Amy Scattergood

Update: With Joseh Mahon, until recently the executive chef at Bastide, popping up at Biergarten with David Haskell next week (see the original post, published December 7th, on the next page), it seemed a good time to check in again with the chef. Of the two nights at Biergarten, Mahon......

As The Huffington Post noted recently, and as Jonathan Gold happened to mention himself over lunch the other day, there has been some back and forth in the Twitterverse between Gold and José Andrés. About what? Hydrocolloids. Hervé This. Dr. Dre. Jell-O. People who follow both men, on Twitter and......

Is the earth running out of food? You might think so if you've been stuck waiting in line behind your favorite neo-taco truck for hours lately, only to learn that they've run out of kimchi tacos. Okay, no. Time Magazine considers the very real possibility that the earth will actually......

Adrian Vasquez, the longtime pastry chef at Providence, is leaving the restaurant where he's been since 2006. We knew this. We also know that Vasquez is not just any pastry chef. To quote, as we are wont to do, The Weekly's Jonathan Gold: "The dessert tasting menu of pastry chef......

-- The Unbearable Heaviness of Cookbooks. -- The joy of cooking squirrel. -- Today's federal programs make you long for the Depression. -- Seriously, What Is Up With These Pistachio Ads? -- Divorce Cakes: 10 Outrageous Confections. -- David Chang Reveals New Ingredients at Harvard, Will Hire the Smartest Grad......

-- The Unbearable Heaviness of Cookbooks. -- The joy of cooking squirrel. -- Today's federal programs make you long for the Depression. -- Seriously, What Is Up With These Pistachio Ads? -- Divorce Cakes: 10 Outrageous Confections. -- David Chang Reveals New Ingredients at Harvard, Will Hire the Smartest Grad......

Got a culinary question? Ask Jonathan Gold. You'd think he'd get an avalanche of esoteric, pithy or just downright necessary questions, now wouldn't you? Not as many as you'd think. Send an email to [email protected] or tweet him your question @thejgold. Come on, pretend you're Dana Goodyear for a minute......

The new Bon Appétit is taking shape. After many recent changes -- Barbara Fairchild stepping down, the magazine relocating to New York City, Adam Rapoport named editor-in-chief -- Christine Muhlke, most recently the food editor at the New York Times Magazine, is joining the staff as an executive editor. Anyone......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The refrigerator is swept of leftovers, the bowl of cranberries has been scraped clean, and the half-gallon of superconcentrated turkey stock in the freezer doesn't begin to compensate for the loss." Ask Mr. Gold: Take a......