Amy Scattergood

So you love bacon and pork belly, Époisses and Montgomery Cheddar, dry aged beef and, well, one could go on, but you don't like the idea of commercial animal production. You don't want to have Michael Pollan-narrated nightmares about slaughterhouses every time you eat a massive prime rib for dinner......

Going to 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Governor's Ball? Well, even if you're not either, about 3,500 elaborately overdressed people will be. This year's Emmy Awards will be held August 29th, and following the event, Joachim Splichal's Patina Restaurant Group will be catering the ball for all those folks from Glee......

Angeli Caffé has been a Melrose Avenue fixture, a destination, a refuge, the source for a fine plate of spaghetti alla checca, for a quarter of a century now. Twenty-six years, to be precise, as Evan Kleiman celebrated her restaurant's 25th anniversary last December. Kleiman herself is an L.A. fixture,......

Imagine being one of those people who dreams up reality television ideas somewhere in a conference room, take-out cartons lined up like stalled traffic along a landscape of iPhones and notepads. A roadside stream of spilled coffee. Plastic spoons like stop signs. Okay, so what if we crossed The Amazing......

If you need another online resource for food news -- and don't we all, especially after evenings spent in the company of Top Chef and Kitchen Nightmares -- you have another one, as of today. Toque, an online food magazine, launched this morning. The national site is owned and edited......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer R. E. ~, who took the beautiful shot, of a spoon trailing latte art across a particularly good-looking cappuccino, at Caffe Luxxe in Santa Monica. There is also a Caffe Luxxe in the Brentwood Country Mart, should you......

A reminder to maybe put down your chopsticks (omakase) and your TV remote (CNN) tonight and consider heading over to the Skirball Center for the Zócalo discussion: Will Seafood Soon Be a Delicacy? Jonathan Gold, his brother Mark Gold of Heal the Bay, Providence chef-owner Michael Cimarusti and Santa Monica......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer Love & Lemonade, who took the beautiful shot, of a bowl of hummus and white anchovies (boquerones) with toast, at BoHo in Hollywood......

In an act of legal symmetry, sort of, the city of Baldwin Park has declared a moratorium on any new drive-through fast food restaurants. Why symmetry? Because Baldwin Park is where it all started, when In-N-Out opened in 1948 as the nation's very first drive-through. Baldwin Park now has 17......