Monthly Archives: January 2010

Cross-Cultural Tamales at Sak Donuts

It’s a quintessential Southern California story: a Cambodian couple takes over a donut shop, learns the tamale trade from an employee and eventually works those neat, polenta-like packets of masa into a menu of crullers and coffee. Garden Grove’s Sak … Continue reading

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Leftovers: House of Silvanas

Space Age Filipino cookies for the L.A. Times: Crisp, impossibly airy cookies served straight from the freezer, their centers stuffed with slick buttercream, seem almost Space Age. They’re somehow both sturdy and weightless. They dissolve the second they touch your … Continue reading

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