Amy Scattergood

Yet another reason to attend UCLA. There's the education, the Bruins, and now an imprimatur from peta2, which just crowned the school the Most Vegan-Friendly College in America. UCLA defeated 31 other schools from across the country in the large-school category in what peta2, the youth version of the animal......

-- Michael Voltaggio to open Ink next year. -- Jose Andres blasts Congress over pending school lunch bill. -- Just one dish: District's spam sliders. -- Divided We Eat, on class and food in America. -- T minus 3: A laid-back guide to Thanksgiving. -- The Food Network cancels Ace......

-- Michael Voltaggio to open Ink next year. -- Jose Andres blasts Congress over pending school lunch bill. -- Just one dish: District's spam sliders. -- Divided We Eat, on class and food in America. -- T minus 3: A laid-back guide to Thanksgiving. -- The Food Network cancels Ace......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As you might have expected, A-Frame, in what looks like an old IHOP tricked out with enough pine and track lighting to make it resemble a ski chalet, is pretty different from the legion of gastropubs."......

Maybe after her new show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, is over, the former governor and VP candidate can get a show on the Food Network. Because there's every indication that Palin will be tacking food next. Or rather the government's policies on food. "Who should be making the decisions what you......

The toaster is possibly one of the greatest of all inventions, just behind the electric car, the soft-serve ice cream machine and, perhaps, the wheel. But who says it has to be just for bread? Two Germans have now expanded the machine's horizons, as it were, inventing the "Wursttoaster," a......

Since we've been documenting the chef de cuisine changes at Wolfgang Puck's downtown restaurant, WP24, we thought we'd check in at Spago, where they had a chef change a few months ago. Although Lee Hefter is the executive chef, the chef de cuisine position was vacated in September, when longtime......

If you haven't been to WP24, Wolfgang Puck's newish restaurant, you can live vicariously and just read Jonathan Gold's latest review, out today. Or you can head downtown, past the gathering crowds of Lakers fan and the folks at LA Live, past the valets and hotel guests, and up to......

Finally, after much wringing of hands and, presumably, grocery bags, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban plastic grocery bags in unincorporated areas of the county. But although seriously overdue, the new legislation is hardly problem-free, particularly as it does not cover 88 cities in L.A......

There's road rage and there's consumer remorse and there's truth in advertising. Blend them all together and you get something like what happened at a Sacramento Burger King recently, in which a customer was given his receipt with "FUCK YOU" (yes, in block letters) printed on the paper in place......