Amy Scattergood

Update: FarmShop, Jeffrey Cerciello's restaurant and market in the Brentwood Country Mart, will finally open its doors this Friday, November 26th. It will be a very soft opening, with just the bakery open in the initial days, and the restaurant serving only coffee and pastries. Brunch will begin on the......

You will perhaps remember the recent Carnival Cruise Lines fiasco, in which a cruise ship lost power and drifted for days off the coast of Baja California, the hungry passengers subsisting unhappily on a diet of Spam and croissants and Pop Tarts courtesy of the U.S. Navy. A Wall Street......

We owe TMZ so much. News of what William Shatner is wearing. The details of Charlie Sheen's $20,000 text messages. Pictures of Ryan Seacrest doing pretty much everything, from exiting Mozza to walking around Paris with his parents. Now we know exactly what Bristol Palin and the rest of the......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer Arne Meyer: a lovely shot of the root vegetable hash at La Grande Orange. Very pretty, of course, and a great recipe idea for the coming holiday -- or its aftermath -- if you think about it. And, of......

If you wanted another sign that we're all eating far, far too much junk food, consider this story from Britain's Daily Mail. There have been many UFO sightings, it seems, in the English Midlands: at least three in the last three years. But what is perhaps more remarkable than the......

If you haven't checked your mailbox for the most recent New Yorker, you might want to. The November 22nd issue is the magazine's food issue, conveniently in time for Thanksgiving, the one day when most of us are even more obsessed with food than usual. Something to read while you're......

Update: When a reader recently wrote in to ask about the status of the Mozza in Newport Beach, we thought we'd find out. Mozza general manager David Rosoff tells us that the pizzeria, which will be very similar to the original on Melrose and Highland, is coming along nicely. A......

The Food Network announced that Ace of Cakes, the reality show that followed Duff Goldman and the staff of his Baltimore bakery, Charm City Cakes, has been canceled. Ace of Cakes will begin its 10th -- and final season -- this January. The show began in 2006. As Goldman wrote......