Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.
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Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.
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I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.