Amy Scattergood

Language is as adaptive as cuisine, or the notion of a brick-and-mortar restaurant, and so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it changes. The folks at the Oxford English Dictionary routinely add new words, regularizing slang and terms from other languages, and have recently added not a few food words. Their......

-- Anthony Bourdain on the James Beard awards ("I would sooner attend a Renaissance Fair in Hell"). -- The Great Mayonnaise Debate. -- Two words: Absinthe Cake. -- A cup of coffee & illegal immigration. -- How Javier Cabral grew up, changed his name and started blogging for Gustavo Arellano......

No, Alice Waters has not tweeted yet. But over the weekend her Twitter followers rose to 2,600+. (Okay, Charlie Sheen still has that Guinness world record.) And there has been not a little anticipatory sport at the hands of, most notably, Ruth Bourdain. "Rumor has it @alicewaters will drop her......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "While waiting for Pho Minh to resurface (please, please, let it resurface), try Pho Filet, a couple of blocks away, which also has a delicious pho bac, highlighted by a slab of filet mignon that looks......

Can we ever get enough pies? Don't answer that. (One might ask the same thing about cupcakes, and there is no good answer to that question either.) Anyway, with spring coming to Southern California, our local strawberry fields -- which produce year-round, thank you very much -- are fast approaching......

Happy Follow Friday. And guess who's just opened a Twitter account, in time for thousands of food-minded Twitter people to follow her? Alice Waters (@AliceWaters). As of this morning, she has not tweeted anything yet and is only following two people (predictably, @edibleschoolyrd and @chezpanisse). And only 500-some people are......