Cortina's Italian Market, Legendary Anaheim Spot, Suffers Damaging Fire :-(

Categories: Indigestion

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I haven't been to Cortina's Italian Market in a while, but that doesn't mean I don't keep up with it. My brother-in-law swears by its subs, and I always get folks to get me goodies whenever they're there. And I was planning to swing by sometime soon, as the legendary Italian market is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year--but I'm going to have to wait with everyone else because it suffered a fire early this morning that's going to put them out of commission for weeks.

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Tamra Barney, Real Housewives of OC Member, Under Fire for Calling Fiance a "Beaner"

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Cracker, meet Beaner

I do not watch The Real Housewives of Orange County, not because I'm a snob (I'm all about The Real Housewives of Atlanta--wasn't Kenya CRAY CRAY this season?!) but because I find all the cast members insufferable and interchangeable. So when I started receiving emails that Tamra Barney called her Latino beau a "beaner" in the show, I had to remember: who was she? Was she the one with the Jesus jugs, or the one with the nice daughter that helped out my chica in the emergency room, or the one whose son kept getting arrested? Oh, she was the blonde? Um, okay...

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Rick Bayless Insults Yet Another California City's Mexican Food Traditions

My lord, does Rick Bayless want all Mexicans in the United States to hate him or something? Back in 2010, the celebrity chef of Mexican food notoriously said Los Angeles didn't have much of a Mexican-food tradition, then denied he ever said that while trashing Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold. Now, he's trashing the Mexican-food traditions of San Francisco, which just happened to gift America with tamale men; Mission burritos; and Elena Zelayeta, the country's first celebrity Mexican chef.

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An Open Letter To My Fellow White People At the Juice Bar

Categories: Indigestion
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Gustavo Arellano
Dear fellow white people:

Enough.

Enough with the damn $10 cups of juice.

Enough pretending to be dedicated to local, organic, sustainable food when you then turn around and order a glass of can-you-even-still-call-it-juice with lúcuma from Peru, açaí from Brazil, mangosteen from Thailand, spirulina and chlorella from God only knows where, and a whole host of African spices and roots. Some of these juice bars have so many bizarre powders they look like a steampunk apothecary by way of a Kowloon subway station.

The juicing phenomenon (the kind you drink, not the kind you inject) has gotten ridiculous. Three-day juice cleanses that can run tabs of $50 or more per day? That's not a detox program, that's an enema for your wallet. 
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[W/VIDEO] Food Science Professor: Porn Industry "More Responsible" than Food Industry

Categories: Indigestion
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Flickr User Muffet

Kansas State professor Doug Powell is a legend in the food safety industry, and not just because his blog is called Barf Blog. He's someone who always criticizes anyone in food--whether celebrity chefs, food producers, government inspectors, and others--who dismiss bacteria as harmless micro-organisms, who doesn't have safety on the top of their list.

And in a video he recorded last week, Powell took it further: he stated that the porn industry is "more responsible" than the food industry.

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No Taste of Newport This Year For First Time in 24 Years

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Keith May
Chronic Taco at Taste of Newport 2009

I haven't been to the annual Taste of Newport because it's CRAZY--good crazy, mind you. Great music, great food, great women, ambiance, all of it. It's as much a part of Newport civic life as the Boat Parade--and this year, for the first time in 24 years, it won't happen.
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Dear OC Killers: Can You Stop Murdering People Outside Great Mexican Restaurants?

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Courtesy of Santa Ana Police Department
Surveillance footage from El Chile Picante...get the Michoacán-style enchiladas!

Last week, SanTana Police Department officials released video stills of two men harassing another man whom police say they'd go on to murder just outside El Chile Picante. And for the umpteenth time, I threw up my fists and screamed in frustration.

See, Orange County killers have this nasty habit of murdering people just outside Mexican restaurants. And not just any ol' place, but some of the better spots in Orange County. El Chile Picante, in particular, is a fine Michoacán-style place that I reviewed in 2009--and it's now the fifth place I've reviewed where someone ate at before getting murdered.

Um, OC killers: can ustedes stop doing that?


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Middle Eastern Store In Little Arabia Pulls Sabra Hummus After Activists Complain Brand Supports Israeli Military

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Fresh Choice
Fresh Choice Marketplace in Garden Grove found itself in a bit of political hot water when customers started complaining about the grocery store carrying Sabra hummus on its shelves. The question wasn't centered on the quality of the brand itself--long a favorite Middle Eastern food brand in the United States--but the growing call to boycott it from Palestinian civil society.

The hummus is made by Sabra Dipping Co. and is substantially co-owned by the Strauss Group, a major Israeli food-product manufacturer. Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) activists have noted Sabra's parent company has been supportive of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and especially the controversial Golani and Govati brigades within it.

With this backdrop of occupation, shopper and Little Arabia advocate Rashad Al-Dabbagh was shocked to see Sabra hummus on the shelves three days ago and decided to question the store via social media.

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Horse Meat Found in Taco Bell Products in Europe

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It ain't Monday yet, so fans of "Taco Bell Crime of the Week!" will have to wait for their fill of wacky crimes with Enchiritos then. But a far more serious allegation has been made across the pond in Europe, where investigators say they have found horse meat in the products of Taco Bells in Britain.
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Pastor Stiffs Applebee's Server, Uses Tithing As Excuse, Gets Server Fired

Categories: Indigestion
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Reddit (and Consumerist)
A server at a St. Louis Applebee's served a large party, which caused the restaurant's point-of-sale system to kick in an automated 18 percent tip.

This didn't sit well with Pastor Alois Bell of Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries Church (what is it about certain churches that makes them string together random nouns as a name?), who paid the bill, crossed out the automatic tip, wrote a big fat goose egg on the "additional tip" line, and left a preachy note saying, "I give God 10%, why do you get 18%?" 

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