Trendy restaurant offers plentiful starters that will satisfy taste buds
Tar & Roses excels in its appetizers but falls flat with its larger items. Yet, the eatery is still worth the trip.
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Fresh & Easy Express to open underneath Gateway
Some students said they were glad to see another grocery store option opening near campus.
Letter to the editor
USC should make fresh food and non-bottled water more accessible. I strongly agree with Tim Clayton’s opinion column “USC promotes healthy eating, doesn’t deliver,” published Feb. 7. Though the university might encourage nutrition with its words, it fails to make healthy food available and affordable for students. USC Hospitality should immediately make two sweeping policy […]
Creative methods enhance seafood
Traditionally a showcase for pork and beef, charcuterie is a delicious assortment of smoked and cured meats and pâtés, often served with bread, cheese and a pickled veggie or two. But charcuterie is now having a seafood moment. A survey of popular chefs in the Boston Globe determined that seafood charcuterie is the number one […]
USC promotes healthy eating, doesn’t deliver
Fun fact: If you type “fast food desert” into the Google image search bar, an image of Figueroa Street pops up. The three-block stretch of Figueroa close to USC contains virtually every fast food chain imaginable. We live in a fast food desert: healthy dining is hard to find, and it is often very far […]
Rising juice trend quenches thirst
Juicing, a verb that not only describes the process of making juice but also the act of dieting on it, is the first big food trend of 2012. Juice bars have had an impressive presence in Los Angeles for a few years. Now many people take it upon themselves to produce homemade creations. Celebrities preparing […]
Restaurant offers refreshing take on food
New restaurant Post & Beam uses fresh ingredients and a soothing environment, updating the dining experience in Baldwin Hills.
Cooking at home reclaims its appeal
For years, the restaurant industry has trended toward wholesome dining: locally sourced foods with rustic presentations. The effect is meant to comfort the diner through “organic” eating, a reminder of a simpler era of literal farm-to-table meals that most diners have probably not experienced. And nothing gets much more wholesome, or comforting, than a true […]
Small things can help change your food life
We’re in the midst of food crisis in America. No, not our lack of legislation to protect small, independent farmers, not the growth of fast food and obesity and not the factory farms and slaughterhouses in this country that look more like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre than somewhere we get food. These are all problems, […]
TroGro to return to 24-hour operations
The Director of Hospitality said the university received many emails from upset students.