Amy Scattergood

Happy Mardi Gras. But today is also called Shrove Tuesday, a time when many cultures celebrate this last day before Lent not by partying but by making pancakes. Of course, you can do both, depending what kind of pancakes you make. Making pancakes is a way to both empty the......

Got a question for the expert? Ask Jonathan Gold. Email your culinary questions to [email protected]. This town is too big to navigate by yourself. And why, really, when you can get discerning and possibly outrageous feedback from himself with a simple email......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer djjewelz, who took the gorgeous shot with a Canon PowerShot S90. The cocktail pictured is an Old Cuban at the Tar Pit, the newish bar on La Brea from Audrey Saunders and Mark Peel......

If the Chinese New Year festivities this past weekend left you with an appetite not only for more dim sum but for some fictional discussion of it, you might want to head to Book Soup this Wednesday, February 17th, where author Ann Mah will be reading from her debut novel,......

Is soda the new tobacco? New York Times food writer and cookbook author Mark Bittman asks the question in an article in the NYT yesterday. And he's got a very compelling case. Bittman points out that nationally we consume 50 gallons of the stuff per person each year, a ridiculous......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Until we can persuade significant chunks of Extramadura or the Costa Brava to emigrate, we can at least console ourselves with the Valencian paellas and fideos at LA Paella near the Beverly Center." Ask Mr. Gold:......

Ferran Adrià, in the news lately announcing that he would close his restaurant for 2 years, has now announced that elBulli will close permaently. The New York Times reports that Adrià has changed those plans and will shutter the restaurant for good, perhaps turning it into a culinary academy instead......

When we interviewed Café Pierre chef Rémi Lauvand, he talked about the importance of flavor, and how he's found himself going backwards, sort of, in his approach to cooking. By that, the French-born chef meant that he's returned to more basic presentations after some years of youthful experimentation. Lauvand's recipe......

It's been a bad few weeks for Phillipe the Original, the much-loved Los Angeles restaurant famous for its French dip sandwiches. At the end of January, Phillipe's longtime owner, William Binder, died at the age of 94. And on Wednesday, the restaurant was shut down by the L.A. County Public......

Move over Mario, Giada, Rachael, et. al. Guess whose book is on the top of Amazon's cookbook best seller list? Alicia Silverstone's. Perhaps she's not as clueless in the kitchen as she was in that movie. Silverstone's cookbook, The Kind Life: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and......