Coming up on California Country, find out why these bay area kids are kicking junk food to the curb in favor of fruits and vegetables, and get this, they even like it. [laughs] i like to eat a lot. Next, got a big appetite . Well, then do we have the place for you. You know, california cuisine area that this is just like, you know, what . What are these guys doing . Then, see why tangerines have the right touch for these farmers. I want to demand one after every farmers market. And its time to get giddy over goat. Cheese. Its all ahead on California Country next. [captioning made possible by California Farm Bureau federation] kids are naturally picky eaters. Getting them to eat anything new is almost like pulling teeth. And getting them to eat healthy is virtually impossible. But the importance of doing so is becoming ever so vital. And according to the centers for disease control, the amount of overweight children in this nation has nearly tripled since 1980. Which is exactly why one
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Los Angeles, as the writer Octavia Butler once mused in a notebook, “forms and shatters, forms and shatters.”
This has never been a place with a conventional relationship to its history.
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Where little blue plaques and carefully preserved structures have proliferated elsewhere, L.A. s official stance on the past has typically been both grander and more opaque heavily romanticized, carefully edited, booster-ized, whitewashed and perpetually repackaged in service of whatever comes next.
“We have always had our civic gaze fixed on the future,” Christopher Hawthorne, the city’s first chief design officer and a former Times architecture critic, told me. “To the extent that we have had a coherent sense of identity, it has been very much shaped by that perspective.”