Amy Scattergood

Nutella is the sort of clandestine (or not) addiction that crosses cultural and national lines. It unites sugar-deprived food bloggers, Austrian-trained pastry chefs, expat Americans, French restaurateurs, small children and even Italian politicians. And next Tuesday at noon, we learn from OC Weekly, it could mean your ticket to a......

Baking instructor, cookbook author and generally very funny guy Nick Malgieri was in town last week, giving a talk at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. Just for fun, of course, and as part of his current book tour. Malgieri's tenth book, Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect......

Update: When the folks at Pasadena Star-News contacted The Weekly's Jonathan Gold, a longtime Pasadena resident, for a comment about the recent naming of Paula Deen as Grand Marshal of the 2011 Rose Parade, Gold was less than enthusiastic: "Paula Deen? That's absolutely horrifying," Gold said in an e-mail Tuesday......

Over in The Weekly's news blog -- yes, we care about who you vote for as much as what you eat, at least sometimes -- Dennis Romero reports that Steve Lopez has been doing some numbers crunching about the money spent on the gubernatorial race. It seems that the $140......

-- Michael Ruhlman has something to say. -- The Tap Room, The Royce and the Best Bar Snack Ever. -- Consider the dumpling. Of course we will. -- Restaurants' Best Press: 'Bill Clinton Ate Here.' -- Top 10 Unique Food-Themed Halloween Costumes. -- Adam's Scary Apples (or, Matt Armendariz on......

As you can doubtless tell by all the paraphernalia up in peoples' yards, Halloween is this weekend. Get out your candy baskets, shrink your apples, whatever. Perhaps the best holiday accouterments are pumpkins, especially since you can actually cook with them if carving them up into Martha Stewart-approved iconography isn't......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "In further news, I had three octopus heads for lunch today in Koreatown. But they were little ones." Seoul Octopus Day + The Relative Joys of Octopus Heads. "While the study may not lead to intensive......

If you weren't at Loteria Grill stalking Diana Kennedy last night, or pitching a tent waiting for Obama at today's Boxer rally, or in a sports pub watching the Lincecum-Halladay game, or at home in the rain actually cooking your own dinner, you were perhaps in Sherman Oaks at Max......