Dulce de leche, a thick, caramel-like spread, is very popular in South American desserts. It is incorporated into these individual ice-cream cakes and topped with honey-coated and roasted rhubarb and apples.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to hold a public hearing Tuesday on whether Agua Dulce residents will be able to own more dogs, place shipping containers on their property, or park semi trucks on their land. The Agua Dulce Town Council and the county Department of Regional Planning have been working to update the Agua Dulce Community Standards District since 2007. Community ...

After your fill of museums, churches and more, consider a chocolate tour, visit a garden or explore the Thames. And then cap the trip with dinner in Paris. LONDON — As a Californian, I had forgotten that you don't cancel your life just because it rains. If you did, you'd never see anything in London, at least not recently. And there is much to see.

Walking into Auray Gourmet in Larchmont, you can't help but notice people at Parisian-style bistro tables sipping frothy cafe au lait and enjoying fragrant crepes stuffed with chocolate, cinnamon or dulce de leche. In fact, it's usually something delicious-looking on someone's plate that draws you in first, causing you to re-think your original purpose. Should you stay for a sandwich and a ...

Fresh rhubarb gets decadent with Latin dulce de leche and ice cream.

More than 400 years before modern-day governments tried shutting down blogs or blocking tweets, two people tasked with censoring a sometimes-critic of the Catholic Church in Renaissance Europe took to their duties in very different ways: one with great beauty, the other with glue and, it appears, a message.

Southwest's plan at Hobby could slow down lines at Bush Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:06 p.m., Thursday, May 24, 2012 To find officers that would be needed to check passports and look for contraband at Hobby, Customs and Border Protection would have to transfer them ...

This week found L.A. coffee pros hard at work behind the bar pulling shots and all the punches to compete in the inaugural Iron Barista competition. The event pitted six coffee places against one another in a showdown where competitors had to concoct quaff-able coffee drinks using a set of surprise ingredients. [ more › ]

What Santa Fe, N.M., really needs is a late-night vegan food truck. Or a lingerie manufacturing business. Or an easy hydroponic growing system to feed a micro-agriculture revolution.

Nearly 27 years after Agua Dulce voters raised their sales tax to fund bus service, the city will get its first bus route.