Amy Scattergood

-- Want marital bliss? Take up wine-making. -- The Patriots give out free candy, or How to Ruin Halloween. ("Absent the helmet, my kid's Viking costume now resembles wardrobe from Riverdance. And that may be the greatest indignity of all.") -- Get-out-the-vote local restaurant deals. -- The Gourmet Cookie Book,......

-- Want marital bliss? Take up wine-making. -- The Patriots give out free candy, or How to Ruin Halloween. ("Absent the helmet, my kid's Viking costume now resembles wardrobe from Riverdance. And that may be the greatest indignity of all.") -- Get-out-the-vote local restaurant deals. -- The Gourmet Cookie Book,......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer klubchen, of a plate of tomatoes, grilled cheese purée, and grilled bread. The fifth course, apparently, of a Wolvesden dinner. Beautiful. And, of course, if you have any brilliant shots of food you've taken around town recently, you might......

Want a thumbnail sketch of life in Los Angeles? Read the following Twitter exchange between Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and prolific cookbook author, and Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet and, well, you know who she is. Seems that when Bittman was in town last week to give......

If you didn't make it to Test Kitchen over the weekend, where chef and culinary school instructor Farid Zadi was cooking dinner on Sunday, you may not quite know what to expect when Zadi opens his new restaurant, plans for which are now in the works. If you did, well,......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And if you need the address of a place to eat soup dumplings, tlayudas or charcoal-grilled hagfish, feel free to give me a call." An Open Letter to Paula Deen. "Yes, there are those tips on......

Fall in Los Angeles may not have the beautiful aesthetics of fall in, say, Vermont or Maine. The piles of crimson and orange leaves. The maple syrup. The frost on the windowpanes. Unless, of course, our idea of nostalgic beauty is the Santa Anas through the palm trees, which it......

After reading our interview with baker, cookbook author and baking instructor Nick Malgieri, whose 10th book, Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking, just came out, really the only thing to do is to head into the kitchen and start baking. With the weekend coming, a holiday weekend no less, we......

In the first part of our interview with baking instructor, food writer and cookbook author Nick Malgieri, the baker talked about, well, a lot of things. You'll just have to go read it. We picked up where we left off, when Malgieri suddenly decided to talk about Ferran Adrià. This......