Amy Scattergood

In the first part of our interview with Eric Ripert, the French chef who is chef-partner at New York City's Le Bernardin, the author of four cookbooks, the host of his own PBS show, Friend Of Tony, and (lest we forget) recipient of France's Legion d'Honneur, the chef talked about......

It's now Day 4 of Jamie Oliver's Los Angeles Food Revolution and the British chef staged a rally of sorts yesterday at his Westwood headquarters, Jamie's Kitchen, in order to garner support for his efforts to get into Los Angeles public school kitchens. Oliver has been repeatedly denied access by......

Eric Ripert was in town a few weeks ago on a book tour for his fourth and most recent cookbook, Avec Eric, a sort-of companion book to his Emmy award-winning PBS show of the same name. We met Ripert at the Chateau Marmont, his customary hang-out, to chat about the......

Jamie Oliver was in pre-revolt mode yesterday morning, as he gave the press a tour of Jamie's Kitchen, the new Westwood headquarters of his Food Revolution, the former retail space that will be his kitchen classroom and production set. It was Day 2, according to Oliver, of the Los Angeles......

Update: We just got off the phone with Christophe Emé, who confirmed that Ortolan has indeed closed its beautiful doors. Emé said that he'd been working with a partner to retool the restaurant, but that the partnership had fallen through. He's currently trying to find a new partner, and has......

As we reported here, the most recent First Friday event along Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard was complicated by the ongoing lack of consensus (that's putting it mildly) between the food trucks, the Venice merchants, the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC), and the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors Association (SCMFVA). Informer reporter......

-- A stroll down York Boulevard in Highland Park. -- Musical kitchen chairs at Michael Mina's Mina Group. -- McDonald's in trouble for not putting any maple in their "fruit and maple oatmeal." Big surprise, eh? -- The Second Obstacle to Sensible Eating: Money. -- Making winter stew when you're......

What to eat during tonight's much-anticipated BCS championship game? Sure, you can grill up bits whatever large animal you have handy, or throw the traditional burgers and brats on the fire. If you're tailgating in Arizona, well, bless you. But regardless of which side you come down on, how you......