It's time to get grlling! And sipping!

• Men of barbeque loom large in America but Toni Tipton Martin and Morgan Bolling remind us that women also know their way around the pit
• Cathy Park rounds up the best matcha lattes in Los Angeles. Zach Mangan of Kettl in Los Feliz considers the downside to the matcha boom
• Lila Seidman reports on the tricky process of removing rare steelhead trout from the Palisades Fire burn area
• At the farmers market, chef Viktoriya Campos gets an early start, stalking seasonal asparagus.

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Bottoms up! We're all about the tipple this week.

• Historian Hadley Meares looks at how Hollywood sips cocktails on the big screen
• Aaron Goldfarb follows collectors hunting for vintage spirits
• Sociologist Nicola Nice takes a look at how women brought the cocktail home
• Lesley Jacobs Solmonson explains how liqueurs went from the hands of the apothecary to those of the mixologist
• Evan Rail plays detective, looking back on an absinthe enthusiast who became a con artist

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The joy of cooking with Roy Choi...

• Kogi king Roy Choi has health on his mind in a new collection of recipes
• How do you become a restaurant critic? Besha Rodell explains in her memoir
• Marie Mitchell shares dishes from the Caribbean and its diaspora
• It's cherry season at the farmers market and which means the lines are long at the Murray Family Farm stand

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It's Mother's Day weekend and we head to the sea

• Sarah Ahn's viral food videos of her mom have captivated millions of viewers with their behind-the-scenes look at Korean cooking and multigenerational life
• Environmental photographer Arati Kumar-Rao goes night fishing alongside dolphins on the Brahmaputra River
• Tyler Harper dons a wetsuit, often during storms, and heads out into the turbulent surf to fish for striped bass in the secretive and dangerous sport known as "wetsuiting"
• Ari Kolender of Found Oyster and Queen St. Raw Bar & Grill has tips for cooking fish and shellfish with confidence
• The Santa Monica Farmers Market says goodbye to longtime vendor Kandarian Organic Farms

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It's a perfect party trifecta of tequila, margaritas, and salsa. Plus, we dig into the latest on food dyes.

• Ted Genoways considers José Cuervo's colorful history, from eluding Pancho Villa's death threats to bringing tequila north of the Mexican border
• Caroline Pardilla serves up 60 recipes for your next batch of margaritas
• Rick Martinez chops, blends, and crushes more than tomatoes for endless variations of salsa
• Dr. Jessica Knurick deciphers fact from fiction in the MAHA agenda.
• Although they're available year-round, blueberries actually have a season and they're ripe for the picking.

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What baking beliefs can you do without?

• Nicole Rucker rekindled her love for baking by tinkering with her favorite recipes and eliminating the fuss
• Gabriela Glueck visits the "Torture Orchard," where California's nut trees are pushed to the brink so they can withstand the curveballs thrown by climate change
• Nasim Alikhani spent decades working various jobs before realizing her calling — opening a restaurant to showcase the food of Iran
• Evan Kleiman recalls the crazy ride of the 1980s LA restaurant scene with Francis Lam, host of The Splendid Table
• Often overlooked among springtime greens, chef Dashiell Nathanson is anything but sorry to use sorrel in his cafe dishes

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What do we buy? And what does that say about us?

• Emily Mester examines what happens when consumption begins to consume you
• Journalist Ada Tseng visits Costco twice a week for gas, deals, and hidden Asian treasures
• Benjamin Lorr explores how the sliding doors at American grocery stores stay open
• Patty Civalleri tells us about the man who created Trader Joe's, which started in Pasadena in 1967
• Gustavo Arellano recalls the legacy of Frieda Caplan, who introduced Angelenos to all sorts of exotic produce
• LA transplant Vanessa Anderson, aka The Grocery Goblin on Tiktok, documents the city by visiting its markets.

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Passover and Easter are here — and we have food ideas for both holidays.

• Hèléne Jawhara Piñer unravels the thread connecting the Spanish Inquisition to modern Jewish food practices
• In a new memoir, Joan Nathan reflects on her life through the lens of food
• Jeff Chu abandoned his career as a journalist to work the land and attend seminary, tilling up life lessons as well as a sense of calm
• Great British Bake Off alum Giuseppe dell-Anno celebrates a sweet Easter with Italian desserts
• Chef Nestor Silva plucks leaves from the fava plant for a new dish at French Japanese bistro Camélia

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