Amy Scattergood

If you have devotedly watched the last six seasons of The Next Food Network Star; if you've papered your kitchen with posters of Guy Fieri, winner of Season 2 and current host of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives; if you secretly hear Giada De Laurentiis and Bobby Flay while you pipe......

French fries have always been prized for their uniformity and length -- see Michael Pollan on the potato and McDonald's -- but the size of your fries is determined by more than just aesthetics. (Your size matters joke here _______.) According to the German Farmers' Association (DBV) and Reuters, Germans......

On August 22nd, you might want to bring a few extra market bags to the Hollywood Farmers Market, maybe even a box or two. Because along with late season fruit, you could be bringing home quite a few cookbooks. The Culinary Historians of Southern California will be having a cookbook......

Does Los Angeles need another good butcher shop? Yes. Do we need a butcher shop using locally produced, sustainable meat and run by two women who just finished interning at Fleisher's and are now en route, driving across country to L.A. after pausing to get married legally in Connecticut? Oh,......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Even the third or fourth time around, Fu-ga seems like a discovery, a small piece of a better downtown preserved 20 feet underground." First Bite: The Accidental Bar, or Discovering Fu-ga in Little Tokyo. "For a......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer R. E. ~ (somebody else want to download some food pix too?), a beautiful shot of ramen being lifted from a bowl in the newly opened Jinya in Studio City. It is hot or it isn't; ramen is......

Rumor and speculation and unrestrained wish-fulfillment aside, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo are indeed opening a second restaurant. Yesterday the two chefs confirmed that they signed the lease on the 8379 West Third Street location (Restaurant 3, Cynthia's) in West Hollywood. No, they don't have a name or a concept......

For those of you who've been lining up to get your pints of beer and plates of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast at Waterloo & City, the newish British gastropub in Culver City, you now have a rec room in which to enjoy them. Or Wreck Room, as......

If your idea of blissful summertime fun is riding the retro carousel at the Santa Monica Pier, watching the pelicans and (maybe) blowing an insane amount of money on the rides and games -- if this isn't your idea of fun, it's probably your kid's -- then you now have......

Hans Röckenwagner (3 Square, Röckenwagner Santa Monica Bakery/Café, Röckenwagner Mar Vista Bakery) not only makes many of his own tables and chairs -- he's an expert carpenter -- but these days he's moving them around a lot too. Röckenwagner has signed a lease to build a new bakery/café in the......