Amy Scattergood

As you may know, if you got your fix of Merguez sausage, roasted lamb and Tuareg weaponry this past weekend in Pasadena, Paula Wolfert was in town for the Couscous Festival. The celebrated cookbook author, couscous expert and friend of Paul Bowles gave a couscous demo, which included the above......

Once upon a time there was a hilarious British comedy group called Beyond the Fringe, in which Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook made Monty Python look, well, not as funny as they were. One of the more brilliant skits was about the end of the world,......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer R. E. ~. (Yes, I know, but that's what you get when you keep uploading a whole lot of really good pictures.) This lovely shot was taken at Spring For Coffee in downtown Los Angeles during a recent Art......

In our recent interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the Border Grill chef talked about all kinds of fun things, like stalking lamb in Mongolia and having a Hitchcock experience with raising pigeons in her back yard. She also discussed the Border Grill program, "Good for the Planet, Good for You,"......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "There was a time when art in restaurants signified more than the $3,000 ceramic dildo for sale at the gift shop of Bazaar." Best High-Art Patio: Michael's. "If that sounds like the perfect snack after stumbling......

When we interviewed Mary Sue Milliken, chef-owner with her longtime business partner Susan Feniger of Border Grill, the second of which is now open in the former Ciudad space downtown, she talked about the fun she's been having chasing her food. Mongolian lamb, pigeons in the backyard, etc. It was......

In the first part of our interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the chef talked about her travels abroad (fish tacos in the surfing capital of Alaska, chasing dinner in Mongolia), which she somehow has had time to do while, with Susan Feniger, running not one but now two Border Grills......

If you happened to be in New York City last night. If you happen to be a fan of both Martha Stewart and Tony Bennett, and if you are not, well, there's probably some Marilyn Manson concert you could have gone to instead. Or maybe Sandra Lee can schedule some......