Amy Scattergood

Top sporting events over the weekend according to ESPN? The World Cup quarterfinals, some baseball, the LeBron watch, and--right up there on the actual ESPN iPhone Top Events page--the Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. Just when a competitive eating contest became an A-list ESPN sport, I don't know......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The surroundings are luxurious, but the avant-garde cooking of Michael Voltaggio, who uses his tank of liquid nitrogen with the abandon that a bachelor uses his toaster oven, is anything but sedate: white asparagus lacquered black......

Tattoos in the kitchen can articulate a lot of things: personal history, pictorial resumes, culinary idées fixes, embarrassing testaments to off-duty binges, a reminder that the chronically overworked chef in question has real family members with actual names. But although chefs can display a lot of completely ridiculous artwork on......

We have Wasilla, Alaska, to thank for so many things. Now add smoked salmon flavored vodka to the list. Alaska Distillery, a locally owned and operated micro-distillery in Wasilla, has just released their latest flavor, reportedly the first smoked salmon flavored vodka ever produced. This joins Alaska Distillery's other vodkas,......

Ludovic Lefebvre is reopening his traveling restaurant, LudoBites, again next month, which would make this incarnation number 5.0 of the chef's pop-up culinary show. From July 21st to September 3rd, LudoBites will again be taking over the downtown sandwich shop Gram & Papa's, although this time only during weeknights, Mondays......

We are a ritualistic species. We bury our dead, we participate in religions, we invent Ironman drinking games. For example, the annual 4th of July Hermosa Beach Ironman event, a 32 year-old tradition, which consists of a 1 mile beachfront run, a 1 mile surfboard paddle, and then a return......

We do not, sadly, speak French. But we're told on good authority, namely Kristine Lefebvre, the wife of local chef and French expatriate Ludovic Lefebvre (LudoBites 1, 2, 3, 4 and counting; more on this in a few days), that the title of this article, in the July/August edition of......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Do I ever feel like giving alternative advice, suggesting you pick up Thai barbecued chickens at Sapp Coffee Shop, an armful of barbecued goat ribs at Phong Dinh or a sackful of barbecued quail at Marouch?......

What's a little systemic child abuse and closet Nazism when we can talk about the current Pontiff's childhood eating habits. Eat Like A Pope, released last month from Italian publisher De Agostini Group, documents the dishes eaten by Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Ratzinger, during his pre-wartime childhood in Bavaria......