It’s okay if you’ve been sitting around wondering whatever happened to Long Beach’s former city manager Henry Taboada, whom we’re pretty sure immediately preceded Jerry Miller–who in turn preceded our current City Manager Pat West.
And now there’s an answer.
Taboada, our former public servant, turns up today in Rossmoor, in Press-Telegram reporter John Canalis’s story on [...]

Frieda’s Fresh Marketplace
There’s a lot of history behind the fresh food at Frieda’s—decades of importing exotic produce and years of slowly pushing new tastes into the American diet—and that’s all summarized in some of the company’s early photos, black-and-white prints of founder Frieda Caplan receiving things like the first-ever American shipment of New Zealand kiwis. [...]

Although Volcano Burger does just about everything right, the place is still renowned primarily for one dish: its chili cheese fries. Regardless of whether you order them in or for take-out, the chili cheese fries are served in something resembling a pie tin—a metal dish easily capped with a plastic lid for leftovers. The fries [...]

Shenandoah at the Arbor has the same menu as the original Shenandoah, so let’s just get right to the food. It’s great—and yes, yes, they still have the fritters. The brisket is still tender enough to cut with a fork. Suffused with barbecue sauce, the meat had just enough tang; and when paired on the [...]

Katella Deli’s pastrami is remarkably lean, with only the thinnest ribbons of fat running through each slice. The pastrami melt, however, isn’t for the health-conscious—tomatoes and cheese squeezed in with the pastrami, pressed and grilled and served hot with your choice of sides. It’s best to pick the onion rings, which are dredged in crumbs [...]

If cooking is something of an improvised art, baking is surely a precise science, a patient act completely reliant upon exact measurements and perfect timing. While all-purpose recipes run with a certain pliability, just about every baked good keeps a strict list of do’s and don’ts. Worst of all is the fact that there’s no [...]

A handheld meal is one of life’s simplest pleasures: sandwiches stuffed with every food group, burritos rolled tight ready to go. Somehow, though, it’s become a miserably difficult thing to pull off, usually ending up as some greasy slop eaten somewhere between your steering wheel and your desk chair. Not so at Pasty Kitchen. There, [...]

Look past the familiar at Katella Deli

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
It’s been decades since Katella Deli sliced through its first loaf of challah, but the scene inside the venerable restaurant hasn’t changed: parents with their arms wrapped around their kids, grandparents hugging tight alongside. That’s because Katella Deli is a family restaurant in the best possible [...]

Police investigation is ongoing
Sometimes, when people think of the children, it’s with their own selfish interests at heart–as in the case of whoever embezzled $200,000 recently, from the Casa Youth Shelter in Los Alamitos.

Prison Break
FENLEY DR | LOS ALAMITOS
WED | SEPT 26 10:22 AM
A resident became confused when he heard scuffling and mumbling coming from the riverbed behind his house. Hoping to discover the source of the noise, the resident decided to get a better look and spotted a man walking along the concrete banks who appeared to [...]