1. Combine 5 cups of fresh watermelon, juice from 1/2 a lime, and 5 teaspoons of vodka in a blender. 2. Blend on lowest setting until smooth. 1.Combine 4 2/3 cups of fresh pineapple, 1/3 cup coconut ...

Nothing tastes like summer quite the way watermelon does. When you can get it as an Italian ice, a margarita or an agua fresca, it becomes nearly impossible to resist. But who wants to when confronted ...

I scream, you scream, we all should scream for … paletas. No, it doesn’t rhyme, but there’s still plenty of synchronicity between the creamy, dreamy Mexican ice pops and summer’s most flavorful fruits ...

Paletas are traditional Mexican ice pops, usually made from puréed summer fruits. Melons are especially good for pops because they are naturally high in water and sugar. If you don’t have molds, you ...

Although there’s no foolproof way to escape the convection oven that is a summer day in L.A., there are, in my mind, a handful of obvious remedies: Run through a sprinkler. Take a cold shower and drip ...

When the temperature soars, we crave something cool to beat the heat — and every culture has its own take, whether it’s Italian gelato, Japanese mochi or the California ice pops that evoke carefree ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

When I was a teenager, my family made frequent trips to the San Fernando Cemetery to visit the graves of my tía Blanca and my grandmother. On these gloomy days, neighborhood paleteros, local vendors ...

Every other Thursday, Chron taco columnist Marco Torres tells the story of Houston through Mexican food in "Tacos y Más." Besides eating tacos, taking a big bite of a paleta de sandia on a hot summer ...