Amy Scattergood

Maybe there's a special clause in President Obama's health care plan for competitive eaters. Let's hope so, for Joey Chestnut's sake. Chestnut, the competitive eater who won the hot dog title for the fourth year in a row in July, has now won the burrito title. Chestnut consumed 47 burritos......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Did we agree to stop calling them gastropubs? Very well, they're no longer gastropubs." First Bite: Half a Dozen of Each, or Mix & Match at The Six. "Some people think that food started when goat......

After twelve years, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are closing their downtown restaurant Ciudad. But don't worry, the doors won't be shut for long: the chefs will be reopening the restaurant in October as a Border Grill. Their other Border Grill, more a casual cantina than the upscale Ciudad,......

John Sedlar, chef-owner of Rivera and the subject of our most recent interview, is cooking some ambitious food at his downtown restaurant these days. Three menus, three rooms, three continents, and a lot more than three dishes. And while we could have asked him for his recipe for snails with......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of a collection of Josie Restaurant's truffle chips at last weekend's Los Angeles Times Celebration of Food & Wine, comes to you from photographer averagebetty. Wishing we had some of those for this first weekend of NFL football. Instead of, well, that stuff in......

In the first part of our interview with John Sedlar, the chef considered the relative absence of Latino chefs in this town, as well as the nature of his new menu (well, menus; there are three) at Rivera. In part two, Sedlar -- who is from Santa Fe, New Mexico;......

For those of you who have followed chef Walter Manzke, from Bastide to Church & State, and recently to the Test Kitchen, you can now find him one week a month at Le Saint Amour. Manzke is consulting at the Culver City bistro, which opened a little over a year......

John Rivera Sedlar, who opened his downtown restaurant Rivera a year and a half ago, has been one of Los Angeles' best chefs for decades: before Rivera, before the chef "retired" for 15 years, before the Museum Tamal, back to when he ran St. Estephe and Bikini. Sedlar's return was......

We have drug czars, energy czars, actual Russian czars (well, we used to), and -- perhaps a sign that we maybe need a nomenclature czar -- we now have an Asian carp czar. Yesterday The White House announced that a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and......