Jenn Harris

5 days ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

The hours of preparation and fuss over the presentation always make duck feel like a celebratory meal. In Los Angeles, you can find whole duck roasted and presented with Thai flavors, smoked duck from Korea and 14-day aged duck with shepherd’s pie. If you see the laborious dish on a restaurant menu, order the duck. “To do duck you have to be really disciplined, like cut out your social life,” says Chartchai Vongsanikul.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Danielle Dorsey |Jenn Harris |Stephanie Breijo |Betty Hallock |Daniel Hernandez

In their soul, everyone has a historic restaurant they miss dearly in Los Angeles. Some fell victim to the mounting challenges that restaurants face in L.A.: gentrification, rising retail rental costs, and a prolonged financial fallout following pandemic closures, Hollywood industry strikes and . Despite their untimely end, the city’s most iconic restaurants have not faded from our collective memory.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Danielle Dorsey |Jenn Harris |Stephanie Breijo |Betty Hallock |Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández

In their soul, everyone has a historic restaurant they miss dearly in Los Angeles. Some fell victim to the mounting challenges that restaurants face in L.A.: gentrification, rising retail rental costs, and a prolonged financial fallout following pandemic closures, Hollywood industry strikes and the devastating January wildfires. Despite their untimely end, the city's most iconic restaurants have not faded from our collective memory.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

It was like a scene from a movie about an asteroid hurtling through the universe on a collision course with Earth. Many of the shelves at the Rite Aid in El Segundo were bare. Row after row empty. The air was thick with an eerie silence as I made my way to the ice cream counter near the registers. A half-empty, three-gallon tub of strawberry ice cream sat next to another of butter pecan.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

“Have you seen that woman who cooks an entire chicken in a rice cooker?” I was at dinner the other evening when Joe Zee, the friend seated next to me, leaned over to show me an Instagram reel. It featured a London-based content creator named Shu Lin, making a recipe for salt-baked chicken in her rice cooker. “I think I’ve made it a dozen times,” he said.