Bio: Arianna snacks, sups, sips and swallows - and lives to write about it. Always on the hunt for unusual grape varietals and unique pairings, she stays thirsty for the occasional quality cocktail and craft beer, as well. When she isn’t buried in her laptop or lounging at the bottom of a glass, she’s taking her son on adventures across Los Angeles and opening his mind to the amazing beauty of the world, its people, and the incredible diversity to eat, drink and enjoy.
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10/11/11
Re-Cap: Indulgence and Deliciousness at LA’s The Taste
Sometimes my fellow food bloggers and I roll our eyes and bemoan having to attend yet another extravagant dinner or indulgent food festival. Even while recognizing the enormous calorie counts and coma-inducing properties of cream, bacon, butter and simple carbohydrates (frequently coexisting in the same dish) friends and loved ones are completely appalled when those [...]
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09/28/11
Dim Sum And Then Some: WP24 Introduces Dim Sum Sundays
Drive about ten miles east of downtown Los Angeles and you’ll find yourself in a sort of cornucopia of Asian food. Vietnamese, Chinese – a spectrum of dim sum that stretches from soup dumplings in tiny, ten-tabled holes-in-the-wall to cavernous event palaces where older women push carts of cooked chicken feet, jellyfish, pig stomach and [...]
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09/19/11
Event Recap: Rioja y Rivera
The waiters have just begun to serve the third course at John Sedlar’s restaurant, Rivera, in downtown Los Angeles. The plating is inspiring: Occupying the top third of the square white dish and painted in spices, is an image. Five different pictures in all, divided among the fifteen or so at the table. Mine is [...]
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08/31/11
Feast on the Best of LA’s Food & Drink at THE TASTE
Last year, the food infatuated of LA glittered and guzzled at the first-ever “Food & Wine Presents: Taste of Beverly Hills,” a multi-day event, showcasing the town’s best restaurants and some of eating and drinking’s brightest stars. This year, the team behind that gala (Best Events) has joined with the producers of the “Los Angeles [...]
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07/14/11
Event Recap: Vintage Hollywood 2011
Did I tell you I used to be a foster care social worker? No? That’s so strange; I thought we had no secrets… Anyway. Having spent untold hours working to improve out-of-home care for anywhere between 300-500 Los Angeles youth, there are certain organizations that hold a particularly soft place in my heart. Ocean Park [...]
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06/29/11
Recap: Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival
Pebble Beach Food & Wine is perhaps the glitziest of the gadjillion or so culinary festivals in the United States right now. Every year for the past five years and counting, the event has borrowed the inimitable Inn at Spanish Bay for a spring weekend; draping itself across the grounds like a glittering evening dress [...]
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05/06/11
From The Barrel: A Firestone Walker Fairy Tale
Once upon a time, in a land known as Paso Robles, there was a little craft brewery called Firestone Walker. They made beer. And by making beer, they made people happy. One day, in addition to making beer, Firestone Walker also made a decision. They decided to throw a party - a party celebrating some [...]
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04/06/11
Second Glass’ Wine Riot Rocks Los Angeles
On Friday, March 25, Second Glass’ Wine Riot lit up the Santa Monica scene with over 250 different wines from all over the world. From the contact high I got off at least one of the guests, Wine Riot wasn’t the only thing lighting up that weekend… The Boston-based wine education, promotion and events company [...]
