Amy Scattergood

In the first part of our interview with cookbook author and longtime television cooking show host Ming Tsai -- yes, he has a restaurant too, if you're anywhere near Wellesley, Mass. -- the chef talked about the evolution of food TV and cooking for cartoons, and revealed that Emeril does......

If you're a woman reading this, you may have used the PMS excuse for anything from binging on breathtaking amounts of Valrhona to being in a terrible mood to, well, just fill in the blank ______. If you're a man, you may be sympathetic, or you may think PMS is......

Okay, so now that this year's edition of Jonathan Gold's restaurant list is out, it's time for a few things. To read it, ideally over a large bowl of Gold-approved hand-cut noodles. To visit (or revisit) just under a hundred Los Angeles restaurants. And, perhaps, to consider the list itself......

November at Los Angeles farmers markets is shot with color: it's like our version of the gorgeous descending trees in other parts of the country. A stroll through today's Santa Monica market yielded Kabocha squash, baby pumpkins, crabapples, stinging nettles, Fuyu and Hachiya persimmons, Arkansas black apples, chanterelles and even......

Tomorrow you'll be able, finally, to pick up this year's edition of the Weekly's 99 Essential Restaurants. After which, of course, you can start from the top, alphabetically (yes, all the A's are included this time), or just close your eyes and stick a chopstick to see where to start......

So you're stranded on a giant cruise ship 200 miles off the coast of Baja California in the Pacific. Your 952-foot vessel is adrift; the AC and the toilets are not working. You and your fellow 4,500 passengers are running low on food while the Carnival Cruise Line tries to......

Mark your calendars and, I don't know, camp out in front of those grungy sidewalk newspaper boxes: this Thursday marks the publication of the Weekly's annual compendium of Los Angeles' Essential 99 Restaurants. Otherwise known as Jonathan Gold's dining cheat sheet, or, more accurately, ours. It's a pull-out. Which means......

Back in August, Jones Coffee Roasters moved -- lock, stock, espresso machines and Probat roaster -- a few blocks down Raymond Avenue in Pasadena. And, for a time, while the Jones family outfitted their new digs, the baristas pulled shots near the back side street, which Chuck Jones labeled Ghetto......