{"id":1036,"date":"2009-12-07T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/12\/hometown-pasadena-and-eat-la.html"},"modified":"2009-12-07T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:44:00","slug":"hometown-pasadena-and-eat-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/12\/hometown-pasadena-and-eat-la.html","title":{"rendered":"Hometown Pasadena and Eat LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S3yD11hwpjI\/AAAAAAAAAqA\/dQR1JxN1A0k\/s1600-h\/EAT-LA.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S3yD11hwpjI\/AAAAAAAAAqA\/dQR1JxN1A0k\/s320\/EAT-LA.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Tonight is a party for the new edition of &#8220;Eat LA,&#8221; a sharp and useful guide to food and drink in greater LA put out by Pasadena&#8217;s Prospect Park Books. I especially like the way this book stretches from traditional restaurants into bars, bakeries, taquerias and neighborhood joints.<\/p>\n<p>I first met the publisher and main author of that book, Colleen Dunn Bates, when she was putting out &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hometown-pasadena.com\/\">Hometown Pasadena<\/a>.&#8221; This was an ingenious idea &#8212; to provide an informed guide to living in your own city &#8212; that has resulted in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara editions as well. New York publishers have not generally treated California topics very intelligently or fully, and Bates&#8217;\u00a0press is kind of the publishing equivalent of the &#8220;eat local&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sx2FNwYvy4I\/AAAAAAAAAkU\/Fx_TKl0U-2U\/s1600-h\/hometown-pas.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Sx2FNwYvy4I\/AAAAAAAAAkU\/Fx_TKl0U-2U\/s320\/hometown-pas.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2007\/oct\/02\/entertainment\/et-hometown2\">HERE<\/a> is my article on Bates and the larger issue of micro-publishing.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/2009-12-03\/eat-drink\/split-personality-the-many-faces-of-palate\/\">HERE<\/a>, speaking of restaurants, is perfect little piece by Jonathan Gold from the Weekly about Palate, which has become one of my favorite local places to eat and drink. I love what he says about restaurants having multiple personalities (I&#8217;ve worked in enough to see that quite clearly.) Anyone wondering how the Falstaffian scribe landed a Pulitzer should only glance at this little amuse bouche.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eat-la.com\/deals\/free-tastings-at-book-soup-signing\/\">T<\/a>his Sat, Feb 20, is a tasting and signing by the Eat LA gang at Book Soup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is a party for the new edition of &#8220;Eat LA,&#8221; a sharp and useful guide to food and drink in greater LA put out by Pasadena&#8217;s Prospect Park Books. I especially like the way this book stretches from traditional restaurants into bars, bakeries, taquerias and neighborhood joints. 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