Amy Scattergood

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route......

Chefs play musical kitchen stools with professional speed, but the shift at Palihouse was a more complete game than most. Just weeks after Brendan Collins and pretty much his whole staff decamped from Palihouse to Waterloo & City, Gary Menes took his entire staff from Marche, which closed May 8th,......

It might seem odd to someone who does not live in Los Angeles, but we often don't see the permanently blue skies and the palm trees. We forget to go to the beach. We completely forget about Lindsay Lohan. We take Wolfgang Puck for granted, despite the beautiful garden of......

If you're the sort of person who has lost count of the number of times you've watched Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child SNL skit on YouTube, find yourself lurking at House of Blues to try and catch a glimpse of the actor, have seen Driving Miss Daisy an otherwise inexplicable number......

On Monday, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke declared a fishery disaster for three states, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, along the Gulf of Mexico. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody, except maybe BP. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has closed nearly 20 percent of the federal waters......

Imagine watching last night's Western Conference playoff game between the Lakers and the Suns, getting up to make something to eat and being able to have your toaster brand the Suns logo onto that slice of toast. Not only would your hunger have been abated, but perhaps your frustration at......

As fans of Bulgarini Gelato know all too well, to get your fix of Leo Bulgarini's remarkable gelato, you have to pilgrimage north to Altadena, up the gradually inclining Lake Avenue all the way to the San Gabriel foothills and the vast concrete universe of a Rite Aid parking lot......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- A New Orleans bakery makes an oil-slick cake: food as political statement, of sorts. -- How to be a food snob. -- Pat Saperstein pits Wolfgang Puck's new WP24 against the SGV's Chinese food......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- A New Orleans bakery makes an oil-slick cake: food as political statement, of sorts. -- How to be a food snob. -- Pat Saperstein pits Wolfgang Puck's new WP24 against the SGV's Chinese food......