Update on my conversations with LA food folks

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I've gotten a lot of good feedback on the series of Q&A's I'm doing with Los Angeles chefs, caterers, food writers, etc. So far I've talked with:

• Kevin Roberts, who drinks hot sauce straight from the bottle
• Betty Fraser and Denise DeCarlo, the owners of Grub restaurant (remember Betty from season 2 of Top Chef?)
• Raw vegan chef Nwenna Kai
• Matt Lyman, a southern farm boy who's one of the owners of the extremely popular Tender Greens cafes (I have to tell you, I have such a crush on this guy; he is unbelievably cute)
  
• Nancy Mehagian, chef-turned-masseuse-to-the-stars
• Elizabeth TenHouten, the antioxidant queen

And there's lots more. Waiting to be edited and posted are conversations with a hotel chef who has "adopted" seven local farms; a bed-and-breakfast chef in Orange County who insists that all his ingredients come from within a 100-mile radius; a young woman who runs a local bread-baking empire; a caterer to the stars; a restaurant owner who used to be a professional baseball scout; you get the idea.

Los Angeles is a great food town, and there are all kinds of people focused on food working behind the scenes. I love getting to know some of them.