Daniel Michael Hernandez

Mi reporte ... I tried the tasting menu at Noma LA, the most polemical event of the year for a global cohort of high-end restaurants and the people who obsess over them. It lasted 4:37 hours and cost about $94 per course, and — phew! 😬 Read more @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

In case you missed it, my essay ... How I fell in love with the culinary and cultural orbit of LAX ✈️❣️🍔 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

This fiasco is proving is proving that audiences no longer know what journalistic ethics are, and can't distinguish between algorithmic content and reporting. Anyone who calls themselves a "journalist" must follow a strict code, summarized by SPJ here ⬇️ spjethics.org/code/

Alert 🚨 NWS issued an special weather statement for severe weather just now for Los Angeles. 2nd image shows the storm cell the alert is referring to

There is no way to understand Trump without seeing him through the lens of domestic violence. Trump is a deeply abusive man. He is the Abuser-in-Chief.

JD Vance greeting Bengals players and most are ignoring him lol

BREAKING: Citing noncompliance concerns and highlighting problems with the declaration submitted Monday, Judge Hinderaker orders *daily* reports that include a declaration from someone with "personal involvement" in effectuating the court's order to facilitate a deported gay man's return to the US.

"likely noncitizens" -- www.latimes.com/california/s...

but vote "no" on the one-time billionaire tax, right? 😮‍💨 #California www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

✍️ Letters to the Editor: We’re losing the competitive edge that immigrants once gave us 📨 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...

ugh seriously one of my favorite bands since last year, Twin Temple. 🎵 super snappy sound! Hail 👿! (you cannot have light without the dark, it's so simple: satanism) 🤍 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

NEW: Do these AI mac-and-cheese balls trigger your trypophobia? 👀 Why AI food images may never fully cross the uncanny valley. Plus, a cocktail that tells you exactly what to do with it. 🐠🏖️ Sign up for more with my newsletter L.A. Omnivore @latimes.com 📥 www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

ICYMI, from the late Jeanette Marantos, who reported so passionately on the natives peoples and plants of California, a profile of a master Chumash basketmaker who began her craft at age 70 www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

Inmates keep dying inside the Twin Towers in Los Angeles. Why? The family of Daniel Magaña, a 40-year-old who died on Sept 5., have filed a wrongful death claim @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

🧊✈️ SEATTLE: A girl in chains boards an ICE-chartered GlobalX airplane (tail: N630VA) at Boeing Field, to be transported south to Arizona 👀

ICYMI — I've had enough. I'll no longer tolerate any anti-California slander! What's more, it's time for a realignment with reality. California is the most important, beautiful and most delicious state in the country. Musk, Miller, Hilton are wrong. ⬇️ www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

The state will now have a surplus of $4.5 billion because of AI income taxes, according to updated predictions 😵‍💫 #California www.latimes.com/business/sto...

NEW: A food memory at a Cantonese restaurant in SF and countless others since made me realize ... we live in the best state in the union. By far. And it's time we start owning it and defending #California ... Read my polemic, in LA Omnivore No. 3 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

A fine tasting menu experience featuring modern Salvadoran cooking sparked dEeP ThOuGhTs in me about the status of this fascinating diaspora in Southern California. Read more here in the latest edition of my newsletter LA OMNIVORE 📥 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

Something anecdotal that makes me think the recent museum closures we’re seeing is a symptom of a wider cultural attitude towards science: Two of the most frequent questions I now get from kids on field trips are “what’s that fossil worth”/“do you make a lot of money?”

Mi reporte ... I mean, it was just a tasting menu with a wine pairing, centering modern Salvadoran cuisine. But it was sooo good, that it left me wondering for one chaotic second — Am a little bit 'Salvi' now?? 😆 Read the latest LA OMNIVORE 🇸🇻 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

Price of gasoline vs. UMich consumer confidence: (via Schwab) ⛽️

MI NEWSLETTER DEBUT: Freaked out by ‘AI slop menus’? They might be — gulp 🤢 — here to stay Read here ➡️ Sign up for the email 📩 Mark it in Important ‼️ in your Gmail settings 📲 www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

Yesterday my driving began at 1030a to Playa Vista ➡️ View Park ➡️ Hollywood ➡️ Silver Lake ➡️ Lincoln Heights ➡️ Boyle Heights ➡️ then home at 1230a Saturday. 🫠

Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️

Mi reporte ... 82% of cooks and 95% of agriculture workers in California are Latino. In hyper-diverse LA County, 64% of *all restaurant workers are Latino. Or rather, *identified as, because many are Indigenous and identify by their nation. That's a future newsletter! www.latimes.com/california/n...

ICYMI: What I learned dining at fancy restaurants as Food editor. Plus, what comes next? My essay for Tasting Notes, with highlights — ✅ Please click on the link, read when you can, and share! 💙 www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

I have .... SOME NEWS ❗️ I've stepped down as Food editor to return to writing, and launching a newsletter on food and culture at @latimes.com 💙 Here's what I learned eating at fancypants places over the last four years 😝 Read more — www.latimes.com/food/newslet...

Love how my lil arm hairs get sun bleached in the summer ☀️☀️☀️☀️ being mestizo brown skinned is DA BEST 👌🏽👌🏽

The Rams landed 27 hours before kick off and conceded 27 points. The Niners landed 7 days before kick off and conceded 7 points. Days > Hours confirmed

feels like the style in LA right now with the heat/humidity wave is very Baz Luhrmann Verona Beach 🫠🫠🫠🫠

This is equatorial humidity and heat in Southern California. In case you're wondering, this is what it feels like — stifling heat, humidity, and rain — in tropical and suptropical areas of Mexico, Central America, island nations all summer. EQUATORIAL. 🥵

UN votes 164-1 to adopt Equal Earth map projection, replacing centuries-old Mercator distortion

The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.

Apple, Google rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Trump order

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation: White House

“.. Wheat prices have risen +19% so far this month, and are up +50% since the start of 2026.” - Kobeissi

great guide, since "adult happy meal" is how I eat like 2 or 3 times a week, so 🥴 — www.latimes.com/food/list/be...

There are better burritos in the universe, but the Cali burrito is fine. Few things irrationally annoy me more, however, than people who order them and ask for the fries “crispy”. They’re wrapped in a steamy flour blanket with hot meat and creamy goo. It’s a dumb request!

The San Diego California Burrito Wars left families shattered. How many died over inclusion of guacamole? Can a cube of potato substitute for a fry? Only LA could end the fighting. A couple places adding BEANS?! to it unified the San Diego factions against a common enemy.

Trump administration considering trading Yosemite land to private developer. This is treasonous to the California brain. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

Shots fired! Cooking editor Cody Reiss has posted a recipe for a California burrito, the San Diego-spawned specialty containing steak and fries. LA taquerías have never universally adopted it, so make one at home? @latimes.com 🌯 www.latimes.com/recipe/calif...

Miserable in this LA heat? 🥵 Make a suero. It's, like, the easiest cool-down imaginable ✅ — www.latimes.com/recipe/suero...

The Pentagon ordered 30 U.S. academic institutions to audit research and financial ties to foreign entities by Aug. 31 or risk losing funding eligibility. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️

My friend Guillermo is terrified he will not make it out of immigration detention alive. Memo, a welder and construction worker, has lived in Arizona for over 20 years, building a life and raising his family. He’s been in immigration detention for a year with no due process.

LAT: ‘That was fun.’ As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...