Amy Scattergood

The list of necessary kitchen utensils - whisk, wooden spoon, fish spatula, immersion circulator, nitrogen canister - now seems to include an iPhone. Because now not only must the celebrity chef have the de rigueur stack of cookbooks and (ideally) a reality television show, but a cell phone app as......

If you're a fan of @ruthbourdain, the hilarious Twitter mashup of Ruth Reichl's langorous Bashō-like tweets and Anthony Bourdain's often prosaic, happily profane commentary, you can now get your fix in more than 140 characters. And, better yet, in advice column form. Ruth Bourdain, actual identity still unknown, has added......

A reminder that The Grilled Cheese Invitational is this Saturday afternoon. Thousands of people (last year's crowd numbered over 5,000). Thousands of sandwiches. Hundreds of thousands of calories, as if we cared. And if you're still standing -- and still hungry -- on Sunday, Eric Greenspan, winner of the 2008......

While coq au vin may be one of Julia Child's best dishes, and a preposterous chicken sandwich the most newsworthy thing to order at a fast food restaurant at the moment, chicken is not what Bolivian president Evo Morales thinks you should have for dinner. At least if you're a......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of the silhouette of Bob's Big Boy in Downey, comes to you courtesy of photographer Chris Saulit. Would that all fast food icons were photographed against the backdrop of a California sunset. Our strip mall horizon can be downright beautiful. Imagine what Lotte Reiniger......

The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed......

According to today's report in The Washington Post, the FDA is planning an "unprecedented" effort to limit the salt consumption of Americans. The idea is that putting legal limits on the amount of salt allowed in food would significantly lower the number of deaths from heart disease and hypertension. The......

If you want to have dinner with President Obama tonight, it'll cost you $17,600. The president, in town today (your Presidential Sigalert: Air Force One to LAX, chopper to California Science Center, flying back to DC tomorrow) to speak at fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee and for Senator Barbara......

No, cannibalism has not gone mainstream, even in Australia. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the publishing house Penguin Group Australia pulped and reprinted thousands of copies of a cookbook after discovering that a recipe called for "salt and freshly ground black people" in the ingredients. Roughly 7,000 copies of......