Car cake is cake you eat in the car Los Angeles Times

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• Leading L.A. vegan restaurant goes un-vegan. ‘I knew the vitriol that would come my way’
• This photographer has documented Southern California’s street gang culture for 40 years
• New Restaurants and Bars That Have Opened in San Diego
• epic day trips you can take by train from Union Station
• Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

I’m convinced that if more people embraced car cake, road rage would decrease by at least 58%. I’d be more open to dating someone who lives on the other side of the 405 Freeway. One could potentially enjoy any slice of cake in the car, but what I’m referring to specifically are the cake bars from Heather Wong’s Flouring L.A. They’re petite rectangles of layered cake nestled into sleeves of white parchment paper that protect your fingers. In its new series “The Science of Siblings,” NPR examines the relationship between siblings and their influences.

Leading L.A. vegan restaurant goes un-vegan. ‘I knew the vitriol that would come my way’

Wong’s black sesame cake bar may be my single favorite slice of cake in all of Los Angeles at the moment. It starts with a rich butter cake flecked with enough roasted black sesame seeds to turn the batter gray. She spreads a generous amount of Rooted Fare black sesame crunch butter over the cake, then adds an Italian buttercream frosting infused with ground roasted sesame seeds. Next is another layer of cake, and another of the frosting.

This photographer has documented Southern California’s street gang culture for 40 years

Joining an influx of new restaurants choosing to bolster La Jolla’s culinary scene is a cafe and bakeshop that started as a neighborhood pop-up. I should note that Wong utilizes the ideal ratio of about a quarter inch of frosting to an inch of cake. Too much frosting bothers me, probably more than it should.

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While the cheesecakes are served cold, I like to wait until my slice approaches room temperature for maximum lusciousness and softer peaches. During the pandemic, she would hand over her desserts to customers waiting in their cars. In January, she opened her first bricks-and-mortar location, a 500-square-foot bakery and shop on Hill Street.

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My observation is that people are just nicer when they’re traveling by train — except for that one guy who glared at me when my coffee splashed near him as we went over a particularly bumpy bridge in Oregon. Owner Amili Williams specializes in sweets that blend the flavors of classic pies and desserts with his grandmother’s signature cheesecake recipe. He makes a pecan pie cheesecake, banana pudding cheesecake and a cheesecake with a top layer of sweet potato pie filling.

With construction on the new restaurant not scheduled for completion until early next year, Becerra says they’re planning a series of pop-ups that’ll launch later this summer at spots in La Jolla and Pacific Beach. Becerra landed at Little Italy’s Herb & Wood, working there until the COVID shutdown of the restaurant industry propelled him to launch the early iteration of Pepino from the back patio of his La Jolla home. The breakfast-oriented pop-up became one of the first licensed MEHKOs — microenterprise home kitchen operations — in the area, and thanks to word of mouth and some viral Instagram posts, the chef is now able to establish his first solo restaurant in his hometown. It’ll be at least a month until they’re ripe, maybe longer. Watching them grow outside my window, I can’t help but daydream about what I’ll do with my eventual harvest.

The pops of sesame dominate, anchoring the sweetness of the buttercream with an intense nuttiness that provides depth and a welcome bitterness. The real star is the sesame butter, slipping in a satisfying crunch between the luxurious buttercream and spongy cake. Last week, while entering the 110 freeway from the Hill Street on-ramp, I ate my first car cake. I did not get crumbs in the stitching of my leather seats. I did not let the lack of a proper napkin envelop me in anxiety. By the end of 2024, Los Angeles Metro will implement AI-powered cameras on city buses in hopes of cracking down on cars illegally parked in bus lanes.

Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

The fruit is brilliant and sharp, flooding your mouth with the tart, complex taste of pure passion fruit. Wong soaks the cake in a passion fruit syrup, then adds as much of the same syrup to the Italian buttercream as possible before it breaks. One popular social media post shows two photographs of a mother and her child taken 40 years apart. Morton would distance himself from street photography in the late 1990s to work solely in the entertainment industry, only to pick it up again in 2017— he began posting his old work on Instagram, where he’s amassed nearly 70,000 followers. He says using the social media platform has allowed him to reconnect with some of his past subjects—or if they were no longer alive, with their loved ones — who have added context to his images. Morton, who is white, did not have a direct connection to these communities.

I sank my teeth into the rectangular slice of black sesame cake as traffic started to build. The original idea behind eating cake in your car was to lessen the stress and anxiety brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Wong. In the spring of 2020, Wong launched a pop-up bakery called Flouring L.A. Because she “needed to bake to fill my soul.” It also felt like the natural next step after working in various restaurant kitchens including Bottega Louie and creating dessert content for her personal baking blog. At one point, she went by the name Scootabaker and delivered her desserts via a 2007 Vespa LX 150 with spring-loaded racks.

He began calling probation officers after learning from a friend that they could be his way in. “I told them I was working on a documentary photography essay on Los Angeles street gangs,” he recalled. Eventually, he was assigned to Gerald Ivory, who introduced him to his parolees, mainly members of the Maravilla gang in East L.A. In 1981, Morton began photographing them at the Obregon Park recreation center, where he had set up a portable studio. Joining him as sous chef is Marissa Williams, a former executive sous chef at Herb & Sea in Encinitas. The menu will also spotlight other industry friends, including Pacific Beach’s Wildwood Flour Bakery and Triumph Coffee Club.

Over a year ago, she took her expressed her feelings of loneliness and her wanting to expand her social circle to TikTok. Her video received more than a hundred comments of people feeling the same way. Avila took it upon herself to start hosting community events. Celebrating the community’s friendiversary, reporter Claire O’Callahan shares the full story behind the L.A.-based friend group. While I wait for my garden fruit to ripen, I’ll be practicing pie-making with store-bought blueberries.