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Snapshots from Los Angeles Loves Alex's Lemonade Benefit

Last Last Sunday, on the lawn of Culver Studios, the chef-tacular second annual L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade benefit was held for pediatric cancer research. Deeply moved by Alex's story, Los Angeles chefs Suzanne Goin(AOC, Lucques, Tavern) and husband David Lentz (The Hungry Cat), plus Goin's business partner Caroline Styne, have collected an astonishing group of chefs, mixologists and vintners. Everyone came out to lend a hand, a grill and a copious amount of wine and whisky to support the cause.

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16 Tasty Bites from Sunset Magazine's Savor the Central Coast Festival in California

For its second year, Sunset's Savor the Central Coast set up on the historic 14,000-acre Santa Margarita ranch near San Luis Obispo. Winemakers, chefs, brewers, farmers, and artisan food makers from all over California's oft undercelebrated middle region between San Francisco and Los Angeles, were plating and pouring samples all weekend. Among the favorite bites were some beautiful grilled Morro Bay oysters, lamb tagine, a goat cheese souffle, boar cavatelli, and more

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We Were There: World Cheese Dip Championship in Little Rock, Arkansas

Thousands turned out for the second annual World Cheese Dip Championship after last year's super successful showing. This year the venue was moved to the much larger War Memorial Stadium to accommodate the bigger turnout. Competitors were asked to come with ten gallons each of cheese dip. Arkansawyers sure love their cheese dip!

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Off the Grid: San Francisco's Expanding Mobile Food Market

Off the Grid, San Francisco's mobile food truck market, has expanded in its second year to ten weekly events in nine locations (including San Mateo and Berkeley), six days a week. Check out photos of all 23 foods we tried from the market. And if you find yourself in the Bay Area September 10th or 17th, you can catch the final two weeks of Off the Grid's extra-special event at Golden Gate Fields for the largest gathering of mobile food trucks in Northern California.

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33 Bites and Sips from Taste of the Nation, Los Angeles

Octopus was the popular protein of choice at Taste of the Nation on Sunday in Los Angeles, while creamy custards dominated desserts, and cocktails tended toward gin and mint combos and beer floats. Check out everything we tried! All 33 bites and sips.

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Lobster Roll Rumble: 18 Lobster Rolls in America

Anyone who has opinions about lobster rolls likely has passionate opinions about lobster rolls. Last night we attended Tasting Table's Lobster Roll Rumble event in Manhattan, where 18 different rolls from across the country went head to head (claw to claw?) for the title of best. They all followed the same formula of lobster plus roll, but went about it many different ways. Check out all 18 entries in the Rumble.

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Snapshots from the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational in Los Angeles

It's a simple motto: Bread-cheese-butter-victory. Over 200 amateur cooks and professional chefs answered this call to arms at the Grilled Cheese Invitational on April 25, last weekend in Los Angeles. Cheeseaholics mobbed Center Studios downtown to gorge on thousands of sandwiches involving everything from Krispy Kremes to duck foie gras.

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The 11 Best Dishes at the 2011 New Orleans Roadfood Festival

The New Orleans Roadfood Festival brings together dozens of the nation's best highway-side eateries to share American favorites with a hungry crowd of thousands. See what eats topped our list of favorites.

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Seattle: Judging Cochon 555, the Super Bowl of Swine

Seattle chefs brought their A-game to Sunday's Cochon 555, the Super Bowl of Sustainable Swine. And by A-game, I mean pork belly topped with kimchi, bacon brittle gelato, pork blood ravioli, Scrapple Bomba, ham topped with "lardonnaise", trotter fritters, lard biscuits and much, much more. The event, which hits eight cities in the U.S., was created to showcase family farms raising heritage breed pigs.

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Celebrating Japanese Food at the CIA's Worlds of Flavor Conference in Napa

The 39 Japanese chefs who came to the Culinary Institute of America's Napa Valley campus joined other culinary experts to sell their love of Japanese food. Panelists included Ruth Reichl, Harold McGee, David Chang, Iron Chef Morimoto, and many Japanese culinary legends. Food is clearly serious business in Japan, particularly seafood. We learned that while Japan is smaller than California, due to its coastal jaggedness, it has fifty percent more coastline the entire United States.

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