Amy Scattergood

If you're interested in writing, farming and food in general, UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism is offering $10,000 postgraduate Food and Farming Journalism Fellowships, eight of them, in a new program established by Berkeley professor, author and food guru Michael Pollan. Applications are due the first of March.  Geared towards...

If you want ramen burgers in Los Angeles, you're now going to have to wait until Keizo Shimamoto's ramen burger pop-up returns (Shimamoto has popped up twice here so far), or until Ikemen opens its much-rumored ramen burger joint. Jidaiya, the much lauded ramen shop in Torrance that has been serving...

If you think that the new artisan flour movement is only relevant if your idea of fun is baking sourdough boules in that oven you built by hand in your Altadena backyard, you're clearly not thinking enough about pancakes. A fantastic batch of pancakes, many of us would argue, relies...

While the rest of the country is huddled under blankets or freezing on the bleachers of subzero football stadiums, we here in Southern California are in the middle of our permanent summer. An unusually warm and painfully dry one, but balmy nonetheless. But it is technically winter here, and the...

Coffee geeks in Pasadena have had it good for some time, between Jones Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia and now the new Copa Vida in Old Town. This spring, they'll be getting even more espresso love, thanks to Lavender & Honey Espresso Bar, opening in this spring on East Washington Boulevard......

If you're a fan of both excellent barbecue and football, you'll probably already be thinking about watching this Monday's BCS title game at Bludso's Bar-&-Cue on La Brea Blvd., since the place has established itself as a very good place to eat ribs while you watch sports. Well, unless you're......

Once you're done with the final holiday parties of the season, the office drunkfests and family all-nighters, you're likely to be hungry again. Imagine. Just in time for the 2014 dineLA Restaurant Week. DineLA, as you'll doubtless remember from all that restaurant-hopping last time, is a 12-day extravaganza -- a......

Food photography is a lot harder than it sometimes looks. Restaurants so dim you need a flashlight to see your menu. Irate dinner companions who do not appreciate your Diane Arbus jokes while they're waiting for you to shoot their food from a dozen angles. Cluttered tables. Main dishes hidden......

There are few fruits as utterly gorgeous as pomegranates, at least once you break them open and spill out the jewel-like seeds, as brightly crimson as garnets. Pomegranate seeds are not only beautiful, but they have a bright acidity that lends itself equally well to sweet and savory dishes. Tossed......

Used to be, the kind of sign a restaurant put up was crucial to doing business. It was a way to grab attention, to differentiate from neighboring retailers, to alert people that the place was open, or just to prove that the restaurant was there. This was pretty important if......