Food
The beauty of claypot rice, the comfort of chicken pot pie, Panda Inn’s orange chicken redo, a Grocery Goblin’s art discoveries, pie from a cake queen, plus line-worthy sweets and a last meal at Cassia. All in this week’s Tasting Notes.
Mastering the art of steamed rice opens the doors to endless meals. Check out recipes for tinola, cilantro lime rice, fried rice and tahdig.
UCLA Sports
Kiki Rice finishes with 20 points as top-ranked UCLA goes on an scoring blitz to defeat Creighton 70-41 despite not having Lauren Betts in the lineup.
If you didn’t grow up eating the dish, it may be difficult to understand the allure of unassuming poached chicken and rice. Here are two new specialists in the SGV to check out now.
In recent decades, the ancient Korean beverage has begun to attract broader attention, with Los Angeles rising as a destination for small-batch artisanal makgeolli.
World & Nation
A parole board has ruled that Susan Smith should remain in prison 30 years after she was convicted of rolling her car into a lake and drowning her two sons.
Kiki Rice scored 14 of her 21 points before halftime to lead No. 1 UCLA over Hawaii in the Rainbow Wahine Showdown.
California
The family behind Koda Farms, the creator of beloved rice strains such as Kokuho Rose and Sho-Chiku-Bai, will end rice production after nearly 100 years.
Books
Susan Seidelman’s new memoir, ‘Desperately Seeking Something,’ traces the arc of American film over the last 45 years as refracted through her singular career.
Hollywood Inc.
Wojcicki was among Google’s longest-serving employees and one of the highest-profile female executives in Silicon Valley. Few people had greater sway over the economics of the internet in the social media era.