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Food & Drink > Fast Food Should I be eating that fast food?: 1 of 19

Would you like fries with that? More often than not, the answer to the above question is a resounding NO. That's because I'm convinced that French fries are absolutely, positively, one of the worst things you can put into your body. French fries are heavy on fat, heavy on carbohydrates, heavy on sodium, and heavy on calories...
Food & Drink > Fast Food Are fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King on the way out?: 2 of 21

The Big Three, and Other Underachievers No, I'm not talking about GM, Ford, and Chrysler, but McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's. I really don't want to spend too much time talking about burgers I don't like, but I feel compelled to talk about the state of fast food in America. I do find it curious which burgers we've made...
Food & Drink > Dining & Restaurants (Other) Which restaurant has the best cheeseburgers?: 4 of 8

Tommy's Yes, it deserves, in my opinion, to be in a class of its own. For years I've wondered how to rank Tommy's against the others. In the beginning, I ranked it at the top, along with Hamburger Henry's. They were opposite sides of the same coin, one place serving elaborate and fairly expensive gourmet burgers, and the oth...
Food & Drink > Fast Food The secret menu of In-N-Out fast food restaurants: 1 of 2

Pasadena is my favorite burger town. My favorite burger isn't necessarily in Pasadena, but I'm sure you understand the difference. Pasadena has two great burgers in its midst, Pie N' Burger and Russell's. It used to have a third, Paris's Grandburger, which sadly went out of business just a couple of years ago. In addition, i...
Food & Drink > Fast Food Who sells the best fast food?: 4 of 7

The Apple Pan, 10801 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA The Apple Pan gets my vote as The Best Hamburger in the Known Universe almost by default. For years they were my second favorite burger, living in the shadows of places like the original Sunset Grill and Don's Place. But over the years the Number Ones have come and gone, and o...
Food & Drink > Meat Cooking the perfect burger: 12 of 18

I'm not the greatest cook in the world, but there are a few things that I do very, very well, if I do say so myself. I used to make a great pizza, although I'm not sure if I remember how anymore. I make a fantastic spaghetti sauce, one that is sweeter than most and full of wonderful things such as hot Italian sausage, tons o...
Food & Drink > Meat & Poultry If you have tasted Kobe beef, how good is it?: 2 of 3

Kobe Steak Burgers I'm not going to talk about specific restaurants that serve Kobe steak burgers. That's because I'm finding that every Kobe burger I eat is pretty much the same as the others. That sounds like a bad thing, but it's not. Kobe steak burgers, in my opinion, are uniformly excellent, and the reason why there isn...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Romance: 170 of 205

"Women of the Galapagos" Chapter 2 (1995) She expects to find the white monster awaiting her in the parking lot after she punches out, but she doesn't, and the acute disappointment that sets in is an alarm for Shannon that she's pitching her emotions somewhere north of middle C. Just as she begins her true retreat to her bea...
Food & Drink > Fast Food Confessions of a hamburger junkie: 4 of 4

NOTE: This is the opening chapter of my unpublished guidebook for the best burgers in Los Angeles. Once this is through, I will add the other chapters. I've written this book many times over the last dozen years or so. In the beginning, I thought of it strictly as a guidebook to all of the hamburgers in Los Angeles, much lik...