Amy Scattergood

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......

After months of waiting, George Laguerre's Echo Park restaurant TiGeorges' Chicken is finally on the road to recovery. Not unlike Laguerre himself and his native Haiti, or at least we hope. TiGeorges' Chicken closed in February, after a fire destroyed the roof of the building. Since then, Laguerre has been......

After six years as executive chef at downtown's Water Grill, David LeFevre is leaving the restaurant to open his own place. He'll stay on for the next six to eight weeks during the transition. "They're looking right now," said LeFevre this morning, when we called him at the restaurant, of......

Among the top 10 ways you can ID a food lover in this town: the car radio channel set to KCRW, the amount of time racked up in the Chego parking lot, the crumpled plates from food truck visits on the back seat, a bottle of hot sauce in the......

After a few days of mixed messages and not a little confusion, we can shut the door, literally, on news of Anisette Brasserie: the restaurant served its final meal Sunday night. "It was a good crowd. I was there all night," said chef-partner Alain Giraud this morning by cell phone......

Janet Jarvits' bookstore is more like a casual museum than an ordinary bookstore: a dusty, cluttered, literally voluminous space, vertically loaded with rows and rows of cookbooks, all of them used, many of them published long before most of us picked up our first whisk. It is the kind of......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As in Rome, the central feature of the restaurant is the line of glass tanks where globes of cheese, flown in a few times a week from Italy, float like Jeff Koons basketballs." First Bite: Obika's......

Anisette Brasserie is open today, and will be open tomorrow. If you were wondering, given conflicting news to the contrary. A press release today announcing that the Santa Monica restaurant had closed was followed shortly afterwards by another one announcing that it is still open, but that there would be......

I know many purists who will not order gyoza, serene in the conviction that any restaurant dumpling can not compare to those they make (or their mothers make) in their own kitchens. But it would be a shame to forgo the gyoza at Daikokuya, that insanely popular Japanese noodle palace......

In our interview with Martha Rose Shulman, cookbook author, New York Times columnist, cooking school teacher and Julia Child pen pal, Shulman points out that eating vegetarian isn't the political statement now that it was a few decades ago. This is true in many ways, not the least being that......