Amy Scattergood

From the Department of Silly Hats we have Mozza's Nancy Silverton sporting a stylish horizontally-challenged balloon hat at last weekend's 28th American Food & Wine Festival, Wolfgang Puck's charity event for Meals on Wheels. (The handsome yet oddly bare-headed guy to her right, is of course, is Mozza executive chef......

Chad Ochocinco, the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver, 6-time Pro Bowl selectee and former player at Santa Monica City College, is known primarily for having legally changed his name (from Johnson) to the two numbers on his uniform, and for getting his own cereal, Ochocincos. Not anymore. As of today he......

If your Sunday morning routine typically includes wandering around northern Culver City, stopping in at Akasha for brunch and then strolling over to Ford's Filling Station and then maybe across the street to Tara's Himalayan and then heading back over to Le Saint Amour to stalk Walter Manzke before the......

If you live anywhere near the San Gabriel foothills, you will be familiar with the drive north up Lincoln from the Rose Bowl or thereabouts, into the giant, impossibly crowded parking lot across from a tiny carnicería, and into the cavernous interior of Super King Market. It is a huge......

Recently we wrote about the magnificent Berkshire pig from ReRide Ranch that Nathan McCall and Karen Yoo had for sale -- or rather, bits of it -- at their Los Feliz butcher shop, McCall's Meat & Fish. Well, the response was so positive, one might even say overwhelming ("we were......

On your way out of Corina Weibel's Atwater Village restaurant, Canelé, after a dinner of lamb stew and pissaladiere, maybe, you will be given a little gift, in the tradition of mignardise: a smaller-than-usual canelé, one of the pretty Bordelaise cakes from which the restaurant takes its name. Weibel will......

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. The dumplings are from JTHY in Rosemead, a restaurant much beloved for its knife-cut noodles but whose dumplings are......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Can eggplant drive you insane? Check the history books. -- The politics of Happy Meals. -- Bastide does burgers. (Joe Pytka, however, will not be directing McDonald's commercials anytime soon.) -- New Graphic Shows......