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  • The Juice

    A Sherry with Sea Legs

    Manzanilla recalls brine and minerals. (By Jordan Mackay)

  • The Juice

    Not Your Grandmother's Sherry

    Manzanilla fino is the entry point into a new world. (By Jordan Mackay)

  • The Ten

    10 Good Cheap Liquors

    Tips from the experts on the best values in booze. (By Roxanne Webber)

  • The Juice

    What a Little Oxygen Can Do

    Vin jaune from the Jura is weird and wonderful. (By Jordan Mackay)

  • General Topics Digest

    Flor de Loroco Pupusas...and Organic, Ranch-Raised Salvadoran Lizard

    A pupusa is a Salvadoran dish, somewhere between a pancake and a dumpling, which consists of a rice or corn flour shell filled generously with things like cheese, beans, chicharrones, vegetables, or some combination of these.... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

  • Los Angeles Digest

    A Proper Pupusa

    The return of La Nueva Flor Blanca. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

  • General Topics Digest

    Manzanilla Sherries

    Manzanilla sherries are gossamer-light. Each has a unique character that comes partially from place of origin, and partially from the thick layer of flor yeast that blankets the wine during fermentation, protecting it from... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

  • General Topics Digest

    The Yucatecan Tamal Variations

    Day of the Dead is coming up, and La Flor de Yucatan is taking special orders on mucbil pollos, the traditional food of the Mayan Day of the Dead, says Dommy. These are big, flat tamal cakes filled which chicken and pork and... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

  • Los Angeles Digest

    Not Feeling the Heat at Chichen Itza

    After giving the new, real-restaurant incarnation of Chichen Itza a few weeks to get the kinks out, silverlake bodhisatva tried it out for dinner. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

  • Manhattan Digest

    If It's Sunday, This Must Be Parihuela

    Clued-in hounds have long known that Peruvian is the smart order at Flor de Mayo, the “Spanish-Chinese” place on Amsterdam. (By Mark Hokoda)

  • General Topics Digest

    Cubanos from Manhattanville to Long Island City

    Flor de Broadway, a bare-bones corner shop in Manhattanville, does little more than Cuban sandwiches, and they kill, says Alan Henderson. Downtown, the Sophie’s mini-chain continues to turn out decent cheap Cubanos. ... (By C. Thi Nguyen)

  • New Finds

    You'll Want to Eat This Candle

    But you’d get sick, so just smell it. (By Michele Foley)

  • Los Angeles Digest

    The Deepest Truck in LA

    Sit down at one of the nearby tables. You’ll be here for a while. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

  • Los Angeles Digest

    Tamale Taste-Off

    When a few hounds got together recently for a taste-off of tamales from across L.A., best in show was Mama’s Hot Tamales’ black mole tamale. (By Cicely Wedgeworth)

  • Los Angeles Digest

    Spectacular Barbacoa at the Boyle Heights Street Fair

    The street scene reminds hounds of Mexico. (By C. Thi Nguyen)

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