Amy Scattergood

Updated, 3:05 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 17: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ricky Piña says that we're all going to have to wait a few more days for his already long-awaited taco truck. Ricky's Fish Taco truck will be rolling out this Friday, Dec. 20, as opposed to tomorrow. Same time, same......

A chocolate brownie is one of those desserts that, depending on the vicissitudes of your particular childhood, can take on mythic proportions. Halfway between a wedge of cake a square of fudge, when done right a brownie is a perfect calibration of very good chocolate -- a baker's edible geometry......

For bread bakers, the locavore movement means something extremely basic, more basic even than sourcing produce from nearby fields or animals from neighboring farms. It means flour and water, two of the most essential of ingredients. For the water, that's up to you and your well. For the flour, now......

If you're a fan of barbecue in this town, you're probably quite familiar with the seats at Bludso's Bar-&-Cue on La Brea Blvd. You're probably also very familiar with the screens above those seats, as Bludso's is an excellent place to catch a game. Kevin Bludso, the man behind both......

If you have a copy of Judy Rodgers' sublime cookbook, The Zuni Café Cookbook, and you should, maybe go find it and think about cooking from it today in homage to its author. Rodgers, whose Zuni Café in San Francisco achieved iconic status in the years she ran it, died......

Now that Thanksgiving is over, the kitchen cleaned, the football binge done, the relatives sent back over whichever river they came by, it's time to think about baking. Lots of baking. Which, in turn, means baking supplies. If you live close to Surfas, well then, lucky you. If you live......

For ramen lovers who live in the San Fernando Valley instead of someplace with a surfeit of excellent ramen (Torrance, Gardena, Sawtelle Boulevard), Christmas has come early. To be specific, it came about three months ago, in the form of a tiny ramen shop in a strip mall on Ventura......

People were cooking Brussels sprouts long before they showed up on every single gastropub menu in town, paired with bacon and often so over-cooked you'd need to be drunk to eat them. But just because somebody decided the vegetables were impossibly hip doesn't mean you have to boycott them. Maybe......