Amy Scattergood

If you're the sort of person who dreams about jamón ibérico, who has repeatedly followed La Quercia's Acorn Edition from Jude Becker's farm to Herb Eckhouse's prosciutto factory, who has read Peter Kaminsky's Pig Perfect so many times that it's, well, pig-eared, then you might want to consider going over......

Epicurious, the website best-known as the excellent database warehouse for some 100,000 recipes from Bon Appétit and Gourmet, houses more than just recipes. It has articles, guides, videos, cooking and gadget advice, and, of course, lists. It seems everyone has lists these days, for which perhaps we can blame David......

Church & State has had not a few chef changes in the few years since it's been open downtown, and today comes news that there's been another. Chef Joshua Smith has left the restaurant, as of today, and has been replaced by Jeremy Berlin, most recently of The London West......

Those of us who have followed Farid Zadi's career -- at the Le Cordon Bleu School in Pasadena, where he was a chef instructor for the last six years, or via his blog chefzadi, or through Charles Perry's excellent 2007 profile of the French born chef in the L.A. Times......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Can food companies and their millions of ad dollars do anything to fix the obesity epidemic? -- An op-ed by Jonathan Gold on why we should save Los Angeles' food trucks. -- When bon......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Can food companies and their millions of ad dollars do anything to fix the obesity epidemic? -- An op-ed by Jonathan Gold on why we should save Los Angeles' food trucks. -- When bon......

Should food trucks be given health inspection letter grades? The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will meet next week to consider whether food trucks should be given the same health grades that Los Angeles County restaurants are currently given. Letter grading has been in effect for L.A. County restaurants......

Pastry chef Danielle Keene (Little Door, Wilshire, BLT Steak), has been busy with her own on-line dessert kitchen, Bittersweet Treats, for more than a year now. She talked about the move from restaurant kitchens to running her own small business, as well as a few other things, in our recent......

For those of us who've been following pastry chef Danielle Keene for the past few years, from Wilshire's Ice Cream Shoppe nights, to stints in the pastry kitchens of BLT Steak and Little Door, to her own on-line pastry kitchen, Bittersweet Treats, it didn't come as much of a surprise......