Amy Scattergood

The results are in for Food & Wine magazine's "The People's Best New Chefs" awards, and Ricardo Zarate has won for the Pacific region. Congratulations, chef. Hope you're back from Peru for the party. Jamie Bissonnette of Coppa in Boston is the overall winner. Zarate and the other finalists will......

For those of you who keep a running tally of the chefs at Bastide, Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant, you can now officially put Sydney Hunter III's name up next to the Michelin inspector's Post-it jigsaw of Joseph Mahon, Paul Shoemaker, Walter Manzke, Ludo Lefebvre and Alain Giraud. Hunter, who......

When we left off our conversation with Fred Eric (Fred 62, Tiara Cafe), the chef was discussing his eating habits. Or lack thereof, as Eric was in the middle of a two-week fast when we interviewed him. A fast is one thing if you're an ascetic in the Mojave, quite......

This week's cover story is the cocktail issue, or L.A.'s Best Cocktails, in which Jonathan Gold considers, as you can probably infer from the title, the best cocktails in Los Angeles. To celebrate the happy event, we're giving you a cocktail a day here on Squid Ink, starting with Border......

-- Bacon toothpaste. If you needed more evidence that the bacon trend has peaked. -- Taco Bell defends its beef in a new $3 million ad campaign. Imagine if they spent that much on sourcing. -- Rich Americans discover the joys of fast food. Finally. -- The newest food trend?......

Fred Eric is not your typical chef-slash-restaurateur, if in fact there is a specific type (Twitter account, frozen food line, reality television appearance, child named Petal Blossom Rainbow) that encapsulates the contemporary model. The longtime Los Angeles chef is more like a performance artist who has chosen the commercial kitchen......

Put down that hamburger or plate of duck carnitas taco right now. Because if you're not fasting already, or existing on a movie star diet of consommé and salads, you maybe need to be. No, not because you can't move after last night's Oscar bash (your James Franco and pot......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Floss when you get home - those antennae can be tenacious." Ask Mr. Gold: Where to Eat Bugs in L.A. "Why a band known for mixing coke and heroin might worry about a little inter-berry mingling......