Amy Scattergood

-- Hungry in America. -- L.A.'s Five Best Pork Dishes. -- What some L.A. chefs (and one bartender) want for Christmas. -- Sang Yoon on 4 Instant Asian Ingredient Upgrades. -- Books for the holidays. -- Five Venison Recipes For When Santa Pisses You Off. -- Apps For Foodies To......

Barbara Fairchild has had a busy year, which is something of a vast understatement. She's in the process of leaving Bon Appétit, the magazine she'd been with for 32 years, has just come out with another cookbook, is developing a website and has just joined Twitter. We called her up......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When you see how they react to the live octopus tentacles at Masan or the pig ear chicharrones at Lazy Ox Canteen, you may have a better idea of how they might handle the idea of......

Updated again: The Abbot Kinney Merchants Committee just sent out a press release about First Fridays, in which they announced that the "no parking" restrictions, lately enforced, will continue. Because the "general consensus was overwhelmingly positive," the Committee voted to extend the no parking for January, February and March of......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from queequegMB. The lovely shot was taken at Proof Bakery in Los Feliz Atwater Village, a shot of repeating cakes that makes us really, really want a slice of chocolate cake right about now. Or a few of them. Hell, the......

Chateau Marmont is many things to many people, depending on whether you're Courtney Love or Keith Richards or one of the rest of us. Quite aside from any late night debauchery, it is a lovely place for an interview (actors, musicians, visiting chefs on book tours) and a very lovely......

If you read the many, many year-end best cookbooks of 2010 lists, you will doubtless be very familiar with Madhur Jaffrey's latest book, At Home With Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Also if you read our recent interview with the prolific cookbook author......

Dear RuBo, In today's world of populist food journalism, in which people with questionable expertise, opinions and, often, grammar, have saturated newspapers and magazines (or what's left of them), the blogosphere and Twitterverse, and our inboxes and cellphones, it is a welcome relief to find a fictional, anonymous mashup with......