick from and with us all—dine out on Easter Sunday to taste spring on a plate. These Los Angeles restaurants will be showcasing special holiday menus to observe Easter and all the culinary goodness that goes with it.

Ever hear of the Half Plate Rule? No, it’s not a saucer-calibrated test of one’s optimism; the Half Plate Rule is an easy and practical tool to make sure we all eat our fruits and veggies.

The first week of 2011 is marked by groundbreaking and historic legislation revamping the country’s food safety laws and standards. President Obama signed “The Food Safety Modernization Act” yesterday, bestowing unprecedented authority to the FDA to monitor and enforce newly strengthened food safety guidelines.

Where once food critics grazed freely on persnickety fodder, bloggers now harvest their culinary crops year-round. How and why has food blogging propelled to be the restaurant review platform it is today, and what will come of the time-honored tradition of food criticism in America? We investigate the state of gastronomic talk in this country to see if and where neutral ground lies in this Cyberspace territory war.

Medical research supports what many families already know: Our kids’ health is suffering from the food they eat. Fortunately, many community and government groups are taking actions to combat childhood obesity now. How do we successfully introduce healthy food to our children, and how do we keep them returning to it time and again? Our children may be seen as the latest consumer group of healthful food, and we’re exploring the best ways to sell them the idea of eating, and living,

New research suggests that a diet high in vegetable protein and amino acids lowers blood pressure. The international diet study found that a simple 4.72 percent increase of glutamic acid (an amino acid) in our diets may cut stroke mortality rates by 6 percent and coronary heart disease mortality rates by 4 percent. It seems our mothers are right to make us eat our veggies. To learn just how right they are, read the entire MedlinePlus article here.