Amy Scattergood

Tacolandia 2014

Tacolandia 2014 is Coming!

It's time to start planning your summer eating. Yes, already, because even if you've already booked your tickets to Mexico City and convinced your friends to come with you on a road trip Tijuana and Ensenada, you still have someplace to be on Saturday, June 28, when we'll be having......
Superba Food + Bread; Credit: A. Scattergood

Superba Food + Bread Opens, World Gets Better

Finally, a reason to get stuck in traffic on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice. Because as of last Friday, April 11, you can just go to Superba Food + Bread instead, where you can find a remarkable surfeit of riches jammed into a roughly 5,000-foot space that once housed an auto......
English peas; Credit: A. Scattergood

5 Great Recipes For English Peas

Sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what season it is in Los Angeles, what with our permanently sunny skies and mostly blissful weather. Which is yet another good reason to frequent the many farmers markets we have, since one look at their loaded tables will tell you. Right now many......
Tillamook's ice cream truck; Credit: courtesy: Tillamook

Tillamook Truck Rolls Into Town With Free Ice Cream

Way before the current wave of food trucks began roaming the streets, there were the ice cream trucks, or in this town, often the ice cream carts - old school vehicles with tingling bells and refrigerated cases that, when you opened them in the heat, let out billows of cold......
uni dynamite bowl; Credit: A. Scattergood

3 Great L.A. Rice Bowls For Every Occasion

Whether you're cooking at home or ordering at a restaurant, it can be easy to overlook the rice bowl. Rice in a bowl, even topped with very good things, just seems less interesting, less ambitious, less artistic, than, oh, omakase or bubbling hot pots. But when done with particular care,......
macarons at Jin Patisserie; Credit: A. Scattergood

Jin Patisserie Pops Up for Mother's Day

For everyone who is still mourning the closing, now over a year ago, of Jin Patisserie in Venice, you might want to mark your calendars for Sunday, May 11. That's Mother's Day, and even if you don't have a mother handy (or aren't one yourself), you might want to make Sunday tea......
Good Eggs distribution center; Credit: A. Scattergood

Good Eggs Brings Farm-to-Fridge Online Shopping to L.A.

With the future of home delivery apparently including Amazon drones flying packages to your driveway, it was only a matter of time before the grocery store got a serious upgrade. Farm to table? Try farm to fridge.  Good Eggs, the San Francisco-based local grocery aggregator and delivery service, last year opened......
Brownies; Credit: Morning Glory Confections

L.A. Bakers Host Their Second Annual Giant Bake Sale

If you've ever baked a plate of cookies for your kid to take to her school bake sale, you know the drill. But imagine a giant bake sale put on not by a bunch of harried parents with questionable baking skills, but by some of the best pastry chefs in......
Jamie Oliver's Big Rig

Jamie Oliver's Big Rig Is Coming to L.A.

British chef Jamie Oliver's food truck is coming to town. This is not a British comfort food truck, serving Oliver's homey versions of the pub grub he learned at his parents' restaurant, although that would probably be exceedingly popular in this town. Nor is it his traveling political action committee......