Ali Trachta

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• Posted Whip It Up: Hot Chicken (or Turkey) Salad to LAist
  There's no getting around it - this recipe is so NOT LA. There's a mountain of mayonnaise in it, it has an actual cheese layer...hell, this thing is crusted with potato chips. Therefore it shouldn't be too surprising that its original source is an early edition of the Three Rivers Cookbook, a collection of recipes frequently involving kielbasa, bacon, and strangely delicious Jello/pretzel combinations that hails from the Rust Belt city of Pittsburgh. Hot...
• Posted Get Out: Latin Flavor, Puppet Mastery, MOCA's 30th, Beer Tasting, SHAG to LAist
  Photo by polaroid-girl via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Buen Provecho (Cooking Class) Add some South American sizzle to your recipe repertoire with today's class held at the Museum of Latin American Art. Learn to make arepas, a massively versatile Venezuelan dish made with corn bread, then filled with eggs, meat, tomatoes, salad, cheese, shrimp, or fish. 11:30 a.m. Storytelling with Shadows Today the International Puppetry Museum hosts an excellent activity for...
• Favorited Water Grill's Sunday Clambake Dinner on LAist
• Posted Get Out: Shopping Mission, Tango Boot Camp, Monsters on Bikes, Your Key to the Universe to LAist
  Photo by stephenfalk via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr. Mission Street Block Party Launch a preemptive strike on Black Friday by jumpstarting your holiday shopping in South Pasadena this weekend. Merchants on Mission Street from Fair Oaks Pharmacy to City Hall will hold open houses, offer discounts and give out goody bags (woot!) during this pre-holiday block party. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oxygen Tango Saturday Boot Camp You can't just jump...
• Favorited Experiment: Cookies in the Waffle Iron. on Chicagoist