Amy Scattergood

From the Toronto Sun (via Food News Journal) we have today's installment of the Lee Strasberg Diet. It turns out that actor Dennis Quaid, to gain the requisite weight to get the part of Bill Clinton for an upcoming movie, decided to eat like the former president did in order......

Paying your bills is not always a pleasant task, granted. But you kind of have to. Gordon Ramsay, it seems, has not been paying his. According to The New York Post, two wine suppliers have filed suit against the Kitchen Nightmares star for unpaid bills. Today comes a report that......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The bar side of the brasserie has superb cocktails; the crowd oozes and expands and breaks off into little budlets like the amoebas in documentaries you may remember from fifth-grade science class, and the cheese list,......

For everyone who's been missing their copies of edible Los Angeles, the very pretty quarterly food magazine that graced the stalls of area farmers markets and various local restaurants and gourmet shops, and then went missing in action, here's an update. The magazine, which went on hiatus after the Fall......

Perhaps the world of fast food drive-thru's, convenience stores and vending machines isn't all that bad. Maybe it simply depends on what goes into all the cases and automated machines. Consider the latest trend in Russian vending machine products: caviar. A Russian company has installed 33 caviar dispensing vending machines......

The next time you're sitting at the beautiful caffeine lab that is Intelligentsia, your MacBook open, your dog at your feet, your hands shaking as you happily knock back your fifth double espresso, consider this hilarious Death By Caffeine calculator. Energy Fiend is a site that allows you to calculate......

This picture of Sona's empty interior is symbolic, as the restaurant will close its doors for good after dinner service this Saturday night. So if you want to check out David Myers' flagship restaurant, you have exactly three more nights to do it. Or at least this incarnation of Sona,......

Although it's not officially opening until tomorrow, the new Culver City gastropub Waterloo & City will start serving tonight. So if you're over on that side of town this evening and need a pint and a plate of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast, or whole roast chicken with......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Fish feel pain. Guess Cobain was wrong. -- Ralph's grocery chain is, apparently, ripping you off. -- L.A.'s best al fresco cocktails spots. -- An under-16 Australian Rules football team thinks getting a sponsorship......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Fish feel pain. Guess Cobain was wrong. -- Ralph's grocery chain is, apparently, ripping you off. -- L.A.'s best al fresco cocktails spots. -- An under-16 Australian Rules football team thinks getting a sponsorship......