Email AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Five Places to Buy Paletas This Summer
June 24, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Ohmigod is there NO Mexican food that hipsters won't turn into a trend, getting coverage in national media and "improving" said food while the originators continue to ply their trade...
This Week in Food: Lime Truck Good and Bad, Racist Register Readers, and Fake Poop Meat!
June 24, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Freegans Ask Trader Joe's to Stop Tossing Food into Dumpsters
June 24, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Flickr user caterina?Although they've received numerous write-ups in local and national media over the past five years, freegans--people who Dumpster dive as a life philosophy instead of out of necessity--have...
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Web Extra: Summer Guide Infographic--The Last Orange Groves in Orange County
June 23, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?Orange County residents have bemoaned the encroachment of suburbia and loss of our orange groves for decades. In 1963's Historical Volume and Reference Works: Including Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens,...
Guess Where I Ate, Win a Prize!
June 23, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Gordon Ramsay Tries Planking in Newport Beach, British Media Declares Trend Dead as Result
June 22, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Gordon Ramsay's Twitter page?Oh, those silly Brits! Gordon Ramsay was in Newport Beach over Father's Day and went fishing off the coast. Somewhere along the line, he had someone take...
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Buffalo Wild Wings to NFL: Please End Lockout--We'll Give Away Free Chicken Wings if You Do!
June 21, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Buffalo Wild Wings is a bit better than okay, but it does have financial might as one of the country's largest chicken-wings franchises and is also a bellwether of the...
First Round of 'Gustavo's Awesome Lecture Series!' Concludes With Screening of Born In East LA THIS THURSDAY
June 21, 2011 in Navel Gazing
Shuji Appears on Good Food!
Pictures, Vids and Other Non-Writing Excuses
June 21, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Newton E. Wray, Santa Ana Rancher, Failed Council Candidate
June 20, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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C.J. Jacobson from Top Chef Season Three: Nice Guy, Should Open a Restaurant in his Native OC!
Guess Where the Local Celeb Grubbed!
June 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?I'm not really appropriate to take out in public settings, so it was nice to see my chica set up a double date for us, even better when she was...
Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Drunk and Passed Out at the Drive-Thru!
June 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Santa Ana Gentrifiers to Rename Former Fiesta Marketplace "East End Promenade"--HA!
Notes from the Banana Republic
June 20, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?Hipsters, gentrifiers, and their enablers are so predictable in their schemes, it would be laughable if they weren't so pathetic. And one of their most-cherished steps is trying to rename...
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Orange County Register Reporter Pleads With Readers to Try Santa Ana Restaurants, Racist Hilarity Ensues
June 20, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?The only time I met Orange County Register reporter Jeff Overley, one of the people with the fine--if sporadic--Food Frenzy blog, was a couple of years back, when we were...
This Week in Food: Cone-Ing, Breastaurants, and Tamal vs. Tamale!
June 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Can Raising Cane Rats Solve Africa's Hunger Problems?
June 17, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
Reason Magazine Rips off Ask a Mexican! with "Ask a Libertarian"
June 17, 2011 in Navel Gazing
75th Anniversary of Citrus War this Week as Orange County Yawns
June 16, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Report: Pasta the Most Popular Dish in the World
June 15, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Grand, overarching summations derived from research papers must always be viewed skeptically, but the global organization Oxfam is well-regarded for its research, and its only real agenda is feeding folks,...
Eddie Lin Appears on Which Way, L.A.? to Talk Shark Fin Soup
Pictures, Vids and Other Non-Writing Excuses
June 15, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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When Will OC Republicans Apologize to California for Pushing Arnold Schwarzenegger on Us?
June 14, 2011 in Navel Gazing
?Kudos to former OC GOP head Tom Fuentes for cracking jokes about his terminal cancer last night during the local Reeps' annual Flag Day dinner last night in Irvine. Of...
Tortilla Tuesday: Tortilleria Ruben's, Santa Ana
June 14, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
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Marie Callender's Declares Bankruptcy, Closes Seattle Location and Kicks Out Eating Customers
June 14, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?Marie Callender's has always fostered an atmosphere of down-home, matronly cooking, from its start as a single location in Orange County during the 1940s to its reign today as a...
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Samuel F. Hilgenfeld, Buena Park Minister, Founder of Anaheim's Hilgenfeld Mortuary
June 13, 2011 in Navel Gazing
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Five Commonly Mispronounced Mexican Food Terms that Americans Shouldn't Mispronounce
June 13, 2011 in Stick a Fork In It
?There was a time in our nation's history where Mexican restaurants--whether fast-food taco empires or El Torito Cal-Mex ambassadors--published pronunciation guides to aide customers in properly ordering their meals. Some...
