Amy Scattergood

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Should I Move to France? (28 Questions to Ask Yourself) -- Wendy's pulls disco CD from kid's meals because of "racy" Donna Summer lyrics. So now they can just go home and listen to......

Marcus Samuelsson, chef, cookbook author and recent winner of the second season of Top Chef Masters, can add another title to the growing list: World Cup promoter. The chef, born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, has a Twitter page that reads like it's run by FIFA. Which has meant......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!" Ask Mr. Gold: Water and Oil, Meat and Vegetarian......

Maps are cool. Maps generated by geography academics are very cool. And maps generated by geography academics which show the relative density of pizza to guns to strip clubs are just flat out brilliant. Which is what this map, by Floating Sheep, a site run by three geography academics and......

Evan Kleiman is baking pies again. This might not seem like a particularly momentous announcement -- a chef baking pies -- were it not that Kleiman, chef-owner of Angeli Caffé, cookbook author and host of KCRW's radio show Good Food, baked pies every single day for months last year as......

Does Los Angeles need another food truck? Probably not. But sometimes the marketing people come up with something better than Fred Astaire selling vacuums and combine things that actually make sense. What better than hybridizing the cult status of Kogi BBQ with World Cup fanaticism? Enter the ESPN Match Truck,......

Tomorrow begins the the most widely watched sporting event in the world, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And for the next month, from June to July 11th, even Laker mania will take a back seat to soccer. The World Cup, held for the first time in Africa, showcases 32 countries......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer aalorber, who took the shot of last Sunday's crawfish boil at Dominick's with his iPhone. That would be the 3G, which apparently works a whole lot better than the one Steve Jobs tried to demo the other day......

Homemade pizza enthusiasts are an admittedly strange breed, prone to building do-it-yourself brick ovens, firing up their ordinary ovens on self-cleaning mode, experimenting with no-knead dough recipes or importing water from Brooklyn for crust authenticity, but they usually don't resort to larceny to further their craft. Hawthorne Mayor Larry Guidi,......