Amy Scattergood

If you're the sort of person who keeps baker's hours and has already been up, with the mad green parrots, feeding your sourdough starter and measuring out rye and whole wheat flours in coffeespoons, you might want to know about some area bread-baking happenings. Because in L.A. recently there's been......

For chefs and local restaurateurs who've been up in arms, so to speak, since California passed the so-called glove law on Jan. 1 of this year, forcing food handlers to wear a new pair of plastic gloves each time they handle food, help may be on the way. Today Dr. Richard......

If you're a fan of the legendary cookbook writer Paula Wolfert - and if you aren't already, you should be - then you have somewhere to be on Sunday, April 27, when Wolfert will be in town for an event that's part feast, part fundraiser. Wolfert, the five-time James Beard......

If you find yourself driving along the 134 or the 2 in the neighborhood of Eagle Rock, or if you live there anyway, you now have a brand-new high-octane caffeine hangout. Cafecito Orgánico, the coffee shop and roastery that began life as a farmers market stall and once operated out......

One thing we've learned from the recent revival of foraging is that "weed" is a relative term. Your plate of fancy Nordic cuisine. Your father's idea of a bad day with a lawnmower. That said, some of the best greenery you can find at your local farmers market (if not......

Maybe the folks at Bludso's Bar-&-Cue in Hollywood secretly just want to be party planners.  Because in addition to being formidable pit masters, beer geeks and cocktailians, they seem to be spending a lot of time throwing sudden parties - pop-up breakfast tacos, whole pig roasts for football games, like tailgating events with swank......

As you know, next Friday is Valentine's Day. You may celebrate this holiday or you may not, but either way it's a good day for pie. It's a good day particularly for pastry chef Valerie Gordon's Valentine's Pie, a stunningly pretty creation that manages to be both patisserie elegant and......

Ración is a secret-handshake kind of restaurant. You'll find it by ducking through an unobtrusive doorway (a small sign, maybe a chalkboard sandwich board) on quiet, tree-lined, one-way Green Street, just south of Colorado Boulevard and a block from Pasadena's main shopping thoroughfare. It's a place you'd be lucky to......