Amy Scattergood

Yesterday in the first part of our interview with Café Pierre's Rémi Lauvand, the chef talked to us about how he got to the Manhattan Beach restaurant from, ultimately, his native France. It was a journey that took him from New York to Santa Barbara and to the now-shuttered Citrus......

The US medal count in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the opening ceremonies for which are tomorrow, apparently rest on the salvific properties of Austrian cheese. Specifically topfen, a curd cheese that is similar to German quark. Lindsey Vonn, the American skiier who is a heavy favorite in 3 of the......

Chef Rémi Lauvand does not have a pop up restaurant, but he's been popping up a lot in the last few years. Before he came to rest at his current home, Café Pierre in Manhattan Beach, Lauvand popped up in BreadBar last fall as part of the Hatchi series. Before......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer TooMuchFire: a wonderful shot of the sky above Casa Bianca in Eagle Rock. We're between torrential rainstorms right now, so it's a good day to check out the skyline--and the snow on the mountains. Yesterday there was even......

Go find your knife kit and your remote. The second season of Bravo's Top Chef Masters is scheduled to premier on April 7th at 8 p.m. 22 chefs, including 6 who are returning from the first season, will compete for All That Plastic Wrap. (Okay, and charity money too.) This......

Saveur Magazine's new issue, #127, is now online. Thanks for sharing, right? Well, you might want to check this one out, as it's the Los Angeles issue, filled with all manner of glorious food prose for Angelenos. Gael Greene on Pizzeria Mozza. Patric Kuh on the Brown Derby and evenings......

Are whoopie pies the next big dessert trend of 2010? Roxy Rubell of the newly-launched online bakeshop Baking Whoopie is betting on it. "I think they're the next cupcake," says Rubell, who bakes the little pies out of both her home and a commercial kitchen in Los Angeles. If you......

There's marketing, there's selling out, and then there's the McItaly, the new McDonald's hamburger that comes wrapped in the Italian flag, both literally and figuratively. The Italian government has so thoroughly embraced the burger that Luca Zaia, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Agriculture Minister, appeared at a press conference wearing......