Boozing it Up in the City of Angels
The Palos Verdes Library presents a lecture on “Imbibing LA” by food historian and Peninsula and Easy Reader food critic Richard Foss. Photo by Janice Foss For over 35 years Richard Foss has been quietly slipping into South Bay- restaurants and telling us the good, bad and ugly about their fare. But for Foss, there’s more than just what’s on table. The Peninsula magazine and Easy Reader food critic is also a food historian, and he’s carved out an impressive career telling folks about where our food and drink comes from. “If you don’t understand the history and the culture you won’t know where tradition and innovation starts,” says Foss, 64, who has lived in Manhattan Beach most of his life. He’s currently residing in the home he grew up in. On Thursday, Oct. 29, Foss will offer a free virtual talk for the Palos Verdes Library called “Imbibing LA: Boozing it Up in the City of Angels” at 7 p.m. In the talk he explores the history of alcohol in Los Angeles, which the library describes as a “historical center of winemaking and brewing, a region where cocktails were celebrated by movie stars and hunted down by prohibitionists, and a place where finely balanced drinks and abysmal…
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