Jessica Ritz is a food-obsessed Angeleno who, as a busy mom, has to work hard to make sure she's eating tasty, interesting, and new things.

Historic preservation planner/writer/mostly mom trying to maintain her interests in the worlds of architecture, design, food, cooking, restaurants, fashion, pop culture, news and local politics.

Note about this blog: When I started LA Ritz, now Ritz Bites, in 2003, not many people were writing freely online about restaurants, bars and such. The so-called "blogosphere" was in its mere infancy. Since then there's been such an explosion in said world that I don't write about every meal I eat out. Things are just fine without more clusterfuckery and agonizing detail about every dish eaten at L.A. restaurants covered at 100 other food blogs. I also truly have no idea how some food bloggers, who have lives/jobs/etc., manage to generate so much content.

Basically I write about details that catch my attention and other food-related topics that I think merit more discussion. But I'll still blog about fantastic food, of course.

Regarding ethics, I don't write about meals I get for free either. If I've been comped I'll indicate such, although it's not an issue that affects this site much, and I use what strikes me as common sense.

These days I mostly write at the LA Weekly's food blog, Squid Ink, and write the Gold Standard e-newsletter. Check it out and sign up.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/
http://www.laweekly.com/readers/register

Thanks,

JNR