Amy Scattergood

If you're a baker, you've probably spent some quality time at Grist & Toll, the recently opened flour mill in Pasadena. Well, now you'll be able to spend a whole lot more time there, as the shop is not only expanding their retail hours but hosting a new series of......

If all that fun reality food television (food fights, kitchen stadiums) is starting to seem, well, a bit two-dimensional, maybe it's time to go see some action in real life. The All-Star Chef Classic, which will be taking place at L.A. Live from March 21 to 23, is bringing some......

Do you know what you're doing the second Sunday in March? Well, you do now. (And no, this will not conflict with March Madness; Selection Sunday is March 16.) On Sunday, March 9 this esteemed publication will be hosting its sixth annual food and wine event, LA Weekly's The Essentials,...

As we've reported on more than one occasion, Bludso's Bar-&-Cue in Hollywood is an excellent place to watch the game. Any game, really. Great barbecue, lots of televisions on the wall. This will be particularly true for the upcoming Super Bowl, not only because it's going to be a pretty......

Look around at the stalls at Los Angeles farmers markets this time of year and you'll be reminded of the fact that, warm weather and permanent sunshine notwithstanding, it's still winter. Which means citrus and avocados, leeks and fennel - and the gorgeous dark green pantheon of "cold weather" greenery,......

If you love Sriracha and are deeply worried about its supply chain - and are maybe the kind of person who spent New Year's Eve of 1999 in a Montana bunker - you have someplace to be at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22. No, not at the Rosemead plant...

DineLA Restaurant Week January is the month for restaurant weeks, it seems. DineLA's first event of 2014 kicks off on Jan. 20 and runs to Jan. 31 (a week being a relative term). Presented by the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board in partnership with American Express - which started doing...

Where's the best place in the world for plentiful, affordable and nutritious food? Not here, according to Oxfam. The U.S. didn't even make it into the top 20 of the 125 countries the international organization compared in their Good Enough to Eat index, announced yesterday.  The Netherlands is number one, followed...

Classic American comfort food is our version of Proustian madeleines -  maybe crossed with a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese. It's the food of childhood, the culinary equivalent of fireflies and baseball, or bicycles and hot sidewalks, or whatever you remember coming out of your mother's or grandmother's kitchen,...

Jambon beurre sandwiches are one of the many great inventions of the French: a simple sandwich (jambon beurre means "ham butter") composed of just an excellent baguette and some slices of ham, the two ingredients sealed together with a bit of butter. Ta-da. Nothing extraneous, no cheese or lettuce or tomato...