Newsletter: breakfast cereals and peruvian food

The top food stories from this week at the Los Angeles Times: BREAKFAST CEREAL POWER RANKINGS Lucas Kwan Peterson ranks morning cereals, considering only sweet ones (the nonsweet variety

will be ranked later). Also: cereal milk. A PERUVIAN PARTY Patricia Escárcega sits down at Los Balcones, the Peruvian restaurant in Studio City, for some _costilla_ short ribs, ceviche

_frito_ and _quinotto_. TEA CEREMONIES Bill Addison settles in for a tea ceremony at Tea Habitat in Alhambra and repeating cups of _dan cong._ PINEAPPLE HACKING Lucas Kwan Peterson takes a

knife to a pineapple to see if a viral hack really works. (No.) THE JOY OF JOY Bill Addison reviews Joy, a Taiwanese restaurant in Highland Park. NATIVE CLOSES Jenn Harris has news of the

closing of Native, chef Nyesha Arrington’s Santa Monica restaurant. FOOD BOWL 2019 IS COMING. Our annual monthlong food festival is happening again this May. We hope you’ll join us for

#31daysoffood. If you’d like to hold an event at your bar, cafe, hotel or restaurant; have breakfast in a kitchen garden or cocktails on a rooftop; host a charity bake sale or market tour,

let us know at lafoodbowl.com. OUR 101 RESTAURANTS WE LOVE LIST FOR 2018 IS OUT. The list incorporates restaurants and food trucks from around Los Angeles and Orange County, in alphabetical

order (no rankings this year). Plus this year, there’s a bonus list of 10 classic restaurants. CHECK US OUT ON INSTAGRAM AT @latimesfood. AND DON’T FORGET THE THOUSANDS OF RECIPES in our

California Cookbook recipe database. FEEDBACK? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at [email protected]. MORE TO READ