California Wire

Here's a Q&A with chef Ben Ford (Ford's Filling Station in Culver City, CA). Says Ford, whose cookbook Taming the Feast just came out: "When I first started out, I had to go to San Francisco to train because we had four, five good restaurants in Los Angeles. Even those five couldn't match with our top 50 now. For too long, L.A. has looked at San Francisco as its big brother, taking our lead in our cuisine from there." [Reuters]