FOOD FESTS: Ice cream festivals? Not uncommon. Heck, we even see them pop in the wintertime, which just seems audacious to us. Like. Playing with the rules or something. Wine festivals? Lots of those, ...

At Manresa in Los Gatos, executive chef-owner David Kinch frequently uses this simple, classic method to prepare abalone before adding more complex flourishes. For ease, he recommends that home cooks ...

In this unlikeliest of settings–a shopping-mall restaurant, just off the interstate in the suburban sprawl that is Los Angeles–royalty had deigned to meet with commoners. Master chef Yeung Koon Yat, ...

Q: My husband and I dive for abalone in Humboldt, where we live. If we don’t consume them right away, we freeze them whole in the shell, as the local wildlife officer advised us years ago. I also work ...