Amy Scattergood

Imagine if Deep Throat wrote for the late-and-much-lamented Gourmet, and you have some vague approximation of the latest news in food writing, in which the hilarious Twitter mashup food personality @RuthBourdain will be writing a column for CHOW.com. Does this say anything about the state of food culture? Of social......

Despite some last-minute histrionics (of course), today Congress approved the child nutrition bill. The House passed the bill by a vote of 264 to 157; the Senate passed the bill unanimously in August. The legislation will expand the school lunch program, and will set new standards to improve the quality......

Barbara Fairchild, former editor of Bon Appétit, author of the just-published cookbook Bon Appétit Desserts, Studio City resident and generally lovely person, is now on Twitter. Because she has a bit more time these days (when we spoke to her by phone a few minutes ago, she was at home,......

This just in from Test Kitchen, Bill Chait and Brian Saltsburg's restaurant experiment on Pico: You've probably heard the whispers that our run is winding down as the year comes to a close and that our little experiment is almost at an end. As our valued customers and fans we......

It's that time of year again, Anderson Cooper time, when everybody starts making lists from this year and predictions for next year. The Nation's Restaurant News is very fond of such lists, and has now polled chefs for their latest: the top 20 restaurant trends for 2011. The NRA (that......

This just in from the Department of Cold Emails. We knew that Joseph Mahon had left Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant (attach his name to the roster of former chefs, a list that reads like a Michelin inspector's Post-it jigsaw: Alain Giraud, Ludo Lefevbre, Walter Manzke and Paul Shoemaker), but......

The holiday season is a busy time for any baker, but this year even more so for Hans Röckenwagner, who opened his new 10,000 square foot bakery a month and a half ago. Röckenwagner relocated the baking operation from his much smaller space in Mar Vista, taking over the Culver......