Amy Scattergood

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes......

It's June at Los Angeles farmers markets, bringing the season's first stone fruit -- apriums, nectarines, peaches -- as well as more cherries, late spring greens, blood oranges, Gaviota and tiny, tart wild strawberries, and even mulberries. The mulberries were gone when we got to the Wednesday Santa Monica market......

According to the AP, German officials have retracted statements linking a lethal E. coli outbreak to sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany. In what is now the second retraction in a week, officials said that there is no evidence that sprouts caused the outbreak of the rare strain,......

-- In which Slate's Nathan Heller goes off on pie. Yes, pie is un-American and well, just generally terrible. Maybe somebody needs a better pie recipe. -- Stumptown Coffee sold to a New York investment firm. -- Dorie Greenspan wins IACP best cookbook award. (Heller might want to try one......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "What is a fake restaurant, exactly? Is it a place like Happy Family, serving kung pao chicken whose fowl is carefully crafted from gluten, or like the celebrity hangout Philippe, itself an imitation of an imitation......

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This morning the USDA unveiled their new food chart, finally replacing the food pyramid which first debuted -- and was trashed pretty much since -- in 1992. The new chart also comes with its own new website, ChooseMyPlate.gov. The food pyramid, you will doubtless remember, is that irritating, confusing and......

The spice route through Los Angeles? Since the recent opening of Spice Table, it travels via downtown's Little Tokyo district. And thus to And thus to this week's Counter Intelligence and Jonathan Gold's review of Bryant Ng's new restaurant. Spice Table, a high-ceilinged, candlelit restaurant in a patch of Little......