Amy Scattergood

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer R. E. ~, whose pictures show up consistently on this blog but who does not, as yet, work for us. (Repeat that one.) Two Asian pears (okay, well how about one), in gorgeous light. Beautiful, eh? And, of course,......

No one will ever duplicate the one-shot schizophrenic hilarity of Ruth Bourdain, bless him or her or whomever. But it seems like we now have our own Twitter mashup here, the very funny Brian's Hair, who goes by the name of @BrianSaltsHair: a Twitter hybrid of Test Kitchen's Brian Saltsburg......

Okay, we realize that you can watch countless numbers of people chugging beer at any USC tailgating party, and probably countless numbers of other people downing ice cream or gelato in alarming quantities if you just hang out at Scoops or Bulgarini Gelato or Pazzo or, well, wherever. But the......

Andre Guerrero is a busy man these days, what with running his hugely popular Oinkster joint, location scouting for a second Oinkster, and co-ordinating with the Lefebvres on their upcoming LudoBites 6.0, which will be running out of Guerrero's restaurant-in-limbo space in Sherman Oaks. (The space housed Max, then Marche,......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Food blogger love. -- The joys of blackberry cloud cake. -- Pig Island: A Pork-Stuffed Festival of Gluttony. -- More fun with Taiwanese moon cakes. -- Wendy's to phase out the (unpopular) hamburger. --......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Food blogger love. -- The joys of blackberry cloud cake. -- Pig Island: A Pork-Stuffed Festival of Gluttony. -- More fun with Taiwanese moon cakes. -- Wendy's to phase out the (unpopular) hamburger. --......

For everyone who has been pining for LudoBites, chef Ludovic Lefebvre's moveable feast of a restaurant, since the last edition at Gram & Papa's ended, you can start your emailing and tweeting again now. The next edition of LudoBites -- this is now 6.0, if you and Sam Sifton are......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguetza......