Amy Scattergood

If you were lucky enough to be in Paris yesterday and today, we hope you meandered over to the Champs-Elysees to check out one of the most beautiful ad hoc farmers markets you're ever likely to see. To celebrate a 2-day French public holiday, the street before the Arc de......

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the Pentagon has an absurdly long document for pretty much everything. Including baking oatmeal cookies and brownies, the specifications for which run 26 pages. True, bakers will tell you that baking is a specific craft, requiring careful measuring and helped by......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Put it in your boat noodle Rolodex alongside Sapp, Noodle Thai Town and Pa-Ord." The Thai Hamburger: From Jazz's Lunchbox To Jitlada's Off-menu. "But here's a food pyramid pop quiz for you: under which group -......

The Couscous Festival, coming to Pasadena this October, has now been extended to a second day. Which tells you how much interest has already been generated, five months before the event. The now two-day festival, which is organized by chef Farid Zadi, will incorporate cooking demonstrations, talks, shopping, a tea......

The first Eat My Blog bake sale, held last December, was such a success that food blogger Cathy Danh (Gastronomy) has decided to hold another one. The second bake sale, with proceeds again going to the L.A. Regional Foodbank, will take place on Saturday, June 19th at the Hollywood outpost......

Norbert Wabnig likes to tell the story of how, on his way to apply for a $1.80-an-hour job in 1975 at the Cheese Store in Beverly Hills -- which he now owns -- he was nearly run over by James Caan in his Porsche. The Cheese Store was like that,......

There is a hilarious moment in the Coen Brothers film Raising Arizona, in which an old-timer gas station attendant considers the humor of balloon shapes. They are not particularly humorous, he points out, unless round is funny. Rectangular isn't really funny either, especially if you're Williams-Sonoma. The cooking store and......

If you like your Greek drama complete with Greek food -- and aren't feeling the urge to visit Greece anytime soon, which you wouldn't really, unless you're a member of the IMF -- there's an event for you this Sunday afternoon in Highland Park. Tragic Dinner Theatre will be staging......

Walk into Mozza, through any of the various doors that lead into the complex, either the one for the pizzeria, the osteria or Mozza2Go, and there will come an inevitable moment when either you or someone else gasps over the budino. It is a butterscotch pudding topped with a stratum......