Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. I envy people who have access to fresh crab pretty much year round. In Los Angeles, we’re too far south to be able ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. According to ...

I’m not Catholic, but I’m giving up meat on Fridays during Lent, which starts March 5 and runs through April 17. Since fish is allowed, this gives me an excuse to eat more seafood. To prepare my mind ...

Backyard barbecue season is here, and there are limitless choices of great meat and seafood you can grill—if you know where to shop. It’s not officially summer yet, but Memorial Day usually marks the ...

On a Friday afternoon outside the Boiling Crab in Los Angeles’s Koreatown, about 20 people line up before the restaurant’s 3 p.m. opening. The crowd includes high schoolers still carrying backpacks ...