Amy Scattergood

From the A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words category. When it's a good cartoon, of course, that number goes up exponentially, especially when you add the few words in the cartoon itself. Matt Davies is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Journal News. You should probably know that......

Granola, it seems, comes in and out of style, with or without yogurt and Birkenstocks. The same can be said for oatmeal, various health claims notwithstanding. But muesli is in its own category, maybe too odd and European to become truly trendy. The Swiss cereal, a mixture of uncooked oats,......

Imagine a happy combination of community meeting, farmers market, country fair and food festival and you have something like this weekend's first-in-a-series The Food Rendezvous. Or just call it a "foodshed," which is how founders Laurie Dill and Dominique Leveuf also describe their events, the second of which is scheduled......

If you're tired of rereading your sauce-spattered copy of Eat, Pray, Love -- or if you left it at the movie theatre, or on your flight back from Bali -- you might try picking up a new book with slightly larger, or at least less personal, horizons. Empires of Food:......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The residual coffee in the air is worth an aerosolized shot, shot and a half, easy." First Bite: Maximum Intelligentsia in Pasadena. "Sometimes the best glasses raised are imaginary." Watching Ice Melt: Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Whiskey......

Norman Fierros, the new chef at the Pan Am Room at the Santa Monica Airport, has been having a good time with his menu, which he's been playing with since the restaurant reopened (new name, same airplanes) about two months ago. (Read our interview with the chef, a longtime fixture......

If you've flown into Santa Monica Airport (literally, figuratively) hungry for dinner anytime recently, you're aware that The Hump, the infamous restaurant above Typhoon, is no more. In its place, owner Brian Vidor has remodeled the upstairs space into the Pan Am Room. The reworked restaurant gets its new name......

Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton loved his whiskey, not a bad thing to pack on long, potentially doomed trips across hundreds of miles of Antarctic ice, and thus for a 1907 expedition to the South Pole, he brought along 25 crates of Scotch. When Shackleton abandoned the attempt, many of his......