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Not long ago, finding an open vaccine appointment was like winning the lottery that is, if cashing in your winning ticket also took hundreds of attempts at refreshing a website and hours of waiting on jammed phone lines. But now, with more vaccine than ever, public officials are
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Reem Kassis thought for sure she was a one-and-done cookbook author. In 2017 Phaidon published “The Palestinian Table,” written so Kassis could codify her family recipes and help preserve or “safeguard,” a word she uses often an everyday aspect of her cultural heritage.
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The questions posed to her during interviews for the book surprised and interested her, though. People wanted to know the difference between Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese cooking cultures. They asked her to lay out her position on the
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When the pandemic hit, throwing the restaurant industry into survival mode, husband and wife Ryan Lee and Lucy Row were two of countless Angelenos who hustled to adjust.
Lee was working as the chef of an izakaya in Koreatown very much indoors, in the basement of a commercial building. Row owned and operated Cafe Lucy, a casual breakfast and lunch spot in Santa Monica that catered to the weekday office-worker crowd. Cafe Lucy closed in March 2020 and Lee, who had been working in Japanese restaurants since 2005, quit his job in June.
As they cast about for new ways to make money, they struck upon an unusual business idea a delivery service for gourmet, ready-to-eat Korean seafood, prepared in Café Lucy’s kitchen. They called it Sonsoo Kitchen “Sonsoo” meaning “hand-crafted” in Korean and hung out their shingle in September. The times being what they were, that shingle was the Instagram handle @sonsoo kitchen.