Amy Scattergood

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from Renee Rendler-Kaplan, who took the shot at the Hollywood farmers market. Because sure, artfully plated bits of haute cuisine this-and-that are lovely, but so is the stuff you can just pull out of the midwinter ground. And of course, if......

When we stopped by Firefly's kitchens to talk to Jason Travi last week, the chef talked about what he's been up to lately, the relative joys of recycling restaurant fryer oil in his old Mercedes, and Spago's dress code (or lack thereof). Afterwards, Travi made some of his burrata fritters,......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We regret that we didn't hold our First Bite off until March, giving 37 bloggers, 138 tweeters, the Windward School newsletter and Miss S. Irene Virbila the chance to weigh in first." First Bite: The Platonic......

Will there be food trucks at tonight's first 2011 installment of First Fridays? Maybe, maybe not, but contrary to various reports (including on this blog), no happy agreement has been reached between the Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee (AKMC) and the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors Association (SCMFVA). Bigfoot Entertainment had supposedly......

When we left off talking to Jason Travi, the chef was discussing the relative merits of being a third generation chef, why he didn't start cooking until the comparatively ancient age of 15, and how his father didn't want him working in the family business. In the second part of......

Jason Travi has cooked in some of the best restaurants in Los Angeles (Spago, Opaline, La Terza), including Fraîche in Culver City, which he co-owned. Travi and his wife, pastry chef Miho Travi, both left Fraîche over a year ago, to raise a family (the couple now has two small......

You may remember the relative chaos over Four Loko, the energy drink that contains up to 12% alcohol, which debuted in US markets in 2005 and provoked a warning letter from the FDA this past November. The FDA called the caffeine and alcohol combination an "unsafe food additive" and said......

Check out this map, just posted by Slate ("Dinner at the Kwik-E-Mart"), showing the placement of the so-called Food Deserts of America. A lovely term, really, which sounds more like a Ben Marcus short story than the USDA category which it is. According to the US Department of Agriculture, 2.3......

Who needs centerfolds when you have charcuterie? Or salumi, to be more specific and a bit more, well, I don't know, centerfold-y. Thanks to American Salumi, you can now get a salumi calendar, supposedly the first of its kind. Technically it's the Year of the Rabbit now, and not the......

One of the fun things about blog posts is that you can comment on them pretty much instantly, posting your anonymous (or not) 2 cents worth for everyone to read as soon as you finish typing. Unlike the old days, when you just threw your food at the television screen......