Amy Scattergood

If your idea of a good Valentine's Day weekend leans more towards sampling antojitos, saba and parsnip fries with black garlic aïoli, and Japanese-style hot dogs than it does chocolate from a box, you might want to wait on the sit-down restaurant option and head over to the first ever......

Want to go to culinary school but don't have the tens of thousands of dollars it takes to pay for it? (Making consommé and Boeuf Bourguignon is much less fun when you're doing it from inside Sallie Mae's debtor's prison.) The Culinary Trust is accepting applications for scholarships for the......

Over the last few months there have been a lot of rumblings about Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, Top Chef Masters) coming to Los Angeles. So, from the chef's Twitter account, as Bayless runs his own Twitter feed, we have this: @Rick_Bayless: The restaurant will be called Red O RT......

Giant squid, something that we're particularly interested in here at Squid Ink, are right now invading the waters off Newport Beach. Fishermen first started reeling in the catch last Thursday, some of which have measured up to 4 feet long and weighed in at 60 pounds. According to the L.A......

Despite many reports that haggis will soon be allowed into the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says not so fast. When the BBC thought to verify the rumors that the Scottish delicacy would finally be imported (haggis has been banned since the mad cow scare of 1989), they......

It may or may not be true that people eat more ice cream in the winter than in the summer. And it may or may not be true that the same stats hold for those who live in the über chic beachfront town of Venice. Either way, now there's more......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Still, some pig candy is better than no pig candy at all, and the sweet, sugar-brushed slabs of double-smoked bacon were about as good as it gets, slightly crisp at the edges but melting away in......

Mind gone suddenly blank while wheeling your cart down the junk food aisle in your local grocery store? Or perhaps even more distressing, while standing in your kitchen just prior to Gordon Ramsay's latest Fox show? Check out this hilarious snack food flow chart. The best part, of course, is......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer R.E.~, a lovely shot of a bottle of milk from Straus Family Creamery, near Tomales Bay, and a stack of cookies. What kind? Well, you'd have to ask the photographer. Any kind sounds pretty good right now......