Amy Scattergood

The new Pink's at LAX; Credit: Los Angeles World Airports

Pink's Hot Dogs Opens Tomorrow in LAX

Joey Chestnut surely knows that July is National Hot Dog Month, as perhaps do the fans in the bleachers at Dodger Stadium, where eating hot dogs is a preferable alternative to counting how many days Manny Ramirez has been on the DL this season. And the folks in the seemingly......
near the runway at LAX; Credit: flickr/jondoeforty1

LAX Food Fight Update

The fight over who will get the bid to revitalize the food scene at LAX is ongoing, as various bidders vie for the lucrative food and beverage contract, worth more than $600 million over the next decade. Read Gene Maddaus' story Food Fight at LAX for the details, and read......
Credit: Adopt a Fisherman

Adopt a Fisherman: The Hungry Cat Hosts a Gulf Benefit

The Gulf Coast oil spill, regardless of BP's end game, is a disaster of stunning proportions. Now you can do a small part to help the many Gulf fishermen and their families who have lost their livelihood due to the spill -- by eating well at one of the best......
bag of white onions; Credit: Flickr/psyberartist

Onion Truck Causes Traffic Nightmare

No this isn't a fake headline from The Onion, although it would be pretty funny, albeit briefly and only for a couple of punchlines, if a truck spilling of copies of the satirical newspaper caused the kind of traffic chaos that the overturned truck of actual onions caused for six......
Angeli Caffe's peach galettes; Credit: A. Scattergood

A Recipe From the Chef: Angeli Caffe's Peach Galettes

Granted, we are in the middle of one of our recurrent semi-Biblical heat waves and you may think it's a little hot to be baking, but it'll cool off eventually. Or you can take a cue from pastry chefs and get up before dawn, when it's nice and relatively chilly,......
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Food Union Supports California Pot Legalization

There are many good reasons for California to legalize marijuana, not least being that it's cheaper to drive to Mar Vista, say, than it is to fly to Amsterdam, and because one wonders what the folks who design Intelligentsia's high-strung coffee palaces could do with a pot café. There is......