Amy Scattergood

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Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from LA Food Blogs

Amy Scattergood
-- Cocktails @ The Tasting Kitchen. -- Op Fed: Remembrances of Food Past. -- The World Cup at Guelaguetza: Mexican Glory And Chef Ludo. -- Dean Sin World - Dim Sum, Dumplings, and a Dating Epiphany. -- The Future of Food TV. -- Eat My Blog raises over $5,000 for......
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Gourmet Live: Coming to Your iPad, Not Your Mailbox, This Fall

Amy Scattergood
Gourmet Magazine, you will remember, closed last November. The late, much lamented publication is not, sadly, being resurrected, but it will live on, at least on your iPad. Gourmet Live will be "coming to your favorite devices" (for free) this fall, bringing together "content, social and location-based technology, a variety......
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Free Pizza in Ireland For France's World Cup Exit

Amy Scattergood
I guess you could call this the luck of the Irish. After Ireland lost a shot at going to the World Cup after a dubious call (see Thierry Henry's infamous handball episode) sent France to the Cup instead, Pizza Hut's Irish stores decided to assuage the nation's pain with pizza......
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Red Medicine Update: When a Logo is Just a Logo

Amy Scattergood
If you watch Mad Men, or any Super Bowl halftime show, you'll know that advertising can be a lot harder than it looks. You have to capture the essence of what you're marketing, be artistic and creative and sometimes even innovative, and--perhaps most importantly--not piss too many people off in......
Nutella at Super King in Altadena; Credit: A. Scattergood

Food Labelling: The End of Nutella?

Amy Scattergood
The cult of Nutella is a large, insanely devoted and extraordinarily loyal group. Imagine a chocoholic crossed with an AC Milan fan. Maybe journalists eat more of the stuff than most people (possible), because when the European Parliament voted last week for a proposal that would toughen the mandatory nutrition......
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Cadbury Heir Sells £27 Million Home to Launch Rival Company

Amy Scattergood
In January, Kraft successfully concluded a hostile takeover of Cadbury, the English chocolate company that had been family-owned since 1824. The takeover was bitterly contested by Cadbury, and now one Cadbury heir is launching her own chocolate company in response. "I can't accept that Cadbury has gone to America. To......
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Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie

Amy Scattergood
1. Foodie: What does this term mean exactly? That one likes to eat, that one cooks a lot, that one knows a lot of esoteric things about culinary history, that one watches Top Chef? Whereas "gourmet" has, justly or not, a slightly elitist or effete connotation, "foodie" seems to be......
empanadas at Nonna's Empanadas; Credit: A. Scattergood

Now Open: Nonna's Empanadas on Third Street

Amy Scattergood
If you need something to munch on during the Argentina soccer games -- or your kid's soccer games, for that matter -- you might consider empanadas, those nicely portable filled pastries, especially now that you have a new empanada outlet from which to get them. Nonna's Empanadas opened yesterday on......