The Fong family hoped to build a restaurant ingrained in Altadena and Pasadena. Now, much of that community is gone.

GLOBALLY acclaimed County Antrim-born chef Clare Smyth recently played a central role in the world’s most prestigious culinary competition in France.

After years of hitchhiking and and train hopping, Jesse Weaver turned to smoking meat at his Weaver’s BBQ, in a small town in ...