Amy Scattergood

British cookbook author and food personality Jamie Oliver, who has turned his quest to bring better food to American schoolchildren into the television show Food Revolution, has marched into a roadblock in the form of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Oliver, who is moving both his show and his......

-- Jamie Oliver turned down by L.A. school district. -- Grass Fed-Up. Or, a rant against foodies. (Hilarious.) -- The Safe Drivers' Guide to Cupcake Calculation. -- Do all cookbooks need photos? A poll. -- Justin Timberlake opens his second restaurant. -- An Essay Against the Banana; Explaining How Processed......

-- Jamie Oliver turned down by L.A. school district. -- Grass Fed-Up. Or, a rant against foodies. (Hilarious.) -- The Safe Drivers' Guide to Cupcake Calculation. -- Do all cookbooks need photos? A poll. -- Justin Timberlake opens his second restaurant. -- An Essay Against the Banana; Explaining How Processed......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I'm the guy who cooks red beans and rice or quail and grapes for 10, and then realizes that he has forgotten to invite anybody to dinner." Ask Mr. Gold: Cooking With the Critic, Or The......

The global recession, or whatever we're calling it these days, seems not to apply to Domino's Japan. Last week the Japanese pizza company announced that it will be offering a special part-time job next month: a one hour gig for which the lucky employee will receive 2.5 million yen. That's......

Most writers carry around little notepads to scribble down stuff, and if they're food people too, they'll write while they cook, a sometimes difficult task. Some of us have been known to use the insides of whatever cookbook is handy to write recipes or notes or baking times. That has......

If you've never had excellent Turkish delight, deceptively simple bits of chewy, gelée-like candy often flavored with bergamot or rosewater, sometimes shot through with pistachios, you haven't been spending enough time in Middle Eastern shops or reading C.S. Lewis. Or hanging out with Armand Sahakian, the Lebanon-born and Pasadena-raised candymaker......

The Market at the new Santa Monica Place, the totally renovated Frank Gehry-designed Santa Monica mall that reopened (huge crowds, mall food, some slightly better mall food, etc.) in early August, is slowly adding more and more shops to the list of those that will open when the Market does,......

Update: Over at The New York Times yesterday, Julia Moskin caught up with newly named Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, hours after he was officially named to the post on Monday. Rapoport, who is 40 and likes to cook and play golf with Justin Timberlake, spent the night grilling lamb......