Amy Scattergood

David Beckham, the English soccer star, LA Galaxy midfielder and friend of Gordon Ramsay, may not be playing in next month's highly anticipated FIFA World Cup -- he ruptured his achilles in March -- but he'll be honored with a cup of his very own on the occasion. A cup......

Walk around any Los Angeles farmers market -- or head to Oxnard this weekend -- and you'll see strawberry season in full display, the baskets and flats of Gaviotas and Albions, Chandlers and Seascapes, arranged like ad hoc garnet jewel cases. And after you eat your fill, take an extra......

It seems as if Lebanon and Israel have moved the battlefield to the kitchen. This past Saturday Lebanon set the world record for the largest bowl of hummus in the village of al-Fanar, near Beirut, surpassing the previous record set four months ago by Israel in the Arab-Israeli village of......

In the first part of our interview with Dorie Greenspan, the cookbook author, food blogger, and expert baker talked about her new book, Around My French Table, due out in October. It will be Greenspan's 10th book, and about, as you can surmise from the title, the dishes that have......

Dorie Greenspan is one of those people who, in a perfect world, would live in the house next door. She would advise you about pie crust over coffee on the front porch. You would leave a plate of anonymous cookies on her front step, knowing how ridiculous it was to......

Want to learn how to make David Lebovitz's pink grapefrult-Champagne sorbet cocktail on your phone in French? His nectarine-berry cobbler in Chinese? Well, now you can, thanks to Lebovitz's new iPhone app. Yes, the baker, blogger and King of Tweets has come up with an app, conveniently on the heels......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of the old Sarno's sign in Los Feliz, comes to you courtesy of photographer TooMuchFire. Sarno Pastry Shop closed its doors in 2000, after 54 years of serving cannoli, panetonne and Marsala wine cakes, but the memory lives on. Read the Los Angeles Times......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Romance and Mount Washington don't necessarily go together. I mean, they do, but not in restaurants, unless you want to re-enact the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene at Casa Bianca, which you don't." Ask Mr......

If you've ever watched Emeril Lagasse on television -- the vocal studio audience, the eager mobility of the chef, the bams! -- you've probably thought, at one time or another, that Emeril would have made a pretty good game show host. Well, it seems that CBS thought the same thing,......

Do you know what you're doing Saturday, October 16th? Well, you do now -- or at least you should, if you're anywhere near Pasadena on that day and have any interest in Middle Eastern cooking whatsoever. Yes, we know five months is long advance notice, but it's worth it for......