Amy Scattergood

If you've been following the vicissitudes of The Spice Table, Bryant Ng's downtown restaurant, since its opening in the spring of 2011, you'll know a few important things. Here's the catalog. Bryant and Kim Ng have been serving a glorious mash-up of the cuisines of their respective home cultures, Singapore......

To begin: Anya von Bremzen's new book Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing is not a cookbook, nor is it a one dimensional Julia Child joke. It is rather a memoir disguised as a cookbook and a joke about a cookbook. It's also a......

While it is admittedly fun to wander through the small forest of farmers markets stalls and pick up the more exotic stuff for your holiday cooking, being overly ambitious can often contribute to the stress. Unless you like looking up items in Larousse Gastronomique before you cook with them, which......

Back in August, the Depressed Cake Shop held its first event in Los Angeles, selling bakery items to raise money and awareness for the National Alliance for Mental Illness. The doughnuts and cakes and pies and cookies are all colored gray, via the happy art of pastry decoration and a......

As you probably know, Din Tai Fung, the glorious dumpling palace that specializes in soup dumplings, or xiao long bao, recently opened in Glendale. And not just anywhere in Glendale but in the über-mall of the Americana at Brand. It's the third branch of Din Tai Fung to open in......

There are many holiday indicators in this town, maybe because we don't have all those falling leaves and snowstorms, but over the years one of the best of them has been the holiday baked goods from Hans Röckenwagner and his team. These are not your average Christmas cookies, so don't......

The idea of a specialized genre of food writing is both a new and an old one. Old, in that some of us of a certain age once read Craig Claiborne's pieces in The New York Times, collected back issues of Gourmet magazine, or actually cooked from those dusty old......

If you're a Joan's on Third junkie, as many of us in this town are, then news that Joan McNamara was finally expanding to a second location was cause for celebration. Like serious celebration, the kind where you mark off the weeks on your calendar and maybe consider rerouting your......

If your kid only drinks her milk after having dumped the better part of a carton of breakfast cereal into it, you are exactly the target demographic for "cereal milk," a kind of flavored milk that recreates that taste -- without the box of cereal. Now a Los Angeles-based grown-up......

Farmers market stalls may be more dramatic in the summer months, the tables loaded with aromatic stone fruit and wildly colorful heirloom tomatoes, but this is precisely the wrong time to ignore your local markets, laden as they are with wonderfully useful, often underappreciated produce. We're also heading into prime......