Watch, Read, Listen

Bill Esparza, author of “L.A. Mexicano: Recipes, People & Places,” and Elisa Callow, author of “The Urban Forager: Culinary Exploring & Eating on L.A.’s Eastside,” join award-winning journalist and L.A. chronicler Val Zavala in a Q&A about L.A. food culture. 

For one hundred years The Huntington has been spreading knowledge like pollen, helping scholarship bloom into exhibitions and publications. Sometimes the right pollen is hard to get though, that’s why it’s good to have friends who can help.

James Brayton Hall, president of the Garden Conservancy, examines what America’s gardens say about our culture and how new approaches pioneered by the Conservancy are helping to protect and document these landscapes for the future. Several examples of West Coast gardens are highlighted, including remarkable successes—such as the gardens surrounding the former prison on Alcatraz Island—and one near failure.